Colombo (PTI): An LTTE leader, who had earlier disputed the fact of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabakaran's death, has now admitted that the Tiger supremo is no more.
Head of "International Secretariat" of the intelligence wing of the LTTE, Arivazhakan, who had earlier disputed claims that Prabakaran was dead, has now confirmed in a media statement that the Tiger chief was killed, the online edition of the Daily Mirror newspaper said on Thursday.
Arivazhakan had last month dismissed the report of Prabakaran's death as "engineered rumours spread by the government of Sri Lanka and its military establishment" and had asked the global Tamil community not to trust the report.
Amidst suspicions of a power-struggle among the remnants of the LTTE, the group's newly-named chief of international relations S. Pathmanathan had last month itself admitted that Prabakaran was dead.
This was almost a week after the Sri Lankan government announced that its troops killed the LTTE chief in the fighting in the northern war zone.
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