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FIGHT GONE: Prabhakaran was killed on May 18 in a battle with the Sri Lanka army.

FIGHT GONE: Prabhakaran was killed on May 18 in a battle with the Sri Lanka army.

Prabhakaran's dad dies in Sri Lanka military custody

The father of slain Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who led a failed 26-year armed campaign for a separate state for Sri Lanka's Tamil ethnic minority, died on Thursday while in military custody, an army spokesman said. Thiruvendran Velupillai, 82, and his wife had been in military custody since they surrendered to the government after their son was killed May 18 in a battle with the army in northern Sri Lanka.

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