Free Republic

This is the fate that befell the World’s Most Ruthless Terrorist Leader, LTTE’s VELUPILLAI PRABHAKARAN at the hands of heroic troops of the Sri Lanka Army who had just brought the entire country under one banner after ridding terrorists of their last hold in VELLAMULLIVAIKKAL in MULLAITTIVU. PRABHAKARAN who was No.1 in the organization was with his LTTE ID card at the time he was gunned down close to NANTHI KANDAL lagoon. He was wearing his camouflage uniform and had taken a clean shave, thinking perhaps of his last few hours and the imminent danger. It took a little more...

'Rajiv Gandhi ordered army to bump off LTTE chief' Vishal Thapar / CNN-IBN New Delhi: A former Indian Peace Keeping Force Commander has claimed in a book that Rajiv Gandhi had ordered the killing of LTTE chief Prabhakaran at the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Peace Accord in 1987, well before the hostilities had broken out in October that year. According to the book, Intervention in Sri Lanka, the instructions for the hatchet job were conveyed by JN Dixit, India's envoy in Sri Lanka at that time. The author, Major General Harkirat Singh, says, “I got a call from the...

COLOMBO: The reclusive leader of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas has appeared in public for the first time since the tsunami, quelling rumours that he had been killed in the disaster, a pro-rebel website reported. Velupillai Prabhakaran had met relief workers in the northern town of Kilinochchi on Monday, Tamilnet.com said. It carried a picture showing him in combat fatigues chairing a meeting. "Although our people have suffered through severe hardships, we are shocked by the scale of destruction and loss of life the tsunami has inflicted on our people," it quoted Prabhakaran as saying. Rumours that Prabhakaran had...

COLOMBO : Elusive Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran and his intelligence chief Pottu Amman are among the dead or missing after last week's tsunami disaster, state radio said Saturday, sparking fresh tension between government and rebels who immediately denied the report. The Island newspaper, meanwhile, reported Saturday that an expensive coffin "for a top LTTE leader" had been smuggled into a northern Tiger area inside a container carrying relief for tsunami survivors. The LTTE, in a statement posted on its official Peace Secretariat website, slammed the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation for carrying the reports, saying now was "not the...