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தமிழ்ச்செல்வன் பற்றி தமிழ்வீக் ஜெயராஜ் ஒரு கட்டுரை எழுதியிருக்கிறார். எப்படி ஸ்ரீலங்கா அரசுச்செய்திகள் தமிழ்ச்செல்வனைச் சாதியடிப்படையிலே எழுதி நக்கல் செய்திருந்தன என்றும் சொல்லியிருக்கிறார். தமிழ்ச்செல்வனுக்குப் மெய்ப்பாதுகாவலராக ஒரு ஐயர்ப்போராளி இருந்தார் என்பதையும் சாதி அடிப்படையிலே ஜெயராஜ் எதற்கோ சொல்லியிருக்கிறார். புலிகள் சாதியை வளர்ப்பதாகச் சொல்லுகின்றவர்கள் இதைப் பற்றி என்ன சொல்வார்கள்?

“Brigadier” Thamilchelvan, The “Smiling” Face of LTTE
November 3rd, 2007
by D.B.S. Jeyaraj

The mood amidst cadres and supporters of the Tamil Eelam Liberation Tigers was on the ascendant after the successful attack on the Anuradhapura air base.

Thursday November 1st saw a special ceremony being held in the Wanni where tiger supremo Velupillai Prabakharan awarded four different types of military honours for those involved in various aspects of “Operation Ellalan”.

But this euphoria of victory over the Air force at Saliyapura was short lived. Within 24 hours of the award ceremony the Sri Lankan air force struck back.

The buoyant LTTE mood turned gloomy. The airforce down in the doldrums after the Anuradhapura debacle became chirpy again. Such are the fluctuating fortunes of this fratricidal fighting.

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The others killed along with Thamilchelvan in the Thiruvaiyaaru bombing were Muthukkumaru Soundarakrishnan alias Lt Col Anpumani , Dharmarajah Vijayakumar alias Major Mihuthan, Karunanidhi Vasanthakumar alias Capt. Kalaiyarasan, Panchatcharam Sajeeban alias Lt Aatchivel, and Muthukkumaarakkurukkal Srigayathrinatha Sarma alias Lt Maavaikumaran.

All of them were from villages in Jaffna district.Maavailkumaran is the son of a brahmin priest.

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In what seems a crude attempt to humiliate Thamilchelvan some government websites and state controlled media refer to Thamilchelvan being of the “ambattan” or barber caste and that he was a barber before joining the movement.

This reminds one of the “snide” methods used to ridicule Ranasinghe Premadasa on account of his caste.

Those who seek to demean a person on the basis of caste are only demeaning themselves. It also shows the “caste consciousness” in the corridors of power.

Yes, Thamilchelvan belonged to a traditional barber community regarded as “low” in the caste hierarchy of conservative Jaffna.His father ran a saloon in Chavakachcheri. But Thamilchelvan was a student when he joined the LTTE and did not work as a barber. There is no shame even if he did so but that did not happen.

Thamilchelvan’s growth and evolution within the LTTE was meteoric. It was also an illustration of how persons from the underprivileged sections of the Tamil community could rise to positions of authority within the LTTE .

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His wedding was one of the first in a new scheme introduced by the LTTE supremo. Prabakharan evolved a plan whereby women cadres of the LTTE were to be paired off with male cadres through suitable matchmaking. Since arranged marriages are a part of Tamil social practice this scheme was seen as mass scale arranged marriage.

Prabakharan himself selected the bride for Thamilchelvan from an upper caste family in a deliberate bid to erase caste inequalities and bring about an egalitarian society. Sasirekha’s family hailing from Chulipuram in Jaffna once owned a lot of businesses in Bambalapitiya and sold them after July 1983.
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Thamilchelvan had his primary education at the Madduvil Maha Vidyalayam and secondary schooling at Chavakachcheri Hindu College. His family was politically conscious and was for long active supporters of Shanmugadasan’s pro - Beijing Communist party.

His father and elder brothers participated in many activities against caste discrimination. They were in the forefront of the protest demanding that the famous Pandrithalaichi Amman temple in Madduvil be throw open for all to worship. This was done in 1970.

With the escalation of the ethnic conflict Thamilchelvan’s family like many other Tamil families shed their marxism and became increasingly Tamil nationalistic.
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