After 20 years, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has admitted unequivocally that it carried out the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
"[The assassination of Rajiv] was well-planned and done with the concurrence of [LTTE chief Velupillai] Prabhakaran and [intelligence chief] Pottu Amman," Kumaran Pathmanathan, or KP as he is better known, said in an interview with CNN-IBN/Firstpost.com. Pathmanathan headed the LTTE's "international secretariat" and was its chief arms procurer before taking over the LTTE leadership in 2009.
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