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However, some Tamil nationalist hardliners had always doubted government's version of story and believe that Prabhakaran may still be alive having escaped the final battle zone in The OMP which the government has agreed to set up under its wider UN Human Rights Council resolution obligations has run into controversy with the opposition calling it a betrayal of the government troops who defeated the LTTE. The government claims that the OMP was meant to give redress to tens of thousands reported missing in the country due to various conflicts both in the south and the north.

The International Red Cross ICRC had last month announced results from its survey which said that over 16, people remain missing in Sri Lanka after the end of the conflict in The army had been promoting the bunker as an internal tourist attraction, along with other rebel facilities nearby.

A museum of the Tigers' war materiel including boats has even been opened, with signs in the majority Sinhala language, but not the local Tamil language. A military spokesman told the BBC that tourism was only "a temporary phenomenon" at the bunker. Now that the area had been de-mined he said that there was no reason "to keep the ghosts of terrorism".

However, the authorities may have been uneasy at the propaganda effect of the bunker, our correspondent says. When the BBC visited it and other sites last year, some Sri Lankan tourists expressed some admiration for the Tigers' technical expertise.

Three years ago the government demolished Velupillai Prabhakaran's ancestral home and several Tamil Tiger graveyards.

An army division headquarters has been built on the site of at least one of the cemeteries. Life was a constant struggle then, and many nights Prabhakaran went to bed hungry. All this earned him a certain following which in turn helped him to grow. Training camps came up in India, which provided a shady umbrella under which everyone — moderates and militants — could take shelter.

Terrorism was not too dirty a word in the s, more so if the victim country was in the Third World. None of the above is true today, except perhaps for the still lingering feelings among sections of Tamils of being discriminated by a Sinhalese-dominated state. The sheer hypocrisy of the Tigers and its leadership and the manner in which they lorded over the mass of helpless and trapped Tamil civilians in the northeast right till its own demise cannot and will never be forgiven by the victims.

Here was a group that mercilessly killed any Tamil who was ready to shake hands with the Sri Lankan state, but was more than ready to embrace Colombo when its own end was near.

And Prabhakaran cut birthday cakes for his children in his underground lair even as his fighters snatched teenage boys and girls from poor Tamil families and forced them to fight and die for the cause of Tamil Eelam. Even if a section of the Tamil diaspora — which funded the war while leading comfortable lives in the West — were to announce the formation of a LTTE, it will have no takers in Sri Lanka including in the northeast, where ordinary people, still furious over how the Tigers broke up families, will be the first to report to the state the activities of suspicious characters.

When he revolted in April and broke away, he was dubbed a traitor. But grant it to him, the man knew the LTTE inside out. People are fed up with all this violence.