Regarding the death of Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son, the Sri Lankan army always maintained that Balachandran Prabhakaran was killed in cross-firing during a military operation. But the pictures told something else.
Questions were also raised on the claim regarding the death of Prabhakaran’s son.
Sri Lanka’s separatist organization LTTE chief and India’s Former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi killers of Velupillai Prabhakaran Has been claimed to be alive. Pazha Nedumaran, former Congress leader of Tamil Nadu and president of the World Confederation of Tamil, made this claim on Monday. Nedumaran has said that Prabhakaran will come forward soon and the rumors of his death will be put to rest.
If Nedumaran’s claim turns out to be true, the Sri Lankan army and government will be proved false. Prabhakaran was declared dead on 18 May 2009 by the Sri Lankan government. Then Ratnasiri Wickramanayake was the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, while Mahinda Rajapaksa was the President there. For India too, the news of Prabhakaran’s death was reassuring.
Sri Lanka has also been accused of lying about the death of Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran. And now if the talk of Prabhakaran being alive is true, then once again Sri Lanka will be proved a liar.
Shot in the chest after feeding snacks!
Regarding the death of Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son, the Sri Lankan army always maintained that Balachandran Prabhakaran was killed in cross-firing during a military operation. But a British newspaper published pictures of Balachandran and told that he was caught by the army. The Sri Lankan army first fed him snacks and then after some time bullets were fired in his chest.
Army had abducted the child by deceit!
A picture released at that time showed Balachandran sitting in a bunker and then another picture of Balachandran’s body lying on the ground. His chest was riddled with bullets. These pictures were taken in 2009 for a documentary.
In the documentary ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’, director McCree showed that Balachandran was brutally killed by the Sri Lankan army. Macri showed photographs in his film and claimed that the 12-year-old was tricked into being taken away by soldiers and told that he was not in danger. Later 5 bullets were fired in his chest. Macri said that the army had deliberately killed the child.
Sri Lankan government had told a liar
Macri later also wrote articles in two newspapers. However, the Sri Lankan government continued to claim that Prabhakaran’s son had died in the crossfire of the army. After the pictures surfaced, Sri Lankan army spokesman Ruwan Vanigasurya had termed Macri’s allegations as false and baseless and said that it was an attempt to tarnish Sri Lanka’s image. He said that the film was brought at a time when the session of the United Nations Human Rights Council was about to take place.
DNA test was done on Prabhakaran’s body
Prabhakaran was declared dead on 18 May 2009 by the Sri Lankan government. The government said that he was killed on May 17, 2009 when Sri Lankan soldiers were trying to capture him in the northern part of the country. Although it is also claimed that Prabhakaran had committed suicide. The next day the Sri Lankan media showed his dead body. A week later, LTTE spokesperson Selvarasa Pathmanathan also confirmed his death. Then two weeks later, it was also told in the DNA test that this dead body belonged to Prabhakaran. However, now the new claim has given rise to a new debate.
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