The Sri Lankan state deploys its own terrorism against minorities while fighting separatists.

Evidence

The study suggests both LTTE terrorism and the ethnocentric nature of the Sri Lankan state, which resorts to its own forms of terrorism when fighting the civil war, need to be overcome if the island is to become a liberal democracy. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 718

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the reader’s broader questions about how professedly moral majorities manufacture external enemies; parallels the moral-hypocrisy theme in DeVotta’s own framework but could connect to Arendt or Girard on scapegoating. — connects to: War against terrorism is itself a form of terrorism.; State discrimination triggered a sequence of escalating anti-Tamil riots. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 606
• SHARE: A graduate student or colleague in South Asian security studies would appreciate the state-as-terrorist framing rarely granted to the Sri Lankan government.

Broader Connections

• War against terrorism is itself a form of terrorism. #exemplifies (0.90)