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Lankan army has denied reports of having tortured LTTE supremo before executing him.
The Sri Lankan military on Monday dismissed as "concocted" a report claiming that LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was tortured before he was executed after he
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When television channels across the globe began beaming visuals of Velupillai Prabhakaran’s body on 19 May, there was shock first and then, disbelief.
Post-conflict: An LTTE handout photo of Velupillai Prabhakaran. The Sri Lankan government has managed
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Colombo, June 18: A newly-formed front of the defeated Tamil Tigers on Thursday rejected media reports that their former leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had surrendered or was taken alive before being killed.
A group calling itself the department of
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Asian Age
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REVIVING A MOVEMENT: After annihilation at the hands of Sri Lankan army, LTTE seeks to go political.
Colombo: Having wiped out the LTTE leadership from northern Sri Lanka, the government is now seeking international help to nab its fugitive leader K
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LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was waiting for the results of Indian elections to plan his
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Indian Express
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Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was tortured by the Sri Lankan military before being killed, a leading human rights body
said in a report released on Wednesday.
The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR)
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Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was tortured by the Sri Lankan military before being killed, a leading human rights body said in a report released on Wednesday.
The University Teachers for Human Rights (UTHR) quoted high-level military
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Hindustan Times
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COLOMBO, May 5: Sri Lanka´s Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is trapped in the small strip of coastline that has been surrounded by government soldiers, the prime minister said Tuesday.
Ratnasiri Wickremanayake told parliament that
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Republica
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Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed earlier this month
The parents of the Tamil Tigers' dead leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, are in a camp for displaced people in the north of Sri Lanka, the army says.
Thiruvenkadam Velupillai and his wife, Parvathi,
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The parents of slain Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran have sought shelter with Sri Lankan security forces after fleeing the offensive against the rebels, the military said on Thursday.
The parents of Velupillai Prabhakaran were identified among
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Hindustan Times
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Velupillai Prabhakaran's death has been disputed among Tamil Tigers
At first glance, the admission by the LTTE's head of international relations, Selvarasa Padmanathan, that their supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead might seem like the Tamil
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One week after the Sri Lankan army announced Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed in a military offensive the rebel group has now confirmed his death, issuing a statement declaring he had “attained martyrdom.”
According to the
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COLOMBO: After nearly a week of denial, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has confirmed that its leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, has been killed by the Sri Lankan military.
‘We announce today, with inexpressible sadness and heavy hearts that
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Covering the guerrilla movements of the post-colonial world was never easy, but in most cases, foreign correspondents at least knew where to start.
Central America in the 1970s? If you didn't mind teasing one's mortality, you could carefully root out
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Vijay Sappani at Desicritics posts a press release of LTTE, which admits that the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead.
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Global Voices Online
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/05/25/sri-lanka-ltte-confirms-prabhakarans-death/
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Sri Lanka to restrict aid until rebels screened out
Monday, May 25, 2009
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka said on Sunday it would not allow aid workers complete access to civilians who remain held in camps after the defeat of the Tamil Tigers until rebels
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The News
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, former leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Velupillai Prabhakaran, former leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels.
ORTHEAST COAST, Sri Lanka The defeated Tamil Tiger rebels have confirmed that their supreme leader was killed in the
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This tiny, beautiful and mysteriously violent island is separated from the looming bulk of the Indian subcontinent by a strip of stones and reefs known as Adam's Bridge, an almost-walkable link covered by less than two metres of water at high tide.
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In a clandestine encounter in the jungle, one of the few Western journalists to ever interview the ruthless Tamil leader Velupillai Prabhakaran recalls the smile of a man who incited fear.
I MET Velupillai Prabhakaran — the Tamil Tiger commander who
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The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/world/in-the-eyes-of-the-tiger-20090522-bi8v.html
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The rest of the world might never understand the violence Velupillai Prabhakaran stood for, but its imprint on Sri Lanka is wide and deep. For 26 years, the elusive leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had waged war with the government
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Time Magazine
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The armed struggle Velupillai Prabhakaran embarked on to win political and language rights for the minority Tamils in the north-east of Sri Lanka is over. Though there is intense speculation as to the exact circumstances of Prabhakaran's death, it
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Comment Is Free
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'Britain, rather than glossing over the truly
hideous terrorist outrages committed by the Tamil Tigers and calling for
dialogue, should have the guts to salute a victory in the war against
terrorism."
Sri Lanka is shaped like a teardrop below
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Colombo Outside in the streets, the celebration was loud as thousands of Sri Lankans waved flags and cheered Wednesday to mark an impromptu national holiday after the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the bloody end of a 26-year civil war.
But
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The defeat of the Tamil Tigers and the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the rebel group's leader, seemed to deepen the sense of confusion felt by many in Sri Lanka's Tamil population. What's next for them?
A group of children in the capital have
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Voice of America
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Even in death, Velupillai Prabhakaran's eyes remained his most compelling feature, wide open and clear, as though focused on a goal.
For more than 30 years, Sri Lankan Tamils relied on those eyes, and the single-minded focus behind them, to achieve
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Sri Lanka's president declared his country "liberated from separatist terror" Tuesday as state television broadcast images of the Tamil Tiger rebel leader's body after it was recovered from the battlefield.
Sri Lankans celebrate the victory
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Tamil Canadians say they won't stop speaking out on behalf of Tamils in Sri Lanka even though the military conflict is over.
Some Tamil-Canadians say the military war in Sri Lanka might be over, but protests in Toronto will continue to show support for
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SRI Lanka's president declared his country "liberated from separatist terror" yesterday as state television broadcast images of the Tamil Tiger rebel leader's body after it was recovered from the battlefield.
But in his victory address to parliament,
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COLOMBO, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The military in Sri Lanka confirmed Tuesday that Vellupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has been killed by the troops in the northern Mullaittivu district.
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Xinhua
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The Sri Lankan Government today displayed what it said was the corpse of
Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Tamil Tigers, but was unable to
avert a surge of conspiracy theories that the terrorist commander was alive
and well.
Grisly footage
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Sides duel over whether Tamil leader alive
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 19 (UPI) -- Sri Lankan TV aired photos of what officials claimed was the body of Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who rebels claimed was still alive.
The grim photos showed
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United Press International
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Sri Lanka's president proclaimed victory over the Tamil Tigers yesterday after decades of civil war, with state television showing what it said was the corpse of rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.
A Sri Lankan Muslim man looks at a poster,
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Taken to safety.. a soldier carries one of the children trapped in the enclave during the assault. The picture was supplied by Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defence.
Photo: AFP
A TRIUMPHANT Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has declared the country "
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Sydney Morning Herald
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Sri Lankan army today recovered the body of slain Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and splashed its images on the national television after LTTE claimed that he was alive and that the group would continue to fight for a separate
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Sri Lanka's president formally declared an end to the 26-year-war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and
called for ethnic unity in an address to Parliament Tuesday.
Later
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Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0519/p99s01-duts.html
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I was part of a group of 350 journalists who attended a press conference called by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam chief Velupillai Prabhakaran [Images] at Killinochi in northern Sri Lanka [Images]. This was during the truce between the LTTE [Images]
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's president declared his country "liberated from separatist terror" Tuesday as the military said it recovered the body of Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai
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Once these demands are accepted or a political solution is put forward by recognising these three fundamentals and our people are satisfied with the solutions we will consider giving up the demand for Eelam.” Prabhakaran also stated that the Tamil
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Merinews
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General Sarath Fonseka's official announcement came hours after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) claimed its rebel leader was still alive.
Rajapaksa said in a speech at the parliament that he was addressing the nation after victory in the
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New Kerala
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Colombo - Sri Lankan state television broadcast video footage on Tuesday of what it said was the body of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, hours after the rebels claimed he was still alive.
The footage showed the upper part of a corpse dressed
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Independent Online
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka declared Monday that it had crushed the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing their chief, Velupillai Prabhakaran, and ending his three-decade quest for an independent homeland for minority Tamils.
State television broke into its
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Officials said that Prabhakaran's corpse had been badly burned and DNA tests and other tests would be carried out on the body, but Chamari Danansuriya, a magistrate, described the process as a legal formality.
But the
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By Peter Wonacott NEW DELHI -- Velupillai Prabhakaran was rarely photographed without jungle fatigues that, to his supporters, symbolized the ferocity and dedication with which he pursued the war for an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.His
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Wall Street Journal
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The demise of the LTTE and the end of
Velupillai Prabhakaran marks an apocalyptic moment in the Tamil minority's quest
for equality and dignity in Sri Lanka. (
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Depending on whether the
Sinhala majority reacts to its military victory with
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Times of India
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(AXcess News) - The Sri Lankan military announced Monday that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founder and leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is dead.
A state television broadcast quoting military sources stated that Mr.
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who is reported to have been shot dead
Photo: AFP/GETTY
Uniquely in the annals of guerrilla campaigns, his bloodstained efforts
embraced every form of warfare, ranging from
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5344867/Profile-Velupillai-Prabhakaran-Tamil-Tiger-leader.html
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The
Sri Lankan military has said that their nearly three-decade long war with the Tamil
Tigers has ended and that the rebel leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, has been
killed.
Over
the past several weeks the military had been using an aggressive push
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TransWorldNews
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Colombo: "It is a tragic incident." This was how Velupillai Prabhakaran described former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's assassination 11 years after he hatched the diabolical plot to eliminate him.
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, who is reported to have been shot dead
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Velupillai Prabhakaran, the defeated leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE), was killed on Monday,
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