Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman better captured dead than alive

By Malin Abeyatunge

(April 22, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) Prabhakaran’s “Mythical Eelam” has already vanished into thin air. LTTE who illegally held almost 15,000 sq.kms is now left with no inch of land. Yet the International Tamil Terrorist Diaspora (ITTD) in UK, USA, France, Denmark, Australia and in many other European countries continues with demos and rallies attempting to give the last dose of oxygen to LTTE. Why and what for? Some idiots have sacrificed their precious lives by self immolation in support of megalomaniac Prabhakaran. In the midst of that, you find fake hunger strikers in UK and Australia to save Prabhakaran. Whilst these planned actions are going on, pro LTTE groups (ITTD) in UK, Canada, Norway, Tamil Nadu and Malaysia may be burning midnight oil in scheming plans to rescue Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman to a safer place. I will not be surprised if such attempts would carry the blessings of some misguided politicians in UK, Norway and Tamil Nadu and Australia.

The defeat of LTTE is now imminent and the death of Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman are also imminent unless they surrender. One thing I can bet on is that Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman will never bite the cyanide capsule, if captured because they love their life albeit Prabhakran has taken oath from his LTTE cadres not to surrender to the enemy (Govt. forces) but bite the cyanide capsule.

If captured alive and extradited to India

If both are captured alive, GoSL will encounter two problems. (a) If captured, India wants them extradited for the killing of Rajiv Gandhi. If they are extradited to India, what’s the guarantee that both will be sentenced to death? Who is there to stop Tamil Nadu politicians campaigning to get them presidential pardon? There will be no doubt that the Tamil Nadu will launch a strong campaign to save the lives of both Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman. If that happens, Sri Lanka will be back to square one with the Eelam problem. In fact, Karunanidhi made a statement recently that Prabhakaran should be treated with dignity like Alexander the Great treated Porus and Vaiko said, if Prabhakaran gets killed at the hands the Sri Lankan armed forces, there will blood baths. Perhaps, the ulterior and the long term motive of The Tamil Nadu politicians would be to use him to launch second Eelam for Tamil Nadu. If Tamil Nadu succeeds in establishing an Eelam by secession from India, Sri Lanka would be an easy target for their dream of Eelam in Sri Lanka.

If captured alive and keep them in Sri Lanka

If both are captured alive and decide to keep in our jails, then Sri Lanka will be inviting unnecessary problems to maintain such criminals like Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman. Prabahakaran has been given 200 yrs prison sentence in Sri Lanka for his involvement in the Central Bank bombing. In the event that these two murderers are captured alive both will have to be kept in complete isolation from each other and also from other normal prisoners. This can only be done by keeping both in some isolated islets belonging to Sri Lanka like famous Alcatraz (tiny island) in San Francisco Bay California which were once meant for dangerous criminals. Both of them are such brutal and dangerous killers, they cannot be kept in our ordinary prisons with other inmates and not definitely with other LTTE prisoners as we will be opening flood gates for prison breakaways and rescue operations by escaped LTTE terrorists who are already marauding in the South. Special security measures therefore have to be put in place at a cost to the tax payers. Will it be worth? The only positive aspect if captured alive is that GoSL could frame charges for all their killings and bring both to ICC in Hague for genocide.

But if the forces could capture Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman dead than alive none of these problems or extra cost to the government will arise. The remaining LTTE cadres will give both a suitable burial and cremation which deems right for taking down them the garden path.

By the time this letter goes to the press, we may know the plight of Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman. In fact, it’s time now to ponder which is good for the country? Prabhakaran and Pottu Amman Dead or Alive!

I think it’s better to capture Prabhakarn and Pottu Amman dead than alive.

-Sri Lanka Guardian