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Indian leaders Thursday paid tribute to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated on May 21, 1991, by a Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger suicide bomber during an election rally in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.The Sri Lanka government announced Monday that it had defeated the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and that its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed.
Prabhakaran was found guilty in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case and was sentenced to death in absentia. He is believed to have hatched the plot to assassinate Gandhi along with his intelligence chief Pottu Amman. India is believed to have sought Prabhakaran's death certificate so that …