1st Edition
The Use of Confessionary Evidence under the Counter-Terrorism Laws of Sri Lanka An Interdisciplinary Study
By Visakesa Chandrasekaram
Copyright 2017
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
