Allegation that Indian agents were involved in an assassination in Canada moves India onto a list of countries suspected of carrying out targeted killings.
Western officials and security experts said the phenomenon is being driven by forces ranging from resurgent authoritarianism in dozens of countries to the spread of technologies that enable repressive governments to track and target dissidents abroad.
But current and former U.S. officials said they consider the case credible, and that such an attack would be consistent with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s view of his country as a rising global power entitled to assert itself in ever-more-aggressive ways. Other countries accused of engaging in targeted killings include North Korea, Ukraine, Rwanda and Iran. Even in recent weeks there has been a new outbreak of violence and threats.
U.S. officials have long argued that these and other operations bear little resemblance to the actions of states like Russia, noting that U.S. operations involve extensive legal review, assessments of an imminent threat and determinations that a capture or arrest of the suspect in question are not possible.These rationales often ring hollow overseas. “We think right is on our side but that is not the way the whole world views it,” the former U.S. intelligence official said.
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