Joseph Pararajasingham

Politician

1934 – 2005

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Who was Joseph Pararajasingham?

Joseph Pararajasingham was a Sri Lankan Member of Parliament and a poet who was known for his pro-Tamil Tiger views and advocacy of human rights. Pararajasingham was a founding member of the North East Human Rights Secretariat NESHOR.

Pararajasingham became a member of the Sri Lankan Parliament in 1990 and joined the Tamil National Alliance, a pro-rebel party. UTHR and Inter-Parliamentary Union have both claimed that he was assassinated by TMVP.

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Born
Nov 26, 1934
Ethnicity
  • Sri Lankan Tamils
Profession
Died
Dec 25, 2005
Batticaloa

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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