| by Judy
Mariampillai
( September 20, 2012, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian) The title of the book
starts with the title “Tamil Tigress: my
story as a child soldier in Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war by Niromi de Soyza “
which was initially published by the Australian publisher Allen and Unwin in
2011.This book sounds quite intriguing as it is difficult to find an
insider’s account .After reading the Tamil Tigress book and the questions
raised by the leading critics who are historians and scholars, I thought it is
worth to unfold the truth about the book and the author niromi De
Soyza. I am not an activist . I am a just reader who is interested
in Sri Lankan affairs and related to Ajanthi ( we called her Nirmala) who was the centre piece of the book.
Here are some of the challenges raised by the scholars and historians and
Niromi de Soyza yet to answer the questions. Many journalist wanted to have a
face to face meeting or phone interview. De Soyza refused to answer those
questions.
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a. False
claim by Niromi de Soyza as a Child solider
The book title started
with a story of the child soldier. In fact the author Niromi De Soyza was
not a child soldier when she joined LTTE. Niromi acknowledged that her year of
birth was 1969 in many interviews. In page 103 she claims her birthday is in mid
June. Therefore " two days before Christmas in 1987" she was 18.
Niromi was no longer a child (Under 18). It is part of the deceptive marketing.
b.
Artificial image to portrayed the Author Niromi de Soyza
From the launch of the
first edition, Niromi has been portraying her artificial image .The
following facebook link showed the actual and artificial
image. (reference
1)
c. Making
up false stories to suite the audience .
During the launch of the
first edition of the book in July 2011, Niromi de Soyza spoke against the
Sri Lankan Government to get the support from the Sri Lankan Tamils
Diaspora in Australia .Her attempts were miserably failed as the majority
Tamils immigrated to Australia were under skilled migrants category and they
easily discerned Niromi De Soyza’s deceptive methods.
Niromi de soyza mentioned
during the interview with Allen &Unwin , the publisher of the
Tamil Tigress book that she was proud for not associating with the Sri Lankan
community . However Niromi de soyza failed to realise that
she landed as a student in the Australian soil and claimed refugee
status and completed her bachelors and Masters degree program under Australian taxpayer’s
money.
In the recent publisher's
trade exhibition in Byran bay, Niromi de Soyza demonstrated the cyanide
capsule [common practice by LTTE suicide cadres to avoid getting into Sri
Lankan army’s hand] using her hand with condom cover. After
realising her support for the illegal boat people is not welcome by the
Australian community , Niromi de Soyza is currently wearing a new cloak
called “ Motivational speaker ” . Author de Soyza often uses her
crocodile tears to get the full attention of the audience in most of
her public meeting.
During the recent
interview with ABC about the indefinite detention, Niromi De Soyza was
promoting her own book.
Niromi de soyza’s
first public forum was on the 19 July 2011 in AIIA NSW. The program
forensically investigates allegations that up to 40,000 Tamil civilians were
killed as Sri Lankan Government forces moved in to destroy the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE) . I attended the forum.
I also attended her public
appearance in Melbourne along with two leading Sri Lankan academics and
journalist . Sri Lankan journalist publicly challenged her about her untruthful
and contradicting statements in the book Tamil Tigress and during the
radio interview . Author of Tamil tigress book was unable to answer those
allegations against her.
Niromi De Soyza
spoke about her compelling reason for her to write the book was to give
voice for boat people in Australia. Niromi de Soyza is becoming unpopular about
her compelling reason as Australian Government and opposition support the off
shore processing for the illegal migrant. After realising the threat to her own
popularity , Niromi de soyza removed the video clip explaining the
reason for writing a book. from her own website .
De Soyza is using the
religion to sell her book to the catholic community . She wrote her review in
the catholic magazine under the title of “In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza
shocked her middle-class Catholic Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers
“ .With that quota she spoke about the made up stories among the catholic
school children .
After failure of
convincing her own Tamil community in Australia, De Soyza wanted to get
into Sinhalese Australian migrant community . Melbourne is a place where most
of Sinhalese speaking people live in Australia. When she presented to the Sri
Lankan community, a couple of leading Sinhalese native speaking academics and a
well-known economist had confronted Niromi de soyza at a
public meeting in Melbourne .
De Soyza claimed that she
was with the LTTE group for only eight months . because of the ill treatment to
her boyfriend Roshan (lover) by the LTTE leaders and later Roshan was
murdered in India lead her to pour her hate feeling through
one chapter. She grew up in Jaffna with her father who worked in Middle east
country for the sake of money, Rejection of the society by the cast system lead
her to motivate her to write a book initially and later changed her thought to
make fortune out of portraying her close friend Ajanthi ( Nirmala) in her
book.
d.
Deceptive promotional methods are widely used by the Author Niromi de
soyza to sell her book Tamil Tigress
Deceptive
promotion of Tamil Tigress in North America
The review of the Tamil
Tigress book was written by Koom Kankesan a Canadian Tamil recently
exposed by the editor of the New Direction of Time .
Soon after the review was
published in the New Direction of Time in Canada , Many
readers who knew the truth commented to Koon’s review .But the reviews, which
challenged the author Niromi De Soyza, were removed by the request of Koom
Kankesan. Here is what Geoffrey says ” I’ve removed a certain comment at
the request of Mr. Kankesan. I’ve done this not because I am taking a side in
the matter. I know little about it. I like him so I’ve agreed to his request.
That’s all ” . I commended Geoffrey’s openness and truthfulness.
Untruthfulness of the
Tamil Tigress author Niromi de soyza and her book not only mislead authors like
Koom Kankesan and DBS Jeyaraj , but also lead the readers to
portrait a bad image about the DBS and Koom Kankesan.
You can view the comments
from the editor of The New direction of time under comments section http://thenewdirectionoftime.
Deceptive
promotion of Tamil Tigress in India
After the second edition ,
published in India ( changed the cover from Tamil girl with gun to Tamil girl
wearing sari ) Author Niromi de
Soyza wrote her own review and published in the Indian media under
the title of " LTTE tortured and killed while fighting Indians: Ex-cadre's
book
Deceptive
promotion of Tamil Tigress in Sri Lanka
Knowing
the danger of the having the last chapter “Afterwards”, Niromi de Soyza
removed the chapter “Afterwards” in the second edition .
e. Why
did Niromi De Soyza remove the last chapter from the first edition?
In the Last chapter
“Afterwards” , Niromi De Soyza openly criticised against the
government of Sri Lanka and calling for the international community ‘s
involvement in Sri Lankan affair . Compelling reason for her to remove the
chapter so that she can sell her book in the local bookstores in Sri
Lanka .
In the recent interview
which was published in the Island (19/09/2012) , De Soyza did not talk about her
favourite topics such as the human rights violation, Boat arrival and Asy
Niromi de Soyza is only
concern about promotion of her book. She will go to any extend to promote a
book.
Niromi De Soyza’s
classmates from Holy Family Convent , Jaffna , Sri Lanka started to question
her about the actual motive of writing the book other than making money by
portraying her close friend Ajanthi who was misled by Niromi de Soyza and later
joined with the LTTE and died during the fight with the Sri Lankan
army.
f. Niromi
de Soyza’s Compelling reasons have changed with the new opportunities to sell
the book
Compelling reason started
with voice for Sri Lankan boat people in Australia , now voice for peace and
harmony and charity . observers predicts her might change anytime in the
future to gain more popularity through the controversial stunt and hot topics
in the market.
A leading Sri Lankan
historian like Prof Michael Robert, Adelaide brought the untruthfulness and her
contracting statements during the Australian Radio interview to the day
light reference .
However Prof Robert was biased towards to the Government of Sri Lanka and for
that reason Tamil community did not take Prof Michael's article
into account.
After attending the public
forum in Melbourne, Australia organised by Dr.Sarvananthan ( an
Economist ) , Dr.Sarvananthan brought Niromi's fake identity to the
day light. again Dr.Sarvananthan was against the Tamil Diaspora because
of that reason Tamil people even did not take his criticism into
consideration.
Niromi De Soyza’s
class mates from the schools she studied ( Holy Family Convent and Chundikuli
Girls’ College) in Jaffna Sri Lanka started to question Niromi de Soyza
about the actual motive of writing the book other than making money by
portraying her close friend Ajanthi ( Nirmala) . They could not
find any other motive.
Author Niromi De Soyza
should answer to the allegation brought by critics. Her continuous silence
will lead to more unanswered questions.
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