Colombo (PTI): Charging the Sri Lankan government with "destroying evidence of Tamil history" in the country, LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has said it was the duty of the authors and literateurs to ensure "the records exist."

"Attempts are being made by the (Sri Lankan) security forces, through bombing and shelling, to destroy the wealth and properties of Tamils. Another community has started occupying their (Tamil) areas and the evidence of Tamil history is sought to be destroyed," Prabhakaran said.

The LTTE leader, in his message on the launching of a Tamil book titled "Let us move towards the boundary of Tamil Eelam" (translated name) said "there was a plot to prevent self-rule in the Tamil areas for many years."

Prabhakaran also charged the Sri Lankan government with discrimination against Tamil community in the name of development.

"Sinhalese are being settled in the land of the Tamil Homeland", Prabhakaran said and asked the "Tamil" people to be on the "alert," the Tamil Newspaper "Sudar Oli" reported on Thursday.

Prabhakaran congratulated the author of the book C Vipulenchiran alias Anbuchelvan for his work, it said.