Of Martyrdom and Hope Lessons from Early Christian struggle
The scribes of Broken Palmyra had written in their preface:”We felt strongly that the [Tamil] community must revive and to do so we must face the truth in all its nakedness, both about ourselves and about all those who purported to be our saviours”… I wish to expose that, true to their acknowledgement, these moralists are ignorant More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 7
As for the LTTE, the Mahattaya betrayal was covered by Adele Balasingham in her The Will to Freedom (2001) book. Colonel Karuna’s betrayal had been covered by me in my Pirabhakaran Phenomenon (2005) book, and More...
The Will to Freedom An Inside View of Tamil Resistance By Adele Balasingham
Announcing a New Book Australian born Adele Balasingham, the author of this book, is well known to all who are familiar with the war for Tamil Independence in Sri Lanka. Married to Anton Balasingham, who emerged More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 6
As such I prepared a table of my own, and provide it here. In this I have included 11 criteria (training location, training period, cadres trained, instructors, functional difference, military adversary, active More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 4
Two specific comments by Bakker et al. on LTTE data deserve criticism. First, who was that most influential LTTE guy with a garbled name ‘Tjamanabalsingham’? Of course, LTTE’ theorist was Anton Stanislaus More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 5
“I had one not-so-pleasant visit from two Americans, editors of the conservative newspaper the Washington Times. They seemed less intent on finding out my views than on proving that I was a Communist and a terrorist. More...
The Prabakaran leader of tamils Phenomenon Part 12
The Pirabhakaran Phenomenon Part 12 In the eyes of Foreign Journalists Someone has recorded that journalists write only the first draft of history. I can extend this pithy maxim by adding that historians (as well More...
The Prabakaran leader of tamils Phenomenon Part 11
The Pirabhakaran Phenomenon Part 11 1987 – Paradigm Shift in Eelam One reason why I took some effort to differentiate the muddling terminology of civil unrest, civil strife and civil war (see, Pirabhakaran More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 3
Rohan Gunaratna’s information relied upon by Bakker et al. is nothing but hyped propaganda against the LTTE. Here are my questions. (1) Can Dr. Gunaratna or Bakker et al. vouch what happened to 6,000 of LTTE’s More...
