Unsung Heroes and Heroines: Bavinck, Rajasinghams and Hoole

Of Tamils and Tigers: a journey through Sri Lanka’s war years

     Ben Bavinck & Rajasingham Pater

Of Tamils And Tigers : Part II

A Dutch Teacher in Jaffna Recounts his experiences from 1994 – 2004

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Palmyra Fallen : From Rajani to War’s End

Dr. Rajani Thiranagama was killed on 21st September 1989 after three years of intense activity in Jaffna. During this time she played a leading role in the University Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna – UTHR(J) – and co-authored The Broken Palmyra. In Palmyra Fallen, Ranjan Hoole – a fellow member of the UTHR(J) and the author of Arrogance of Power – deals with the painful experience of ordinary people, and the initiatives Rajani and her colleagues undertook to give hope to a benumbed, betrayed and bruised community in period beset by terror and counter-terror. The Introduction identifies the country’s plunge into communalism, violence and war with the Citizenship Act of 1948. Other key concerns of the book are how the Tamil community lost its way into caste and sectarianism, the country’s road to impunity, the political and economic costs of colonisation and the searing final months of the war, concluded in 2009

 ALSO SEE https://thuppahis.com/2015/05/06/palmyrah-fallen-reflections-on-rajani-thiranagamas-legacy/

NOTE : Vijitha Yapa Publications =  www.vijithayapa.com

ALSO REFER

* Val Daniel’s Introduction of Ben Bavinck and Ben’s Diary over the Years of Conflict in Lanka …….http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/11/val-daniels-introduction-of-ben-bavinck-and-bens-dairy-over-the-years-of-conflict-in-lanka

 * Shelling Suffering of the Tamil People, 1990-91 – Ben Bavinck …… http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/15/shelling-suffering-of-the-tamil-people-1990-91-%e2%80%93-ben-bavinck/

* Sandwiched in between: Tamil Dissidents and Others in the Furnace of War & its Killings, January 1989-late 1990 via Ben Bavinck’s Diary …………. http://thuppahis.com/2011/09/29/sandwiched-in-between-tamil-dissidents-and-others-in-the-furnace-of-war-its-killings-january-1989-late-1990-via-ben-bavinck%e2%80%99s-diary/

 Bavinck with his trusty bike  Bavinck with Tiger boys at Point Pooneryn

 Rajani Thiranagama nee Rajasingham

 Bavinck & priests boarding ICRC ship in a crane