Subject: "My daughter the terrorist," produced by Norwegian film
maker - Beate Arnestad
URGENT
Dear Friends,
A documentary film on LTTE suicide bombers titled "My daughter the terrorist," produced by Norwegian film maker, Beate Arnestad, is to be featured in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to be held in Durham, North Carolina, on April 4, 2008. The movie records the lives and faiths of two female Black Tigers.
All right thinking people should protest this attempt to give publicity to suicide bombers.
Attached
herewith, is a letter that could be sent to Ms Peg Palmer, Executive Director
of Doc Arts Inc.,
Please circulate this letter among your contact groups with a request that they too express their reservations.
Thank you.
Ms Peg Palmer
Executive Director
Doc
Arts Inc.,
Durham, North
Carolina.
Dear Madam,
I understand that a documentary film on LTTE
suicide bombers titled "My
daughter the terrorist," produced by Norwegian film maker, Beate
Arnestad, is to be featured in the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival to be
held in Durham, North Carolina, on April 4, 2008. The movie records the lives
and faiths of two female Black Tigers.
I
wonder if you are aware that Black Tigers are suicide carders of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which is proscribed as a foreign terrorist
organization by 32 countries, including the
Speaking
in particular of this film, the LTTE mouthpiece, the ‘Tamil Net’, has admitted
that one female suicide bomber featured in the documentary, was a child
kidnapped at the age of 12 years to be trained a child soldier. If so, do the organizers of your film festival
condone and encourage forcible recruitment of child solders, a practice
abhorred by the civilized world? Please
see http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=21554, which also states, “The documentary was made when
the peace talks were making progress...”. This is ample proof to demonstrate that the LTTE had not abandoned
its intention of employing terrorism to achieve political goals, and that some Norwegians were furtively promoting LTTE terrorism,
while the government of Norway was trying to facilitate negotiations between
the Sri Lanka government and the LTTE.
Furthermore,
the Black Tigers are acknowledged as one of the most lethal and ruthless
suicide terrorist groups in the world, and their victims include former Indian
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa. A recent
video clip taken at the site of a Black Tiger suicide bombing,
demonstrates for the first time on camera, how Black Tigers execute
assassinations of elected lawmakers, through the use of female suicide bombers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUdUEOVdEuc
Ms Jan Goodwin of Marie Claire magazine
interviewed an LTTE female suicide bomber in 2007, and says, “The
suicide-bomber vest was the brainchild of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers — the design
has since been used by Hezbollah, Hamas, and reportedly al Qaeda, and its
murderous effects are felt daily in
Even though the freedom of
expression is enshrined as a First Amendment right in the U.S. Constitution,
and even though the LTTE is a non-Islamic terrorist group, giving publicity to
Black Tiger suicide bombing in the U.S. will indeed have adverse impact on the
U.S, as it will allow copy cat terrorist groups to imitate the methodology, and
kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and elsewhere. Also, if you have any doubt that
encouraging and promoting suicide bombing of any kind, in whatever manner, has
no ill effects on the
Thus, in the name of humanity, I
urge you to request the organizers of the film festival, to take due consideration
of these facts and to reconsider their decision to screen "My daughter the terrorist," at the
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, by removing it from the list of movies
for screening at the festival.
Thank
you for your understanding and cooperation.
Sincerely,