COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s president declared his country “liberated from separatist terror” Tuesday as the military said it recovered the body of Tamil Tiger rebel leader from the battlefield on which he was slain.

But in his victory address to parliament, President Mahinda Rajapaksa appeared to reach out to the minority Tamils, for whom the rebels had said they were trying to carve out a homeland. He also alluded to promises to forge a power-sharing agreement with them.

Watch The Sri Lankan TV showing the body of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran today.

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