Tamil Tigers was established in 1976 by Velupillai Prabhakaran as the successor to an organization he had formed earlier in the 1970s. Documents Similar To Velupillai Prabhakaran - London Guardian. Velupillai Prabhakaran, Tamil nationalist leader. Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam who was declared killed by the Sri Lankan government on May 18, had decades to think about how his end would come.