Like Yogeswaran, Sivapalan belonged to the Tamil United Liberation Front. He too was assassinated, on 11 September 1998, when a mine exploded in the Jaffna city council chambers with Sri Lanka Army Jaffna town commander, Brigadier Susantha Mendis and his Principal Staff Officer (PSO), Captain Ramanayaka and Senior Superintendent of Police in charge of Jaffna Division, Chandra Perera.
The passage describes the assassination of Sivapalan on September 11, 1998, in the context of a mine explosion that also killed Sri Lanka Army Jaffna town commander Brigadier Susantha Mendis, his Principal Staff Officer Captain Ramanayaka, and Senior Superintendent of Police Chandra Perera.