Facts: - credits: member of parliament - death date: august 20 , 2006 - name: sinnathamby sivamaharajah - ethnicity: sri lankan tamil - death place: jaffna - religion: hindu - birth place: jaffna , sri lanka - occupation: editor and publisher of namathu eelanadu newspaper Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of sinnathamby sivamaharajah .
sinnathamby sivamaharajah -lrb- died august 20 , 2006 -rrb- was the managing director of namathu eelanadu , a tamil-language newspaper , in jaffna , he was also a former member of parliament for the tamil united liberation front , and a member of the pro ltte tamil national alliance in the sri lankan parliament .he has also served as the president of the consortium of valikamam north public organizations .he is from tellippalai .