After Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa won in the elections, held in January this year, for the second consecutive time. Indian leaders issued statements congratulating Rajapaksa.  India, too, requested that Rajapaksa carefully handle Sarath Fonseka, the former Sri Lankan army general, who contested as the main oppositing candidate against Rajapaksa. The Indian leaders’ statements were in empathy on the arrest of Fonseka and the victory of Rajapaksa and the elections manifested India’s real motives in dealing with Sri Lankan affairs. 

The father of the LTTE leader, Thiruvenkadam Veluppillai, passed away suddenly on January 6, 2010, at the Panagoda army camp, which is located in the Sri Lanka’s western province where the Sri Lankan army has various army camps with the army’s 11th Brigade along with the army hospital.  The military spokesman announced the next day that Veluppillai had passed away due to natural causes from a prolonged illness, refraining to reveal that Veluppillai been worried about being in the army camp since he, along with his eighty year old wife, moved to a safer area along with more than 300,000 Tamils at the end of the last phase of Eelam War – IV.  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be given credit for the death of the 86-year old Veluppillai and it should be added to the human rights abuse list for which Rajapaksa should be held responsible at the international courts of justice. The late Veluppillai and his wife were virtual prisoners of war. It was easy for them to say that he died of natural causes on account of his age. If Mrs. Veluppillai could be released now, why were they not released before? It is not known whether Mr. Veluppillai and his wife were tortured.