ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the emergence of a new conflict zone, concurrent to one of the world’s bloodiest secessionist conflicts, through the Sri Lankan Tamil diasporic political engagements in cyberspace. The battle is waged between the Sri Lankan state and the ethnic Tamil separatist rebel organization the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), more commonly known as the Tamil Tigers. The objective of this chapter is to look at the diasporic political engagement in cyberspace and the new spatial dimension of the Sri Lankan conflict waged in cyberspace. This political conflict zone emerged with cyberspace providing the spatial attributes required for the becoming of a political space, especially for the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora in the context of the Sri Lankan conflict. This has significantly shifted the ideological foundations of the ongoing conflict and remains an alternative but critical space for the actors of the conflict.
