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Tamil Tigress : My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War, Paperback / softback Book

Tamil Tigress : My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War Paperback / softback

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How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers?

Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades.

With her was her lifelong friend Ajanthi, also aged seventeen.

Leaving behind them their shocked middle-class families, the teenagers had become part of the Tamil Tigers' first female contingent.

Equipped with little more than a rifle and a cyanide capsule each, Niromi's group managed to survive on their wits in the jungle, facing not only the perils of war but starvation, illness and growing internal tensions among the militant Tigers.

But then events erupted in ways that she could no longer bear.

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