Nationalists weaponize LTTE atrocities to frame accommodation as treason.
Evidence
Given its policy of not tolerating dissent and its desire to be the Tamils’ sole representative, the LTTE has killed numerous Tamil intellectuals and politicians. Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists highlight such assassinations to emphasize the depraved nature of the LTTE; they also demand revenge for LTTE assassinations of a number of Sri Lankan leaders, including President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993. Sinhalese Buddhist nationalists argue that to deal with the LTTE after such attacks on Buddhism and the country’s politicians is traitorous and would only reward terrorism. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 235
Categorization
- XREF: Directly serves the reader’s question about manufactured external enemies sustaining group solidarity — the LTTE serves as the threat-hardened enemy that makes any rational/moral correction (negotiation) read as betrayal. — connects to: Threat-hardened nationalist forces punished accommodation of the out-group. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 128; Nationalist ideology turns dissent into treason and undermines civil society — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 56; Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 677 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Nationalist ideology turns dissent into treason and undermines civil society
#corroborates(0.80) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 56 - Siege regimes criminalize opposition and cross-societal solidarity as treason
#corroborates(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 677 - Tamil nationalism and the LTTE were manufactured by Sinhalese ethnocentric government policies.
#complicates(0.72) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 227