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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package 2016-2018
• VerfasserIn: Chandrasekaram, Visakesa,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Religion and Society in Asia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789048531233; 9783110667318; 9783110606447; 9783110662849
• DOI: 10.1515/9789048531233?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Visakesa Chandrasekaram.

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.