Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 9
“The ideals we cherish, our fondest dreams and fervent hopes may not be realized in our lifetime. But that is besides the point. The knowledge that in your day you did your duty, and lived up to the expectations More...
Sencholai – Children’s Home
Tamil Eelam – a De Facto State Sencholai – Children’s Home Leader of LTTE, Velupillai Pirapakaran opens new Senchcholai campus in Kilinochchi 15 January 2006 Leader of Liberation Tigers, V More...
Prabhakaran’s Tigers and Mandela’s Spears Part 8
MK and LTTE did share one feature together in that (unlike Al Queda), they never waged war against Uncle Sam. But, they were affected by the two prime dilemmas of Uncle Sam’s paranoia, namely communism and terrorism. 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...
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...
