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Tue 05 May 2009Tamil leader's body found - Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka's military today said Tamil Tiger leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran's body had been found, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged Tamils to join in rebuilding a nation split by a 25-year separatist war.
Footage broadcast on Sri Lankan TV showed what appeared to be the corpse of the man who authorities say plunged the state into one of the world's most intractable wars, his eyes open, face bloated and the top of his head blown off.
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