RN Documentary: Not Enough Tears

Part of Series RN Documentaries
Length 29:30
Licensor Radio Netherlands
Producer(s) Dheera Sujan
Formats Documentary, Special
Topics Asian, Family, Women
Produced April 13, 2006
Added to PRX April 13, 2006
 

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Summary:

Rajani Thiranagama was a doctor, a teacher and a committed human rights who was shot in 1989 in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Her daughter was 11 years old. In this program she talks along with her aunt and her father about her mother and the meaning of her mother?s loss in her life.

Website:

http://download.omroep.nl/rnw/partners/smac/englishgeneral/rajani_sri_lanka.html

Timely on:

May 14: Mother's Day

Tones:

Contemplative, Disturbing, Esoteric

Language:

English

Description:

Rajani Thiranagama was gunned down by the Tamil Tigers in 1989. She was a doctor, poet, scientist and her crime had been to speak out against human rights abuses being perpetrated on her people. For 15 years her family have kept silent about her murder but have finally decided to speak out. Her daughter Narmada was 11 years old and here, along with her aunt and her father, she talks about her mother and how her murder has affected her life.