Sri Lankan leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has declared the country "liberated" from Tamil Tiger rebels after a 26-year war.Mr Rajapaksa made the announcement in a speech to the country's parliament, a day after the army said rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had been killed. Sri Lankan television stations broadcast footage of a body purported to be that of Prabhakaran. Tamil media outside Sri Lanka have denied the army's claims that the Tiger chief is dead.
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