The making of a suicide bomber: Sri Lanka style

I came across a chilling article from Time on how the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) grooms its elite team of suicide bombers, the Black Tigers.
Excerpt from the article, which focused on one young 18-year-old girl trainee:

Eraj Samandi was about as far removed from traditional teenage preoccupations as an 18-year-old could get. She didn’t care about clothes, music or parties. She couldn’t remember the last time she had to study for a test. And as for boys, she dismissed all the men in Sri Lanka with a fierce frown and sharp shake of the head.

But asked when she hoped to achieve her dream of being a suicide bomber, she grinned, squirmed and buried her face in her arms. “She’s already written her application,” said her commander, Lt. Col. Dewarsara Banu, smiling at her charge’s shyness. “But there’s still no reply.” “Why hasn’t there been a reply?” whined Samandi, looking up with the one eye, her left, that survived a shot to the head and fiddling with the capsule of cyanide powder around her neck. “I want this. I want to be a Black Tiger. I want to blast myself for freedom.”

Needless to say, she needs the kennysia / ShaolinTiger or even bryanboy hedonism treatment. Just don’t tell The Uncle.

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