{"id":16797,"date":"2013-02-20T01:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=16797"},"modified":"2013-02-20T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T11:18:53","slug":"when-i-was-army-commander-we-had-no-information-about-prabhakarans-wifedaughter-or-youngest-son-says-sarath-fonseka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=16797","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When I was Army Commander we had no Information about Prabhakaran&#8217;s Wife,Daughter or Youngest Son&#8221; says Sarath Fonseka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SF022013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/SF022013-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SF022013\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16827\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka speaking to Daily Mirror online said the Army had \u201cno information\u201d about the deaths of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakarans, \u201c wife, daughter and youngest son\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the final battle which went on from 2009 May 17 night, 18 and 19th till about 10 o clock, we only recovered Prabakharans body together with about 400 other terrorist dead bodies, and his elder son\u2019s body, his elder son Charles Anthony. These two bodies were personally identified by the present member, I think, of the cabinet Karuna Amman, who was the LTTE military wing leader at the time before he joined the government. He himself went and identified these two bodies\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking further Fonseka who led the Army to a decisive victory against the separatist LTTE, said the Army \u201cdid not have clue about the presence or whereabouts of\u201d the rest of Prabhakarans family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOther than that the Army had no information, never had any positions of Prabhakrans wife, daughter and the youngest son. We did not have clue about their presence or the whereabouts, whether they were in the country or they died during the war, we didn\u2019t have any information about them\u201d said.<\/p>\n<p>Fonseka in reference to the latest \u2018pictures\u2019 revealed by Channel 4, which are alleged to have been taken while the youngest son of the LTTE supremo Balachandran was in Army custody, reiterated that the Army had no knowledge or information about the youngest son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout these pictures I don\u2019t know, we had no knowledge about this youngest sons whereabouts when I was the Army commander during my time and I can give the assurance that the Army had no information of his youngest son\u201d he said.<em>COURTESY:DAILY MIRROR <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton16797\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D16797&amp;text=%26%238220%3BWhen%20I%20was%20Army%20Commander%20we%20had%20no%20Information%20about%20Prabhakaran%26%238217%3Bs%20Wife%2CDaughter%20or%20Youngest...%20&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka speaking to Daily Mirror online said the Army had \u201cno information\u201d about the deaths of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakarans, \u201c wife, daughter and youngest son\u201d. \u201cAfter the final battle which went on from 2009 May 17 night, 18 and 19th till about 10 o clock, we only recovered Prabakharans &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=16797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;&#8220;When I was Army Commander we had no Information about Prabhakaran&#8217;s Wife,Daughter or Youngest Son&#8221; says Sarath Fonseka&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16828,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16797\/revisions\/16828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}