Fonseka disputes war claims

20 May 2010 07:31 am

By Jamila Najmuddin                                                                                            AUDIO

Member of Parliament General Sarath Fonseka, speaking to Daily Mirror online a short while ago, said that LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran was killed on May 19 last year and not May 18 as claimed by the government after the war.

Fonseka said that the Tiger leader was only killed after President Mahinda Rajapaksa had declared in Parliament on May 19 that Prabakaran was dead.

The former army commander who led the military during the last stages of the war also expressed disappointment at the way he was treated after the military victory against the Tigers.