India's Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy said the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran must surrender before the Indian High Commission in Colombo. In a statement issured in Chennai, he said terrorist leader Prabhakaran, the assassin of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, must surrender before the Indian High Commission in Colombo and endure safety of the Tamils.
He alleged that Prabhakaran is using innocent Tamil people, particularly children, as hostages for his own safety in his underground hideout.