Captain Lakshi
Captain Lakshi
Muthulingam Thangarajani – Vembadi, Uduthurai, Thalayadi, Yarlpanam
Birth: 10.10.1973 – Maveeran: 05.08.1991
Event: Yarlpanam Vetrilakeni – Became maveeran in a surprise attack on the Aanayiravu Army Chain.
In the peaceful coastal village of Uduthurai, in 1973, Lakshi was born as the eldest child. In 1989, when the Indian Army occupied our homeland, she fully integrated herself into our movement.
The day she left home to go to the movement, while boarding a boat with some other young women from her village to go to the training camp, her father pulled the boat towards the shore in the raging sea. Lakshi grabbed the boat and got into the moving boat.
After the training was over, she often said, “… Before coming to the training, I thought about my father and even thought about going home. But I decided not to go back because I was coming to fight.”
When she was sent to the forest for the training camp, the training had already started there. She was able to train in the next camp. She did not stay idle until her training camp began. She walked long distances into the forest, bringing food supplies for the camp, and cutting wood to build kennels with great enthusiasm.
After completing her training and returning from the forest, she was assigned to guard duty outside Vadamaradchi Manthan area with a small group.
For the first time, during the destruction of the army camp at Kokka, where our women’s brigade played a major role, she led a small group of seven and served well in the attack.
After the battle at Kokka, when an attack was launched on the Yarlpanam fort camp, Lakshi fought as a group leader. The attack did not bring us success. After that, she was assigned to guard one of the fort’s guard posts. She would keep a close eye on the enemy’s movements from some high place and would keep aiming and firing whenever their heads were visible.
In recognition of her effective actions and leadership in the fort, after the army withdrew from the fort, she was appointed as the leader of a large group of 75 people in Palaly.
While guarding the Palaly army camp, she would take turns going to all the guard posts left in her charge, encouraging the fighters and strengthening the guard. She would often secretly approach the enemy posts and fire on them, keeping the soldiers in suspense at all times.
In this way, Laksi’s team moved and attacked the army in a building, when one day the soldiers came and buried remote-controlled mines. The next day called two fighters with her and went to the building. When she became suspicious and went carefully, a piece of electric wire caught her eye. She immediately cut the wire and took the buried mines and came to our fort. This is an example of her courageous actions.
Since Lakshi held important responsibilities in the Palaly forts, she did not get the opportunity to go to the Mangulam camp attack.
During the Silavathura battle, she was left to lead a guard team that was stationed at a distance.
She had been persistently requesting to be sent to the Aanayiravu battle. Her chance also came on 5. 8. 1991. A special attack was launched on the army at Pulla. She died a hero’s death in that attack.
Her group had to fight last. But while another group was waiting to enter the battle before hers, she announced through “Walkie Talkie” that her group had also entered the battle field, eager to fight.
While the training for the Aanayiravu battle was going on, Lakshi’s mother and father come to see her and begged her to leave the movement and come home.
“I came to fight. Only my lifeless body will come home. I will not come,” she told her mother and father. After that she did not talk to her parents. She returned to the camp.
However, she had a desire to go home once. We could not even give her lifeless body to her family, even though she said that if she returned alive after the Aanayiravu battle, she would go home once.
We will not be able to recover her body after she became maveeran in the Aanayiravu battle. Among the bodies of those who went, the body of our Captain Laksi was one of them.
Jayanthi
– In charge of the women’s battalion.
– Liberation Tigers Magazine
(Translation by Tamilpriya)
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