Among these are a number of crucial leadership lossesinflicted on the LTTE, prominent among which were the killings of its EasternPolitical wing leader, Kaushalyan, his deputy Nedimaran and Ariyanayagam ChandraNehru, the former Tamil National Alliance Member of Parliament for the AmparaiDistrict, in an ambush at Poonani in Batticaloa District on February 7, 2005.There have also been unsuccessful, though psychologically and physicallydamaging, attempts on the LTTE senior leadership: on February 28, 2005, Kuveni,the head of the LTTE’s ‘Political Division (Women)’ for Batticaloa-Amparai,and two of her colleagues, Akanila and Sasimathy, were shot at and wounded inThambattai; on June 26, LTTE’s Amparai district 'political head', Kuyilinpanand 40 cadres escaped a landmine explosion at Welikanda. In the latest attack onNovember 14, the Karuna faction scored a ‘success’, eliminating the LTTE'sAmparai District ‘military commander’, Suresh, in the Akkaraipattu area.