{"id":51049,"date":"2016-01-14T06:41:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51049"},"modified":"2016-01-14T06:41:47","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:41:47","slug":"killing-prabhakarans-son-a-war-crime-but-there-was-no-evidence-to-prove-ltte-leader-prabhakarans-son-had-been-killed-by-the-army-former-army-commander-field-marshal-sarath-fonsek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/14\/killing-prabhakarans-son-a-war-crime-but-there-was-no-evidence-to-prove-ltte-leader-prabhakarans-son-had-been-killed-by-the-army-former-army-commander-field-marshal-sarath-fonsek\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing Prabhakaran\u2019s son, a war crime , But there was no evidence to prove LTTE leader Prabhakaran\u2019s son had been killed by the army.-Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>by Harischandra Gnaratna\u00a0Courtesy The Island<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, leader of the Democratic Party yesterday said that there was no evidence to prove LTTE leader Prabhakaran\u2019s son had been killed by the army.<\/p>\n<p>Field Marshal Fonseka was addressing the media at his party headquarters in Pelawatte.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to comment on former Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopalkrishna Gandhi\u2019s claim that the army had committed a war crime by killing Prabhakaran\u2019s son, Balachandran, Fonseka said if the Tiger leader\u2019s son had been killed it amounted to a war crime, but added there was no evidence to prove the former High Commissioner\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/island.lk\/modules\/modPublication\/article_title_images\/138536145SF.jpg\" alt=\"article_image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said there were only two photographs and a video of Balachandtran. In one of the pictures his body was seen lying in a jungle patch between the Nanthikadal lagoon and the sea and the other showed the 12-year-old in a bunker.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both these photographs and the video do not provide any evidence that the terrorist leader\u2019s\u00a0son was killed by the army; no other persons are seen in the pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fonseka said &#8220;Nobody has been able to prove this allegation though many have voiced their opinion. It is either a figment of their imagination or a fabrication to implicate the army.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Field Marshal said certain elements with vested interests were making an attempt to tarnish the image the army and now they would have to eat their words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Harischandra Gnaratna\u00a0Courtesy The Island Former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, leader of the Democratic Party yesterday said that there was no evidence to prove LTTE leader Prabhakaran\u2019s son had been killed by the army. Field Marshal Fonseka was addressing the media at his party headquarters in Pelawatte. Asked to comment on former Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}