y separately published work icon Tamil Tigress : My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 Tamil Tigress : My Story as a Child Soldier in Sri Lanka's Bloody Civil War
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In 1987, 17-year old Niromi de Soyza shocked her middle-class Sri Lankan family by joining the Tamil Tigers. Equipped with a rifle and cyanide capsule she was one of the rebels' first female soldiers. Now married and living in suburban Sydney, this is her story of her time as a guerrilla.

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    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2011 .
      Extent: 308 p., [4] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 9781742375182 (pbk.)
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