![Eranga Jayawardena FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, right, leaves with fellow lawmakers Mavai Senadirajah, left, and Selvam Adeiakalanadan, back right after a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0bbb0692766d4fa68cebc260dd04747d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, right, leaves with fellow lawmakers Mavai Senadirajah, left, and Selvam Adeiakalanadan, back right after a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)
![Eranga Jayawardena FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan gestures as he speaks during a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8de4961c84ce4f859ebcf5493fc377da/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan gestures as he speaks during a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)
![Eranga Jayawardena FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan gestures as he speaks during a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/554f4e8d5c094a0cb3f106b8b6a13788/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x&wm=false)
FILE- Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil minority political party Tamil National Alliance leader Rajavarothiam Sampanthan gestures as he speaks during a media conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 9, 2010. Sampanthan, a senior ethnic Tamil leader and lawmaker, who became the face of the minority community's campaign for autonomy in Sri Lanka since the end of a brutal quarter-century civil war, has died. He was 91.(AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)