Rajiv killers meet with justice 18 years after his murder

The Truth, triumphed after 18 long years, as the key conspirators behind the cold blooded murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, bit the dust of the scorched earth off Mullaitivu on the eve of his 18th death anniversary.

Rajiv Gandhi, the seventh Prime Minister of India was assassinated in Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, India on 21 May 1991.

The assassination was carried out by a human bomb in the name of Thenmozhi Rajaratnam, a female member of the LTTE, while Rajiv Gandhi was attending a political rally.

LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran and its intelligence Chief Pottu Amman were indicted by the Indian High Court as the masterminds behind the operation. It was revealed that they had carried out the task using a suicide bomber, due to their animosity over Gandhi's decision to send the Indian Peace Keeping Force to Sri Lanka.

After more than one and a half decades, fate beckoned these two terrorist murderers as they came to a cruel end of their own making, just a couple of days before they took the life of the much loved Indian leader, Rajiv Gandhi.