Senathirajah Jeyanandamoorthy is a Sri Lankan Tamil politician

Politician

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 and former Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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In 2004 Jeyanandamoorthy was selected by the Tamil Tigers as a Tamil National Alliance

Tamil National Alliance

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 (TNA) parliamentary candidate. Jeyanandamoorthy represented the Batticaloa

Batticaloa Electoral District

Batticaloa Electoral District is one of the 22 multi-member electoral districts of Sri Lanka created by the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka. The district is conterminous with the administrative district of Batticaloa in the Eastern province...

 multi-member electoral district

Electoral districts in Sri Lanka

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 for the TNA in the Sri Lankan Parliament between April 2004

Sri Lankan parliamentary election, 2004

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 and February 2010.

In 2010, after the Tamil Tigers' defeat in the civil war

Sri Lankan civil war

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, the TNA deselected most of its Tamil Tiger appointed MPs, including Jeyanandamoorthy. Jeyanandamoorthy has fled to the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 after threats from the Sri Lankan government backed Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal paramilitary.

In May 2010 Jeyanandamoorthy was elected to the Transnational Constituent Assembly of Tamil Eelam.