Cover; Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Transliteration; 1 Introduction: Life after terror; 2 The violence of youth; 3 'Opportunistic' violence and the impossibility of intimacy; 4 Talking about torture: Stories of torture survivors; 5 Talking about torture: Stories of former counter-insurgency officers; 6 Possibilities of intimacy in times of terror; 7 Recreating life after terror and the mundane; 8 Buddhism and reformulating life after terror; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the aftermath, and its implications for the self and social relationships from the perspectives of those who have inflicted it. The book sheds ethnographic light on a largely overlooked and little-understood conflict that took place within the majority Sinhala community in the late 1980s, known loca
