"Our sources in addition to several others have said that all the LTTE persons remaining in the NFZ (no fire zone) were massacred," said the group that was formed in 1988 at the

University of Jaffna "to document human rights violations by all forces".

Among other things, the UTHR also said "The LTTE was defeated and the leader (Prabahakaran) was covering behind the people hoping for a Congress defeat in India."

The Island meanwhile quoted "a senior officer who had been at Nanthi Kadal at the time of the recovery of the LTTE leader's body" as saying that "troops found his body as President Mahinda Rajapaksa was making a special statement in Parliament on May 19."

"He said that nothing could be as ridiculous as the claim that the Prabhakaran was probably tortured at the headquarters of the 53 Division in the presence of a Tamil government politician," the report said.