Prabhakaran’s Brother Claims Tamil Diaspora Sections Defrauding People In The Name Of Late LTTE Leader

According to Velupillai Manoharan, the LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed with his entire family in the 2009 Sri Lanka war. LTTE, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, ran a military campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of the island nation for nearly 30 years before its collapse in May 2009 after the Sri Lankan Army killed its supreme leader V Prabhakaran.

Colombo: The brother of Velupillai Prabhakaran has for the first time publicly admitted that his brother and his entire family were killed in 2009 and warned of a bunch of Tamilians defrauding people by claiming that the late LTTE founder and some of his family, especially one daughter, are alive.

“Velupillai Prabhakaran, his wife and their three children are dead, all of them perishing in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s war in 2009,” Velupillai Manoharan has declared publicly for the first time, according to LankaFT (ft.lk) portal.

LTTE, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, had run a military campaign for a separate Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern provinces of the island nation for nearly 30 years before its collapse in May 2009 after the Sri Lankan Army killed its supreme leader V Prabhakaran.

Local media, including ft.lk, thefederal.lk and dailymirror.lk, all quoted Jaffna's Monitor magazine’s latest issue carrying the interview of Manoharan, now based in Denmark.