ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the prison apparatus since the eighteenth century. M. Foucault suggested that it has become the space where the criminal is detached from society and disciplined so that he/she may one day be returned to it as a ‘good’ member. Uyartchi was constantly tortured to confess that he was Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) commander. Uyartchi claimed that a junior LTTE cadre, who was suspected by his interrogators of being another LTTE commander, made a false confession to that effect in an attempt to avoid torture, and was later taken away by soldiers, never to return. This implied that for Sri Lanka, managing life in pain was not only for the production of ‘truth’ on the ‘bad’ species and disciplining their members into a ‘submissive’ species, but also for eliminating some of those identified.
