''Kaushalyan is not an ordinary man, he was an emerging leader,''

''Kaushalyan is not an ordinary man, he was an emerging leader,'' M K Eleventhan, Member of Parliament, told IPS. At the time of his death Kaushalyan was coordinating the tsunami relief work in areas under Tiger control in the two districts. The Amapara and Batticaloa Districts were the two worst affected areas in the country with more than 15,000 deaths, when killer waves on Dec. 26 lashed the coastlines of Sri Lanka and a dozen other countries in the Indian Ocean rim.