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HELLO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES,

THIS FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS BEING PROMOTED BY
MR.SHARMALAN THEVAR (Founder of FB Malaysian Mukkulathors)

THIS ARTICLE WILL PORTRAY VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL OF US.I THANK HEART FULLY TO MR.SHARMALAN THEVAR FOR PROVIDING ME SUCH A VALUABLE ARTICLE.

THIS ARTICLE IS SPLITTED IN 11 PARTS AND I'LL BE PUBLISHING EACH ARTICLE IN A TIME GAP OF A DAY OR TWO.

NAME OF THE ARTICLE: On Tamil Militarism

by D.P.Sivaram written in 1992

[prepared by Sachi Sri Kantha, for the electronic record]

Front Note by Sachi Sri Kantha

I have transcribed the original material of D. P. Sivaram, without altering the content’s length.  Only the obvious type-setting slips and related printer’s devils have been corrected.  Any idiosyncratic spelling in the names of persons and places in the text also has been revised to conventional patterns for ease in reading.  These alterations are minimal in number.  Phrases which appear in bold font in the text, are as in the original.  When clarity is needed, I have added words, numbers or initials within parenthesis marked by [ ] at appropriate locations.  Though somewhat unconventional and irregular, I have retained the original footnote patterns of the author and his citation style of references within parentheses, as it appeared in the Lanka Guardian in 1992.

The assembly of footnotes by Sivaram in the series provide indirect evidence that he wrote the eleven segments, as and when time permitted; thus the series had not been ‘completed’, when it began to appear in print.   In one of the footnotes for part 2 of the series, Sivaram noted that "I began this study in 1990."  The editorial annotation at the beginning of Part 1 stated the credentials of Sivaram as: "The writer, a well known journalist, is widely regarded as an authority on the rise of Tamil militancy."  For completeness and for showing how the author defended his views expressed in the text and also how he accomodated valid criticism, five critical comments by readers [M.Raja Jogananthan, Sachi Sri Kantha, R.B.Diulweva, C.R.A.Hoole and T.Vanniasingham] are also inserted in chronological sequence, as they had appeared in the Lanka Guardian.

NOTE : TOMORROW PART 1 WILL BE PUBLISHED. KEEP READING........