A Counterfeit Guerrilla: A tale of Lies by SoCalled Tamil Tigress Niromi de Soyza

The objective of this research note is not only to uncover the truth or otherwise of the “memoir” by Niromi de Soyza (nom de guerre) titled Tamil Tigress: My story as a child soldier in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, but to go beyond and investigate the purpose/s of publication of her “personal story” and reason/s for hiding her real name and identity.

This research note is based on the reading of the book under scrutiny in its entirety, promotional blurbs and reviews of the book by journalists in Australia, critical reviews of the book by two persons of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia, listening to the author of Tamil Tigress at a literary festival, and discussions with few people among the Tamil diaspora in Melbourne and Sydney. In addition, I sought an interview with Niromi de Soyza, in order to afford her an opportunity to respond to my doubts, which she tried to postpone for two months (but did not refuse to meet) for reasons best known to her. In spite of her instant granting of interviews to media personnel (both print and electronic) in Australia and participation in almost all the literary/book festivals held around Australia since the release of her book in mid-2011, her evasiveness to meet a researcher from her place of origin compounded my suspicion about the author of the book.

I first came to know about this book when one of my Sri Lankan diaspora acquaintances living in Australia forwarded me a web link to the Booktopia Blog about this book on 02nd July 2011. For this Professor of Medical Sciences at the Monash University in Melbourne the book was “Mind boggling. A must buy.” The same Professor forwarded me an interview of the author to the Good Weekend magazine (Sydney Morning Herald) by Nikki Barrowclough on 09th July 2011. My only question at that time was, why is this self-proclaimed Tigress using a nom de guerre in lieu of her real name two years after the decisive end of the civil war in Sri Lanka?

Since I was travelling to Melbourne in late August 2011 in order to commence my Endeavour Research Fellowship at the Monash University, I deferred my curiosity about the book by the self-proclaimed Tigress. In any case the book was not available in Sri Lanka at that time (perhaps even now). After I arrived in Melbourne I have come across two critical reviews of the book that have questioned the authenticity of the self-proclaimed Tigress. One is by Arun Ambalavanar (2011) who lives in Sydney but originally from Karavetty, Northern Sri Lanka. The second is by Michael Roberts (2011) who was an Adjunct Associate Professor of Historical Anthropology at the University of Adelaide (who still lives there) hailing from Galle, Southern Sri Lanka. These two critical reviews of the book rekindled my own curiosity about the book, yet I did not read their criticisms fully immediately.

Then, a lecturer at the Monash College invited me to the World Matters 2011 (an annual literary festival) held at Montsalvat in Eltham (outskirts of Melbourne) on 14th, 15th & 16th October 2011.[ii] On the last day of this literary festival, Niromi de Soyza was to participate as a panellist in the ‘Missing Peace’ spotlight on Sri Lanka chaired by David Feith (lecturer at the Monash College). I did attend the panel discussion on Sri Lanka and saw the face of the author of Tamil Tigress. Beyond her face, a lot of what she said and the customary tears she shed (real or contrived) raised more questions than the answers I was looking for. Her tears have become customary because she has done it with Nikki Barrowclough (2011) earlier. What astounded me most was what she claimed her “alma mater” is. Then onwards my intense curiosity turned into profound suspicion.

Niromi announced in Melbourne that part of the proceeds of the sale of her “personal story” will be donated to a charity in the name of her “alma mater” and she gave an email address with the username sjc87. When I searched the web for sjc87 I came across the following website http://www.sjc87scholarship.org/. SJC is the acronym of St. John’s College (Jaffna) which is a boys-only school and therefore cannot be an alma mater of Niromi de Soyza, who is a woman.

In the list of “Working Committee” members of the ‘St. John’s College Batch of 1987 Trust’ or the ‘SJC 87 Initiative: Every Child deserves an Education’, the two names given in Sri Lanka have only mobile phone numbers, which is dubious to say the least. In fact, all the contact details of members of the working committee mentioned on the website are mobile phone numbers and email addresses only, which arouse suspicion; there are no postal addresses (even P.O. Box addresses) or land phone lines in any country of their presence. The working committee members are spread across the world: 3 in Australia, 1 in Canada, 1 in New Zealand, 2 each in Sri Lanka, UK and USA.[iii] One past pupil of St. John’s College Jaffna living in Australia (who is active in the old boys’ association based in Australia) could not identify any of the three working committee members of SJC 87 Initiative living in Australia and New Zealand.

However, the SJC Initiative website does mention a Registration number INC9892583 and Charity fund raising approval number CFN/21586.[iv] But, it is highly unlikely that this purported charity is providing scholarships to children of the schools in Kilinochchi district mentioned on the website.[v] Further, the pictures of classrooms in the beneficiary schools on the website could not have been taken in the past two years.

Moreover, the presenter in the promotional video of the SJC 87 Initiative outlining its activities and soliciting donations is a native Australian woman. This indicates that the primary target of this promotional video is the native Australian general public and not the Sri Lankan diaspora in Australia (who are by this time well versed with such scams by the LTTE lobbies). Ironically, while the entire working committee members are men of Sri Lankan Tamil origin the presenter is an Australian woman.

It is typical of the overseas domiciled LTTE to use host country personnel to advance their cause in whatever form it may take. Prominent members of the LTTE in many countries were/are married to host country women/men; for example, the wife of Anton Balasingam (the former “ideologue”, “theoretician” or simply “political adviser” of the LTTE) is Adele Balasingam originally from Victoria (Australia) and was living in the UK until her husband’s death in December 2006 whose current whereabouts are unknown; the wife of Chandru Pararajasingam [the head of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organisation (TRO) office in Colombo during the ceasefire time (2002-2005) - TRO was the humanitarian arm of the LTTE] is an Australian named Margaret Pararajasingam. There are four doctors in the working committee of the SJC 87 Initiative; one each in Australia and New Zealand and two in America. I am not sure whether these are medical practitioners or doctorates or just quacks like Anton Balasingam.

The SJC 87 Initiative is probably a scam. The website of SJC 87 Initiative seems to have come online in August 2011 immediately after the release of Niromi de Soyza’s autobiographical book in July 2011. There may be an organic link between Niromi’s book and the SJC 87 Initiative. This book could have been purposefully written for fundraising to the SJC 87 Initiative AND more. Niromi asserted in Melbourne that she is not in touch with either the Tamil diaspora or the Sinhala diaspora in Australia. If that was the case, how could she be funding the SJC Initiative from the sales of her book? Certainly she is not telling the truth.

Niromi showed (in Melbourne) a picture of what she claimed the “gravestone of Ajanthi” at “Kopay/Urumpiraay” and talked about the desecration of that LTTE cemetery by the Sri Lanka Army for building the new army headquarters (Jaffna) on the same premises in early 2011.[vi] In fact, Kopai (Valikamam East) and Urumpirai (Valikamam South) are not one and the same place but are far apart. The place she was referring to in Kopai was not a cemetery in the first place and therefore there is no issue of desecration of the cemetery.

During the time of ceasefire (in 2003) two large “maaveerar thuyilum illam” (great warriors’ sleeping place) were constructed by the LTTE; one in Kopai and the other in Kodikamam in the Jaffna peninsula, as monuments for propaganda purposes (the huge maaveerar thuyilum illam in Kilinochchi was also a propaganda monument and not a real cemetery). One of the compilers of the very first list of maaveerars (great warriors) circa 1990 confirmed to this author early this year that there was no human body ever buried or cremated in any of the aforementioned so-called cemeteries. All the aforementioned maaveerar thuyilum illams were built on crown/state-owned lands.[vii] In fact, the Kopai LTTE cemetery was built on a land belonging to the Department of Prisons earmarked for building a new and bigger prison for Jaffna, which is housed in an old depleted building within the City. However, some other maaveerar thuyilum illams did have bodies of fallen Tigers, either cremated or buried; e.g. Vaharai in the Batticaloa district and Sakkottai in Point Pedro. Secondly, there was no evidence to confirm that the picture of the gravestone shown by Niromi was that of “Ajanthi”; it could have been anyone’s.

Niromi claims in her book that she has an Undergraduate Degree in Biotechnology and a Master’s Degree in Law (de Soyza 2011: 299). Besides, at the literary event (in Melbourne) the chair said that she holds a Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Rights Law. Taking these claims as truth, is it not ironical for an intellectual property right law graduate to be an admirer of Julian Assange (Purcell 2011), founder of WikiLeaks (who is a proprietary rights abuser)? Furthermore, if Niromi is really an admirer of Julian Assange (who is opposed to confidentiality and privacy), how come she conceal her own name and true identity? Moreover, how could Niromi protest against the alleged rapes by the Sri Lankan Army and the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) personnel, at the same time being an admirer of an alleged rapist? Is this not duplicitous?

Ironically, Niromi de Soyza has not mentioned (even once) the name of Adele Balasingam in the book, who was the founder of the ‘Freedom Birds’ (the women’s wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 1985) and its military wing. (See Schalk 1994) This profound omission by Niromi could be to protect Adele Balasingam (Australian/British dual national) from potential criminal prosecution on charges of ‘crimes against humanity’ for recruiting underage girls from schools in Jaffna and the Vanni in Northern Sri Lanka for combat (self-confession in her own writings and in interviews given to international media and scholars). This author has testimonies from such affected girls who are still alive. The non-reference to Adele Balasingam could also be a deliberate snub because Anton and Adele Balasingam became persona non grata to the LTTE since about late-2006 after the former acknowledged the responsibility of the LTTE in the murder of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi during the course of an interview to Indian television channel.

On balance of probability, Niromi de Soyza’s Tamil Tigress is largely a fiction based on The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara (Niromi’s teenage idol) and few books and articles on the LTTE by M.R. Narayan Swamy, et al. The writing style appears to be cloned from Guevara (1995) and most of the information on LTTE in Niromi’s “personal story” skimmed from many books and articles on the LTTE, e.g. Swamy (1994). However, she may have had some rudimentary connection to the LTTE; like being a member of the Students Organisation of the Liberation Tigers (SOLT). Due to brevity of space, I just give the following two examples to confirm my assertion:

Example 1

“…….A self-trained man, he (Prabhakaran) wanted us to develop exceptional patience and mental strength which he claimed to have achieved as a young boy by staying inside a sack in the sun all day (no ordinary achievement, considering Jaffna’s heat), by inserting needles under his fingernails and by torturing insects. He knew he was one day going to fight the Sinhala regime, he said…… ” (de Soyza 2011: 121)

Note the striking similarity between the foregoing and the following sentences.

“…….., Prabhakaran began preparing for the battles that he perceived lay ahead. He would tie himself up, get into a sack and lie under the sun the whole day. He would also go and spread himself on chilli bags. He even inserted pins into his nails. At other times, he would catch insects and prick them to death with needles to gain the mental preparation to torture the “enemy””” (Swamy 1994: 52).

Example 2

Niromi claims to be an eyewitness to the point-blank shooting to death of Shanthan (an LTTE cadre) for falling in love with a female cadre Nora by Mahathaya in early 1988 (then deputy to Prabhakaran). (See de Soyza 2011: 276-79) I believe this purported murder was skimmed from an article by Jan Goodwin in which she mentions about Prabhakaran murdering two of his close aides for having sex. (See Goodwin 2008: 4-5) Niromi has replaced Prabhakaran with Mahathaya in order to vilify the latter and justify the former (who is revered by Niromi) as the pro-Tiger lobbies overseas have been doing for the past twenty years.

I am largely in agreement with the questions of authenticity raised by Ambalavanar (2011) and Roberts (2011) and factual inaccuracies pointed-out therein (though some of it could be trivial or even acceptable to Sarvan 2011). According to Niromi, in The Telegraph (London) article, her mother was a teacher (de Soyza 2009: 3), but according to the memoir her mother worked for the Dept of Telecommunications (de Soyza 2011: 94). This double act is certainly not excusable. There are numerous other contradictions, inaccuracies, lies, and misrepresentations which I have not pointed out here due to brevity of space. Nonetheless, Niromi de Soyza should be commended for revealing the class, caste, gender and other social strictures of the Jaffna society; despite some of them are exaggerations.

I could empathise with the rank and file of the Tamil Tigers. I have undertaken a survey of over one-hundred former guerrillas for an INGO in late-2010. I have been helping former guerrillas find jobs in the private sector. But I cannot empathise with dupers, imposters, and scammers masquerading as noble warriors. My suspicion is that there is a group/s of people behind Niromi’s “personal story” book, which is at least partly a fundraising scam.

To me, in difference to Ambalavanar (2011) and Roberts (2011), there is a more serious attempt at deception perpetrated by Niromi de Soyza and the people behind her book including the purported charity she is funding through the sales of her book. It is the responsibility of the appropriate authorities in Australia (and beyond) to get to the bottom of this apparently well-conceived and well-concealed scam. At a time when Sri Lanka is reeling under a low-intensity authoritarian regime of the Rajapaksa family (Lions), the last thing Sri Lankans want is ghost or pseudo Tigers.

Muttukrishna Sarvananthan (Ph.D. Wales M.Sc. Bristol M.Sc. Salford B.A. Honours Delhi) is the Principal Researcher of the Point Pedro Institute of Development, Point Pedro, Northern Sri Lanka (http://pointpedro.org) and an Endeavour Research Fellow at the Global Terrorism Research Centre (GTReC), Monash University, Melbourne, Australia from Sept 2011 to Feb 2012. He can be contacted at muttukrishna.sarvananthan@monash.edu

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See http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/06/27/niromi-de-soyza-author-tamil-tigress-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/

[ii] See http://worldmatters.weebly.com/

[iii] See http://www.sjc87scholarship.org/Working_commitee.html

[iv] See http://www.sjc87scholarship.org/Welcome.html

[v] ibid

[vi] See GroundViews, Desecration of graves in Jaffna: Path to reconciliation? March 08, 2011. http://groundviews.org/2011/03/08/the-desecration-graves-in-jaffna-path-of-reconciliation/

[vii] Read my comment in ibid.

REFERENCES

Ambalavanar, Arun, (2011), “The Farce of a Fake Tigress”, Sri Lanka Guardian, August 15.

http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2011/08/farce-of-fake-tigress.html

Barrowclough, Nikki, (2011), “Tigress, interrupted”, Good Weekend magazine (Sydney Morning Herald), July 09, pp26.

de Soyza, Niromi, (2011), Tamil Tigress: My story as a child soldier in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

de Soyza, Niromi, (2009), “Life as a female Tamil Tiger guerrilla relived by one of first female soldiers”, The Telegraph, May 08. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/srilanka/5283438/Life-as-a-female-Tamil-Tiger-guerilla-relived-by-one-of-first-female-soldiers.html

Goodwin, Jan, (2008), “When the Suicide Bomber Is a Woman”, Marie Claire, January 16. http://www.marieclaire.com/world-reports/news/female-suicide-bomber?click=main_sr

Guevara, Ernesto Che, (1995), The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America, London: Verso.

Purcell, John, (2011), “Niromi de Soyza, the author of Tamil Tigress, answers Ten Terrifying Questions”, June 27. http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/06/27/niromi-de-soyza-author-tamil-tigress-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/

Roberts, Michael, (2011), “Forbidden Fruits: Niromi de Soyza’s “Tamil Tigress”, Norma Kouri and Helen Demidenko?” Groundviews, August 31. http://groundviews.org/2011/08/31/forbidden-fruits-niromi-de-soyzas-tamil-tigress-noumi-kouri-and-helen-demidenko/

Sarvan, Charles Ponnuthurai, (2011), “Writing and truth: The instance of Niromi de Soyza’a Tamil Tigress”, The Sunday Times (Plus), September 25. http://sundaytimes.lk/110925/Plus/plus_07.html

Schalk, Peter, (1994), “Women Fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ilam: The Martial Feminism of Atel Palacinkam”, South Asia Research, Vol.14. No.2, autumn, pp163-183.

Swamy, Narayan M.R., (1994), Tigers of Lanka: From Boys to Guerrillas, Delhi: Konark Publishers PVT Ltd.

Windsor, Gerard, (2011), “Tamil Tigress: Life of a child veteran fighting persecution in a protracted civil war”, Sydney Morning Herald, September 03. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/tamil-tigress-20110901-1jmmv.html

ps... i dont think Yarl members don't have capacity to digest and poo this kind of treads..

பனங்காய் இந்த முத்துக்கிரிசுனா என்னும் சிறிலங்கா அரச ஏவலாலனின் கட்டுரைக்கு யாழ்க் களத்தில் ஏற்கனவே பதில் வழங்க்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

Separating Fact from Fantasy on the ‘Research Note’ by ‘the Principal Researcher’ Mr. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan

A Response by the SJC87 Working committee to Mr. M. Sarvananthan’s ‘research note,’ titled Outing a Counterfeit Guerrilla: A tale of lies by Tamil Tigress by Niromi de Soyza published on Groundviews (19 Nov, 2011) and Sunday Leader (20 Nov 2011).

Mr. Sarvananthan’s so called ‘research note’ has seriously undermined the reputation of the SJC87 initiative and its ability to function as a non-political, non-profit charity organization purely involved in humanitarian efforts. His baseless accusations have compelled us to bring to the attention of your readers and the public the facts about the SJC87 initiative and defend the name and work of our organization against this defamation. History of the SJC87 Scholarship Initiative: In the early 1990s several like minded old boys of Jaffna St. John's College class of 1987 (SJC87) who were scattered across the world came together to form the SJC87 to help their alma mater. The colossal impact of the Tsunami in 2004 influenced the SJC87 to move beyond merely helping its alma mater to also assist those in their community who were affected by the great tragedy. The final stages of the military conflict in Sri Lanka made SJC87 realize the challenges that had to be met to assist especially children who had lost one or both parents and other family members during the conflict. In June 2009 SJC87 started the scholarship initiative (SJC87 Initiative) to help children who were victims of the three decades long civil war. We are registered to function as an organization involved in charitable activities in Australia and Sri Lanka.

The initiative is run mostly by Sri Lankans but a few non-Sri Lankans periodically volunteer their time. The SJC87 Initiative is a non-political, non-profit charity organization that believes in empowering children through education. The donors of the initiative are mainly Sri Lankans who directly or indirectly experienced the effects of the civil war in their country and A few non-Sri Lankans who are passionate about helping children affected by the civil war. Niromi de Soyza is one of the donors of the initiative.

The SJC87 Initiative promotes holistic educational development of children and youth through the following programs: Education/Accommodation sponsorship of children who lost one or both parents during the civil war; vocational training for youth with incomplete formal education; English language training for teachers and students; Information and Computer Technology program; Art Therapy (Art of Hope) and Playwright Award Program; Infrastructure Development in schools; and Betterment Programs, which includes motivational sessions, agricultural and nutritious meals programs, procurement of sports/educational equipment, excursions for school children and exam preparation workshops. In the last two years hundreds of children have been helped by these programs. Over 150 children have been awarded education/accommodation sponsorship.

Mr. Sarvananthan disregarded all this. Indeed, the abysmal quality of “research” by the author is illustrated by the several errors in his “note” and the numerous false conclusions drawn, which are discussed below:

The crucial link between the subject of Mr. Sarvananthan’s article and the SJC87 Initiative is what he heard Niromi “claimed her alma mater is” and this had provoked his “intense curiosity” and “profound suspicion”. And he goes on to make one of the true statements which are only few in the entire article that “SJC is the acronym of St. John’s College (Jaffna) which is a boys-only school and therefore cannot be an alma mater of Niromi de Soyza, who is a woman.” But this doesn’t make his point right because of what he claims to have heard Niromi say about her school is totally incorrect. The author is either intentionally misquoting Niromi or he misheard what she said. Friends of SJC87 Initiative who also attended the event heard Niromi say that she would be donating part of the proceeds of her books sale through her alma mater and a charity called SJC87 Initiative. The author who claims to have read the book by Niromi in “its entirety under scrutiny” should know that in her book Niromi claims she attended two different girls-only schools in Jaffna; although, without revealing the names of the schools. Common sense should guide us here as to why a highly acclaimed author whose book is on the list of ‘50 books you can’t put down’ in the Australian Government’s “Get Reading!” 2011 campaign, would lie and contradict her memoir at a literary festival event celebrating the book’s success. But the supposedly erudite Mr. Sarvananthan is lead to mere speculations and fantasies and he starts off defaming SJC87 Initiative without any grounds.

The author, without any evidence whatsoever, claims that “it is highly unlikely that this purported charity is providing scholarships to children of the schools in Kilinochchi district mentioned on the website” and “the pictures of classrooms in the beneficiary schools on the website could not have been taken in the past two years.” These are mere speculations. By writing a “research note” during his short stint in Australia without trying to find facts or contacting the schools in Sri Lanka, the author is obviously making false statements. The author claims to be the Principal Researcher at Point Pedro Institute of Development, Point Pedro, Sri Lanka. But he apparently failed to even contact the renowned Hartley College in Point Pedro, which is one of the partner schools of SJC87 programs. All the photographs published on our website were taken by SJC87 local staff and other volunteers and donors who visit Sri Lanka on a regular basis to evaluate the progress of our initiatives, and they were taken during the last two years. Also, SJC87 newsletters are available online to be downloaded and they evidence photographs taken with members of the SJC87 working committee, school principals and staff [1]. The author either failed to research these documents online or he simply could not recognize the names and faces of prominent school principals in Jaffna district, including the one from Point Pedro! The author claims that the working committee members have used mobile numbers and email addresses and that this has raised his suspicion. This is factually incorrect because there are both landlines phone numbers and mobile phone numbers [2]. The author obviously lacks the knowledge to recognize the difference, given that there is hardly any distinction anymore in North America between mobile phone numbers and landline phone numbers. In this day and age people on the go prefer to use mobile phone numbers both in Sri Lanka and around the world. It is stunning to realize that the Principal Researcher of the Point Pedro Institute of Development

with a supposed Ph.D. from Wales was not aware enough to send an email inquiry or a phone call to at least one of the eleven working committee members listed.

The author claims that “an active member of the St. John’s College (SJC) Old Boys Association (OBA) could not recognize any of the three working committee members living in Australia and New Zealand.” The fact, however, is that the author could not identify this ‘active member of OBA’ when a friend of SJC87 Initiative contacted the author over phone (Nov.23rd ~8.30 A.M) inquire about this claim. The author also claims that not using a native Sri Lankan speaker to promote the charity suggests that the organization is targeting Australians and not the Sri Lankan Diaspora. He fails to understand that thousands of Sri Lankans now living overseas try their best to speak using native accents as part of their assimilation process and that for the second generation Sri Lankans living in foreign states their natural accent is the native accent!. Further, our charity invites donors and volunteers, regardless of their nationality or background. Our volunteers are from all parts of the world. The author fantasizes that the SJC87 Initiative website must have been created after July 2011, when Niromi released her book. In fact, the website was up and running from June 2009, following the end of the military conflict in Sri Lanka. A domain search online would reveal real facts and one of the comments posted by jaffnaboy [3] has done this proving the author’s inaptitude in doing research online--something as basic as a Google search, let alone a domain search, would have relieved. Furthermore, the author equates the SJC87 Initiative’s promotional efforts with LTTE fund raising methods simply because our promotional video is done by native Australian – This is a serious accusation that we do not take lightly. We reiterate that all funds go directly towards the education of war-affected children. These false accusations made by Mr M. Sarvananthan, put in jeopardy the future of these children who have already undergone immense hardship. This shows the author’s irresponsibility, and his eagerness and hypocrisy in promoting himself at the expense of innocent children and his own community in Sri Lanka. It is inexplicable as to why the author questions whether four of our working committee members do have doctoral qualifications. Is this due to his own insecurities based on his lack of qualifications to engage in decent research or his inability to comprehend that dozens of Sri Lankans who have settled abroad now have doctorates in all sorts of disciplines? From our assessment of this ‘research note’ we cannot help but conclude that it is nothing but a slanderous report written with dubious motives and malice. Further, the conclusions drawn by the author evidences neither journalistic merit nor academic rigor. He may have, for whatever reason, sought to ruin our charity organization’s reputation and compromised the safety of our members and put the future of the war-affected children in trouble. We insist that the editors of the Sunday Leader to refrain from publishing unfounded defamatory writings as exposé. We want to thank our well-wishers and donors for their support and know that the SJC87 Initiative will continue its charity work to help the children affected by the war.

We also want the readers to know that we are currently receiving legal advice to seek reparation for the baseless smear attack on our humanitarian work by Mr. Muttukrishna Sarvananthan.

Websites Cited

1. "SJC87 Initiative News Letter." SJC87 Initiative. Version June 2010., <www.sjc87scholarship.org/Download_files/newsletter_June_2010.pdf>.

2. "Working commitee." SJC87 Initiative. <http://www.sjc87scholarship.org/Working_commitee.html>.

3. "Outing a Counterfeit Guerrilla: A tale of lies by Tamil Tigress Niromi de Soyza - Groundviews." <http://groundviews.org/2011/11/19/outing-a-counterfeit-guerrilla-a-tale-of-lies-by-tamil-tigress-niromi-de-soyza/#_edn5

>>... I am not sure whether these are medical practitioners or doctorates or just quacks like Anton Balasingam.

By: Muttukrishna Sarvananthan (Ph.D. Wales M.Sc. Bristol M.Sc. Salford B.A. Honours Delhi) -!!

He is using the same scale he is using to measure himself.