NEW Delhi, Jun 14 (PTI) Velupillai Prabhakaran was waiting for the results of Indian elections to plan his next strategy in the 30-year-old civil war in Sri Lanka and had apparently hoped that either the NDA or the Third Front would come to power in New Delhi, but the army there had different plans.
It has now emerged that the 54-year-old slain guerrilla leader was waiting till May 16, the day results of Lok Sabha elections were known, to decide on his and the outfit's future, but it was too late as the Sri Lankan Army had by then cut off all the escape routes.
"Till May 16, he (Prabhakaran) was hoping that someone would interfere and stop the army from entering the final 'No Fire Zone' where he was held up," Sri Lankan Army sources said.
On May 16th afternoon, LTTE announced that it would allow all civilians trapped in the area held by them to leave for safety, apparently after knowing that the Congress, which it believed was hostile to him and the outfit, was set to return to power.Sources in the Tamil polity in Sri Lanka said the LTTE was hoping that there would be a popular upsurge for it in Tamil Nadu, where the general elections were fou ght on the Eelam plank, and that the Third Front or the NDA could come to power. (Courtesy: Daily Mirror)
