Sri Lanka's president has declared victory over Tamil separatist fighters, saying the country has been "liberated from terrorism".Mahinda Rajapaksa delivered a "victory speech" in parliament on Tuesday after the army claimed on Monday that it had killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending more than 25 years of civil war.But the LTTE dismissed the government's claims that Prabhakaran was dead and vowed that the Tamil struggle for a homeland would continue.Selvarasa Pathmanathan, the international spokesman for the group, admitted that many senior members had either "given up their lives or have been treacherously killed", but he said Prabhakaran was "alive and well"."The Sri Lankan government may have declared a military victory. But it does not realise that it is a hollow victory. It has completely lost the trust and confidence of the Tamils in Sri Lanka," he told the pro-LTTE website Tamilnet on Monday."Our struggle will continue until the aspirations of our people are realised."
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