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Sri Lanka finds rebel leader's parents among displaced

COLOMBO, May 28 (Xinhua) -- The Sri Lankan military said Thursday that the parents of the late Tamil Tiger leader have been traced in a camp for the internally displaced persons in the northern town of Vavuniya.

Velupillai and Parvathy, the father and mother of Velupillai Prabakaran were identified at the Manik Farm camp in Vavuniya, Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told reporters..

The couple in their late 70s were thought to be in India having fled there with the outbreak of the ethnic separatist war in the early 1980s.

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