The appearance of the Tiger woman soldier in Malaysia who was in charge of the security of Dwaraka, Velupillai Prabhakaran’s daughter during the end of the war in Vellamulliwaikkal was a surprise to the Tamil community living in Malaysia as well. It was a mystery at that time how, after Dwaraka died, she went to Malaysia. There are a large number of Tamil Tiger leaders who surrendered to the Army and later went abroad, subsequent to Prabhakaran being destroyed on information received from Karuna Amman.

The media, then, had reported that these persons had paid large sums of money and fled to foreign countries. Many of them fled to Malaysia. There are also a large number of Tiger leaders who went to Europe from Malaysia later. KP came to Malaysia to meet the Tamil Tiger leaders who fled to Malaysia from the North. There, KP was taken into custody. However, the leaders who fled to Malaysia are still among the living. When you consider the protests that targeted Mahinda Rajapaksa recently during his visit to Malaysia, the power of the Tiger leaders who live in Malaysia is quite apparent.

However, it is a dilemma has to how the Rajapaksa Government which managed to capture KP could not halt the fleeing of Tiger leaders who surrendered to the Army. At that time although it was said that Tiger leaders fled the Army camps with the assistance of Karuna Amman, recently Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera said that the then top officials of the Ministry of Defence helped Tiger leaders to flee from Army custody. This is not a statement that can be considered of insignificant value. Mangala said that the Tiger leaders had paid large sums of money to the top officials of the Ministry of Defence.

Karuna Amman

Mangala is someone who has connections with the Tamil Tiger Diaspora as well as the Global Tamil Forum in London. Therefore, there is more of a chance that such information could fall into the hands of Mangala. The Rajapaksa Government did not take a census regarding the Tiger leaders who died in the war. The name of the leader of the LTTE spy service Pottu Amman was included in the list of names of Interpol for a long time after the war ended because the government had not taken a census in connection with the LTTE leaders who died in the war.

Karuna Amman knows very well about the LTTE leadership structure prior to 2004. KP has a lot of information about the LTTE leader structure after 2004. Similarly, the LTTE leaders who handed themselves over to the Army would have made confessions about it. If the Rajapaksa Government had taken into consideration all this data and at that time itself taken a census of those who died in the war, they would have been able to find out information on the Tiger leaders who had thus fled the country. They did not engage in such a thing. Although the bodies of Prabhakaran, his two sons and those of several LTTE leaders were discovered by the Army, the Army obtained information on the fate of many other leaders of the LTTE through the LTTE leaders who were taken into custody by the Army.

It is not difficult to confirm whether this information is correct and to create a final picture of the fate that befell the structure of the LTTE leadership. However, the government did not do that either. The government possesses only a story, about Pottu Amman as well. That is that, once Pottu’s son was shot and killed, he became mentally unstable, unable to bear the sorrow of that incident and that later he committed suicide. There is a story also that as the LTTE did not want his body to be taken by the Army, Prabhakaran burnt it. A LTTE leader who surrendered to the Army had stated that, Pottu Amman who was shot during the war had fled to the jungle and because of the way he was limping due to the injury to his leg he thought that Pottu Amman would have died. It is not possible to believe that Pottu Amman could have fled. However, his secret spy network was in operation across the entire country. They did not live in the North-East but in Southern areas including Colombo. No one knows how many of them were taken into custody by the Army or how many fled abroad and how many are still living in Sri Lanka even as of today.