Uma Maheswaran: திருத்தங்களுக்கு இடையிலான வேறுபாடு

On the night of 19 May 1982, Maheswaran and fellow PLOTE members Jotheeswaran and Sivaneswaran (Nirnajan) were involved in a [[shootout]] with Prabhakaran and Raghavan (Sivakumar) of the LTTE at the Pondy bazaar in Thiyagarayanagar, [[Madras]], [[India]]. Jotheeswaran was injured and hospitalised but Maheswaran and Sivaneswaran escaped. Maheswaran was arrested near [[Gummidipoondi]] railway station on 25 May 1982 after a shoot out with the police but was later released on [[bail]]. Maheswaran and the PLOTE would continue to carry out bank robberies and kidnappings to finance their activities.

Maheswaran's actions eventually led to divisions within the PLOTE, resulting in a number of defections and splinter groups to be formed, including the [[Eelam National Democratic Liberation Front]] (ENDLF). Maheswaran was known to deal with [[dissent]] very harshly, and is alleged to have carried out 38 murders.

Maheswaran was involved in the failed [[1988 Maldives Coup]]. On 16 July 1989, Maheswaran was abducted by six men in [[Colombo]]. His bullet ridden body was later found at Frankfurt Place, [[Bambalapitiya]], near the Maldivian High Commission. The ENDLF, an Indian-backed offshoot of PLOTE, claimed responsibility for the [[List of assassinations of the Sri Lankan Civil War|assassination]], however some sources blamed the assassination on dissenting members of the PLOTE itself.