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| Photographs: Pathivu |
Hundreds of Tamils in the North-East attended the funeral of Mannuel Pedro, the father of the first female fighter in the armed struggle against the Sri Lankan state oppression to lose her life.
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His body was draped in a red and yellow flag at his home in Aatkaativeli, Mannar. He was buried in his hometown.
Maalathy was killed at the age of 20, on the 10th of October 1987, during a confrontation with the Indian Peace Keeping Forces (IPKF) in Jaffna.
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| File photograph: Mr Pedro at an ceremony commemorating the life of his daughter. |
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