Adele Ann Wilby

Adele Ann Wilby (Born 1950) or Adele Balasingham is the Australian born former leader of the women’s wing of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of Sri Lanka. [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/16/1032054762355.html A chain of gold ... but no smile on the face of the Australian Tiger] ] She currently resides in London, UK.

Biography

She was born in Warrigal, Victoria in Australia. She became a professional nurse and worked in Gippsland (150Km from Melbourne). She eventually migrated to the United Kingdom where in 1978 she met and married Sri Lankan born British passport holder Anton Balasingham. Mr. Balasingham later became the chief strategist and peace negotiator for the separatist LTTE a Tamil militant group from Sri Lanka.Her husband Anton Balasingham died on December 14 2006. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2505422,00.html Anton Balasingham, obituary] in The Times]

eparatist leader

Adele Balasingham moved with her husband initially to Madras in India then on to northern part of Sri Lanka in Jaffna during the early stages of the Sri Lankan civil war that started after the 1983 Black July pogrom. In Sri Lanka she became the women’s wing leader of the LTTE.

Peace negotiator

She later participated as part of the LTTE peace negotiating team in numerous peal talks with the various Sri Lankan government negotiating teams since 2002. She is also the author of number of books including the semi autobiographical "The Will to Freedom" ISBN 1-903679-03-6 [ [http://www.tamilcanadian.com/page.php?cat=123&id=702 Adele; securing a remedy] ]

ee also

*LTTE
*Sri Lankan civil war
*Black July
*Human Rights in Sri Lanka
*State terrorism in Sri Lanka

References

External links

* [http://www.peaceinsrilanka.org/insidepages/pictureboard/pictureboard.asp Pictures of Adele Balasingham]
* [http://www.tamilnation.org/books/Eelam/willtofreedom.htm Book extract from The will to freedom]