1.0Sri Lanka Briefhttps://srilankabrief.orgSri Lanka Briefhttps://srilankabrief.org/author/srilankabrief/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content"><a href="https://srilankabrief.org/rajapaksa-politics-and-recent-extrajudicial-killings-in-sri-lanka-nalaka-rupasinghe/">Rajapaksa politics and recent extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka-Nalaka Rupasinghe</a></blockquote> <script type='text/javascript'> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(c,d){"use strict";var e=!1,n=!1;if(d.querySelector)if(c.addEventListener)e=!0;if(c.wp=c.wp||{},!c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage)if(c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if(t)if(t.secret||t.message||t.value)if(!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var r,a,i,s=d.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),n=d.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=0;o<n.length;o++)n[o].style.display="none";for(o=0;o<s.length;o++)if(r=s[o],e.source===r.contentWindow){if(r.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message){if(1e3<(i=parseInt(t.value,10)))i=1e3;else if(~~i<200)i=200;r.height=i}if("link"===t.message)if(a=d.createElement("a"),i=d.createElement("a"),a.href=r.getAttribute("src"),i.href=t.value,i.host===a.host)if(d.activeElement===r)c.top.location.href=t.value}}},e)c.addEventListener("message",c.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),d.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",t,!1),c.addEventListener("load",t,!1);function t(){if(!n){n=!0;for(var e,t,r=-1!==navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 10"),a=!!navigator.userAgent.match(/Trident.*rv:11\./),i=d.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),s=0;s<i.length;s++){if(!(e=i[s]).getAttribute("data-secret"))t=Math.random().toString(36).substr(2,10),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t);if(r||a)(t=e.cloneNode(!0)).removeAttribute("security"),e.parentNode.replaceChild(t,e)}}}}(window,document); //--><!]]> </script><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://srilankabrief.org/rajapaksa-politics-and-recent-extrajudicial-killings-in-sri-lanka-nalaka-rupasinghe/embed/" width="600" height="338" title="“Rajapaksa politics and recent extrajudicial killings in Sri Lanka-Nalaka Rupasinghe” — Sri Lanka Brief" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe>https://srilankabrief.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Untitled-2.png978565Image: Mass murderers Brenton Harrison Tarrant and Anders Behring Breivik. ‘’Authoritarian leaders often exercise power arbitrarily and without regard to existing bodies of law.’’ Extrajudicial killings had been the common practice before 2015 when Mahinda Rajapaksa was the president, and the evil practice has come back again since Gotabaya Rajapaksa was given dictatorship powers with the 20th […]