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Miller has since been heralded as a martyr for the Tigers fight for a separate state for ethnic-minority Tamils and for paving the way for suicide bombers, known as Black Tigers, who brought terror to the country until the Norwegian-brokered truce.

President Chandrika Kumaratunga lost an eye to a 1999 suicide-bomb blast and attacks killed former president Ranasinghe Premadasa and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

8216;8216;It is a useful dedication,8217;8217; the 64-year-old Vallipuram said of her son8217;s death. 8216;8216;I hate Prabhakaran. He killed my son,8217;8217; said another mother, referring to reclusive leader Velupillai Prabhakaran.

8216;8216;I8217;m not going to attend. For me it8217;s a show,8221; said the woman, who has a second son still in the rebel group. A motorcade flying the Tigers8217; red and yellow flags and displaying photographs of the bombers travelled through Jaffna peninsula on Monday. 8212;Reuters