ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides fresh insights into Sri Lanka’s policies and the system of government that it has in place. It argues that Sri Lanka perpetrated mass atrocities on the Tamils as part of its biopolitics of institutionalizing and securing a Sinhala Buddhist ethnocratic state order. The book analyses how postcolonial Ceylon went about transforming from a democracy to an ethnocracy. It examines the role of law, the violence of law and the violence of ‘lawlessness’ as Ceylon produced the effects of battle and transformed into an ethnocracy. The book provides an analysis of the tactical alliance that Sri Lanka made with the Jihadi extremists to drive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) out of the populated areas of the Eastern Province.
