Film Explores Broken Tamil Lives
BBC March 23, 2006
By Priyath Liyanage
BBC Sinhala editor
A controversial film about the life and assassination of human rights worker Rajani Thiranagama from northern Sri Lanka is being screened in London as a part of the Human Rights Watch film festival.
Rajani was assassinated at the age of 35 in the northern town of Jaffna in broad daylight in 1989, after she published a book about human rights abuses in the north of war-torn Sri Lanka.
No More Tears Sister, screened from 22 March, follows her life and work as narrated by her sisters, husband and two surviving daughters.
Rajani, a university professor, was one of the founding members of a group called Jaffna University Teachers for Human Rights. The group chronicled rights abuses committed by all sides involved in the civil war.
Her life and death marked a turning point in the Tamil separatist struggle.
The killing is one of the early assassinations attributed to the Tamil Tigers who have never denied killing her.
More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4835142.stm
posted by Unknown | 5:32 AM
1 Comments:
The BBC reporter is in error here. The Tamil tigers did deny the charge that they killed Rajini.
It was later exposed in Tamil media that Rajini was killed by a murderous group called EPDP on the orders of the Indian army.
After Rajini's death, her organization was hijacked by two criminals who were funded by the Sri Lankan army to anti-LTTE propaganda "human rights" reports. These two individuals repeated the lie that the Tamil Tigers killed her. It is a pity that a reporter failed to do his homework.
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