![]() One will, however, be never sure what destiny would have had in store for Prabhakaran's death also came a day after the LTTE made a momentous announcement that it had decided to 'silence' its guns as the 'battle has reached its bitter end'.In retrospect, everyone is wise. Tamil sources told IANS that a large number of LTTE fighters may have committed mass suicide in Mullaitivu district by blowing themselves up so as to avoid falling into the hands of the military. Anthony's body was found at Karayamullavaikkal in Mullaitivu district, 'after an unsuccessful and half-hearted attempt by LTTE cadres to evacuate their leader's son early this morning', the defence ministry said. The discovery of the bodies of Prabhakaran and the others - television footage showed the blown up face of Prabhakaran's son Anthony - marks the macabre end of a group which still commands a lot of support among Tamil expatriates spread all over the West as well as in sections of Tamil Nadu, where Prabhakaran lived 1983-87 and where the LTTE once had training camps and offices. He singlehandedly built it into an awesome military machine that at one point controlled a third of Sri Lanka's land territory and two-thirds of its coastline. ![]() Born into a Hindu middle class family of Jaffna in 1954, Prabhakaran was the youngest of two sons and two daughters of a junior government employee in the Sri Lankan government.Ī school dropout, he set up the Tamil New Tigers (TNT) group in 1972, which became the LTTE in 1976. ![]() ![]() The deaths sparked frenzied celebrations in Colombo and vast parts of the Sinhalese populated central and southern provinces as people poured out of their homes, waved national flags and distributed sweets. Puleedevan dealt extensively with the diplomatic community during the Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement between Colombo and the LTTE from 2002 until it collapsed under renewed violence within a few years. Puleedevan, head of the Peace Secretariat Ramesh, a military leader Ilango, chief of the LTTE police and Kapil Amman from the LTTE intelligence wing. Other key LTTE leaders whose bodies were found Monday were Soosai, the LTTE's naval wing leader Balasingham Nadesan, who headed its political wing S. Also killed Monday with Prabhakaran was Shanmugalingam Shivashankar alias Pottu Amman, the dreaded chief of the intelligence wing that was responsible for all the high profile assassinations the Tigers carried out in its long and murderous history. ![]()
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