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Fate of Prabhakaran still a mystery

AFP, Colombo
Sri Lanka is gripped by rumours about the fate of Tamil Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran, who is said to either have been killed, smuggled abroad, or even be living under the sea in a survival capsule.
Without him in a body bag or behind bars, the island s long ethnic war cannot be considered over.
But there have been no confirmed sightings for months, even by senior rebel figures or their family members captured by the army in recent fighting.
"They say he is still there, leading the fight. But we haven't found anybody, not a single person, who has actually seen him," a Sri Lankan defence official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
With intelligence so thin, speculation has been rife.
Defence sources say that on Friday night ahuge fireball erupted in the jungle where the once formidable Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been making their last stand.
One theory doing the rounds in Colombo is that Prabhakaran blew himself up along with his top lieutenants -- ensuring his body would never be found.
The defence ministry has also said the rebels, who are renown for wearing cyanide capsules around their necks so as not to be taken alive, were planning a "mass suicide" as defeat loomed.
But Prabhakaran may also be alive, either hiding or having fled overseas.
After all, he has been living underground since 1972, the year he started his bloody campaign for a separate state.
Last week, troops said they found a "metal home" built out of iron stripped off a beached container ship and adapted to be submerged underwater off the coast as a
survival capsule.
The military's advance into rebel territory has also uncovered a basic submarine and an underground multistorey bunker complete with air conditioning.
A more mundane possibility is that he escaped by a speedboat earlier this year
and rbrhaih^ af sea after1 transferring to a bigger vessel.
He may also have fled to nearby India, where in Tamil Nadu state some politicians openly support the LTTE — even though Prabhakaran is wanted in connection with the 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Other places cited as possible destinations for his escape are the small fishing communities along the coasts of Thailand and Malaysia, where police have been put on alert on several occasions in the past few months.
Sri Lanka said on Sunday that troops had yet to find any trace of Prabhakaran as they moved in to finish off the Tigers.
"We have still not come across Prabhakaran and his senior leaders," military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told reporters. "We believe they are still in this land. We hope to meet them soon."