TAMIL TIGER ’MARTYRDOM’ IN SRI LANKA: FAITH IN SUICIDE FOR NATIONHOOD?
The article focuses on the ‘suicide-martyrdom’ deployed by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka as a political strategy for self determination and liberation from the ‘Sinhala hegemony’. The protagonists have given a new political-religious meaning to the historically celebrated...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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CEEOL
2007
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Politikologija religije
Year: 2007, Volume: 1, Issue: 2, Pages: 131-142 |
| Further subjects: | B
new religious meaning
B Nationalism B Sri Lanka B Violence B Sinhala B suicide strikes B Statehood B Martyrdom B Tamil Tigers |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |