Comrade Valli Sundaram was a warm, hospitable and a genial man. When he was gunned down by the fascist goons of the LTTE at 2.30 p.m. on 29th September 2004 he was 61 years old. This frail old man was killed at Maruthanamadam while he was riding his motorcycle.
Com. Sundaram has long history of struggle for the rights of our people. He was a worker in the KKS cement factory and when he started working with EPRLF, he was an active trade unionist. He has been a courageous and outspoken critic of the LTTE fascists who has trampled underfoot every civilized value of the Tamil civil society. He steadfastly fought for democracy, human rights and social emancipation of the most oppressed sections of our society.
Com. Sundaram has been a father figure for most of our young comrade. He has by word and deed taught us how to lead simple lives, to be true to our principles and to be resolute in our struggle for freedom and social emancipation. He has inspired confidence in hundreds of our cadres and won the respect of many more.
The EPRLF expresses its deepest sympathies to Com. Sundaram’s wife and to his two children.
This is yet another example of the callous and the barbaric character of the fascist L TTE, which has carried out a ruthless campaign of eliminating Tamil intellectuals, human right activists and political activists of other Tamil political organizations.
Though the fascists have physically eliminated an indefatigable fighter of people’s rights his ideas will remain in our memories forever. They will inspire us to fight even more valiantly to uphold the principles and values that he cherished
(EPRLF Release)
