Sri Lanka dismissed rumors of safe passage to LTTE Leader – Clock is ticking

Prabakaran’s ultimate options left are limited - either to commit suicide or be killed by the advancing security forces

Colombo, 14 April, (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka dispelled rumors that Norway as well as United States of America negotiating to give safe passage to the LTTE’s leader Velupillai Prabakaran and a couple of senior Leaders including his son, to move out of the country.

Government also dismissed the rumor that LTTE has offered to surrender some 500 LTTE cadres to the Government Forces, provided a safe passage is facilitated for their leader V. Prabhakaran, his son Chales Anthony, Deputy and so called intelligence head Pottu Amman , and sea Tiger chief Soosai to depart to an unnamed foreign land.

Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary Colonel (retired) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa in an telephone interview with Asian Tribune, flatly denied that there are no negotiations going on with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). "There is no truth in these rumors, he said.

"Prabakaran’s ultimate options left are limited - either to commit suicide or be killed by the advancing security forces.Now the time has come for the Tamil community in Sri Lanka to find a moderate Tamil leader who respects the democratic process. They have to do it, and do it now, Rajapaksa urged

When speaking to Asian Tribune he emphasized that to negotiate with the LTTE, there should be LTTE in Sri Lanka. Unfortunately they are almost decimated. Sri Lankan military has virtually defeated the terrorist outfit and restricted its few leaders left to a mere 17 square kilometer area in the government declared ‘No Fire Zone’ for civilians.

He added, "some times back some of media and some so called Defence Analysts called Prabakaran a 'military genius'. But today Sri Lanka armed forces have defeated him militarily. At the moment why the so called genuine military strategist, lurking behind the innocent Tamil civilians? Is it another strategic move by the so called ‘military genius’?", Rajapaksa asked. He added, Prabhakaran, the so-called military genius was defeated within a matter of nearly three years by the Sri Lankan military. Today he is a liability to everyone. The clock has begun ticking on him, he said.

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