About the Book: The Orders Were To Rape You: Tigresses in the Tamil Eelam
Struggle
'Never have Tamil women burned so bright, never have they dazzled so much, as
when they were Tigresses… but nothing had prepared me to brace for the reality
that these powerful women would be so vulnerable. In 2009, the genocidal war of
the Sri Lankan state against Tamils ends. In 2012, Meena Kandasamy, who grew up
with poster-size pictures of Tamil Tigers and Tigresses, decides to make a
documentary on the violence faced by the female fighters of the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the aftermath of the brutal war.