Sri Lanka Massacred Tens of Thousands of Tamils While the World Looked Away

Isaipriya, the much-loved presenter and actress, reading the news on Tamil Tiger TV. Her death would shock the world.

Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the Tamil Tiger leader, held captive in a Sri Lankan government bunker. A few hours later he would be shot and killed.

by Callum Macrae-August 5, 2015

This article appears in the August Issue of VICE Magazine

To the Tamils of northeast Sri Lanka and to much of their global diaspora, Isaipriya was a star: a presenter and actress who came to symbolize the Tamil resistance.

She was beautiful, and she read the news on Tiger television and performed in romantic Tamil musicals, singing the praises of Tamil Tiger war heroes and the Black Tiger suicide bombers who raced their explosive-packed speedboats into the vulnerable sides of Sri Lankan Navy ships.

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