Tamil Terrorist Chief Killed As Civil War Ends [Edition 2]

Evening Standard - London › May 18, 2009

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SRI Lankan army chiefs today claimed to have killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers as they announced the end of the 26-year war. The death of Velupillai Prabhakaran, who has led the rebel group throughout the armed struggle, was revealed in a broadcast on state television which claimed he and two of his deputies were shot and killed trying to escape in an ambulance.

At the same time, the head of the Sri Lankan army, Lt Gen Sarath Fonseka, claimed to have inflicted a final defeat upon the Tamil Tigers by routing the few remaining rebels still holding out against his troops' advance.

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