Ambalavanar Neminathan or Colonel Raju, had served as the special commander of the Tamil Tiger elite Leopard Commandos and had played a key role in developing the Tigers’ artillery division , died on 25 August 2002 due to cancer.

He was also the Chief Technical Officer of the Tamil Tiger artillery division as well as the head of Tamil Tigers' Engineering Corps . He was from Elalai, Jaffna District

Jaffna District

Jaffna district is one of the 25 administrative districts of Sri Lanka. The district is administered by a District Secretariat headed by a District Secretary appointed by the central government of Sri Lanka. The headquarters is located in Jaffna city. Parts of the district were transferred to...

, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

. He joined Tamil Tiger after Black July

Black July

Black July is the commonly used name for the anti-Tamil pogrom and attacks carried out by mobs in Sri Lanka which began on July 23, 1983. The riots occurred following a deadly ambush by a Tamil militant organization known as Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam which killed 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers...

in 1983.