Disturbing new images have emerged of the dead body of the
12-year-old son of a Tamil leader that researchers say could prove he was
executed by Sri Lankan government forces.
Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, were taken in May
2009 at the end of the government’s conflict with the rebels.
Lankan forces and he is seen sitting on a bench wrapped in a blanket and eating
some food.
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But photographs taken hours later on the same camera show him lying on the ground, topless and his chest riddled with bullet holes.
Mr Macrae said the fact that the boy’s dead body was photographed is also alarming.
He said: ‘That these events were also photographed and kept as war trophies by the perpetrators is even more disturbing.’
The body of Villupillai Prabhakaran was showed on state television in May 2009 as Sri Lanka’s government declared an end to its 26-year civil war.
There were also suggestions he had been shot at close range as part of his skull was missing.
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| Velupillai Prabhakaran led the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. He died in May 2009 and his body was shown on state television |
Sri Lankan army spokesman Brigadier PR Wanigasooriya told The Independent that there had been repeated ‘lies, half truths and rumours’ said about the country.
Government forces were accused of human rights abuses including sexual violence, murder and abuse in the final days of the civil way.
Brigadier Wanigasooriya: ‘No substantive evidence have been presented for us to launch an investigation.’
