Sri Lankan army shot LTTE chief’s son in cold blood: report

Mangalore Today News Network/NDTV

Colombo, Feb, 19,2013 : New photographs have emerged claiming that the 12-year-old son of the LTTE leader Prabhakaran was killed in cold blood by Sri Lankan forces.
 
In March 2012, a video clipping about the live execution of Prabhakaran’s son was released, which immediately dismissed by the Sri Lankan government as "doctored".
 
The Independent report says these  photographs were taken in May 2009 at the very end of the Sri Lankan government’s operation to crush the LTTE, which had launched a bloody, decades-long insurgency against the state that led to the deaths of nearly 70,000 people.

But the images, contained in a new documentary, No Fire Zone, which will be screened at the Geneva Human Rights Film Festival during the UN Human Rights Council meeting in March, suggest the boy was captured alive and killed at a later stage.

The film’s director, Callum Macrae, claimed that the new photographs were important evidence because they appear to rule out any suggestion that Balachandran was killed in cross-fire or during a battle.

They show he was held, and even given a snack, before being taken and executed in cold blood.

Sri Lankan authorities have maintained that Prabhakaran’s son was killed in cross-fire, as troops moved in to take the LTTE’s last stronghold.