Английская Википедия:Ananthi Sasitharan
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:About Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Ananthi Sasitharan (Шаблон:Lang-ta; born 10 September 1971 ) is a Sri Lankan Tamil activist, politician and provincial minister. She is the wife of Velayutham Sasitharan (alias Elilan), the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's political head for Trincomalee.[1][2]
Early life and family
Ananthi was born on 10 September 1971.[3][4] Her parents were from Kankesanthurai and Chulipuram in northern Ceylon.[3][4] Ananthi's sister Vasanthi was a member of the Eelam People's Revolutionary Liberation Front and was killed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 1989.[3][4] Her younger brother went missing whilst fighting for the LTTE.[3][4]
Ananthi was educated at Victoria College, Chulipuram.[3][4] Whilst at school she met Velayutham Sasitharan (alias Elilan) who was active in the political wing of the rebel LTTE.[3][4] Ananthi fell in love with Elilan but Elilan told her to concentrate on her studies.[3][4]
Life with the LTTE
After school Ananthi studied accountancy but gave this up in 1992 after getting a job at the Jaffna District Secretariat.[3][4] She worked for Valikamam West Divisional Secretariat between 1993 and 1996.[3][4] After the Sri Lankan military re-captured the Valikamam region in 1996 Elilan and the LTTE re-located to the Vanni.[4] Ananthi followed them and worked as a clerk for the Mullaitivu District Secretariat between 1997 and 2003.[3][4] She worked as a management assistant at Kilinochchi District Secretariat from 2003 to 2013.[3]
Ananthi and Elilan were eventually married, on 6 June 1998 at Mulliyawalai.[3][4] Elilan rose up the ranks with the LTTE and was appointed political head for Vavuniya District.[3] After the 2002 Norwegian mediated peace he was appointed political head for Trincomalee District.[3] After the Sri Lankan military re-captured the Eastern Province Elilan re-located to the Vanni and worked at the Kilinochchi District Secretariat alongside his wife.[3]
The Sasitharan family were amongst 300,000+ people from the Vanni who fled as the Sri Lankan military advanced in late 2008/early 2009.[3] According to Ananthi the family, along with senior LTTE leaders, surrendered to the Sri Lankan military on 18 May 2009 at Vattavaagal.[3][5] Elilan disappeared after surrendering to the Sri Lankan military.[6][5]
Ananthi and her three daughters ended up in the IDP camps before she resumed her work as an Management Assistant in the Samurdhi Department of the Kilinochchi District Secretariat.[3] Her children were sent to live with her family in Chulipuram.[3]
Activist life
Ananthi, who believes that her husband Elilan is in the custody of the Sri Lankan government, has been campaigning to find him and get him released.[7][8] She has also campaigned on behalf of families of others who disappeared during the civil war and war widows.[9][10] She has met with United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and United States Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp during their visits to Sri Lanka.[10][11]
Ananthi contested the 2013 provincial council election as one of the Tamil National Alliance's candidates in Jaffna District and was elected to the Northern Provincial Council.[12][13] During the election campaign she was the target of several attacks. On 20 September 2013 a vehicle carrying Ananthi was attacked by men on a motorbike near Chunnakam.[14][15] On 20 September 2013 a group of around 70 armed men in military uniform attacked Sasitharan's home in Chulipuram, injuring some of her supporters and an election monitor.[16][17][18] On 21 September 2013, the day of the election, a fake edition of the pro-TNA newspaper Uthayan appeared, falsely claiming that Ananthi had defected to the governing United People's Freedom Alliance.[19][20][21] This false story was repeated in pro-UPFA Dan TV and Asian Tribune website.[19][22]
After the election Ananthi was appointed to assist the Chief Minister on the rehabilitation of war victims.[23] She took her oath as provincial councillor in front of Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran at Veerasingam Hall on 11 October 2013.[24][25]
After being elected Ananthi has taken her campaign abroad to Denmark, Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the USA.[4] In January 2014 the nationalist Island newspaper reported that the Sri Lankan military was considering sending Ananthi for "rehabilitation", a move that Ananthi has stated she would defy.[26][27][28]
Ananthi was sworn in as Minister of Women's Affairs, Rehabilitation, Social Services, Co-operatives, Food Supply and Distribution, Industries and Enterprise Promotion in front of Governor Reginald Cooray on 29 June 2017.[29][30][31] She was given the additional portfolio of Trade and Commerce on 23 August 2017.[32]
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