Michael Roberts
Contents
THE LTTE AND PRABHAKARAN
CHAPTER 1.….Inspirations and Caste Threads in the Early LTTE … 1-43
CHAPTER 2…..Hitler, Nationalism, Sacrifice: Koenigsberg and Beyond … 44-68
CHAPTER 3…..Hero Figures and Hitler in Young Pirapāharan’s Thinking … 69-89
CHAPTER 4…..Tamil Tigers: Sacrificial Symbolism and‘Dead Body Politics’ … 90-100
CHAPTER 5……Killing Rajiv Gandhi: Dhanu’s SacrificIal Metamorphosis in Death? 101-31
CHAPTER 6…..Towards Citizenship in Thāmilīlam: The Tamil People of the North, 1983-2010 … 132-83
CHAPTER 7… …Blackmail during the Endgame in Eelam War IV …184-201
CHAPTER 8…..The Landscape of the LTTE’s Last Redoubt, May 2009 … 204-17
CHAPTER 9….. Death and Eternal Life: Contrasting Sensibilities in the Face of Corpses 218
CHAPTER 10…..The Tamil Death Toll during the End-Game, 2009: Challenging Rohan Gunaratna … 229-37
CHAPTER 11…..Symbolic Postscript: A Terrible Violence … 238-47
POST-WAR SCENARIO
CHAPTER 12…… Omanthai! Omanthai! Succour for the Tamil Thousands … 251-58
CHAPTER 13……Reading “Devastation”: Botham, CMJ, Ban Ki-Moon … 259-70
CHAPTER 14…..Crude Reasoning, False Images: Sri Lanka’s Refugee Camps … 271-74
CHAPTER 15……Turning Tiger Personnel into Lankan Citizens? … 275-91
CHAPTER 16……Misrepresenting the Sri Lankan War, 2009-2012 … 292-303
CHAPTER 17…..People of Righteousness march on Sri Lanka … 304-11
CHAPTER 18…..Incorrigible Watch-Dogs of the Human Rights World … 312-17
CHAPTER 19…..Visual Evidence: Torture Images on Channel 4 … and Weiss … 318-35
ASYLUM-SEEKERS & LANKA
CHAPTER 20……Tamil Migration within and beyond Sri Lanka … 339-47
CHAPTER 21…..Boat People as Blanket Categories … 348-52
CHAPTER 22…..Aussies swallow Lies & Rajapaksas miss a Trick … 353-61
CHAPTER 23…..Deported from Britain: back to ‘Duress’
or Ordinariness in Sri Lanka? … 362-72
Bibliography for Chapters 20-23 on Asylum-Seekers … 373- 83
POSTFACE
CHAPTER 24…..Intolerance: Hues & Issues … 385-403
CHAPTER 25…..Mahinda Rajapaksa as a Modern Mahāvāsala and Font of Clemency? The Roots of Populist Authoritarianism … 404-22
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