NEW DELHI, Feb 15 (NNN-KUNA) — Two LTTE (Liberation of Tamil Tigers Ealam) cadres who had surrendered before the Sri Lankan Army, have revealed that LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was still hiding in Vanni area and holding a large number of civilians as captives to use them as “human bombs.”
The two LTTE suicide bombers, in their twenties, had surrendered before the Lankan troops on January 28, after they failed in their attempts to bomb the Iranamadu Tank, said a report published on Sri Lankan Defence Ministry’s website.
Had they succeeded in carrying out the suicide attack, it could have led to immense disaster.
The LTTE operatives also revealed that Prabhakaran’s son Charles Anthony was commanding their forces with other prominent LTTE leaders like Banu and Lakshman, added the report.
They further stated that they were fed up with the “behaviour” of the LTTE and its leadership and had decided to surrender.
“The LTTE is abducting lots of children who are in their teens. They want to sacrifice civilians as common fodder, but sons and daughters of the LTTE leaders are living luxury lives,” the Defence Ministry report quoted them as saying.
The two former LTTE cadres said that the innocent youth were being brain-washed and sent on suicide missions. According to them, with the battle heating up, Prabhakaran had sent his wife and the youngest son, 10-year-old Balachandran, to a safer location. – NNN-KUNA