Visakesa Chandrasekaram

The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka (eBook, PDF)

An Interdisciplinary Study

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040797860
• Artikelnr.: 75564701

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Do Tigers confess? Rebellion and martyrdom
Facts
falsities
and fictions
Punitive interrogation of Tamil Tiger suspects
Judgment of the terrorist against the 'formula of justice'
Fantasies
fictions
myths
and denials about Tamil Tigers' confessions
Annexure
BIBLIOGRAPHY