Velupillai Prabhakaran

Velupillai Prabhakaran may not have visualised his own macabre end as a mud-covered and practically naked corpse on a makeshift stretcher, but that is how it turned out to be. Despite the inherently cruel voyeurism of officially publishing the pictures of his body, Sri Lanka had to do so if only to prevent mythologies from [...]

LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s death, bringing down the curtains on his 25-year-old armed struggle for a separate Tamil state, sparked off celebrations in the island nation Monday.
People poured out into the streets in many towns, setting off firecrackers, waving the national flag and distributing milk rice to mark the military victory.
In Colombo, soon after the [...]

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 [...]

In a macabre end to one of the world’s longest running insurgencies, the bodies of Tamil Tigers chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son and six key rebel leaders have been found in a war-battered strip of Sri Lanka’s northern coast, the government said Monday.
The defence ministry said soldiers combing the small area where the last of the [...]