"martyred" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who has suffered greatly for their beliefs, usually to the point of death. For example: "John Lennon was martyred for his fight for peace and justice."
At issue is whether to concede that Mr Prabhakaran, whose pudgy corpse was displayed for television cameras by the army and then burned, is really dead.On May 24th Selvarasa Pathmanathan, head of international relations for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), as the group are properly known, said its "incomparable leader and supreme commander" had been martyred.
Tiradentes, an 18th-century rebel against imperial Portugal, is remembered by a holiday, but he was martyred for a movement as aristocratic as the system it was trying to overthrow.
"I will stay in the presidency or go to jail," he thundered.The undignified outburst came at Naudero in Sindh province, the burial site of his wife and her similarly "martyred" father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.
They regard the slain imperial family as saints—on the ground that they were, at least partly, martyred for their Orthodox faith.
His mother was much grander, a descendant of the martyred Sir Thomas More, and he was raised a Roman Catholic at a time of fervent post-Reformation Protestantism.
The existence of a well-organised rival is what most worries the Communist government.Another well-organised body, the Roman Catholic church, added to the government's woes this week by choosing October 1st to make saints of 120 Catholics who are said to have been martyred in China during the past 400 years.
Muslims reject the idea that a God-man was martyred for human sinfulness; Jesus's death is an enigma in Islam and his crucifixion deemed an illusion.To her credit, Ms Siddiqui perceives the dilemmas faced by the early Christian church better than many contemporary liberal Christians do.
Women stand out in South Asian politics, he explains, because they are assumed to lack characters of their own and can take on the charisma of their (often martyred) husbands or fathers.
Mr Sadr is not taken seriously as a religious authority by most of the senior clergy, but his father was "martyred" by Saddam in 1999, and his followers claim the legacy of the hundreds of thousands (they say millions) of Shias murdered by the previous regime.
THE annual mourning for Zein al-Abdin al-Sajjad, an eighth century martyred Shia Imam, is a relatively minor event, even in Iran where Shias hold power.
