ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the impacts of Tamil self-determination as, played out in relationships between the Tamil diaspora and Western host states. It explains, by coercively shutting down specific political spaces and by providing alternative safe spaces, the international anti-terrorism regime seeks to shape the Tamil diaspora's political activity in their hostlands towards realizing a liberal governmental vision for Sri Lanka. Terrorism proscriptions enable a domestic disciplinary framework, one based on apparatuses of coercion, surveillance and, as discussed, behavioural training, which seeks to actively produce well behaved citizens of liberal governmentality. Interestingly, since 2002 the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) has not been banned in Sri Lanka; Colombo outlawed the LTTE in 1979 and again in 1998, lifting the ban before peace talks in 2002; redefines the field of possibilities for ordinary Tamils vis--vis their struggle against state oppression in Sri Lanka. India banned the LTTE in 1991.
