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The author of this book, Adele Balasingham, is a sociologist, political activist and writer who has lived and worked in India and Sri Lanka for more than twenty years with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the freedom movement that spearheads the Tamil independence struggle. She has also published works on the dowry system amongst the Jaffna society and on the LTTE women fighters.

In this book, The Will to Freedom Adele Balasingham provides a penetrating internal study of the armed resistance struggle by the Tamil Tiger movement. Written in a semi-autobiographical, historical style, The Will to Freedom graphically surveys important events, episodes and turning points in the last two decades of the evolutionary history of the Tamil freedom struggle. This fascinating study also throws light on the hitherto unknown characteristics of the leadership of LTTE. Conveying the bloody imprints of those violent periods, the author reveals the depth of the suffering as well as the burning spirit of freedom of the Tamil people and the fighters. The book will be of interest to all those who want to study the inside story of the Tamil resistance movement.

ISBN 1-903679-01-X