Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whanau a Karunakaran i te 1 o Oketopa 1963. I whakaakona ia i Cheddipalayam Maha Vidyalayam me te Whare Wananga o St. Michael, Batticaloa. Whai muri i te
Black July anti-Tamil riots I whakarerea e ia te kura i Akuhata 1983 a i te Noema 1983 ka uru atu ia ki te Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization (TELO), he roopu whawhai Tamil. I whiwhi ia i te whakangungu whawhai Guerrilla, a, i te Pipiri 1987 ka noho ia hei kaiarahi a rohe o TELO i te rohe o Ampara me te rohe o Batticaloa. I muri mai ka noho ia hei hēkeretari-nui o TELO.