{"id":117981,"date":"2021-09-09T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=117981"},"modified":"2021-09-09T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:48:42","slug":"the-lessons-taught-by-the-auckland-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/09\/09\/the-lessons-taught-by-the-auckland-terrorist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons Taught  by the Auckland Terrorist."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>It is now clear that the Aukland Supermarket\nterrorist\u2019&nbsp; heinous acts&nbsp; had all to do with his being radicalised by\nISIS ideology and nothing to do with his Sri Lankan origins. Reference to this\nonly unfairly tarnishes those of Sri Lankan origin and exposes them to their\nconsequence.New information may suggest that he has had brushes with the law in\nSri Lanka , before coming to NZ in 2011, possibly from Tamil Tiger\nradicalisation., These he appears to have distorted&nbsp; to get NZ refugee status in 2013 that was\nsubsequently revoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The struggles&nbsp; that\nNZ law enforcement had to contain him gives an insight into the&nbsp; similar challenges the Sri Lankan law\nenforcement may have faced with him before 2011.The need to tighten the\nterrorism prevention legislation in NZ also gives an insight into the wisdom of\nsimilar actions Sri Lanka took many years earlier in the face Tamil Tiger\nradicalisation. These&nbsp; have been heavily\ncriticised by human rights groups and some western governments, This terrorist\nhas exposed the lack of wisdom&nbsp; with such\ncriticism . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<br>Spokesperson,<br>United Sri Lanka Assn <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn It is now clear that the Aukland Supermarket terrorist\u2019&nbsp; heinous acts&nbsp; had all to do with his being radicalised by ISIS ideology and nothing to do with his Sri Lankan origins. Reference to this only unfairly tarnishes those of Sri Lankan origin and exposes them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}