Samuel Pennington Thavarasa Tambimuttu (1932 – 1990) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, politician and Member of Parliament.
Early life and family
Tambimuttu was born in 1932.[1] He was the grand nephew of E. R. Tambimuttu, member of the State Council of Ceylon.[1][2] He was married to Kala, daughter of Senator M. Manickam.[1][3] They had a son Arun.[2]
Tambimuttu was a Methodist.[1][2]
Career
Tambimuttu was a proctor and practiced law in Batticaloa.[1][3] He was chairman of Batticaloa Citizen's Committee.[1][3] In this capacity he would intervene on behalf of youths arrested by the paramilitary Special Task Force.[4]
Tambimuttu had been a member of the Tamil United Liberation Front for a long time.[3] 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.[5]
Death
Tambimuttu was assassinated on 7 May 1990 outside the Canadian High Commission in Colombo.[3] His wife Kala died on 16 May as a result of injuries sustained in the assassination.[3] The assassination was blamed on the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.[6][7]
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