It was LTTE Intelligence Wing leader, Pottu Amman or Shivasankaran who first responded to repeated reports in the state media. Last Thursday, he told colleagues in Wanni “I have been killed many a time though I am still alive.” The other man who was reported killed, the LTTE Batticaloa-Ampara district commander, Ramesh, surfaced yesterday and posed for this picture. Ramesh succeeded Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Karuna as the Batticaloa-Ampara district military wing leader.