The Sri Lankan military claims he was killed in crossfire during a battle.

In 2013, leaked images showed Balachandran Prabhakaran, apparently in the custody of the Sri Lankan military.

Subsequent images showed him dead, having been shot up to five times in the chest.

[1][2][3][4][5] Commenting on the publication of the images, Callum Macrae, director of the documentary No Fire Zone, stated: "The new photographs are enormously important evidentially because they appear to rule out any suggestion that Balachandran was killed in cross-fire or during a battle.

"[1] The group Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka stated that the images are proof the child was executed soon after being captured.