Karuna calls Prabha paper Tiger

by Shanika SRIYANANDA

With the fall of the LTTE's strongholds of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu, the former LTTE military leader of the Eastern Province Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan also known as Karuna Amman called the LTTE leader Prabhakaran, who is now believed to be moving with the civilians to save his life, a `false hero' created by the LTTE and media. He said that though Prabhakaran was considered as a hero he was not used to face fierce battle fronts and for the last 23 years of the war this was the first time that the artillery and mortars were falling in front of him.

"Life was very precious for him and he is so scared of death", Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman, who was one of the most trustworthy former bodyguards of Prabhakaran, said. "Local and foreign media and the LTTE had blown up his image. He had the brains to organise the war, but does not have first hand experience on retaliatory military offensives", he said.

He said now the whole world had realised that the LTTE and its leader were not so `capable in fighting with the Sri Lankan military'.

Now a UPFA Parliamentarian and the TMVP leader Muralitharan said that the LTTE would be restricted to guerilla tactics but their future of survival was uncertain as the LTTE lacks people's support.

"People of Jaffna and East are with the government and the northern people will soon join us after the restoration of democracy there. The military is not the same military like in the days when the LTTE was born. So with lack of people's support and military capabilities the LTTE will not raise its head in future", he said. Muralitharan said that the LTTE's gun running activities too had become difficult as the Sri Lanka Navy had tightened their security and surveillance now.

Having hopes that civilians trapped in Puthukudiruppu and Vishwamadu will break the LTTE lines and cross to liberated areas soon, he said Muralitharan said that LTTE attempts to infiltrate into the East as well as the other major cities in the South will fail as the tight screening, surveillance and good public vigilance have made it difficult for them in taking their targets.