Ilankai Tamil Sangam
Association of Tamils of Sri Lanka in the USA
Published by Sangam.org
by N. Malathy, Clarity Press, US & Canada, available September 30, 2012
what it is like to watch the complete destruction of one’s country: the physical destruction, the destruction of the governance structures, the complete dispersal of its people, and massacres on a massive scale? Has there ever been such complete destruction of a country in history? The only reason why it is not seen as such is because my country was only in the minds of its people, but was not recognized by the global system of states." N. Malathy |
ISBN: 978-0-9845255-4-6
$19.95 / / 2012
AUTHOR
N. Malathy is member of the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora and a
naturalised New Zealand citizen who has lived in New Zealand for
four decades. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Canterbury in New Zealand, where she has worked as
an analyst and programmer. She has written extensively on the
human rights situation in Sri Lanka and also translated a short novel set in the Vanni context which has been accepted for publication by
Penguin India. She spent four years in Sri Lanka, in the Vanni
District under the control of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(LTTE), from 2005 till 2009, a period marked by the gradual
weakening of the 2002 Norwegian brokered ceasefire, which
eventually led to the brutal war in which the LTTE was defeated and its
leadership killed or imprisoned. During this period she worked in
many institutions, including a human rights body, a women’s
organization, and an orphanage. Her experiences spanned working with the LTTE to release child soldiers, preparing documentation for
peace talks for the same body, documenting human rights violations by the Sri Lankan military and working on a project to
raise awareness of domestic violence.
Radha d'Souza practiced as a barrister in the High Court of Bombay and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand and presently teaches Public International Law and Development at the University of Westminster.
Available for advance sale at
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and
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A Tamil version will be out in Chennai by the end of the year.
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