COLOMBO, May 28 (Xinhua) -- The military in Sri Lanka said Thursday that the DNA test carried out by the Army has confirmed a match between the Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and his son Charles Anthony, both killed by the Army in their final onslaught on the rebels last week.

    "Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) test conducted by Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps today (May 28) on Charles Anthony and Prabhakaran re-affirmed both of them have been identified as father and son after matching," said the Ministry of Defense in a short statement.

    The statement said the authorities after referring the samples to scientists conducted a match on both of them.

    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said last week that the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had been totally defeated and all the 15,000-sq-km territory held by the rebels had been liberated by the government troops.

    Meanwhile, Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara told reporters on Thursday that the parents of Prabhakaran have been traced in a camp for the internally displaced persons in the northern town of Vavuniya.

    Velupillai and Parvathy, the father and mother of Velupillai Prabakaran were identified at the Manik Farm camp in Vavuniya, said Nanayakkara.

    The couple in their late 70s were thought to be in India having fled there with the outbreak of the ethnic separatist war in the early 1980s.

    Although widely believed dead there has not been concrete evidence yet as to the fate of the rebel leader's wife Mathivathani, their only daughter Duvaraga, aged 23 and the younger son Balachandran aged 13.

    Prabakaran had led a three-decade-old fight to carve out a separate homeland for the minority Tamils which ended with over 100,000 deaths and the destruction of the island's economy.