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JATHINDAS

26 April, 2009

LTTE CHIEF V Prabhakaran may flee from the island using a submarine. According to army officials, he is present in the no-fire zone along with his son Charles Anthony. Tigers’ intelligence chief Pottu Amman and Sea Tiger Soosi might have retained a submarine to escape from the island, the commanding officer, 58 Division, said.

Prabhakaran started a Tamil militant organisation, the Tamil New Tigers (TNL) on May 22, 1972, when he was just 17. Later, this organisation was renamed LTTE on May 5, 1976. The military operation may slow down because 15,000 civilians are still under LTTE control in the no-fire zone. The Sri Lankan government has instructed soldiers not to use heavy gun. A naval blockade was put around northern Mullaittivu, close to the areas where LTTE cadres still had access. Around 613 LTTE militants were killed in the first week of April.

This was revealed by LTTE’s former spokesman Daya Master who surrendered to the army, Brigadier DeSilva told a selected group of reporters visiting LTTE’S former political capital, Killinochi. “Prabhakaran is only supported by Amman and Soosi and other Tamil Tiger leaders will leave him if they get an opportunity,” DeSilva quoted Master as saying. The army was very close to Prabhakaran but the LTTE leader fled just two days before troops captured the area where he was hiding in the no-fire zone on March 31.

More than 6,400 Sri Lankan civilians have been killed and 14,000 injured in fighting between the army and LTTE since mid- January of this year. The figures were not made public by the UN but were circulated among foreign embassies in Colombo. The new death toll emerged four days after the Sri Lankan army advanced in to a no-fire zone, where it has pinned down the last of the Tigers with tens of thousands of civilians. It came as India sent Shiv Shanker Menon, its foreign secretary and MK Narayanan, its national security advisor, to Sri Lanka to press for a cease-fire to allow the civilians to flee the zone.

The army has rescued more than 100,000 civilians from the zone since April 20. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused the Sri Lankan government on Wednesday, of causing “untold suffering” and said that “the entire world is very disappointed.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ordered a UN humanitarian team to visit the no-fire zone. India has been less outspoken until now, despite having 63 million ethic Tamil citizens.

Over 80,000 civilians have so far crossed over to government controlled ‘safe zone’, a Defence Ministry spokesman said in Colombo. The advancing troops of Sri Lankan army’s 58 Division and 55 Division which launched massive assault on the rebels from different sides have merged in the no-fire zone near Puthumathalan capturing more areas from the Tigers, the spokesman said. But Puleedevan, Secretary General of LTTE peace secretariat, urged the international community to intervene by forcing a permanent cease-fire, which Sri Lanka has ruled out. He also added that “people are giving full support to us and they are fighting with us because LTTE is fighting for them.”

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