Prabhakaran's house demolished

A Tamil politician has claimed that the Sri Lankan security forces have demolished the house of late LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's parents situated at Valvettithurai in the Jaffna peninsula.

Secretary of the Tamil National Liberation Alliance M.K. Sivajilingam, said  Thursday that the Sri Lankan security forces destroyed the house as it had become a tourist attraction.

"They (the government) are destroying pieces of history. They want to remove any traces of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)," Sivajilingam said by telephone from the northern town of Jaffna.

Military spokesman Major General Prasad Samarasinghe and police spokesman Prishantha Jayakody had denied any knowledge of the demolition.

The terrorist leader was killed along with senior most leaders of the LTTE in the final gun battle of the war with the security forces on May 18, 2009.