Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka

Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka is the author of the book “Mission Impossible, Geneva: Sri Lanka’s Counter-hegemonic Asymmetric Diplomacy at the UN Human Rights Council”.

Anti government demonstrators Sri Lanka

When a head of state becomes a nation’s nightmare

11 May 2022, 18:00 PM
It is not unknown in history that a single ruler was the cause of a nation’s downfall, the obvious case in modern times being Adolf Hitler—an elected leader—one of the best known among a collection of reviled names scattered throughout history as examples of the evil that power can degenerate into.
11 May 2022, 18:00 PM