The Sri Lankan high commission has told Channel Four that “Lieutenant Colonel Issei Priya was engaged in a hostile operation against the Sri Lanka Security Forces when she met her end”.
Photographs that the channel could obtain showed that she was captured by the soldiers on May 18 (2009), the day before Prabhakaran was shot dead.
That she was later found dead and there was video footage showing soldiers dragging her weeping only proved that Priya was killed after being captured.
While the Sri Lankan military claimed that Priya was a combatant, her friends in LTTE have been quoted saying she had never involved in fighting because of a heart condition.
It was said that she was a singer, dancer, actor and was mostly involved in LTTE media as a TV news presenter. Her six-month-old child was killed in the battle.
Channel Four had earlier released footage titled ‘Sri Lanka's Killing Fields' showing gory visuals of Tamils being executed with hands tied and of Tiger chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year-son Balachandran dead with bullet shots in chest.
