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In this Tuesday, May 19, 2009 photo, Sri Lankan soldiers gather as the body of Tamil rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is carried on a stretcher in Mullaittivu, Sri Lanka. Aid groups and the U.N. appealed to be allowed to survey the aftermath of the final battle of Sri Lanka's civil war and pushed for unfettered access to some 280,000 Tamils displaced from the former combat zone. (KEYSTONE/AP)