Tigers of Tamil Ealam send out SMS saying leader is not dead

According to Sify, sympathizers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) have launched an SMS campaign claiming that their chief, Vellupillai Prabhkaran, is alive and will continue to lead the movement for a Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka.

European branches of the LTTE have been flooding local mobile users with text messages that Prabhakaran is alive and that the Sri Lankan Government used a body double to try to prove to the world that the LTTE chief had been killed in a two-hour firefight with Sri Lankan Special Forces near a lagoon in the northern part of the island-nation.

The text messages have been emanating from Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom, and are basically designed to lift the morale of LTTE sympathizers and ensure that the funding process for the rebel outfit does not dry up.

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emily | 2:21 PM | SMS and Politics |
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