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Women in terrorism : case of the LTTE
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ISBN: 128342231X 9786613422316 8132109384 9788132109389 9788132106951 8132106954 Year: 2012 Publisher: Los Angeles : SAGE,

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Women in Terrorism examines the growing number of women actively engaged in terrorist activity and considers the significance of this for theorising gender, conflict and social politics. With that aim, the book studies Tamil women combatants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), an armed resistance group which is identified as one of the deadliest terrorist groups globally. Drawing on narrative life histories, the book canvasses three decades of ethno-nationalist war in Sri Lanka contributing to a major social change for Tamil women in Jaffna. It identifies the LTTE as providing an '


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After the fall : Sri Lanka in victory and war
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ISBN: 019908677X Year: 2016 Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press,

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'After the Fall' shows how Sri Lankas post-independence exercise in nation formation was beset with using language domination as an instrument of partisan power and racial memories as the way to define nationhood. That resulted in an escalating conflict through half a century of ethnic violence - giving rise to one of the worlds most fearsome militant movements and the cult of the suicide bomber. It analyzes how Eelam war four (20069), which came like a tornado crashing through all the red-lines of a war (even a guerrilla war), succeeded - and at what cost and consequences.


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Twilight of the Tigers : peace efforts and power struggles in Sri Lanka
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ISBN: 9780199080229 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This book focuses on the political vicissitudes of Sri Lanka since the initiation in December 2001 of a ceasefire that sought to end the violent confrontation between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan security forces. It shows that the ceasefire did not mark a cessation of hostilities.


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The Prabhakaran saga
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ISBN: 8132113985 1280667516 9786613644442 8132109910 9788132109914 9788132113980 813211678X Year: 2012 Publisher: New Delhi SAGE India

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This is the story of the man who defined the armed struggle for an independent Eelam for over three decades and who lived by the gun and died by the gun-Velupillai Prabhakaran. The book is a first-person account by the author based on his innumerable visits to Sri Lanka during its turbulent years. He looks at the Prabhakaran era, a critical phase in the country's history, objectively, without being judgmental.


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The use of confessionary evidence under the counter-terrorism laws of Sri Lanka : an interdisciplinary study
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ISBN: 9048531233 9789048531233 9462981574 9789462981577 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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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.


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When counterinsurgency wins : Sri Lanka's defeat of the Tamil Tigers
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ISBN: 0812206487 0812244524 1322512337 Year: 2013 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the insurgents. The win was unequivocal, but the terms of victory were not. The first successful counterinsurgency campaign of the twenty-first century left the world with many questions. How did Sri Lanka ultimately win this seemingly intractable war? Will other nations facing insurgencies be able to adopt Sri Lanka's methods without encountering accusations of human rights violations? Ahmed S. Hashim-who teaches national security strategy and helped craft the U.S. counterinsurgency campaign in Iraq-investigates those questions in the first book to analyze the final stage of the Sri Lankan civil war. When Counterinsurgency Wins traces the development of the counterinsurgency campaign in Sri Lanka from the early stages of the war to the later adaptations of the Sri Lankan government, leading up to the final campaign. The campaign itself is analyzed in terms of military strategy but is also given political and historical context-critical to comprehending the conditions that give rise to insurgent violence. The tactics of the Tamil Tigers have been emulated by militant groups in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia. Whether or not the Sri Lankan counterinsurgency campaign can or should be emulated in kind, the comprehensive, insightful coverage of When Counterinsurgency Wins holds vital lessons for strategists and students of security and defense.

Enemy lines : warfare, childhood, and play in Batticaloa
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ISBN: 9786612358159 1282358154 0520938879 1433709716 9780520938878 9781429471763 142947176X 0520245156 0520245164 9780520245150 9780520245167 Year: 2007 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,

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Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of children in this conflict. Her beautifully written account, which includes voices of the teenagers and young adults who have joined the Tamil Tigers, brings alive a region where childhood, warfare, and play have become commingled in a world of continuous uncertainty.

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Children and violence --- Children and war --- Children --- Tamil (Indic people) --- Tamal (Indic people) --- Tamalsan (Indic people) --- Tambul (Indic people) --- Tamili (Indic people) --- Tamils --- Ethnology --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Families --- Life cycle, Human --- War and children --- War --- Violence and children --- Violence --- Violence in children --- Social conditions. --- Wars --- Tamil̲īl̲a Viṭutalaippulikaḷ (Association) --- Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Association) --- Tamil̲il̲a Viṭutalaip Pulikaḷ (Association) --- LTTE --- Tamil Tigers (Association) --- El. Ṭī. Ṭī. Ī. --- Batticaloa District (Sri Lanka) --- Batticaloa, Sri Lanka (District) --- Batticaloa (Sri Lanka : District) --- Maṭṭakkaḷappu Māvaṭṭam (Sri Lanka) --- Tami{grave}{inodot} i {grave}{inodot} a Vit ℗Đutalaippulikal ℗Đ (Association) --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- armed resistance movement. --- batticaloa. --- boys and girls. --- childhood play. --- childhood. --- children of war. --- children. --- childrens studies. --- civil war. --- coming of age. --- conflict stories. --- cultural conflict. --- historians. --- history of violence. --- india. --- military studies. --- nonfiction. --- personal account. --- politics. --- regional conflict. --- societal violence. --- sociologists. --- sociology. --- sri lanka. --- tamil tigers. --- teenagers. --- war history. --- war. --- warfare.

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