Sunday, August 28, 2011

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(Colombo Lankapuvath) Shashi Rekha,widow of former LTTE Political Chief,S.P.Tamil Chelvam has categorically rejected a claim that Sri Lanka military gunned down LTTE leaders who carried white flags to surrender.'All LTTE leaders were killed during the battle with the security forces', Shashi Rekha has confessed.
In an exclusive interview with the Sinhala weekly 'Rivira' this weekend,the widow of Tamil Chelvam has specifically stated that all LTTE leaders died during the final days of battle with the security forces.Shashi Rekha too had been trapped in an area in Vellamullivaikkal with a few civilians till the last day of the battle and had arrived into the area controlled by troops on May 16,2009.Her previous attempts to flee into liberated areas had been thwarted by the LTTE, she has told the weekly 'Rivira'.She charged that the overseas Tamil diaspora was misleading the Tamil people by publicizing the untruth regarding the war.'We know what really happened as we were there till the war ended', she has said.

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