Fonseka rejects allegation LTTE Leader committed suicide

Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka has rejected the claim made by the former LTTE Commander turned ex-Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman that the slain LTTE Chief V. Prabhakaran committed suicide.

In an interview with an Indian Tamil TV channel Karuna has claimed that the LTTE Leader shot himself with a firearm when capture seemed imminent. He denied that his former Leader was captured, tortured and killed by Lankan troops.

Field Marshal Fonseka, who led the war against the LTTE from 2006 until its end in 2009, told the Express News Service that the LTTE Chief could been hit by shrapnel from a mortar bomb or a shell.

“He had a head injury in which a part of the skull had come off. If he had shot himself, the bullet would have come out from the other side of the head. But this had not happened. He might have been hit by shrapnel from a mortar bomb or a shell,” Fonseka told Express on Monday.

Fonseka said a post mortem was done on Prabhakaran’s body by the Police as per law and a DNA test was also conducted to establish his identity.

The former Army Commander said he has no information on how Prabhakaran’s wife and daughter were killed. Karuna claimed that they were killed in shelling.

Fonseka said he has “no clue” as to what happened to Prabhakaran’s second son, 12-year-old Balachandran either, though some TV channels showed the boy in captivity.

He added that the Army was looking for Prabhakaran’s elder son, Charles Anthony, and his body was found and identified. (Colombopage)