TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thamizhini
TI  - In the shadow of a sword: the memoir of a woman leader in the LTTE 
SN  - 9789353886837
U1  - 954.9303 THA-M 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - India
PB  - Sage Publishers
KW  - History
KW  - Sri Lanka
KW  - Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association)
KW  - Women terrorists
KW  - Women guerrillas
KW  - Guerrillas
N1  - Thamizhini joined the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the age of nineteen and spent eighteen years as a combatant, educator and, for some time, head of the women’s division of its Political Wing. Her memoir, In the Shadow of a Sword, weaves back and forth between reminiscences of her childhood experiences of state violence and her decision to join the LTTE. It recounts the many projects she undertook for the civilian population; her participation in the Peace Talks of 2002; the freedoms granted and constraints placed upon her during the armed struggle; and her experiences in combat training, on the battlefield, and in political negotiations and diplomacy. It is a narrative weighted with grief and remorse yet glistening with moments of humour and thick with compassion. The memoir contains wry observations on gender roles and media manipulation in times of war and is a valuable archive that rescues female combatants from oblivion
ER  -