{"id":87882,"date":"2019-04-09T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/04\/09\/brother-of-sri-lanka-ex-president-sued-over-alleged-torture-and-killings\/"},"modified":"2019-04-09T15:53:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T13:53:26","slug":"brother-of-sri-lanka-ex-president-sued-over-alleged-torture-and-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=87882","title":{"rendered":"Brother of Sri Lanka ex-president sued over alleged torture and killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defence secretary in last years of war against Tamil TigersThe brother of the former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa is being sued in a US court over alleged extrajudicial killing and torture, by the same lawyers who successfully brought a civil suit against the Syrian government for the killing of the Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin.Gotabaya Rajapaksa was Sri Lanka\u2019s defence secretary during the final years of the country\u2019s civil war against the Tamil Tigers until his brother lost the presidency in 2015, and has been mooted as the family\u2019s presidential candidate in this year\u2019s election. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/apr\/09\/brother-of-sri-lanka-ex-president-sued-over-alleged-torture-and-killings\" target=\"_blank\">Brother of Sri Lanka ex-president sued over alleged torture and killings<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksa was defence secretary in last years of war against Tamil TigersThe brother of the former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa is being sued in a US court over alleged extrajudicial killing and torture, by the same lawyers who successfully brought a civil suit against the Syrian government for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}