Sri Lanka on Tuesday strongly denied the allegations of human rights violation by its forces after some fresh pictures emerged, indicating that the 12-year-old son of former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) chief Prabhakaran was executed. The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, claimed that the pictures were morphed and were being circulated ahead of the International meeting to embarrass the island nation. "These allegations are not new. You aired them last year around the same time on the eve of International Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva. Now next session is around the corner and parties aligned with the LTTE may want to embarrass Sri Lanka," Kariyawasam said. Picture released by Channel 4 lays bare the SL Army's duplicity Reiterating the Lankan stand that the boy, Balachandran Prabhakaran, might have been killed in cross-fire, he said, "We deny allegations based on morphed photos from London. The Sri Lankan Army saved 2,92,000 civilians from the LTTE. This poor child may have died as a result of cross fire when his father kept fighting." The statement came after Headlines Today showed some pictures which indicated that the boy might have been summarily executed by the Lankan forces in custody. The photographs were reportedly taken a few hours apart using the same camera. While the initial shots showed the boy sitting in a bunker, another picture, taken a few hours later, showed his body lying on the ground with his chest pierced by bullets. The images were purportedly taken in May 2009 towards the end of the Sri Lankan government's operation to crush the LTTE. --- ENDS ---
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