Army had no info. about Prabha’s family- SF

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Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka speaking to Daily Mirror online said the Army had “no information” about the deaths of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakarans, “ wife, daughter and youngest son”.

“After the final battle which went on from 2009 May 17 night, 18 and 19th till about 10 o clock, we only recovered Prabakharans body together with about 400 other terrorist dead bodies, and his elder son’s body, his elder son Charles Anthony. These two bodies were personally identified by the present member, I think, of the cabinet Karuna Amman, who was the LTTE military wing leader at the time before he joined the government. He himself went and identified these two bodies” he said.

Speaking further Fonseka who led the Army to a decisive victory against the separatist LTTE, said the Army “did not have clue about the presence or whereabouts of” the rest of Prabhakarans family.

“Other than that the Army had no information, never had any positions of Prabhakrans wife, daughter and the youngest son. We did not have clue about their presence or the whereabouts, whether they were in the country or they died during the war, we didn’t have any information about them” said.

Fonseka in reference to the latest ‘pictures’ revealed by Channel 4, which are alleged to have been taken while the youngest son of the LTTE supremo Balachandran was in Army custody, reiterated that the Army had no knowledge or information about the youngest son.

“About these pictures I don’t know, we had no knowledge about this youngest sons whereabouts when I was the Army commander during my time and I can give the assurance that the Army had no information of his youngest son” he said. ( H.F)

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Comments - 52

MountainLion Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:50 AM

Have a look at todays DM cartoon.

Mark Wednesday, 20 February 2013 09:01 AM

Sounds like SF found out about the end of war in 2010...gees...

Mr.Bean Wednesday, 20 February 2013 09:15 AM

He was in China and something came from top which he did not know.......and was not told.....

Twincle Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:08 AM

That is exactly what happened to Prabakaran.

pooooojapakse Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:30 AM

How people becoming dump idiots over night>

Arjuna Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:44 AM

But Dear SF We believe you're the person who create all these postwar problems.

nivantha Wednesday, 20 February 2013 12:18 PM

didnt thunder strike prabakarn looking at pics ? may his son was not even spared

Gayan Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:28 PM

Exactly. Thunder (or axe) did strike Prabakan on the head finally.

Gayan Wednesday, 20 February 2013 02:34 PM

"Experts" can be found anywhere in the world for a few bucks.

kumar Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:00 AM

How about the other women and kids who got wiped out ? Mr President in waiting here comes a freebie make the most Sir ! via DM iPad app

RamUK Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:37 PM

u have a point but SL is a pariah a state so teach every other stupid country to show who is west we will put u r neck in line ...

RamUK Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:38 PM

wish it was u r son...prob some one will die soon from u r close family can not wait to laugh...but not....

Doc santa Wednesday, 20 February 2013 11:41 PM

who didn't sign, you know Hon .RW is the far sighted leader did not sign the Hague ICC agreement because he has Brains!

Mukatiyaa Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:27 AM

Next, we will be told that no JVPer was ever killed in an extrajudicial manner.

Fair N Square Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:03 AM

A case of" Ape hama yanawa, kageda nama yanawa"

TERRENCE Thursday, 21 February 2013 03:06 AM

WHEN SF WAS CHECKMATED IN HIS OWN HQ IN COLOMBO BY A MERE EXPECTANT WOMAN WHO BLASTED HERSELF AND HIS OUTRIDER BODY GUARDS HE SHOULD HAVE RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION, & NOT ACCEPTED MEDALS AS A WAR HERO, SINCE HE WAS NOT AT THE WAR FRONT. HE WAS THE ARMY COMMANDER AND SECURITY AT HIS OWN HQ WAS BREACHED.

Podi Wije Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:00 AM

ela kolla via DM Android App

mack Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:00 AM

I first bought these war crimes DVDs from pettah CD shop when our so called patriots started bragging bout our war heroes via DM Android App

unl Thursday, 21 February 2013 12:00 AM

its good thing for this contry that all of praba's family members died via DM Android App

glapitamada Thursday, 21 February 2013 09:34 AM

Even heads o f states of signatories to the war crimes tribunal have committed war crimes ,Bush , Blair , Howard ,Aznar, sharon ,peres ,netanyahu, barak are all signed war criminals singed or not so why sri lanka is exemplary

prasad Thursday, 21 February 2013 10:56 AM

One thing is very clear. idiots are the majority in this country and that's why nonsense comments have got so many likes. These are the idiots who vote for ..........

dava Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:24 AM

If this so called channel 4 talk about human rights, they need to understand the following:
During the 30 long years, the Tamils & Sinhalese paid the price by life. They died, either by the terror that was created by the LTTE/bombs/or by the army during operations.
Who of these international orginazions have spoken about the Sinhalese that was killed? All sympathy ends only with the tamils. That's okay if there is a balance. Why do all talk about the Tamils and not Sinhalese? This is discrimination, and why not call for inquaries to bring to justice of the LTTE carders, inclue Karuna / KP and the gang???? This is bias.

Silva de Mervin Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:00 PM

Exactly what Indonasian talked about East Timorians.

If we have any idea of what future hold after Geneva, we would have acted differently since last March.

mahawela singhaya Thursday, 21 February 2013 01:59 PM

you idiot ...it was karma that did him.

ramuk Thursday, 21 February 2013 02:04 PM

listen we do not want to go back and send ppl to haguge if they have put fwd or implement any thing if they continue to lie we will do this tooo make SLs and their passport value to zero

Hong Kong John Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:38 AM

I agree Sir. You were the Commander of the Army at the time. The buck stops with you!

jacoob Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:57 AM

A proverb in Tamil “ Thalayil Idi viza “ meaning “ let thunder strike on the head “ .. Karma will not spare anybody ..

PRASANNAJIT Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:11 AM

He was in China at that time. It was somebody else who was handling these things.

Optimus Prime Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:12 AM

So he is implying that there were "others" who were part of the offensive apart from the Sri Lankan army? interesting..

Nimal Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:21 AM

How about Lasantha Wickrametunge ?

ravi Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:24 AM

Kindly check sir now there is no record that you were in army of Sri Lanka that why you don’t have pension, stars and bla bla.

Hmmmm.. Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:25 AM

Some influences make me to talk like this

Dalu banda Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:26 AM

Was he in China at the final stage?

Buddhika Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:28 AM

Any info of Lasantha murder ???

sayed Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:29 AM

Please check is there any records that saws you were the Former Army Commander .

malkanthi Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:33 AM

So he was ignorant or was not kept informed! Is that mean the foreign media report is correct??

edward Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:33 AM

Daily Mirror please publish this ....

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka is a brave man, i remember in batti when we were fighting for 72 hrs to hold the base he encourage us and we lost many of our comrades but few manage to survival . our lungs were damaged to there mustered gas but won it . and then 2009 we accomplished the mission .
He is a person who stand for us , our country he is loyal to nation , so still he wanna to give the best to the country

damien hayes Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:37 AM

Hague is for back boneless countries who signed for the international criminal court u dumb idiot

MountainLion Wednesday, 20 February 2013 05:21 AM

Sorry Sir, you were the commander of the Sri Lanka Army at that time and you too have earned a trip to the Hague.

band Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:40 AM

Photoshop software only gets better. When these people stop analyzing photos?

buffaloa citizen Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:42 AM

In that case, their were two sections in the army...one commanded by you who were conducting the war and the other section which was conducting criminal work under another higher up....this is what the world is gonna find. Oh gosh this fish is beginning to rot and smell of jadi.

Grumpy Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:52 AM

Dude, we all knew about his family info... including his youngest child. How can you say that you had no information about it! Ordiary civilians know but the top army commander didnt know :p

Shan Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:02 AM

The video of youngest son's dead is going to be released just before the Geneva meeting. So it's better keep quiet sir.

MountainLion Wednesday, 20 February 2013 06:59 AM

Were he was makes no difference.

Max Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:03 AM

leave politics a side;

No body from SL should make a tript to the Haugue. They demolished a terrorist outfit from Sri Lanka who had planted more than ten thousand land mines up north. May be they planted these for excavation work!!!

The diaspora- let me kindly ask them to go to Sri Lanka and help their brothers and sisters without shouting from their comfort zones.

Diaspora can show many videos, skethches and other paraphenelia to a illinformed audience. They may get sucked in but let wait and see.

Ask George Bush to go to the Hauge mate. With the latest revelations that SL took part to flog off a non SL as a suspected terrorist to an unknown destination makes me sick!

karu Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:33 AM

Shocking videos and photos of killing field of final battle were sold to LTTE supporters by a army personnel who is a high ranked person.....How come you didn't know about that ????

Hong Kong John Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:35 AM

More to the point WHY was he in China at such a crucial point in time?

ANTON Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:40 AM

This type of stories are called hatara beeri kathawa. some one did, some one was questioned, some one else replied and some other one got the credit.

kumar Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:40 AM

I think this won't work. Anybody can do photoshop work. But these pictures and videos published so far were proven for their originality by the experts.

Anuradha Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:22 AM

spot-on, patta comment!

PRASANNAJIT Wednesday, 20 February 2013 08:25 AM

Why can't the Secretary of Defence reply.? He was saying that war was won by him. He should know better.

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