Original sentence: Thiruvenkadam Velupillai Prabhakaran (; ; , 26 November 195419 May 2009) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers), a militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka
Edited sentence: Thiruvenkadam Velupillai Prabhakaran (; ; , 26 November 195419 May 2009) was the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (the LTTE or the Tamil Tigers), a terrorist  militant organization that sought to create an independent Tamil state in the north and east of Sri Lanka