Vihara, former Chief Sangha Nayake of Northern and Eastern provinces Hegoda Sri Indrasara Thera - Chief incumbent of Vidyananda Maha Pirivena - Ampara, former Chief Sangha Nayake of Northern and Eastern provinces Sivashri Kungaraja Kurukkal - Former head pandit of the Koneswaram temple of Trincomalee Selliah Parameswaran Kurukkal - Chief Pujari of the Santhiveli Pilleyar Kovil, Batticaloa Activists and journalists Chelvy Thiyagarajah - Founder of feminist journal called Tholi, International PEN award winner in 1992 Balanadarajah Iyer - Sri Lankan Tamil activist, writer and poet Kethesh Loganathan - Tamil political activist, Human Rights advocate and deputy secretary general of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP). Rajani Thiranagama - University lecturer, Tamil human rights activist and feminist Relangi Selvarajah - Tamil broadcaster and actress. Others C. E. Anandarajah - Sri Lankan educationist and former principal of St. John's College, Jaffna. V. M. Panchalingam - Leading Sri Lankan Tamil civil servant and former District Secretary of Jaffna S. Nadarajah - Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and former member of the Senate of Ceylon. Sarojini Yogeswaran - Former Mayor of Jaffna Gopalaswamy Mahendraraja - Former Deputy leader of the LTTE Uma Maheswaran - Founder of the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam. Kumaraswamy Nandagopan - Former president of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal Attempted assassinations Chandrika Kumaratunga - Former president of Sri Lanka Maithreepala Sirisena - Former president of Sri Lanka, Former minister of Health and Agriculture Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka - Eighteenth Commander of Sri Lankan Army Gotabhaya Rajapaksa - Former President of Sri Lanka, Former Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, Sri Lanka Douglas Devananda - Leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party Nimal Siripala de Silva - Current Minister of Transport in the Parliament of Sri Lanka Notes References Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attacks in the Sri Lankan Civil War LTTE Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Assassinated, LTTE Sri Lanka, LTTE Sri Lankan Civil War-related lists