Major Tulasi – A full-fledged personality
Major Tulasi – A full-fledged personality
Complete details about this hero
Major Tulasi
Ramalingam Kugapalika
Kankesanthurai, Yarlpanam.
Veerapirappu: 30.01.1969
Veerasavu: 24.06.1997
A first-year student at Nadesvara College, Kankesanthurai, and later a G.C.E. (A/L) Science student at Vempady Girls’ College. The quiet Kugapalika who went with the LTTE surprised everyone. No one could have recognized the patriotism in this girl, who did not open her mouth much and did not make any noise.
The news spread that a sister of her close friend had joined the LTTE in 1989. Hearing the news, Kugapalika ran to her friend and said, “If you had told me, I would have joined too.” “She left without telling me.” Only when she was worried could her friend understand the fire of liberation inside her.
While studying at Natesarva College, if Kugapalika came first in one term exam, her friend would be second. If her friend came first in the next term, Kugapalika would be second. The gap between the two would be only one or two points. Just as the fact that she was a first-class competitor in studies was Kugapalika’s closest friend surprised everyone, the fact that she went to fight surprised many.
When she became a LTTE student, the Indian forces had slowly started withdrawing from our homeland. After completing her basic training at the 7th camp of the LTTE Women’s Brigade, she became Thulasi and then engaged in security work with our teams in exposed areas like Kapudhu Mandan.
In the latter part of 1990, she was included in the electronics training course of the LTTE Women’s Brigade. In that team, which had acquired the ability to work with electronics and telecommunications equipment, Thulasi’s knowledge and skills distinguished her from the others. Thulasi would teach her team in detail the things that the teachers who came from outside would teach and leave behind. She had played a comprehensive role in helping Ayyam Tripara learn. She clearly understood the procedures after the teachers taught them once, and after the teachers left, she made the team members repeat them again and again to impress them in their memory.
She continued his work with the team for a year, making audio receivers, repairing communication equipment, and making time control machines. When some selected from them were inducted into a special force at the end of 1991, Thulasi was one of them.
Thulasi, who was left in charge of the telecommunications section of the special forces, trained the brigade members on communication equipment and participated in their training. At the same time, she participated in karate training for the special forces and received a bronze medal.
In the year 1993, a team of new people was given to Thulasi and a computer section for special teams was created and placed under his charge. She was also involved in computer studies and taught her team. Since searching was in her nature, she would search for and read English books on computers, translate them into Tamil and give them to her team to read.
Every now and then, information about new discoveries is published in the What’s New section of the magazine ‘Popular Science’. She had translated them into Tamil and published them as a book titled ‘The Best of Modern Discoveries’.
Thulasi did not define this work as her own. During the days when her group was studying hard to pass the G.C.E. (G.E.) exams, Thulasi could be seen riding her bicycle, buying vegetables and meats for their cooking from the market, putting them in a backpack and attaching them to the bicycle rack.
Thulasi taught computers to some of our organization’s departments that had come to computerize their work, especially a team of female and male activists from the Tamileelam Finance Department.
The burden of being in charge of the Communications, Electronics and Computer Departments till the end of 1994 was very heavy. In view of the expansion of the units, in 1995, the communication and electronics section were separated and Thulasi continued to lead the computer section. Until then, there were two teams of women in the Special Forces, one team of men, two teams of the Special Forces for the Sea, students of the Naval Team of LTTE Military Academy, and students of the Tamileelam Military Academy.
The desire to go to the battlefield kept burning in Thulasi’s mind. Thulasi was one of those who were not invited to the air, sea, and land battle at Aanayiravu in 1991. Thulasi, who had lost the opportunity for a major battle, now had no control over her desire. Thulasi’s request was not denied and the commander in charge sent her to the front.
The LTTE’s women’s brigade, which was involved in the counter-operation Suriyakkathir 01, gave her a battlefield opportunity. Until the end of that operation, she was in charge of some of the guard groups and did the hard work of saving the lives of the wounded fighters in the field.
Although she grew up as a gentle sister to two sisters and a brother, she never shied away from hard work. The special forces are young. No one can run 10 kilometers at their speed. Thulasi, who comes to the running track at 4.30 in the morning, will run 10 kilometers at her own pace. After two or three days, her legs will swell. She will rest one day. She will run the next day. No one has ever told her to “run”. She has never stopped running. That is why she was able to do her duty with a smile on her face even during the harsh days of the Suryakkathir 01 battlefield.
Thulasi, who was present even when the LTTE Women’s Brigade transformed itself into the 2nd Lt. Malathi Brigade, was included in the brigade’s combat training instructors’ team as soon as our teams arrived in Thenmaradchi after the battle for Valikamam was over. After that, Thulasi had no rest. Suriyakkathir 2 Counter-Operation, “Oyatha Alakikal” 1, True Victory 1-2-3 Counter-Operations, Paranthan Aanayiravu Infiltration Attack are the operations she trained and fielded the teams. She would also go along with them.
The national leader, who had guessed that a massive force movement was being prepared by the Sri Lankan government to divide Vanni, prepared our teams for the counter-operation. When our teams did patrol in the Nedunkeni and Mangulam areas and familiarizing themselves with the places, Thulasi also walked along.
At that time, Lt. Col. Daksayini’s company left to strengthen the front lines in the Manalaru area. Thulasi, who had spent the most time in training so far, insisted on being attached to the attack team and took charge of one of the platoons of Daksayini’s company.
A dream come true for her. She never took off the extra bandana she wore on her chest, even while sleeping. Thulasi could be seen in Manalaru, always ready for battle, carrying a firearm and a communication device. More than once a day, she would tour the areas under her platoon’s surveillance and talk to her platoon members. She was a platoon leader who was loved by everyone because she would order others only after she had done everything. There would be no mistake in that platoon that Daksayini would come and correct.
While they were standing in Manalaru, the Sri Lankan forces had started moving from Nedunkeni and then from Vavuniya. Having established a base centered around Puliyankulam junction, our platoons had blocked the enemy’s movement.
The call came to Dakshini’s company, which was anxious to know when it would be called. Not to block the enemy’s advance. To infiltrate. The company was ready. She did not agree at all that I had now changed Thulasi, who was the platoon leader, to Dakshini’s situation informer. She preferred to be directly involved in the action on the field. Only after I explained the importance of a company manager serving as a situation informer, did she half-heartedly agree.
The Thandikulam infiltration attack had been planned by the national leader as a daring attack that the enemy could not even guess. Thulasi’s role in that successful attack cannot be forgotten.
Within a few days, the teams were ready for the next infiltration attack. Thulasi was also prepared as Dakshini’s situation informer. During the infiltration attack on Periyamadhu, I had told Dakshini to split the company into two and engage in combat if necessary. If the company were to split, Thulasi had immediately asked Dakshini to give her the task of leading the other team that would enter the field.
The teams set out. The Sri Lankan army camp in Periyamadhu was infiltrated and attacked. The teams returned carrying Thulasi, who had gone with the dream of leading the team in the field, on their shoulders. The pain of losing a courageous and intelligent fighter arose in everyone who knew Thulasi.
Thulasi’s student days were probably spent in solitude, with her mother and father going to work, her sisters going to school, and her brother. But for the Special Forces, she was a good leader with a sense of humor. The atmosphere of thousands of people with the same ideal made her lively.
When she was with us as a combat training instructor, she would interact with everyone equally, without making any distinction between the oldest and the most senior officer.
When she was with many people, onlookers could not identify who was the youngest and who was the oldest. After telling a great joke, she would become silent. Only those who heard her would laugh uncontrollably. Only those close to her, in an environment where the onlookers would think that Thulasi was calm, would understand her nature.
On the Day of Karumpulikal in 1994, at a gathering of the Special Forces, a serious social play written and acted by Thulasi and performed by the computer section revealed his artistic talent to everyone. During the special forces’ gatherings, there are performances that are so creative that one can eagerly wait to see what the computer department has come up with. Sometimes it’s a play, the next time it’s a television show, and then something else. There are always new and innovative performances by her.
We had many fantasies about Thulasi, who had the intelligence to act as a company assistant without knowing how to fight with a platoon. “Thulasi is a good leader. If she had been there, she would have done so much.” This is what everyone who knew her, not just the Special Forces, says.
“The Tigers’ thirst for the homeland of Tamileelam”
Memory sharing:
– Brigadier Yalini/Vithusa.
Special Commander,
2nd Lt. Malathi Regiment,
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
Tamileelam
– Thanks
-Liberation Tigers Magazine (August, September 2007).
Event: Martyrdom during an attack on the artillery-mortar launch pads and shelters of the Jayasikuru forces located in Periyamathu, Vavuniya.
Hometown: Mulliyavala Additional information: The remains of this hero have been sown in the Mulliyavala Thuyilumillam.
– Viluthugal 2
– Editor: Tamilarasan Abdulkadhar
(Translation by Tamilpriya)
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