“LTTE Chief Prabhakaran Alive, Healthy”: Tamil Leader’s Shocking Claim
Veteran former Tamil Nadu politician Pazha Nedumaran today asserted that LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is alive and healthy and that he will soon make a public appearance, fourteen years after the Sri Lankan government pronounced him dead.
Following an operation by the Sri Lankan army in Mullivaikal, Prabhakaran, who formed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and oversaw a protracted guerrilla struggle for a separate homeland for Lankan Tamils in the island nation, was declared dead on May 18, 2009. Mahinda Rajapaksa served as President at that time and served as the country’s leader.
Mr Nedumaran, the president of the World Tamils Confederation, told journalist in Thanjavur, “LTTE chief Prabhakaran is alive and will appear soon. We are happy to announce this to the world. He would announce his plans for Tamil Eelam.”
Explaining the timing of this announcement, he said, “The fall of the Rajapaksa government after the Sinhala uprising in Sri Lanka has created a conducive situation. This is the right time for his (Prabhakaran’s) appearance.”
Many images and videos of a body were published after Prabhakaran’s passing was reported by the Sri Lankan authorities in 2009. Then, a lot of people said that these were altered. Others had claimed that when the LTTE leader arrived to surrender in accordance with an agreement, he was shot dead in violation of international agreements. Pazha Nedumaran made no mention of the LTTE leader’s current whereabouts.
When Rajiv Gandhi was killed in a suicide explosion at Sriperumbudur in 1991, Prabhakaran was one of the main suspects, and he was later labelled a proclaimed offender. He was also charged in several additional murder cases in Sri Lanka, and the LTTE was designated a prohibited terror group.
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