Pudukudiyyirippu:
Tamil Tigers supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran and his top aides were recently missed by a whisker by the security forces, a top Sri Lankan commander said, claiming that the rebel leader had limited options either to give up or commit suicide.
"We got to know that Prabhakaran had moved through the Pudukudiryirippu-Iranmalai road on a day between March 29-31, just about two days before the army fully laid siege to that area," GoC 58 Division Brig Shavendra Silva said.
"Yes I regret we missed him by a whisker, or else things could have been over faster," he said, adding Prabhakaran cannot escape through the road.
Silva said things have come to such a head that women had to hide their son in a hole dug in and covered by the kitchen fire place to escape the prying LTTE men on the look out for new Tiger fighters near the 'no-fire zone'.
The senior LTTE leader Daya Master also told the army during interrogation that "only sea tiger leader Soosai, the coordinating LTTE army head Pottu Amman and Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony are going to stay with him".
"The rest of the senior aides will try to escape as I did," Shavendra Silva quoted Daya Master, the former LTTE media coordinator, to say.
"We got to know that Prabhakaran had moved through the Pudukudiryirippu-Iranmalai road on a day between March 29-31, just about two days before the army fully laid siege to that area," GoC 58 Division Brig Shavendra Silva said.
"Yes I regret we missed him by a whisker, or else things could have been over faster," he said, adding Prabhakaran cannot escape through the road.
Silva said things have come to such a head that women had to hide their son in a hole dug in and covered by the kitchen fire place to escape the prying LTTE men on the look out for new Tiger fighters near the 'no-fire zone'.
The senior LTTE leader Daya Master also told the army during interrogation that "only sea tiger leader Soosai, the coordinating LTTE army head Pottu Amman and Prabhakaran's son Charles Anthony are going to stay with him".
"The rest of the senior aides will try to escape as I did," Shavendra Silva quoted Daya Master, the former LTTE media coordinator, to say.
