The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka : : An Interdisciplinary Study / / 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 law...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and Society in Asia
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Table of 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