Slain LTTE leader's mother passes away in Sri Lanka

Parvathi Velupillai, the mother of the slain leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Velupillai Prabhakaran, has passed away on Sunday morning after a lengthy illness, local media reported.

Reportedly the Sri Lanka Army has confirmed that she passed away early morning in a Jaffna hospital.

Mrs. Parvathi was brought to India from Malaysia for treatment in April last year but India denied her entry on the basis she was a threat to national security.

Later, with the intervention of the Tamil Nadu government she was offered conditional visa to admit into a hospital in Chennai. However, she deferred her visit to India and remained in Sri Lanka.

Her husband, a retired public servant, passed away in January 2010. Her youngest son Prabhakaran was killed by state security forces on May 18, 2009. She has another daughter and a son who live abroad.