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LTTE ideologue Balasingham has cancer

The London-based political advisor and ideologue of the Tamil Tiger rebels Anton Balasingham is suffering from a severe cancerous disease and is battling for life, a media report said here on Wednesday.

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COLOMBO: The London-based political advisor and ideologue of the Tamil Tiger rebels Anton Balasingham is suffering from a severe cancerous disease and is battling for life, a media report said here on Wednesday.
 
Colombo-based Tamil language newspaper Sudar Oli, known to have close links with Balasingham, quoting the medical reports said ''the cancer that hit the 68-year old chief negotiator of the LTTE is at an incurable stage as it has fast spread to liver, lungs and born marrow''.
 
''The exact kind of cancer will be known within a couple of days when the test report of his liver is released,'' the media report said, adding that Balasingham was admitted to a hospital in London last Thursday.
 
Balasingham, living with a transplanted kidney is a heart and diabetic patient and has been living in London with Australian-born wife Adale Anne.
 
The reports of Balasingham falling ill have come at a time when  the LTTE is commemorating its Heroes’ Week, which will culminate with the elusive rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s annual speech on November 27, which is considered the policy statement of the rebel outfit.
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