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What LTTE chief Prabhakaran told me about women writing for newspapers
What LTTE chief Prabhakaran told me about women writing for newspapers
‘In the Shadow of a Sword’ is a memoir by Thamizhini, a former LTTE leader in Sri Lanka who gave an inside account of the brutality of it all.
Thamizhini 9 January, 2021 10:30 am IST Text Size:
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Our camp, which had been stationed in Kollar Puliyankulam, was moved to Puthukkudiyiruppu. All the organizations of the Movement took Puthukkudiyiruppu as their nucleus. All the fighters, including leader Prabhakaran, held on to the baseless belief that the Sri Lankan army would never take Puthukkudiyiruppu. Puthukkudiyiruppu was a high-level security enclosure, built with the most extreme security measures.