Sam Tambimuttu
{{Short description|Sri Lankan Tamil politician}}
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Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu (1932{{Snd}}1990) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
Early life and family
Tambimuttu was born in 1932.{{cite book|last=Arumugam|first=S.|title=Dictionary of Biography of the Tamils of Ceylon|url=http://www.noolaham.org/wiki/index.php?title=Dictionary_of_Biography_of_the_Tamils_of_Ceylon|year=1997|page=221}} He was the grand nephew of E. R. Tambimuttu, member of the State Council of Ceylon.{{cite journal|title=Thambimuttu's widow in touching cemetery farewell|journal=Tamil Times|date=15 June 1990|volume=IX|issue=7|page=9|url=http://noolaham.net/project/34/3335/3335.pdf|issn=0266-4488}} He was married to Kala, daughter of Senator M. Manickam.{{cite journal|title=MP and Wife Assassinated|journal=Tamil Times|date=15 June 1990|volume=IX|issue=7|page=9|url=http://noolaham.net/project/34/3335/3335.pdf|issn=0266-4488}} They had a son Arun.
Tambimuttu was a Methodist.
Career
Tambimuttu was a proctor and practiced law in Batticaloa. He was chairman of Batticaloa Citizen's Committee. In this capacity he would intervene on behalf of youths arrested by the paramilitary Special Task Force.{{cite journal|last=Mohamed|first=Suresh|title=Sam Thambimuttu|journal=Tamil Times|date=15 June 1990|volume=IX|issue=7|page=11|url=http://noolaham.net/project/34/3335/3335.pdf|issn=0266-4488}}
Tambimuttu had been a member of the Tamil United Liberation Front for a long time. He contested the 1989 parliamentary election as one of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front's candidates in Batticaloa District and was elected to Parliament.{{cite web|url=http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1989%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF|title=Result of Parliamentary General Election 1989|publisher=Department of Elections, Sri Lanka|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20090304101343/http://www.slelections.gov.lk/pdf/Results_1989%20GENERAL%20ELECTION.PDF|archivedate=2009-03-04}}
Death
Tambimuttu was assassinated on 7 May 1990 outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo. His wife Kala died on 16 May as a result of injuries sustained in the assassination. The assassination was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.{{cite news|last=Jeyaraj|first=D. B. S.|title=Assassinating Tamil Parliamentarians: The unceasing waves|url=http://www.nation.lk/2008/03/16/newsfe1.htm|newspaper=The Nation (Sri Lanka)|date=16 March 2008|authorlink=}}{{cite journal|last=Subramanian|first=T. S.|title=Chronicle of murders|journal=Frontline|date=14 August 1999|volume=16|issue=17|url=http://www.hindu.com/fline/fl1617/16171020.htm|issn=0970-1710}}
References
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{{Members of the Sri Lankan Parliament from Batticaloa}}
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Category:Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front politicians
Category:Members of the 9th Parliament of Sri Lanka
Category:Assassinated Sri Lankan politicians
Category:People from Batticaloa
Category:People killed during the Sri Lankan civil war
Category:Sri Lankan Methodists
Category:Sri Lankan Tamil people
Category:Tamil United Liberation Front politicians
Category:Asian politicians assassinated in the 1990s
Category:Politicians assassinated in 1990
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