Jeremy Page reports from Colombo in The Sunday Times:
It was 8.35pm on Wednesday when a Sri Lankan navy ship spotted what looked like the lights of a small aircraft flying at high altitude over Mullaitivu – the last outpost of the Tamil Tigers.
When the air force reported the same thing there was a buzz of excitement at military HQ. Commanders knew that after 25 years of conflict Vellupillai Prabakharan, the Tigers’ leader, was facing defeat, with government forces closing in on all sides.
They also knew that they had not found the Tigers’ fleet of at least three Czech-made Zlin 143 single-engine aircraft, although they had captured five of the rebels’ six airstrips. So was Mr Prabakharan trying to escape?
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