{"id":124764,"date":"2014-05-18T11:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T05:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=124764"},"modified":"2020-05-20T01:38:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T20:08:38","slug":"after-learning-of-balachandrans-killing-mahinda-went-to-bellanwila-temple-and-said-this-should-not-have-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/after-learning-of-balachandrans-killing-mahinda-went-to-bellanwila-temple-and-said-this-should-not-have-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"After Learning Of Balachandran’s Killing Mahinda Went To Bellanwila Temple And Said ‘This Should Not Have Happened’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although the President Mahinda\u00a0has not commented on\u00a0Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son,\u00a0Balachandran<\/span><\/a>, he knew that Balachandnran was killed by the\u00a0<\/span>security forces, Colombo Telegraph can reveal today.<\/p>\n

President Rajapaksa was shocked and distraught when he was informed that Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son, Balachandran, had been killed, Colombo Telegraph reliably learns.\u00a0 The President had at that point traveled without his usual security detail to the Bellanwila Temple where he had spent some moments in deep reflection.\u00a0 Colombo Telegraph learns that he had said ‘this should not have happened.’\u00a0 Although the President has not commented on Balachandran, political analysts opine that this indicates that there was no ‘decision from the top’ with respect to the fate of Prabhakaran’s child.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Sri Lankan government has not indicated any knowledge about how Balachandran was killed, a position that is not inconsistent with the above revelation.<\/p>\n

A series of photographs taken a few hours apart and on the same camera, show Balachandran Prabhakaran. One of them shows the boy sitting in a bunker, alive and unharmed, apparently in the custody of Sri Lankan troops. Another, a few hours later, shows the boy\u2019s body lying on the ground, his chest pierced by bullets.\u00a0\u00a0The authorities always said Prabhakaran\u2019s son was killed in cross-fire, as troops moved in to take the LTTE\u2019s last stronghold, located on a scrap of coastline near Mullaitivu in the north-east of the country.\u00a0In these photographs, which digital image analysis indicates were taken with the same camera, we can see he has been shot five times in the chest.<\/p>\n

“These photographs are particularly important evidentially, because they prove that Balachandran was not killed in crossfire, or in a battle. His death was deliberate and calculated. The pictures fill in chilling details on the circumstances of his murder \u2014 and leave the Sri Lankan government with yet more questions to answer about just how systematic the executions at the end of the war appear to have been. Last year, we first revealed video footage and stills which showed Balachandran\u2019s body shortly after his execution. These were analysed for us by a respected forensic pathologist, Professor Derrick Pounder, to assess the cause of death.” said the\u00a0director,\u00a0<\/em>\u201cNo Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka<\/em>\u201d,\u00a0<\/span>Callum Macrae<\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Derrick identified what he thinks is the first of the shots to be fired at the boy: \u201cThere is a speckling (on the skin) from propellant tattooing, indicating that the distance of the muzzle of the weapon to this boy\u2019s chest was two to three feet or less. He could have reached out with his hand and touched the gun that killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The professor said the angle of the shots suggested that after that bullet was fired, the boy fell backwards and was then shot four more times. Unlike the men around him, there was no indication that the boy had been blindfolded or bound, so it was possible that the boy may have been made to watch the execution of his guards before the gun was turned on him.<\/p>\n

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British forensic expert Professor Pounder believes he has identified the first of the shots to be fired at the boy: \u201cThere is a speckling from propellant tattooing, indicating that the distance of the muzzle of the weapon to this boy\u2019s chest was two to three feet or less. He could have reached out with his hand and touched the gun that killed him.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0Related posts;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Killing Balachandran And Saving Uvindu<\/a><\/h2>\n

Warning \u2013 Disturbing Images: The Last Hours Of The Son Of Prabhakaran<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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