Neelakandan Tiruchelvam (Tamil:நீலகண்டன் திருச்செல்வம்; 31 January 1944 – 29 July 1999) was a Sri Lankan Tamil lawyer, academic, politician and Member of Parliament.
Tiruchelvam married Sithie. They had two sons (Nirgunan and Mithran).
Career
Tiruchelvam was called to the bar as an advocate in 1968. He took over his father's law firm Tiruchelvam Associates. He was a member of the Law Commission. He was made a President's Counsel in February 1998.
... tactics such as suicide bombings, the assassination of dissident Tamil politicians like�Dr Neelan Tiruchelvam, ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the North, and forced recruitment of child soldiers.
