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Rajini Thiranagama is a Sri Lankan academic and human rights activist. She was born on 23 February 1954 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. She is the daughter of a Tamil lawyer and a Sinhalese mother. She was educated at the University of Jaffna and the University of Peradeniya, where she obtained a PhD in anthropology. Thiranagama was a lecturer at the University of Jaffna and a research fellow at the University of Sussex. She was a founding member of the Tamil Centre for Human Rights and a member of the International Commission of Jurists. She was also a member of the International Crisis Group. Thiranagama was an outspoken critic of the Sri Lankan government's human rights abuses and was assassinated by the Sri Lankan military in 1989. Her death sparked international outrage and condemnation. Thiranagama was married to Dr. Rajan Hoole, a fellow human rights activist. They had two children, a son and a daughter. Rajini Thiranagama was 66 years old at the time of her death.

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Occupation University lecturer
Age 35 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 23 February 1954
Birthday 23 February
Birthplace Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Date of death September 21, 1989
Died Place Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Nationality Sri Lanka

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2005

In a documentary released worldwide in 2005, No More Tears Sister, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, Rajani's life and her legacy are brought to life.

1989

A few weeks after the publication of book The Broken Palmyra, on 21 September 1989, she was shot dead at Thirunelvely, Jaffna in front of her house by a gunman while cycling back from work. University Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna and Rajani's sister accuse the LTTE of her murder, retaliating against her criticism of their violent tactics..

wrote Rajani in 1989, a few months before she was killed.

1983

Inspired by her elder sister Nirmala, then a member of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Rajani became involved with the LTTE, administering care to those wounded in action. In 1983, Rajani travelled to England under Commonwealth scholarship for postgraduate studies in anatomy at Liverpool Medical School. There she launched a major international campaign for the release of her sister who was imprisoned in 1982 under Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act. She also maintained her links with LTTE by joining its London Committee to educate human rights groups and other international organisations about the atrocities occurring in Sri Lanka. While continuing to write and publish scientific papers, she also became implicated in grassroots organisations fighting for women's rights and against the discrimination of Britain's black people and became involved in the international campaigns of other liberation groups.

1980

Having witnessed the evidence of human rights violations by the IPKF and LTTE, Rajani co-authored a book entitled The Broken Palmyra. The book documents the violence in Jaffna in the 1980s.

1978

1978 Rajani begins her first posting as an intern medical doctor at Jaffna Hospital. After the completion of the intern, in 1979 she travelled to Haldumulla, a small village situated near Haputale to work as a medical doctor. By 1980 she returned to Jaffna as a lecturer in anatomy in the newly formed Faculty of Medicine at the University of Jaffna. By this time, Jaffna was a battle zone in the early stages of Sri Lanka's civil war. Many were leaving Jaffna for Colombo or migrating to other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

1977

During her stay at Colombo University she met a politically active student leader from Kelaniya University named Dayapala Thiranagama. Dayapala was from a rural Sinhala Buddhist background. Rajani broke ethnic and religious barriers and married Dayapala in 1977. They had two daughters: Narmada, (1978), and Sharika, 1980. At present, Narmada lives in Britain and works for the public sector union UNISON. Sharika is currently living in California, married to the anthropologist Thomas Blom Hansen and is teaching at Stanford University. In 2005 Sharika portrayed her mother's role in the documentary film on Rajani called No More Tears Sister.

1973

Rajani was born in Jaffna, in northern Sri Lanka, to middle-class Tamil Christian parents. She was the second child of the four female children. She followed her primary and secondary school education in Jaffna and in 1973, she entered the University of Colombo to study medicine. At university, she became actively involved in student politics.

1954

Dr. Rajani Thiranagama (née Rajasingham) (23 February 1954 – 21 September 1989) was a Tamil human rights activist and feminist who was assassinated by Tamil Tigers cadres after she criticised them for their atrocities. At the time of her assassination she was the head of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Jaffna and an active member of University Teachers for Human Rights, Jaffna branch of which she is one of the founding members.