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ARMY COMMANDER SARATH FONSEKA SAYS EVEN IF PRABHAKARAN IS ALIVE HE IS LIKE A DEAD MAN NOWBy Walter JayawardhanaSri Lanka’s Army Commander Lt. General Sarath Fonseka said even
if the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Prabhakaran was
alive he was like a dead man now. Fonseka, triumphant and confident was answering questions by an interviewer
of the Independent Television Network’s “Thulawa programme”
and said when the Sri Lankan Air Force jets were attacking his “X-Ray
Base” near Iranamadu, military intelligence had received accurate
reports that he was present there. “Intelligence reports also showed that after the bombing a powerful
man was in danger,” Fonseka said. Answering in the Sinhala language, Lt. General Sarath Fonseka said
Velupillai Prabhakaran was more or less a dead man today and the Armed
Forces of Sri Lanka have proved that the belief which said, Prabhakaran
could not be defeated was only a myth. He said Prabhakaran’s Eelam dream had blotted away and out of
only two million Sri Lanka Tamils only two hundred thousand remain around
him, in the tiny area he controls. Fonseka said, “Before my term as the Army Commander is over I
am sure this problem of terrorism could be brought to an end.” Meanwhile, giving rise to the speculation, that the LTTE is desperately
trying to transport a VVIP to India for treatment , Prabhakaran’s
Indian political ally and leader of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra
kazhagam (MDMK) leader Vaiko said the Central government of India of
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh should bring pressure on the Sri Lankan
government to remove the underwater defense system set up across the
Palk Strait. Speaking under the alleged ruse that the underwater defense system set up across the water would damage Indian fishing boats Vaiko said the defense system is laid on the international maritime boundary line between the two countries. He said the Indian Navy had instructed Indian fishermen not to venture beyond these lines and fish between Kachchativu and Nedunthivu. Reminding that Kachchativu was given to Sri Lanka with the promise
that Indian fishermen could fish around the island, Vaiko said, “"But,
like a bolt from the blue, the Sri Lanka government has dared to set
up an underwater defence system, with malicious aim to curtail the rights
of Indian fishermen. There is a sinister design behind this move to
threaten and prevent the suffering Tamils of Sri Lanka to reach Tamil
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