LTTE chief Prabhakaran to be buried in a mass grave

May 28th, 2009 COLOMBO - The parents of the now dead Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran are in the "protective custody" of the Sri Lankan government, a media report said Thursday. Thiruvenkatam Velupillai (76) and his wife Parvathi (71) surrendered to the army several days ago, The Island newspaper quoted a government official as saying.

May 27th, 2009 COLOMBO - Slain LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran's body was identified by his two former aides with the help of certain scars and birth marks. The Tiger supremo's body was identified by federal minister Vinayagamoorthi Muralidaran, one time close confidante of Prabhakaran, and Daya Master, the former LTTE media spokesman.

May 22nd, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan military spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanyakkara said that LTTE Supremo Prabhakaran's body was cremated in Mullaithivu on Wednesday. According to the military, his body was treated like any other terrorist.

May 21st, 2009 COLOMBO - The former commander of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam's eastern forces, Colonel 'Karuna' has said that he has no doubt about the fact that LTTE supremo V.Prabhakaran being killed and added that he would like to apologise personally to the Gandhi family for the assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. In an interview to a television channel, Colonel 'Karuna' said: "I have been with him (Prabhakaran) for so many years so there was no doubt.

May 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan armed forces have 'militarily defeated the LTTE and freed the nation from three decades of terror', army chief Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka said Monday after Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed in the island's north. All top leaders had now been killed and the process of identifying the bodies was underway, the Sri Lankan military announced.

May 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed Monday while trying to escape the war zone in the island's north, reports said quoting military officials. An ambulance ferrying Prabhakaran and some of his associates took a direct hit as Sri Lankan troops continued their mopping up operations for the last of the guerrillas in Mullaitivu district, the reports said.

May 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Velupillai Prabhakaran, the elusive leader of Sri Lanka's feared Tamil Tigers, was killed Monday while trying to escape the battlezone in the island's north along with two of his top aides, the military announced. Prabhakaran, 54, was in a convoy of a van and an ambulance with Pottu Amman, head of the intelligence wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and Sea Tigers chief Soosai when the military opened fire in an isolated strip of Mullaitivu district.

May 18th, 2009 COLOMBO - Velupillai Prabhakaran, the elusive leader of Sri Lanka's feared Tamil Tigers, was killed Monday while trying to escape the war zone in the island's north, military sources said. Prabhakaran, 54, was in a convoy of a van and an ambulance with some of his trusted aides when the military opened fire in an isolated strip of Mullaitivu district, a military official said.

May 17th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger guerrillas announced Sunday that they had decided to 'silence' their guns amid intense rumours that their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was dead. In a statement posted on the TamilNet website, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said its decades long struggle for a Tamil homeland 'has reached its bitter end'.

April 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI/COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said Colombo would extradite Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, if caught alive, to India - but after first putting him through trial in his country. In an interview to CNN IBN channel, Rajapaksa said it was 'almost over' for the LTTE chief and he could be caught very soon.

April 26th, 2009 LONDON - Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran will not surrender and fight till the death, despite being cornered by the Sri Lankan Army in a 10 sq. km patch, according to his former right hand man.

April 26th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan Defence Ministry on Sunday said that the Army has captured strategic Valayarmadam area and encircled remaining six square kilometre strip of land which could be the possible hideout of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. "Sri Lankan soldiers have liberated Valayarmadam area and so far rescued 500 civilians held hostage by the LTTE from there," the Defence Ministry said on Sunday.

March 2nd, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan military has found photographs and videos showing politicians from India's Tamil Nadu state in the company of Tamil Tiger leaders in the island's north, it was announced Monday. The defence ministry said soldiers combing abandoned bases of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) discovered the photographs as well as videos of the politicians with LTTE boss Velupillai Prabhakaran.

January 26th, 2009 COLOMBO - A Sri Lankan court has re-issued arrest warrants against Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran over the assassination of former foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. The Colombo high court Monday also issued similar warrants against Prabhakaran's intelligence chief Pottu Amman and two senior members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

January 19th, 2009 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan political parties are insisting that Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran should be tried in this country if he is caught and not sent to India where too he is a wanted man. A media report said Tuesday that the political parties wanted Prabhakaran to be tried in Sri Lanka 'for the crimes he has committed including the assassination of several political leaders'.