Where is prabhakaran buried

The search operations were conducted with the Terrorist Investigation Division in Vellamullavaikkal area in Mullaitivu, the defence ministry said. A staggering kg of explosives were among the recovered haul of war material, the ministry said in a statement.

Sign in Create a Rediffmail account. January 05, IST. Get Rediff News in your Inbox: email. ET Secure IT. Panache Tech and Gadgets. Panache People City Life. ET Magazine. Rate Story. Font Size Abc Small. Abc Medium. Abc Large. General Fonseka told the Sunday Rivira newspaper that positive identification of Prabhakaran's body came on Tuesday morning following heavy fighting in the northeastern Mullaittivu district the previous day. If you ask people there, they will often tell you that Prabhakaran is merely in hiding and will re-emerge to lead the struggle for Tamil Eelam.

Wijnarajah, who sells life insurance out of the office, had secured the conference room for our meeting. And he was pointing every Tamil house. They had the voters list! Like Rudra, the three men seemed unable to wrestle with some of the truly horrific things of which the Tigers have been accused, not least of which was a Human Rights Watch report that found their proxies were extorting Tamil businesses in Toronto for donations.

They are most comfortable talking about the harsh realities for Tamils still inside Sri Lanka. If you do, you will disappear next day. The Sri Lankan government has portrayed the victory over the Tigers as yet another battle in the War on Terror. Instead, it has portrayed the victory over the Tigers as yet another battle in the War on Terror. I pressed him on the story, sharing some widely reported details of the case.

Kohoona returned to his talking points, reiterating the official policy that government forces freed the Tamils from the grip of a vicious terrorist force that controlled the Jaffna Peninsula against their will.

The government, he explains, is committed to making Sri Lanka a harmonious society. But since the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka has continued to be hostile to minorities.

The exchange of fire in the Vellamullivaikkal and Puthukudirippu areas did not last very long as the last of the LTTE fighters — estimated to be around — ran out of ammunition. It has already been reported widely in British newspapers, including The Sunday Times and The Guardian how desperate attempts by Nadesan and Pulidevan to surrender were not taken seriously enough by the UN special envoy in Colombo, Vijay Nambiar, chief of staff to Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general.

When Nadesan and Pulidevan did try to surrender along with their families, waving white flags, they were machine-gunned. They attacked an army bunker, killing at least 15 soldiers and captured an army ambulance.