SRI LANKA-LTT LEADER

(FILES) Picture dated September 1994 and issued by Sri Lanka's Taamil Tiger guerrilla movement shows its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Prabhakaran offered 27 Novemeber 1999, internationally-mediated talks with the Sri Lankan government to end the country's drawn out Tamil separatist conflict that has claimed over 55,000 lives since 1972. AFP PHOTO