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The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka : An Interdisciplinary Study / Visakesa Chandrasekaram.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society in AsiaPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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  • 9789462981577
  • 9789048531233
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.625095493
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Do Tigers confess? -- 2. Rebellion and martyrdom -- 3. Facts, falsities, and fictions -- 4. Punitive interrogation of Tamil Tiger suspects -- 5. Judgement of the terrorist against the 'formula of justice' -- 6. Fantasies, fictions, myths, and denials about Tamil Tigers' confessions -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Do Tigers confess? -- 2. Rebellion and martyrdom -- 3. Facts, falsities, and fictions -- 4. Punitive interrogation of Tamil Tiger suspects -- 5. Judgement of the terrorist against the 'formula of justice' -- 6. Fantasies, fictions, myths, and denials about Tamil Tigers' confessions -- Appendix -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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