Dimmy, Dummy, Dommy! Is Prabhakaran Dead or Alive?

Strange things are happening in Wanni; stranger things are expected but what is feared most is the strangest of all and that is whether Prabhakaran is dead or alive.

If he is dead then the LTTE has perpetrated on the Tamil community in particular, the Sri Lankans and the world at large the biggest political fraud ever known to humanity. Even with the Winston Churchill’s double during the Second World War the British persisted with him only for a few days; circumstances demanded it.

The question asked and more increasingly ever since the Tigers’ Heroes Day 2006 is whether Prabhakaran has ever made an appearance in public. The impression is that a dummy is at work, one who is taller, stouter and slower and who has been trained with certain mannerisms of the Tiger leader.

According to the Kappang Highway team operating in Wanni, Prabhakaran has never been seen in the open, not even near Mulliyawalai where he used to take a late evening motorcade ride to Mullaitivu. During this ride, people of the area were not expected to be on the road; these outings ceased with the tsunami.

Who was then with Anton Balasingam and Erik Solheim when they met in Wanni just before the first Geneva Talks early this year? In fact, it was this meeting that raised the doubts of many people because the Prabhakaran on that occasion appeared taller and on his face was none of the Prabhakaran arrogance. This person appeared withdrawn, uncomfortable shifting from side to side and his gestures were very much forced as if trained to be performed in certain sequences. Hardly any words came from him.

Even stranger was that his friend Anton Balasingam arrived that very day in Wanni from London and was there briefly and left for Colombo soon after the meeting was over. He did not even have a private word with the “Prabhakaran” who was present at that meeting.

Wasn’t it obvious Balasingam did not want to have anything to do with “Prabhakaran” which was so with Erik Solheim too? Following this Wanni encounter, it was often reported that Prabhakaran was not willing to meet people like Erik Solheim even anybody else with exception made only to a South Indian movie maker, Bharathirajah. Evidently Erik Solheim was playing the game of “Dimmy Dummy and Dommy”

The Bharathirajah story was a fake. It was let loose to give the impression that the Tiger leader was well and alive and worthy of a documentary on him for posterity. The lie became exposed when it was found that the photograph released with Prabhakaran meeting Bharathirajah was not genuine. It was one of those doctored efforts where in a picture Prabhakaran had taken with Balasingam, the latter was removed and in his place Bharathirajah’s picture was placed.

We do not even hear anything about Prabhakaran’s wife, Mathivathani. Where is she? After all she is the First Lady of Tamil Eelam according to Tiger enthusiasts most of them members of the Tamil Diaspora. Is she in Ireland, England or living incommunicado even in Wanni?

But our most important question vital and crucial to the interests of the Tamils is as to why Prabhakaran has to stay 30-feet below the surface of the earth. This year the Tiger Heroes Day was a farce. A great deal of effort was made to expose only the chest and above of the Great Leader with heavy make-up to the cameras and in some unknown corner of somewhere. The excuse given was that there was a threat to his life. What a shame the LTTE had to resort to such a craven, cowardly excuse. Curiously, such an excuse emerged only after the tsunami. How did this natural disaster bring about a security threat?

His refusal to meet people from various parts of the world who have shown great interests in solving the ethnic question and his unwillingness to come out into the open and face realities certainly make his claim as the National Leader (Thesiya Thalaivar) and the sole representative of the Tamils false and spurious.

Liberation leaders lead from the front. Liberation leaders are always with their people and among them. They are easily approachable and they inspire a lot of confidence on the people they lead. Prabhakaran is none of these and the only people who adore him are criminals, money launderers, alien smugglers, illicit weapon dealers, drug merchants, mafias, certain UNP politicians, Canadian Liberal Party parliamentarians, the Catholic Church and the Norwegians.

There are three more days for the year 2006 to come to an end. A Tiger weekly in Canada calls it Prabhakaran Year 53. If Prabhakaran is alive, let him make an appearance in Kilinochchi and conduct an international press conference adequately represented with appropriate press representatives.

Source: Subidcham