Prabhakaran’s DNA report nowhere to be found?

Amidst doubts raised by Tamil Nadu politicians surfacing once again on the death of Velupillai Prabhakaran it had dawn on the Sri Lankan authorities that the documents pertaining to the DNA report or the death certificate of the LTTE Leader were ‘nowhere to be found’.

While the Ministry of Defence said, Prabhakaran was cremated in Mullaitivu and his ashes were scattered in the nearby sea in response to Tamil Nadu politician Pazha Nedumaran’s assertion of LTTE leader being in good health and ready to comeback with his plans for the Eelam, the Ministry of Defence said, they do not possess a copy of either the DNA report or the death certificate.

Nedumaran and his associates assert that Prabhakaran is still alive and the announcement was made with the consent of his family. He charged that his death certificate and DNA test report were “not officially” given to India and India did not publicly declare it to be true.

When Ceylon Today enquired, the MoD Spokesman claimed both the death certificate and the DNA report had been issued, but they did not have a copy of the DNA report and needed time to find the death certificate.

There was no confirmation what was written on the death certificate as Nedumaran faction claims that the death certificate notes he is ‘presumed dead’.

Ceylon Today asked the Foreign Affairs Ministry if they had issued such documents to India and if they still had a copy of those. However, the response was that they ‘need some time’ to obtain the information and they needed to identify the ‘specific person’ who might be aware of it.

According to Rear Admiral (Retired) MP Sarath Weerasekara, the DNA test was done on the body of Prabhakaran’s son Charles Anthony, who was killed in the last stage of the war.

“Although I am not the Defence Ministry’s Spokesperson, all I can say is Nedumaran is a joker,” he said, while citing a Indian Express November 2009 report about the GoSL giving the Indian Government Prabhakaran’s DNA test results.

Charles Anthony, Pottu Amman, and Soosai were also killed, he added while noting that Karuna Amman and Douglas Devananda both confirmed his death, and that there has been no further explanation.

Nedumaran asserts that the document is still unclassified even though all of these details have been reported by various news organisations in India because the government has not made a public announcement regarding them.  Prabhakran’s body was traced around the same time on 18 May in a stretch of land between the Nandikadal Lagoon and the sea.

Prabhakaran’s death was widely reported in the media and supported by numerous sources, including the Sri Lankan military and government, who all appeared on numerous international news outlets.

Following Nedumaran’s claim several zoom conferences hosted by media houses in Tamil Nadu are being held and uploaded on the YouTube where some of the former LTTE combatants claimed that Prabhakaran is dead.