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Sri Lanka fights Tiger remnants
Mon May 18, 2009 2:34am EDT
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan special forces fought on Monday to destroy the remnants of the Tamil Tigers in the final battle of a quarter-century war, while the military said it found the bodies of top rebels including the leader's son.
The fate of that leader, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) founder Vellupillai Prabhakaran, remained a mystery.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared victory on Saturday and the Tigers admitted defeat the day after, even as the last battle in a civil war that erupted in 1983 was being fought inside less than a square kilometer (0.5 mile).
The imminent firing of the war's last shot propelled the currency and stock markets to one-month and seven-month highs respectively.
In Colombo, demonstrators threw rocks at the British High Commmission, tossed a burning effigy of Foreign Secretary David Miliband inside and spray-painted its heavily fortified wall with epithets and a message: "LTTE headquarters."
Miliband has been critical of the Sri Lankan government's prosecution of the war, and is seen here as sympathetic to the vocal pro-LTTE lobby that has protested outside parliament for weeks in Britain. London has said it backs a war crimes probe.
Sri Lanka has been furious that a number of its embassies in foreign capitals have been vandalized by Tamil Tiger backers.
At the front, troops found the body of Prabhakaran's son and heir-apparent, Charles Anthony, defense spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Tiger political wing head B. Nadesan and spokesman Seevaratnam Puleedevan were among 78 bodies also found, he said.
The remaining LTTE fighters were battling special forces troops from bunkers surrounded by mines and booby-traps.
"Now they are restricted to 300 square meters, and are destroying all their assets even though they said they would silence their guns," Rambukwella said, a reference to Sunday's LTTE statement admitting defeat.
HUNTING PRABHAKARAN
Military sources said checks were still being carried out on a body thought to be Prabhakaran's, but so far were inconclusive.
Overnight, another corpse suspected to be his was found in an ambulance troops blew up with a rocket-propelled grenade as it sped out of the war zone.
"It caught fire and we found three bodies and we believe one may be Prabhakaran. We are checking," a military source said on condition of anonymity. Three other military sources gave the same account, but the military officially had no comment. Continued...
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