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| Sri Lanka |
| Lanka: Pudge still trapped sez army |
| 2009-04-25 |
| The leader of Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebels is trapped in a small strip of jungle and intends to make a final stand with his surviving forces, an army commander said on Friday. The commander said a rebel spokesman who surrendered to government troops earlier in the week had reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, was still in charge of his cornered and depleted separatist army in the island's northeast. The Tamil Tiger spokesman "says that Prabhakaran was living inside and that he will be there until the last moment", Brigadier Shavendra Silva told reporters. "But, even at the last minute, he will try to escape," said the commander, who is spearheading the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who have fought for decades for a separate Tamil homeland. Prabhakaran has not been seen for 18 months, and speculation has been rife that he may have been killed or already fled the island. |
| Posted by:Fred |