Witnesses saw her on several occasions during the week before 18 May, and last saw her alive late morning on 18 May, when SLA soldiers pulled her out of the lagoon alone and unarmed and took her into custody in a muddy area of the Nandi Kadal Lagoon shore north of Vadduvakal bridge. "The well-known LTTE news presenter, Isaipriya, appears in several photographic and video images that suggests she was taken into custody and killed by the Sri Lankan security forces. The report says that Sri Lankan forces had initially mistaken her for being the daughter of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the LTTE's head. In another video, she was seen dead, the channel had said that she had been sexually assaulted.įive years after journalist and documentary film maker Callum Macrae first brought out these images, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s report on human rights violations and war crimes during the 2009 Sri Lankan civil war has concluded that Isaipriya was caught alive and then killed her with gunshots to the head execution-style. A former television presenter with separatist rebel organisation, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s (LTTE) news station, photographs obtained and released by Britain’s Channel 4 show, had shown the 27-year-old LTTE member wrapped in a white sheet, lying in a ditch with her arms tied behind her. The visuals of twenty-seven-year-old Isaipriya, sitting half-naked in a swamp in northern Sri Lanka, after having surrendered before four Sinhalese soldiers had shocked the world.
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