In 1975 , after becoming heavily involved in the Tamil movement , he carried out the first major political assassination by a Tamil group , killing the mayor of Jaffna , Alfred Duraiappah , by shooting him at point-blank range when he was about to enter the Hindu temple at Ponnaalai . The assassination was in response to the 1974 Tamil conference incident , for which the Tamil radicals had blamed Duraiappah , because he backed the then ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party
1974 Tamil conference incident
1974 Tamil conference incident
Velupillai Prabhakaran