It's him all right, Prabhakaran's ex-aides identify body

Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna, who was the eastern commander of the LTTE before he fell out with Prabhakaran in 2004, and Daya Master, who surrendered to the army recently, were taken by the government to Puthumatalan to identify Prabhakaran's bullet-ridden body.

"The body is of Prabhakaran's, there is no doubt about this. Though I am a bit saddened that he is no more, the fact is he never listened to anyone. He always believed that violence was the only solution," Karuna, who is now a federal minister, told PTI in Colombo.

"It is the same, there is no change in his body. He met with this fate for his own deeds," he said.

The defence ministry said "the body has been positively identified as Prabhakaran's by MP Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan and Daya Master."