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LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabakaran in this file photo taken in 2002. — AP
COLOMBO, JAN. 8. The Tamil Tiger chief, Velupillai Prabakaran, and his intelligence chief, Pottu Amman, are among the dead or missing after the December 26 tsunami disaster, the Sri Lankan state radio said today. But the rebels immediately denied the report. The Island newspaper, meanwhile, reported today that an expensive coffin "for a top LTTE leader" had been smuggled into a northern Tiger area inside a container carrying relief material for tsunami survivors. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, in a statement posted on its Peace Secretariat website, slammed the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation for carrying the reports, saying that now was "not the time for gossip mongering and malicious propaganda." "The LTTE and the Tamil people wish to strongly protest against this mischievous act of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation, stooping down to such low level of broadcasting news that [is] fabricated by interested parties," the statement said. "At a time of a national catastrophe of this magnitude, it is very... regrettable that a responsible media of the Government takes upon itself the job of spreading rumours and speculation that tend to create confusion in the minds of the people," it added. The radio reports quoted Vice-Admiral Daya Sandagiri as saying that Mr. Prabakaran and Mr. Amman were among those killed or missing in the tsunami. V.S. Sambandan reports: Since the tsunami, speculation has been rife on the fate of Mr. Prabakaran who lives in the rebel-held north Sri Lanka. Except for a signed statement by him expressing condolences to all the victims of the tsunami, the elusive leader has neither made a public presence nor delivered a radio speech, further fuelling such speculation.
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