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WAR and PEACE Armed Struggle and Peace Efforts of Liberation Tigers

Author Name: Anton Balasingham | Format: Paperback | Genre : History & Politics | Other Details

This book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter deals with the non-violent political struggles of the post-independent era, as well as the birth, growth and development of the armed resistance movement of the Tamils, spearheaded by the LTTE. The history of the Tamil struggle for self-determination, spans a period of more than 50 years. The struggle has taken different forms and modes at different times in its evolutionary history. In the early stages, during the 1950s and 60s, the political struggle was peaceful and non-violent, confined to parliamentary and constitutional politics. The old generation of Tamil leaders were Gandhians, committed to the principles and philosophy of the great Indian leader. The non-violent political struggles of the Tamils based on the Gandhian philosophy of ‘ahimsa’, inspired the spirit of nationalism and mobilised the Tamil nation into a collective force. Caste fragmented society rose into a united nation demanding political liberties, equal opportunities and self-rule in their historical homeland.

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Anton Balasingham

Anton Stanislaus Balasingham (Tamil:ஆண்டன் பாலசிங்கம்) was the chief political strategist and chief negotiator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam a militant organization. He was a British citizen of Tamil origin from Sri Lanka.He was born in Batticaloa on 4th March 1938 in the Sri Lankan Tamil dominated district in the Eastern Province of what was then British Ceylon. His father was a Hindu and mother a Christian Roman Catholic. His father also hailed from Eastern province whereas his mother was a native Jaffna Tamil.After his graduation from school in Jaffna, he worked as a journalist in a Colombo newspaper and as a translator at the British High Commission in Colombo. Balasingham was initially married to a Sri Lankan Tamil. After she died due to the complications of chronic renal failure, he married Adele Ann Wilby in London, UK, in 1978. Adele, an Australian citizen and a nurse by professional training, became a prominent member of the women’s wing of the LTTE.

In the past, Adele herself has been involved in the peace talks, as the secretary of the LTTE delegation. In April 2002, Anton Balasingaham appeared alongside LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in a rare press conference in the LTTE held town of Kilinochchi in Sri Lanka.

From the Thimphu talks in 1985 to the first round of the Geneva talks held on February 22–23, 2006 Balasingham was the head of the LTTE delegation in all the peace negotiations with the government of Sri Lanka.[1] However, he could not participate in an October round because of ill health, and in November 2006, Balasingham was diagnosed with cancer. He suffered from diabetes, Motor Neurone Disease, a degenerative disease of the nervous system, and possibly medicine-induced bile duct cancer. 

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