For more than three decades, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fought a gruesome war for independence against the majoritarian Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka. Even as the government fought LTTE on the battlefield, it also pursued a legal war through the enactment of counterterrorism laws that permitted indefinite detention and the use of confessions as sole evidence. This book applies theoretical insights from the work of philosophers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Foucault to the Sri Lankan context to examine the conflicting narratives relating to these laws produced by both sides in the conflict.
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Finding the `truth' about confessions |
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2 Rebellion and martyrdom |
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Pride, loyalty, and discipline |
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3 Facts, falsities, and fictions |
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4 Punitive interrogation of Tamil Tiger suspects |
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Secretive investigations and the right to silence |
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Punishment of the suspect |
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5 Judgement of the terrorist against the `formula of justice' |
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`Finite justice' in the journey of the criminal justice system |
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Constructing the case against the terrorist |
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Inequalities in the justice system |
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(Prejudgement of the terrorist by the judiciary |
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6 Fantasies, fictions, myths, and denials about Tamil Tigers' confessions |
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End of the Tamil Tigers' era |
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Consequences of the mass prosecution strategy |
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The future of confessions |
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Confession of Nallaratnam Singarasa |
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Confession of Sellapulle Mahendran |
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| Acronyms |
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| Acknowledgements |
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| About the author |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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Dr. Visakesa worked as a human rights lawyer and an independent arts practitioner in Sri Lanka and Australia. He has written and presented several creative pieces including Forbidden Area, a play, The King and the Assassin, a fiction and Frangipani, a feature film.
