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)