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My Profile Top News Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Subscribe You are here: Home > News > International > Article Home Business & Finance News U.S. Politics International Technology Entertainment Sports Lifestyle Oddly Enough Environment Health Science Special Coverage Video Pictures Your View The Great Debate Blogs Weather Reader Feedback Do More With Reuters RSS Widgets Mobile Podcasts Newsletters Your View Make Reuters My Homepage Partner Services CareerBuilder Affiliate Network Professional Products Support (Customer Zone) Reuters Media Financial Products About Thomson Reuters Tamil Tiger head may have fled Sri Lanka: army chief Sun Jan 18, 2009 5:57am EST Email | Print | Share | Reprints | Single Page [-] Text [+] By C. Bryson Hull and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - The elusive leader of the Tamil Tigers may have already fled Sri Lanka with the army charging fast toward the separatist rebels' final strongholds, Sri Lanka's army commmander said. Lieutenant-General Sarath Fonseka, commanding the most successful army offensive in the history of one of Asia's longest-running wars, also predicted victory in a matter of months as the Tigers' resistance was weaker than expected. "Prabhakaran is a man who loves food, a man who loves his family, so I don't think he would wait until the military got so close to him," Fonseka told reporters late on Saturday. "He must have already escaped through the sea." He declined to speculate on where the Tamil Tiger leader would have fled to. Fonseka said Tiger founder and leader Velupillai Prabhakaran would neither commit suicide as he exhorts his followers to do with cyanide capsules worn around their necks, nor allow himself to be captured like former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. Fonseka said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) now hold an area of 30 km (18 miles) by 15 km (9 miles), and said troops had marched 17 km toward Mullaittivu in as many days. The LTTE could not be reached for comment. "When the war started, I used 50 map sheets to plan it. Now I only need one sheet to plan it," he said. Fonseka, who spoke at an annual dinner he hosts for defense correspondents at his residence, joked that he expected most of them "to be out of work by this time next year." He wore a black shirt, adorned with a dragon strangling a tiger. The Indian Ocean island nation has put its navy and air force on high alert, patrolling the 40 km (25 miles) of coast that the army has yet to secure in a multi-pronged assault gunning for the northeastern port of Mullaittivu. Local media this week reported that intelligence reports said Prabhakaran may have sought the help of foreign countries to rescue him via submarine. The Tigers are on U.S., Indian and E.U. terrorist lists. Prabhakaran is wanted by Interpol and India for the assassination of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 by a suicide bomber, plus other suicide attacks and killings of Sri Lankan civilians and politicians including Tamils. On January 2, soldiers captured the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's (LTTE) self-proclaimed capital of Kilinochci, in a crushing blow to the Tigers' separatist plans, which are at the heart of a war that has raged off and on since 1983. Over the weekend, India's Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon concluded a visit to Sri Lanka that included a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a statement from the Indian High Commission said on Sunday. "The Foreign Secretary urged early movement toward a peacefully negotiated political settlement in the island," it said, referring to Rajapaksa's commitment to devolve some powers to Tamil and other areas. 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