On the fate of Mahattaya which Suryanarayan had alluded, the Amnesty International Report of August 1996 carried a few sentences, as follows:
“It was also reported that Gopalaswamy Mahendrarajah, alias ‘Mahattaya’, and several of his supporters who were sentenced to death in late 1993 had been executed. In an article published on 29 November 1995 in the Indian magazine Outlook, an LTTE spokesperson is quoted as having stated in early October 1995: ‘Mahattaya is no more. He was executed for plotting to kill Prabhakaran [Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader of the LTTE]’. In late 1993 and early 1994, Amnesty International had called upon the LTTE not to execute these prisoners and for them and other political prisoners held by the LTTE to be granted immediate and regular access to the ICRC.” [1]
