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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.

Terrorism. --- Terrorism --- Acts of terrorism --- Attacks, Terrorist --- Global terrorism --- International terrorism --- Political terrorism --- Terror attacks --- Terrorist acts --- Terrorist attacks --- World terrorism --- Direct action --- Insurgency --- Political crimes and offenses --- Subversive activities --- Political violence --- Terror --- Law and legislation --- Confession (Law) --- Criminal procedure --- Evidence, Criminal --- Evidence (Law) --- Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association) --- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Association) --- Tamil̲il̲a Viṭutalaip Pulikaḷ (Association) --- LTTE --- Tamil Tigers (Association) --- El. Ṭī. Ṭī. Ī. --- Terrorism, confessions, LTTE.