TAMILNET reports that in the early hours of Monday at around 3.00am. Vanni local time, the LTTE Political Chief B Nadesan and LTTE Peace Secretariat Director S Puleedevan telephoned their contacts in Europe.
They informed them to tell the ICRC (Red Cross) Head Office that only around 1,000 wounded cadres, civil officials of the LTTE and civilians remained in the so-called safety zone and there was no firing from the LTTE side.
They urged the ICRC to evacuate the wounded.
A few hours later, Colombo’s Defence Ministry website claimed they found the dead bodies of Mr Nadesan, Mr Puleedevan, Mr Ilango (Tamil Eelam Police Chief), and LTTE Leader V Prabakaran’s son, Mr. Charles Antony.
The LTTE is yet to confirm, but initial reports indicate a determined massacre by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA).
On Monday afternoon a reliable telephone call from Mu’l’li-vaaykkaal informed TamilNet that the Sri Lankan army was massacring wounded civilians in large numbers in the so-called safety zone.
According to the caller, there are still civilians hiding in the bunkers the phone call said.
None of the international agencies, insistently advocating the evacuation of civilians, were present at the scene, either to monitor or to remedy the catastrophe.
Yesterday afternoon the Sri Lanka army announced that the leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, Velupillai Prabakaran has been killed.
The announcement on Sri Lanka state television came shortly after the military said it had surrounded Prabakaran in a tiny patch of jungle in the north-east.
No photos of Prabakaran’s body have been released. The army says it is working to identify it among the dead.
The claims cannot be verified as reporters are barred from the war zone.
In Parliament Square thousands of Tamils, poured out of Westminster tube station determined to continued their month-long protest against the atrocities being committed by the Sri Lanka regime of Rajapakse.
They are demanding that Gordon Brown intervene to stop the genocide and send medical aid and food to stricken Tamil civilians.
Shiva said: ‘Maybe chapter one is over, but the next chapter is beginning.
‘Our history will be like the history of the Palestinians. In 1982 the Israelis killed over 5,000 Palestinians in a week and the Palestinians had to withdraw to Lebanon and Tunisia. But in 1989 they initiated the Palestinian Intifada, so I think it will happen in a similar way. ‘There will be a very strong and well-planned developments.’
Aravinthan said: ‘We don’t trust the Sri Lankan media, the BBC and all British media. We think they make propaganda for Sri Lanka.
‘Prabakaran may be alive, he may not. But there are thousands of Prabakaran’s children here, so they cannot stop this struggle. It will continue.’
Another angry Tamil said: ‘We are going to double and triple our efforts. We cannot sit back and watch.
‘The whole of the Tamil British population feel this.
‘Parliament and the media have been calling us terrorists.’
British Tamil student leader Janini said: ‘As long as there are Tamil people living all over the world the Tamil dream will continue.
‘There is another hunger strike going on outside the American Embassy now. Here there are six students on the sixth day of their hunger strike.’
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