вЂњNo substantive evidence have been presented for us to launch an investigation,вЂќ he added, referring to alleged human rights abuses. Many Tamils recorded the attacks they suffered, and a great deal of media was preserved somehow, even though so many of the people who took the pictures and. They rape and abuse women, murder them, and then abuse their corpses, for the camera.

Last night, Brigadier PR Wanigasooriya, an army spokesman, said Sri Lanka had been a repeated victim of вЂњlies, half truths, rumours, and numerous forms of speculationsвЂќ. As these terrible photos testify, the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) soldiers like to photograph their handiwork. The Sri Lankan authorities have always denied shooting anyone who was trying to surrender. We support a democratic and a non-violent Politic to restore the Tamil Nation. PrabhakaranвЂ™s body was displayed on state television, part of the front of his skull missing, also suggesting he may have been shot at close range.

There were reports at the time that several LTTE officials were shot and killed as they tried to surrender. That these events were also photographed and kept as war trophies by the perpetrators is even more disturbing.вЂќ The 12-year-oldвЂ™s father, Prabhakaran, was killed along with most of the senior leadership of the LTTE as Sri LankaвЂ™s army advanced on the rebelsвЂ™ position. for a separate Tamil homeland in the North and East of the island by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).

Velupillai Prabhakaran (Photo courtesy of Rediff on the Net, April 3,1999) The. вЂњIt is difficult to imagine the psychology of an army in which the calculated execution of a child can be allowed with apparent impunity. which he renamed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on May 5, 1976.

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