Chelvy Thiyagarajah
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Thiagarajah Selvanithy or (Selvi) from Sri Lanka a International PEN award winner in 1992.
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[edit] Biography
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Selvi was born into a peasant family in Semamadu, a village about 80 miles south of Jaffna.
[edit] Activism
Selvi was a Tamil language poet from Jaffna in Sri Lanka. A third-year student in Theater and Drama Arts in the University of Jaffna.
She was the founder of a feminist journal called Tholi and was a gifted young poet who in her work deplored the carnage brought about by the conflict between minority Sri Lankan Tamils and majority Sinhalese. Selvi also produced two plays, one about dowry payments and the other about rape.
[edit] Abduction
Selvi was arrested by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam or LTTE a rebel group fighting for independence for minority Sri Lankan Tamil people in Sri lanka on August 30, 1991
The day before her abduction she was about to star in a play about the role of women in the Palestinian intifada. She was a prominent member of Poorani Illam, a women's center in Jaffna, which gives support to women traumatized by government bombing raids and bereavement.
[edit] Execution
In 1997, LTTE sources acknowledged that she was executed along with another dissident one Manoharan also a final year University student. Although their opposition to the LTTE was non-violent, they were both executed in the LTTE's prison camps.
[edit] See also
- Assassinations attributed to LTTE
- Human Rights in Sri Lanka
- Sri Lankan civil war
- State terrorism in Sri Lanka
