Speculation ripe that Prabhakaran dead; End came as AT predicted
Sat, 2009-05-16 18:00
By Asian Tribune Team
Colombo/New Delhi/Amman, Stockholm, 16 May (Asiantribune.com):
There is heightened speculation that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the megalomaniac responsible for the death of hundreds of thousand of innocents is dead. Just as the Asian Tribune’s on-line poll predicted.
The speculation gained currency after reports trickled in from the War Zone that two army divisions marching different directions in the north on Saturday captured the last strip of the coastline held by the LTTE, killed many rebels in the confrontation and cut off all sea escape routes for the beleaguered rebels who are now confined to just 1.5 sq km territory encircled by the security forces. There has been a buzz of explosions in and around the New-Safety Zone (NSZ) as the military and the Tigers engaged in a no-holds-barred battle.
How and when Prabhakaran’s end came is still unclear. There is no official word as yet from any quarter – President’s office, Army headquarters or defence ministry.
It is said that the President would make an important announcement at around 5 pm Sri Lankan time, from Amman where he is at present to attend G-11 summit.
Only on Friday, President Rajapaksa vowed to stamp out the Tigers within 48-hours. It was rather unusual of him to make such a public declaration since he is given to the old school dictum of understatement.
So, if the speculation is true- there appears no need or even justification not to believe the grapevine for the first time in Colombo – Asian Tribune can take credit for foreseeing the end of a person who had successfully sold the dream of Tamil Eelam and moulded the Tigers as the Khmer Rouge of Sri Lanka with an ultra extremist ideology.
In the on-going poll by Asian Tribune on "How Prabhakaran’s saga will end", 49 per cent of AT’s global readership voted that Prabhakaran will be killed. 23 per cent said that he would flee the Vanni. Only 20 per cent voted that he would commit suicide by swallowing the cyanide pill. Just 8 per cent felt he could surrender to the armed forces, notwithstanding their skepticism.
A clear pointer to the possible end of Prabhakaran is the big blow the SL Navy had inflicted on the LTTE by ‘capturing’ the wife and daughter of Soosai, the Chief of the Sea Tiger's. Soosai, whose real name is Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan, is a close confidant of Prabhakaran. He is also the senior most leader in the military wing of the LTTE. His brother’s wife and daughter were also captured off Mullaitivu coast as all of them were trying to flee.
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Sat, 2009-05-16 18:00
By Asian Tribune Team
Colombo/New Delhi/Amman, Stockholm, 16 May (Asiantribune.com):
There is heightened speculation that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the megalomaniac responsible for the death of hundreds of thousand of innocents is dead. Just as the Asian Tribune’s on-line poll predicted.
The speculation gained currency after reports trickled in from the War Zone that two army divisions marching different directions in the north on Saturday captured the last strip of the coastline held by the LTTE, killed many rebels in the confrontation and cut off all sea escape routes for the beleaguered rebels who are now confined to just 1.5 sq km territory encircled by the security forces. There has been a buzz of explosions in and around the New-Safety Zone (NSZ) as the military and the Tigers engaged in a no-holds-barred battle.
How and when Prabhakaran’s end came is still unclear. There is no official word as yet from any quarter – President’s office, Army headquarters or defence ministry.
It is said that the President would make an important announcement at around 5 pm Sri Lankan time, from Amman where he is at present to attend G-11 summit.
Only on Friday, President Rajapaksa vowed to stamp out the Tigers within 48-hours. It was rather unusual of him to make such a public declaration since he is given to the old school dictum of understatement.
So, if the speculation is true- there appears no need or even justification not to believe the grapevine for the first time in Colombo – Asian Tribune can take credit for foreseeing the end of a person who had successfully sold the dream of Tamil Eelam and moulded the Tigers as the Khmer Rouge of Sri Lanka with an ultra extremist ideology.
In the on-going poll by Asian Tribune on "How Prabhakaran’s saga will end", 49 per cent of AT’s global readership voted that Prabhakaran will be killed. 23 per cent said that he would flee the Vanni. Only 20 per cent voted that he would commit suicide by swallowing the cyanide pill. Just 8 per cent felt he could surrender to the armed forces, notwithstanding their skepticism.
A clear pointer to the possible end of Prabhakaran is the big blow the SL Navy had inflicted on the LTTE by ‘capturing’ the wife and daughter of Soosai, the Chief of the Sea Tiger's. Soosai, whose real name is Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan, is a close confidant of Prabhakaran. He is also the senior most leader in the military wing of the LTTE. His brother’s wife and daughter were also captured off Mullaitivu coast as all of them were trying to flee.
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