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The Unconventional book - Challenging the Blacklisting of Resistances

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The unconventional book – Challenging the blacklisting of resistances the orders were to rape you The book arrives with the title without capitals - a cruel reminder of the Sinhala army’s trophy and trigger happy rapes of Tamil women, civilian and militant, after victory over a Tamil homeland liberation army and after its occupation. Even in written form it is unconventional; essay for most parts, recollections and face offs with former militants on the run and then the poetry. What took me through was my own thirst to read the original parts within and then the thoughts of a fellow Tamil on the Tamil freedom struggle. Her perspective as a consistent and knowing Tamil voice on the most influential and successful Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) struggle for freedom of Tamils from Sinhala speaking Sri Lanka presents an overall picture of the struggle, its influences and its spread. The book presented the thoughts of both the combatants of the freedom movement and the “trauma” o...
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Twelve years since, where are we?

  Twelve years since, where are we? T oday marks the 12 th death anniversary of Muthukumar, who died immolating self. The question before Tamils of Tamil Nadu is whether the request for which he doused himself in petrol and set himself alight before the Indian union government’s excise office, after the failure of every other political possibility to stop the war waged by Sri Lanka over the rights of Tamils in Tamil Eelam in 2009, have been even halfway or quarter way met. The answer is a clear no. Not only was Muthukumar’s request to stop the war never attained but the question on rights of Tamils in Eelam has also seen only a reversal, a deterioration from the time of the presence of the LTTE. Not just that, Tamils in Tamil Nadu also face a situation of further erosion of their political rights in India and have a fight on their hands on asserting their rights even as this is getting written. In a way, Muthukumar also foresaw what is happening in Tamil Nadu right now in the fo...
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