Thamotharampillai Sivasithamparam ( ta, தாமோதரம்பிள்ளை சிவசிதம்பரம்; 26 March 1926 – 9 November 1992) was a

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politician and Member of Parliament.

Early life and family

Sivasithamparam was born on 26 March 1926. He was the son of Thamotharampillai, a village headman from Mullaitivu in northern

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. He was educated at

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. Sivasithamparam married Nagambi. They had three sons (Sugumaran, Srikanthan and Sivakumar) and two daughters (Vanetha and Kanchana).

Career

Sivasithamparam was a Village Cultivation Officer (VCO). Sivasithamparam stood as an independent candidate in

Vavuniya Vavuniya (, romanized: ''Vavuṉiyā'', , romanized: ''Vavuniyāva''). Vavuniya City is the capital of Vavuniya District in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka, Northern Province of Sri Lanka and the largest city in the Northern Province. The municip ...

at the March 1960 parliamentary election. He won the election and entered Parliament. He was re-elected at the July 1960 parliamentary election. He later joined the

All Ceylon Tamil Congress All Ceylon Tamil Congress ( ta, அகில இலங்கைத் தமிழ்க் காங்கிரஸ்), is the oldest Tamil political party in Sri Lanka. History The ACTC was founded in 1944 by G.G. Ponnambalam. Ponnambalam ask ...

(ACTC), serving as its youth leader. He contested the 1965 parliamentary election as the ACTC candidate and was re-elected. He was however defeated by the Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) candidate X. M. Sellathambu at the 1970 parliamentary election. On 14 May 1972 the ACTC, ITAK,

Ceylon Workers' Congress The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) ( ta, இலங்கை தொழிலாளர் காங்கிரஸ், translit=Ilaṅkai Toḻilāḷar Kāṅkiras; si, ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්‍රසය ''Lanka Kamkaru ...

, Eelath Thamilar Otrumai Munnani and All Ceylon Tamil Conference formed the Tamil United Front, later renamed Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF). Sivasithamparam was the TULF's candidate in Vavuniya at the 1977 parliamentary election and was re-elected. Sivasithamparam and all other TULF MPs boycotted Parliament from the middle of 1983 for a number of reasons: they were under pressure from Sri Lankan Tamil militants not to stay in Parliament beyond their normal six-year term; the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka required them to swear an oath unconditionally renouncing support for a separate state; and the Black July riots in which up to 3,000 Tamils were murdered by

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mobs. After three months of absence, Sivasithamparam forfeited his seat in Parliament on 5 October 1983. On 30 September 1983 the

Sri Lankan Army ta, இலங்கை இராணுவம் , image = File:Sri Lanka Army Logo.png , image_size = 180px , caption = Emblem of the Sri Lanka Army , start_date ...

attacked Sivasithamparam's Madukulam farm, beating to death the farm manager Nadarajah and burning his body. Fearing for his life, Sivasithamparam fled to India. He later migrated to Canada where he died on 9 November 1992.

References

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