https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers Journalism for Citizens Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-13876 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:50:54 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-13876 @Avinandan.
During the battle where the Kauravas had created the Chakravyu, or the wheel formation which Abhimanyu could only break thru….Arjuna was deliberately engaged and led away by the Samsaptakas or suicde warriors, from the scene and Abhimanyu was left with none to help him out from the formation.

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5016 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:32:37 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5016 Making Sense of Suicide Missions, Jon Elster, Columbia University: ''More recent data reveals that poverty and illiteracy are limited as causal factors. More relevant are feelings of inferiority and resentment.''

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5015 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:30:40 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5015 Mouin Rabbani, Palestinian American Research Center: ''Without exception, the suicide bombers have lived their lives on the receiving end of a system designed to trample their rights and crush every hope of a brighter future… Confronted by a seemingly endless combination of death, destruction, restriction, harassment and humiliation, they conclude that ending life as a bomb – rather than having it ended by a bullet – endows them, even if only in their final moments, with a semblance of purpose and control previously considered out of reach."

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5014 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:26:50 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5014 Assaf Moghadam, Harvard Uuniversity: ''Traditionally, suicide missions have been used by organizations seeking to establish a national homeland or ward off a foreign occupier…….Most suicide bombings of the 1980s and 1990s were in response to occupation…Governmental repression gives rise to suicide terrorism in some cases—repression exists in varying degrees in Russia, Sri Lanka, and Israel.''

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5013 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:10:04 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5013 Scott Aran: ''Alan Krueger in his last study looked at poverty and civil liberties as two factors in suicide terrorism. He found that poverty is not an appreciable selection factor but that the lack of civil liberties is a predictor of where you'll find suicide terrorism. When you don't give these people any political space to express themselves, they become radicalized. There's this knee-jerk reaction that people who do this have to be maniacs or cowards, uneducated or miserable or in despair, and none of this seems to be true at all.''

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5012 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:07:38 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5012 Scott Atran: As a tactical weapon, it emerges when an ideologically devoted people find that they cannot possibly obtain their ends in a sort of fair fight, and when they know they're in a very weak position, and they have to use these kinds of extreme methods. You've got to talk with them. You've got to address their grievances.

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-5011 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:02:05 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-5011 Dying to Win, R.Pape: ''Wherever you find suicide bombings there is a common thread. It is not driven by religion, but by a clear strategic goal. What all the suicide terrorist campaigns have in common over the last 20 years is that the groups that pursue them are seeking to compel liberal democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists view as their homeland, from Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Kashmir to the West Bank."

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-4976 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:27:54 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-4976 Mr Jayatilleke and Pape…the Sri Lanka information source to Prof Pape is Mr Jayatilleke himself. Now, he turns around and declares Pape's book as path breaking? How convenient and ashamedly devious..

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-4974 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:59:42 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-4974 Why can't these suicide bombers ask one question to prabaharan. The question is "Why can't you (Prabakaran) be the suicide bomber?".

]]> https://groundviews.org/2009/02/20/the-psychopathology-of-the-ltte-suicide-bombers/#comment-4970 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:07:35 +0000 http://www.groundviews.org/?p=1117#comment-4970 Just wondering. Are those suicide bombers vegetarians too?

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