Velupillai Prabhakaran, leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, attends the annual Heroes' Week statement at rebel-held territory in Kilinochchi (Reuters)From Swiss Info:
COLOMBO (Reuters) - The elusive leader of the Tamil Tigers may have already fled Sri Lanka with the army charging fast towards the separatist rebels' final strongholds, Sri Lanka's army commander said.
Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commanding the most successful army offensive in the history of one of Asia's longest-running wars, also predicted victory in a matter of months as the Tigers' resistance was weaker than expected.
"Prabhakaran is a man who loves food, a man who loves his family, so I don't think he would wait until the military got so close to him," Fonseka told reporters late on Saturday. "He must have already escaped through the sea." He declined to speculate on where the Tamil Tiger leader would have fled to.
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