'Prabhakaran's mother free to go to India to settle'

(January 12, Colombo,Sri Lanka Guardian) President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said slain LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's mother and mother-in-law were free to go to India to settle, if they wanted.

"They (Prabhakaran's mother and mother-in-law) can go to India if India agrees," Rajapaksa told here in reply to question.

Though Prabhakaran's mother Parvathi Pillai and his mother-in-law Erambu have not publicly expressed any plans about their future, MDMK leader Vaiko and the former Tiger chief's cousin Rajendran have asked the Sri Lankan government to send the his aged mother Parvathi to Tamil Nadu.

The two women are now left without any menfolk in their household with the passing away of Prabhakaran's father Velupillai recently. His elder son Charles Anthony was killed days before his father in fighting in northern Sri lanka.