Tamil Tiger rebels' leader Velupillai Prabakaran is still hiding in the jungle thickets in northern Sri Lanka, his former deputy told reporters here Friday. Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan alias Karuna who is now a member of the government group in parliament said that according to the information he received, Prabakaran has not fled the island.
"It will be difficult for him to survive now that the Army is after him," Muralitharan said, adding that the Tiger leader might be hiding in the jungles in the north.
Karuna had been Prabakaran's trusted commander in Eastern Province before he broke away from the mainstream Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2004.
Speculation was rife that the LTTE leader may have fled the northern Mullaithivu district by sea route to a foreign land.
This was after the rebels lost almost 95 percent of the territory it formerly controlled in the north.
Prabakaran has been leading a bloody separatist war since the mid-1980s to set up a separate homeland for the minority Tamil community, citing discrimination at the hands of sinhalese dominated governments.
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