Prabhakaran also sent him a message, which said he was prepared to support him if he made him a much higher payment, but he rejected it, said the PM during speeches at public rallies in Dambandeniya and Mirigama yesterday (07).

It was Mangala Samaraweera and Sripathi Suriyarachchi who had gone to discuss the deal with the LTTE, he said, adding that he remained in his position.

Rajapaksa also gave Rs. 2,000 m to the LTTE on the pretext of building tsunami houses through RADA, and further money before the Mavilaru incident began.

That was stopped after Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was targeted in a bomb attack in December 2006.

Prabhakaran prevented the Tamils from voting and promised that he would not lay his hands on the Rajapaksa family.

It did not matter to Rajapaksa when people were getting killed in Mavilaru, but the war began following pressure by Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera and Patali Champika Ranawaka, he added.