The end to 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka has occupied headlines in newspapers and websites around the world.
Sri Lanka's media congratulated President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the military "victory" over Tamil Tiger rebels.
International media warn that serious measures to address Tamil grievances must follow battlefield success.
DIVAINA, SINHALA-LANGUAGE PAPER, COLOMBO
Vellupillai Prabhakaran, who was the leader of a murderous fascist organisation which shook the whole world, and his senior comrades are now dead. It is true that death is not an occasion on which anyone can rejoice.
But the news of the death of this cursed man and his fascist clique can only be good news for the country and the people who suffered from that terrorism.
Vellupillai Prabhakaran is a manifestation of a villainous culture of murder. A distorted creation of a cyanide culture. That Prabhakaran made this country a funeral house destroying and separating human families is not something we need to say anew. There is no village, city or family that had not suffered by the murders of Prabhakaran.
The beast who hung cyanide round the necks of innocent children of the north is among the dead. Isn't that a relief?
THE ISLAND, ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PAPER, COLOMBO
In the end the hoity-toity Big Tiger died a "fraidy cat". Having killed thousands of people and driven a similar number of his own brainwashed cadres to suicide in vain, Prabhakaran the self-deified warlord together with a group of his trusted lieutenants including his son died a violent death at the hands of the army, while fleeing the battlefront in an ambulance leaving his followers to their fate.
That he was a coward of the first order was no secret but hardly anyone expected him to die in such a shameless manner. Where was his cyanide capsule?
Source : BBCNEWS
Source : YaTV
My son rise above their piggldy diddleness.
Kingruleroverall 2 years ago