Sri Lanka Dismisses TN Leader’s ‘Prabhakaran Alive’ Claim

Colombo: After Tamil Nadu leader Pazha Nedumaran claimed that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who was killed in 2009 by the Sri Lankan army, was still alive, the island nation today dismissed it as a “joke”.

Nedumaran, a noted nationalist leader from Tamil Nadu, told reporters that the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was “doing well” and a “conducive atmosphere prevails for him to appear now”.

Sri Lanka’s defence ministry dismissed the claim as a joke.

“It is confirmed that he was killed on May 19, 2009. The DNA proved it,” Colonel Nalin Herath, Sri Lanka’s defence ministry spokesman told news agency PTI.

The LTTE was fighting for an independent state for the Tamils in Sri Lanka’s north and eastern provinces.