17.2.2008
Rubbishing frequent claims by Sri Lankan government that
the elusive LTTE supremo Vellupillai Prabhakaran has been
injured in a military raid, his key aide has said the
people would soon realise the "futility" of
army's claims of success against the rebels.
"A
false propaganda saying our leader Prabhakaran is injured
is being carried. Nobody can approach our leader,"
LTTE political head B Nadesan told the Tamil Daily Thinakkural
in an interview on Saturday.
While
the Sri Lankan security forces were claiming success in
their clashes against LTTE, Nadesan said the "people
of Sri Lanka will realise the futility of such a claim
in times to come".
Nadesan
accused the Sri Lankan government of trying to sideline
the Norwegian mediators besides contradicting the United
Nations. "The government is not in favour of peace
process," he said.
Lankan
Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetilleke had said that fighter
jets had dropped 20 bombs on Prabhakaran's bunker on November
26, 2007 and had claimed that the rebel leader could have
been injured in the attack. The LTTE denied the claim.
The
Air Chief repeated the claim on Thursday saying he was
confident that Prabhakaran, 53, had been critically injured
in that raid.
Over
1,000 rebels and hundreds of civilians have died in escalated
violence in the country since the government scarpped
a tattered 2002 ceasefire last month.
Courtesy -Hindustan
Times