Hon.
Sam Tambimuttu
Member of Parliament
for Batticaloa District
In office
1989–1990
Succeeded byJoseph Pararajasingham
Personal details
Born1932
Died(1990-05-07)7 May 1990
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Political partyEelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front
ProfessionLawyer

Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu (1932 – 1990) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life and family

Tambimuttu was born in 1932.[1] He was the grand nephew of E. R. Tambimuttu, member of the State Council of Ceylon.[1][2] He was married to Kala, daughter of Senator M. Manickam.[1][3] They had a son Arun.[2]

Tambimuttu was a Methodist.[1][2]

Career

Tambimuttu was a proctor and practiced law in Batticaloa.[1][3] He was chairman of Batticaloa Citizen's Committee.[1][3] In this capacity he would intervene on behalf of youths arrested by the paramilitary Special Task Force.[4]

Tambimuttu had been a member of the Tamil United Liberation Front for a long time.[3] He contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.[5]

Tambimuttu was assassinated on 7 May 1990 outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo.[3] His wife Kala died on 16 May as a result of injuries sustained in the assassination.[3] The assassination was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Arumugam, S. (1997). Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon. p. 221.
  2. ^ a b c "Thambimuttu's widow in touching cemetery farewell" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 9. 15 June 1990. ISSN 0266-4488.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "MP and Wife Assassinated" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 9. 15 June 1990. ISSN 0266-4488.
  4. ^ Mohamed, Suresh (15 June 1990). "Sam Thambimuttu" (PDF). Tamil Times. IX (7): 11. ISSN 0266-4488.
  5. ^ "Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989" (PDF). Department of Elections, Sri Lanka. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009.
  6. ^ Jeyaraj, D. B. S. (16 March 2008). "Assassinating Tamil Parliamentarians: The unceasing waves". The Nation (Sri Lanka).
  7. ^ Subramanian, T. S. (14 August 1999). "Chronicle of murders". Frontline. 16 (17). ISSN 0970-1710.


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