Obituaries
On the death of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl
By Peter Schwarz, 19 June 2017
The hymns of praise for Helmut Kohl, who served as German Chancellor from 1982 to 1998 and died Friday aged 87, have less to do with the real Kohl than with the current requirements of the ruling elite.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, architect of the catastrophe in Afghanistan, dead at 89
By Bill Van Auken, 29 May 2017
“What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe?” the former national security adviser said of the CIA alliance with Al Qaeda.
The Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017) and the fate of the ‘60s generation
By Vladimir Volkov, 3 May 2017
Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the best-known Soviet poet from the 1960s to the 1980s, died at 85 from cancer on April 1, 2017, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Bob White, trade union bureaucrat who led Canadian split from UAW, dies aged 81
By Carl Bronski, 8 April 2017
White’s 1985 breakaway from the UAW was a nationalist maneuver, aimed at protecting the union bureaucracy and blocking a joint struggle of North American autoworkers against all concessions and job cuts.
Beryl Hood: 29 November 1938–21 March 2017
By Mike Head, 25 March 2017
A Trotskyist for four decades, Comrade Beryl was a fine and steadfast representative of the most advanced layers of the working class, attracted, above all, to internationalism.
The real legacy of Martin McGuiness: Sectarianism and austerity
By Paul Mitchell, 24 March 2017
McGuinness’s evolution from gunman to bourgeois politician was not a break from his republican principles, but the outcome of the petty-bourgeois nationalist perspective of republicanism.
Civil liberties lawyer Lynne Stewart dies at 77
By Fred Mazelis, 11 March 2017
The attorney was convicted in 2005 by the US government on fraudulent charges as part of an effort to intimidate anyone opposed to the “war on terror.”
Civil liberties attorney Jon Posner dies at 73
By Jerry White, 19 January 2017
A well-respected criminal defense attorney in Detroit, Posner defended the Workers League, the forerunner of the Socialist Equality Party, in dozens of cases in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Greg Lake, pioneer of progressive rock music, dies at 69
By Kevin Reed, 17 December 2016
Greg Lake was a founder, along with schoolmate Robert Fripp, of the British band King Crimson in 1968 and later the 1970s’ supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
The political legacy of Fidel Castro
By Bill Van Auken, 28 November 2016
Castro’s legacy cannot be evaluated solely through the prism of Cuba, but must take into account the impact of his politics internationally and, above all, in Latin America.
Janet Reno, attorney general who gave order for mass murder in Waco, Texas, dead at 78
By Fred Mazelis, 8 November 2016
Only two months after her nomination to head the Justice Department under President Bill Clinton, Reno presided over the horrific attack that killed more than 80 people, including 21 children.
Stylianos Pattakos (1912-2016): Leader of Greece’s CIA-backed military junta
By John Vassilopoulos, 7 November 2016
Pattakos was tried and convicted for his crimes during the military junta, but the Greek Stalinists and Syriza allowed him to return to political life.
Albert Dragstedt (1933-2016)
By Fred Williams, 2 November 2016
A long-time member of the Workers League, which he joined in the early 1970s, and a supporter of the Socialist Equality Party, Albert combined immense erudition with an unwavering dedication to Marxism.
Shimon Peres (1923-2016)
By Patrick Martin, 1 October 2016
The state funeral for Shimon Peres, former Israeli president and prime minister, brought leaders from around the world to pay tribute, not so much to the individual as to the rapacious, land-grabbing, militaristic state he did so much to construct.
On the death of German historian Ernst Nolte
By Christoph Vandreier and Peter Schwarz, 20 August 2016
Nolte is infamous for initiating the Historikerstreit (Historians’ Dispute) in 1986 with his downplaying of National Socialism and the worst crimes in human history.
The life and career of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami
By David Walsh, 14 July 2016
The Iranian director will be best remembered and long honored for the series of feature films, including documentaries, that he made between 1987 and 1997.
Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and Heaven’s Gate, dead at 77
By David Walsh, 7 July 2016
Cimino is best known as the director of The Deer Hunter (1978), which won numerous Academy Awards, and Heaven’s Gate (1980), which was denounced by leading critics, lost a great deal of money and severely damaged Cimino’s career.
Oversaw 1979 Chrysler concessions
Former UAW official Marc Stepp dies
By Shannon Jones, 7 July 2016
The sweeping concessions Stepp and other union officials imposed on Chrysler workers were a milestone in the corporatist degeneration of the UAW and the American labor movement as a whole.
Bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley dead at 89
By Hiram Lee, 6 July 2016
Ralph Stanley led one of the most remarkable groups in Bluegrass music and was among the genre’s greatest banjo players and singers.
Dr. Coley P. O’Doherty
June 6, 1969 - May 29, 2016
By Helen Hayes, 9 June 2016
Comrade Coley joined the Socialist Equality Party in 2005 and remained loyal to the fight for socialist principles until his death.
Who will follow the example of Muhammad Ali’s principled stand in our day?
By David Walsh, 6 June 2016
The former heavyweight boxing champion, who died June 3, made his chief mark on history and popular consciousness by his courageous opposition to the Vietnam War.
David King 1943-2016: Revolutionary socialist, artist and defender of historical truth
By David North, 14 May 2016
David King, who devoted his extraordinary gifts as an artist to salvaging the historical truth of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath from beneath the vast edifice of Stalinist crimes and lies, died suddenly in London on May 11.
Hans-Dietrich Genscher: Trailblazer for German great power politics
By Peter Schwarz, 2 April 2016
The former foreign minister and FDP chairman Hans-Dietrich Genscher died Thursday at age 89.
The death of Nancy Reagan
By David Walsh, 9 March 2016
The American political and media establishment has responded in predictably fawning and dishonest fashion to the death of Nancy Reagan on March 6.
The legacy of Antonin Scalia
By Tom Carter, 15 February 2016
Scalia has personified the rightward march of the American political establishment over the past three decades, as it jettisoned what remained of its commitment to democratic institutions.
Julian Bond, veteran of early civil rights struggle and pillar of establishment, dies at 75
By Fred Mazelis, 19 August 2015
The outpouring of official tributes illustrates the political trajectory of the leaders of the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
E. L. Doctorow, 1931-2015: A novelist who tackled American history
By Sandy English, 27 July 2015
E.L. Doctorow, the prominent American novelist and author of Ragtime, Billy Bathgate and The March, among other works, died on July 21 at the age of 84.
Free jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman dead at 85
By Hiram Lee, 18 June 2015
Saxophonist Ornette Coleman helped to define the free jazz movement during an often controversial career spanning half a century.
Blues musician B.B. King, 1925-2015
By James Brewer, 18 May 2015
The iconic American blues artist died May 15 at 89, after dozens of albums and decades of intensive touring.
Media tributes for Victor Gotbaum, union leader who saved banks in 1975 New York City fiscal crisis
By Fred Mazelis, 13 April 2015
Gotbaum’s precedent-setting surrender of New York City workers’ rights in the 1970s paved the way for the American ruling class’ offensive against workers throughout the US and the record inequality of today.
Malcolm Fraser (1930–2015): A political assessment
By Nick Beams, 25 March 2015
Fraser’s name is indelibly etched in history for his role in the ousting of the Whitlam government in the 1975 Canberra Coup.
Former German President Richard von Weizsäcker dies
By Peter Schwarz, 2 February 2015
The glorification of Weizsäcker has less to do with his actual role than with the current political situation, amidst a resurgence of German militarism.
Leading German historian Hermann Weber dies
By Wolfgang Weber, 10 January 2015
The World Socialist Web Site is reposting an interview it conducted with the noted German historian Hermann Weber in November of 2011.
Former Washington mayor Marion Barry mourned in US ruling class circles
By Fred Mazelis, 29 November 2014
Barry typified the layer that came to prominence in the ebb and decline of the mass civil rights movement.
Film and theater director Mike Nichols dies at 83
By David Walsh, 22 November 2014
Nichols, whose career spanned five decades, was undoubtedly an artistically gifted individual, known for his sharp wit and urbanity as well as his considerable skill with actors.
Australian Labor leader Gough Whitlam (1916–2014)
By Nick Beams, 31 October 2014
Nothing of value can be learned from the official outpourings that have followed the death of Australian Labor Party leader Gough Whitlam
Tatiana Ivarovna Smilga-Poluyan: May 22, 1919 – September 27, 2014
By Clara Weiss, 21 October 2014
Tatiana Ivarovna Smilga-Poluyan, daughter of the Left Oppositionist Ivar Smilga, dedicated her life to restoring historical truth about those who had been murdered and whose names had been besmirched by Stalinist reaction.
David Greenglass, star witness against the Rosenbergs, dies at 92
By Fred Mazelis, 16 October 2014
The Rosenberg case must serve as a warning in the current climate of preparation for war.
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014)
By Sandy English, 30 September 2014
Writer Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, died in Johannesburg at the age of 90 on July 13.
Robert Poli, blacklisted leader of PATCO union, dies at 78
By Tom Mackaman, 25 September 2014
Poli led the 1981 strike of air traffic controllers that was crushed by the Reagan administration with the connivance of the AFL-CIO
Condolences on the death of Guy Charron
12 August 2014
In the two weeks since Comrade Guy Charron’s tragic death, the SEP (Canada) has received many condolence letters from comrades around the world.
Guy Charron, 1962-2014: Canadian fighter for Trotskyism
By Keith Jones, 2 August 2014
It is with immense sadness that we announce the death of Guy Charron, a leader of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada) and a daily collaborator in the work of the WSWS.
American film and television actor James Garner (1928-2014)
By David Walsh, 24 July 2014
Over the course of nearly five decades, and for the benefit of several generations, Garner represented something generous, affable and skeptical of authority in film and television.
1928-2014: Maya Angelou, writer, performer and participant in the civil rights movement
By Isaac Finn and Sandy English, 18 June 2014
Angelou had an astonishingly varied and eventful life, residing in different parts of the world, taking up numerous professions and art forms, throwing herself into personal and intellectual relationships of all sorts.
Letter to Kathryn Davron from WSWS Chairman David North
9 May 2014
Below we republish the letter sent by David North, Chairman of the World Socialist Web Site, to Kathryn Davron on April 13, 2014—the day after she had been told that there was nothing medically that could be done to prolong her life after a four-year struggle with cancer.
Kathryn Davron: March 2, 1950—May 1, 2014
By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland, 7 May 2014
Kath was a Trotskyist all her adult life. Her death follows a four-year struggle against cancer, throughout which she displayed her usual attributes of courage and determination.
Rubin “Hurricane” Carter: 1937-2014
By James Brewer, 22 April 2014
Hurricane Carter, one-time contender for the world middleweight boxing title, spent 20 years of his life in prison, fighting against the frameup which put him there.
Veteran Labour “left” Tony Benn dead at 88
15 March 2014
Tony Benn, the former Labour Party MP, died yesterday, aged 88. Benn was the figure most closely associated with the left of the party, particularly in the decades since the 1970s.
Ariel Sharon, war criminal (February 26, 1928-January 11, 2014)
By Jean Shaoul, 13 January 2014
Sharon is justly reviled by millions for his policies of provocation, murder and ethnic cleansing.
David Edward Hyland: March 7, 1947 — December 8, 2013
By Chris Marsden, 10 December 2013
Dave Hyland’s lasting political legacy is that in 1985-1986 he led the faction of the Workers Revolutionary Party that declared its support for the International Committee of the Fourth International and opposed the efforts of the party’s central leadership, Gerry Healy, Cliff Slaughter and Mike Banda, to liquidate the Trotskyist movement in Britain and internationally.
Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013)
Military leader of Vietnamese anti-colonial struggle
By Patrick Martin, 15 October 2013
Giap led Vietnamese nationalist revolutionary forces in military conflicts with French, Japanese and American imperialism.
A fighter for revolutionary socialism
Raúl Rizik: 1947-2013
By Rafael Azul, 7 October 2013
SEP member Raúl Rizik (who wrote under the name of Ramón Valle) died last Wednesday, after more than 40 years as a supporter of the Trotskyist movement internationally.
Germany: Lothar Bisky, leading member of the Left Party, dies
By Peter Schwarz, 16 August 2013
Lothar Bisky played a key role in cementing the post-Stalinist PDS to the bourgeois state and ridding the party of all remnants of Marxist rhetoric.
India: NLC contract worker and WSWS supporter Sivakumar dies at 42
By Arun Kumar, 14 August 2013
Sivakumar belonged to the most abused and exploited section of the working class in India.
Veteran correspondent Helen Thomas, banished for anti-Israel remarks in 2010, dies at 92
By Patrick Martin, 22 July 2013
The longtime journalist was forced to resign in 2010. She had already earned the ire of the establishment for her pointed questions to White House officials about US Middle East policy. We repost here our 2010 comment.
An Appreciation of Juanita Tyler
December 13, 1932-November 5, 2012
By Helen Halyard, 18 March 2013
The mother of Louisiana frame-up victim Gary Tyler, Juanita Tyler embodied the best qualities of the working class and never wavered in the fight for her son’s freedom.
Ed Koch: The right-wing trajectory of a Democratic politician
By Fred Mazelis, 6 February 2013
Koch’s political trajectory reflected the sharp turn to the right of a broad social layer, beginning in the 1970s.
Baseball great Stan Musial dead at 92
By Alan Gilman, 23 January 2013
During his career Musial won seven batting titles, three World Series titles, was voted the National League’s most valuable player three times and was named to a record-tying 24 All-Star teams.
On the death of German SPD leader Peter Struck (1943-2012)
By Sven Heymann, 7 January 2013
Peter Struck, the former German defence minister and longtime parliamentary leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), died December 19 in Berlin at the age of 69.
In Memory of Keerthi Balasuriya
By David North, 18 December 2012
This article was originally posted on the WSWS in two parts on December 18-19, 2007.
George McGovern: Liberal standard-bearer at a turning point in US politics
By Patrick Martin, 26 October 2012
The McGovern campaign marked the rise of identity politics as the principal platform of the Democratic Party.
Santiago Carrillo, butcher of the Spanish Revolution
By Vicky Short, 4 October 2012
The ex-General Secretary of the Stalinist Communist Party of Spain, Santiago Carrillo, died on Tuesday September 18 at the age of 97.
Radical journalist Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
By David Walsh, 14 August 2012
Journalist Alexander Cockburn, co-editor of CounterPunch, died July 21 at the age of 71. Cockburn’s active political history extended back to the New Left and the anti-Vietnam War protest movement in Britain in the 1960s.
Ruth Keedy Benjamin (June 4, 1947—June 29, 2012)
18 July 2012
On June 29, Ruth Keedy Benjamin, a member of the American Trotskyist movement for over 40 years, succumbed to pancreatic cancer.
Rodney King: An individual and social tragedy
By David Brown, 21 June 2012
Rodney King, 47, died last Sunday, 20 years after his brutal beating by the Los Angeles Police Department.
US television personality Mike Wallace dead at 93
By David Walsh, 12 April 2012
Mike Wallace, the longtime American television journalist best known for his almost four decades on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” died April 7 at the age of 93.
The death of Joe Paterno and the Penn State scandal
By Hiram Lee, 27 January 2012
Legendary college football coach Joe Paterno, demonized in the media for his role in the Penn State scandal, died January 22 at the age of 85.
On the death of Václav Havel
By Peter Schwarz, 21 December 2011
Havel’s anti-communism, his arrogance towards working people and his unconditional support for the wars of NATO and the US made him the darling of international politics and the media.
Journalist, scoundrel Christopher Hitchens dies at 62
By David Walsh, 17 December 2011
Christopher Hitchens began his public life as a “left” journalist in Britain and moved on, without undergoing any apparent internal struggle, to become a proponent of imperialist war and oppression, residing in Washington, D.C.
Bob Gould 1937-2011: A political assessment
By Nick Beams, 13 June 2011
For almost his entire political career, Gould functioned as a particular Australian representative of the political trend known as Pabloism.
Richard Holbrooke: Long-time operative for US imperialism
By Patrick Martin, 15 December 2010
The veteran US diplomat was steeped in the commission and cover-up of bloody crimes.
SEP (Sri Lanka) holds funeral for comrade Piyaseeli Wijegunasingha
By our correspondents, 14 September 2010
Hundreds attended the funeral in Colombo to pay their last respects to a lifelong Trotskyist and Marxist literary critic.
Jimmy Reid, Stalinist union leader who betrayed Scottish shipyard struggle, dies at 78
By Steve James, 25 August 2010
Jimmy Reid, the leader of the famous 1971 “work-in” at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS) in Glasgow, Scotland, died on August 10.
Polish president Lech Kaczynski (1949–2010)—from Solidarity advisor to right-wing politician
By Marius Hauser, 13 April 2010
Poland’s late president Lech Kaczynski, who died Saturday in a plane crash, was a loyal representative of the country’s ruling elite and sought to establish authoritarian forms of rule based on reactionary Polish chauvinism.
Former British Labour Party leader Michael Foot dies
By Chris Marsden, 4 March 2010
Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot died yesterday. His political legacy is best measured by the fact that the working class, in a political sense, is far weaker today than it was at the time of his birth 96 years ago.
Alexander Haig (1924-2010): Long-time enforcer for American imperialism
By Patrick Martin, 22 February 2010
Alexander Haig was a trailblazer for a modern reactionary type, the political general, who crosses over from the uniformed military to high political office. Haig played a central role during two critical periods for American imperialism: as Nixon’s White House chief of staff in 1973-74, and Reagan’s secretary of state in 1981-82.
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
An assessment of A People’s History of the United States
By Tom Eley, 15 February 2010
Howard Zinn died on January 28 at the age of 87. Any serious evaluation of Zinn requires consideration be given his book, A People’s History of the United States.
An appreciation of the life of Paula Claire Schuman (1948-2010)
By Helen Halyard, 12 February 2010
Paula Schuman, a former member of the Workers League (forerunner to the Socialist Equality Party) and specialist in infectious diseases and AIDS, died on January 10, 2010 at her home in Davenport, Iowa.
Jyoti Basu: elder statesman of Indian Stalinism dies at 95
By Kranti Kumara and Keith Jones, 19 January 2010
Jyoti Basu, the reputed elder statesman of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and for 23 years the Chief Minister of West Bengal, died Sunday. His death has occasioned numerous gushing tributes from India’s political establishment, beginning with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi.
Egor Gaidar (1956-2009): Architect of capitalist restoration in Russia
By Vladimir Volkov and Andrea Peters, 18 January 2010
One month ago, Egor Gaidar, a leading figure in the restoration of capitalism in Russia, died of a heart attack. The policies he implemented had a disastrous impact on the country and resulted in an immense growth in social inequality.
The death of Miep Gies (February 15, 1909—January 10, 2010)
Protected Anne Frank from the Nazis
By Sybille Fuchs, 15 January 2010
Miep Gies, the last survivor of those who helped young Anne Frank in the Netherlands during World War II, died on Sunday at the age of 100.
Gabonese President Omar Bongo (1935-2009)
A tool of French imperialism in Africa
By Olivier Laurent, 5 September 2009
Gabonese President Omar Bongo died on June 7 after spending nearly 42 years in power defending French imperialism's interests in sub-Saharan Africa.
Former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung dies
By John Chan, 3 September 2009
Behind the rhetoric about “democracy” and “peace”, Kim represented the interests of sections of the Korean bourgeoisie who had been marginalised under the US-backed military dictatorship.
Ted Kennedy and the decay of American liberalism
By Barry Grey, 27 August 2009
The death of Massachusetts Senator Edward (Ted) Kennedy on Tuesday marks the end of the Kennedy family’s role as a major force in American politics.
Writer Budd Schulberg, unrepentant informer, dead at 95
By David Walsh, 7 August 2009
Schulberg was a member of the Communist Party in the late 1930s and subsequently “named names” before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in May 1951. To the end of his life he defended his informing, and that experience largely defines his legacy.
Walter Cronkite and the US news media
By David Walsh, 20 July 2009
Walter Cronkite, a fixture in a great many American homes as anchorman of the CBS evening news from 1962 to 1981, died in New York City July 17 at the age of 92.
Robert S. McNamara, 1916-2009
Pentagon chief during Vietnam War escalation dead at 93
By Patrick Martin, 8 July 2009
Robert S. McNamara, one of the principal architects of the US war in Vietnam, died Monday morning at the age of 93.
Mary Elise Henehan (1925-2008)
By Helen Halyard, 5 January 2009
On December 16, 2008, Mary Elise Henehan died at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan at the age of 83. She was the mother of Tom Henehan, a political committee member of the Workers League, predecessor of the Socialist Equality Party, who was the victim of a political assassination carried out on October 16, 1977 in New York City.
Austrian right-wing politician Jörg Haider dies in car crash
By Markus Salzmann, 16 October 2008
Jörg Haider, the governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia and chairman of the extreme right Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) died in a car accident in Klagenfurt in the early hours of October 11.
From Pabloism to the Greens
Peter Camejo dead at 68
By Fred Mazelis, 16 September 2008
This past weekend brought news of the death of Peter Camejo, a leading figure in the US Green Party, three times its candidate for governor of California, and Ralph Nader’s vice presidential running mate in his independent third party campaign for president in 2004.
Mildred Loving, civil rights-era pioneer, dies at 68
By Patrick Martin, 9 May 2008
Mildred Loving, plaintiff in a civil rights-era lawsuit that led to the overturning of state laws against interracial marriage, died May 2 at her home in the small town of Milford, Virginia. She was 68, and the cause of death was reported as pneumonia, although she had been in generally poor health for several years, and suffered from severe arthritis.
William F. Buckley, longtime propagandist for US ultra-right, dies at 82
By Patrick Martin, 5 March 2008
The death of William F. Buckley, founder of the National Review magazine and long-time media publicist for the American political right, has prompted an outpouring of tributes and praise in the American press, out of all proportion to the significance and stature of its subject.
US auto union leader Douglas Fraser dead at 91
By Jerry White, 26 February 2008
Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers union between 1977 and 1983, died Saturday at the age of 91 in Southfield, Michigan.
International condolences and tributes to Eddie Benjamin
12 February 2008
We are publishing here a selection of the many messages of condolence and the many tributes to Eddie Benjamin sent by Eddie’s comrades from around the world and from within the US.
Eddie Benjamin: January 2, 1953—February 5, 2008
By Jerry White, 11 February 2008
It is with great sadness that the World Socialist Web Site reports the sudden death of Eddie Benjamin, a long-time member of the Socialist Equality Party in the US, and its forerunner, the Workers League.
French revisionist Pierre Lambert dies aged 87
By Peter Schwarz, 21 January 2008
Pierre Lambert, the long-time leader of the French Organisation Communiste Internationaliste (OCI) and of today’s Parti des Travailleurs (PT), died at age 87 on January 16 in Paris after a long illness.
Social theorist André Gorz dies, aged 84
By Stefan Steinberg, 9 October 2007
On September 24, the economist and social theorist André Gorz, 84, committed suicide together with his wife in their house near Paris. The couple had made a pact to end their lives together following a prolonged illness on the part of Gorz’s beloved wife, Dorine.
Kurt Waldheim (1918-2007)
Ex-UN chief’s Nazi past covered up
By Dietmar Henning, 21 June 2007
Last week, former UN Secretary-General and Austrian President Kurt Waldheim died at the age of 88. His family was with him when he succumbed to cardiovascular failure.
Jerry Falwell, founder of the right-wing Moral Majority, dead at 73
By David Walsh, 17 May 2007
Jerry Falwell, one of the leaders of the Christian Right in the US, died Tuesday in his office in Lynchburg, Virginia at the age of 73. Although his brand of fundamentalist hucksterism has been around for a long time in America, Falwell belonged to a generation of preachers who enjoyed unprecedented success as religious entrepreneurs, television personalities and even political leaders.
Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee
October 12, 1969-February 28, 2007
7 March 2007
Raveenthiranathan Senthil Ravee (Senthil), a member of the International Committee based in London, was killed in a car accident in the early hours of February 28 on the London-bound M20 motorway. He leaves behind his wife Anparasi and three children, Turphin, Ajann and baby Leon.
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