Channel 4 playing professional fouls

         Channel 4 in its new release has alleged that the doctors who had made various statements to international media when they were serving in government hospitals during war time in Wanni, have changed their stance due to pressure by government while under custody of Criminal Investigation Department (CID). If the doctors recant their eyewitnesses they would be imprisoned under Sri Lanka's Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), it has alleged.

          This seems another loony allegation level against the government of Sri Lanka by the CH 4. The fact remains true that when the doctors in NFZ, they were entirely under control of the LTTE. The doctors were well aware of the repercussions they would have to face if they say anything against the Tamil Tigers. So they had spoken for them giving exaggerated civilian casualty figures, blaming security forces of arbitrary shelling on hospitals and so on and so forth to the international media. This they had done only for the sake of their survival and to treat the injured they later revealed.

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Miliband's campaign: Blind to the truth and bedding falsehoods

by Saratha RAJENDRAN

     Historians give credit to the British for creating most of the internal conflicts in countries which were under British colonial rule (Ex: Rhodesia, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka).


    A most apparent case study would be the British Labour Party's decision to move from the Tories' policy of humanitarian relief in Yugoslavia to threaten, then actual, aggression against the Serbs. By rewarding each separatist group in turn, it achieved NATO's covert objective of Balkan fragmentation.


  Having said that, why would the same Labour Party's David Miliband be interested in interfering with a national issue in Sri Lanka soil? The latest exhibition of impunity unfolds as the former British Foreign Minister appears in yet another Channel-4 outcry of "possible war crimes". "Incompetent neo-imperial meddler", is how Sri Lanka regards Miliband who has always fallen short of responsible statesmanship on his convictions, backed by purely biases lacking in facts.

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Channel 4 recycling old footage as new evidence

by Shanika SRIYANANDA

One of the world’s leading experts on digital video systems and former head of CISCO’s Global Broadcast and Digital Video Practice division Siri Hewavitharana commenting on the latest video by Channel 4 (CH4) said CH4 was recycling old footage as new evidence with a compliant forensic pathologist called Prof Derrick Pounder to evaluate photographic evidence, but with nobody to prove. Hewavitharana said this move goes against all Forensic Science and he was caught earlier trying to alter the time of death in a criminal case so that his findings would fit the police report. “He was challenged by Prof. Busuttil, a reputed forensic expert in Scotland,” he said.

The web link is http://www.mojoscotland.com/steven_johnston/b_s_appeal.html

“We have a similar scenario in the video, where Prof Derrick Pounder is creating something out of nothing without any person to analyse and create a false impression by innuendo and half truths regarding Vellupillai Prabhakaran’s death and also his son’s death.

No one knows how the son was killed, and the coward of a father (remember Praba did not have a cyanide capsule with him) may have ordered his criminal gang to shoot the boy.

FINAL DAYS IN VANNI: 600 TAMILS SHOT AND KILLED AS STRAY DOGS- FIRST PERSON REVELATION

More than 600 innocent Tamil civilians were shot and killed like stray dogs from 1 October 2008 to 18 May 2009 in the Vanni region, but not a single innocent civilian was killed by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces in the hostility campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. 

S. Kanagaratnam - A former TNA MP 

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Balachandran, marketable product

Why was Channel 4 silent when hundreds of children were butchered by the LTTE?:

by a Special Correspondent 

A death of a child, no doubt is a reason to mourn. Especially when he or she is brutally killed, it is a grave crime which has to be dealt with severely. The disturbing image of a bullet-ridden body of a boy telecast in the latest controversial Channel 4 video has caused a certain amount of anxiety to many.

In the video - Sri Lanka's killing fields: war crimes unpunished - a 12-year-old boy with five bullet holes in his chest can be seen and the presenter, Jon Snow says that the boy is Balachandran Prabhakaran, youngest son of LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. The director is Callum Macrae, a former reporter at Channel 4, now turned director. For many, who have viewed Channel 4's previous videos, this is heart-rending as a body of a teenage boy is shown. The video 'accuses' the Security Forces of executing the boy with five others, who were identified as 'bodyguards' of the teenager.


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Mrs. Clinton, Leave Sri Lanka Alone

The civil war in Sri Lanka was both brutal and a human tragedy. The United Nations estimated that the death toll from the Tamil Tigers’ long secession struggle might exceed 100,000. The Tigers were brutal in their tactics. Their kidnapping and exploitation of young Tamils was not unlike that perpetrated by the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. Like radical Islamists, the Tamil Tigers exploited a culture of martyrdom to promote suicide bombing. Like Hezbollah, the Tamil Tigers received technical assistance from North Korea (making Condoleezza Rice’s recommendation to remove North Korea from the state sponsor of terror list indefensible).

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army did what hundreds of diplomats and UN pronouncements over more than a quarter century had failed to do: They defeated the Tamil Tigers and finally liberated Sri Lanka from the nightmare of terrorism and insurgency. No civil war is pretty, and the conclusion of Sri Lanka’s bloody struggle was no different. Britain’s Channel 4, for example, has acquired footage purporting to show the execution of the 12-year-old son of the rebel leader son of Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Tamil Tigers’ leader. If he was executed, that was wrong. But given Prabhakaran’s use of children and his glorification of suicide bombing, it would be unfair to ask any Sri Lankan soldier to risk life and limb to take prisoners. Had the Tamil Tigers cared an iota for the Geneva Conventions, perhaps it would be different, but if they eschewed the Conventions in life, then they should not seek their recompense in death.
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Does the US value Human Rights?

'Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically killed at least 16 civilians, 9 of them children, in a rural stretch of southern Afghanistan early on Sunday, igniting fears of a new wave of anti-American hostility, Afghan and American officials said,' the New York Times reported Sunday.

In one of the most gruesome human rights abuses in recent times, a US soldier is reported to have walkedover a mile (1.6 km) from his base in the Panjwai district of Kandahar Province trying door after door before breaking into three houses and killing 16 sleeping civilians, nine of whom were children. Reports quote villagers as saying that he had collected 11 of the bodies and set fire to them.

Sadly, this is only the latest in a string of violations of international humanitarian law by US forces stretching back several years.

Earlier this month, five American servicemen and an Afghan translator were reported to have burned copies of the Quran which were among religious materials seized from a detainee facility at Bagram Airfield last week, prompting a wave of outrage.

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A Jouney to Hell and Back

The Truth Is More Terrifying Than Fiction

Since the conflict in the North and East of Sri Lanka broke out into large scale hostilities and eventually full-scale armed confrontation between the Libera­tion Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the security forces of the Sri Lankan government, there have been many attempts at negotiating a political settlement.  The first talks were held in 1985 in Bhutan. The ‘Thimpu Talks’ was the first attempt at a negotiated settlement to the conflict.  The Cease Fire Agreement (CFA) between the then Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam of February 2002 was the last attempt made to solve the conflict that prevailed in the country …

 “International Human Rights expert, Mr. Ian Martin, former Secretary General of Amnesty Inter­national who had made a study of the incorporation of the Human Rights dimension into the CFA, had made certain recommendations in that regard. How­ever this initiative was rejected by Mr. Anton Balasin­gham who objected to an international scrutiny of the human rights situation in the North and the East…” 

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An Unreliable Witness

GORDON WEISS, THE CAGE AND SRI LANKA

Gordon Weiss was a spokesman for the United Nations organisation in Sri Lanka for two years at the

end of that country’s civil war. His 2011 book, The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of

the Tamil Tigers, is said to be a close study of the last months and weeks of the conflict in the Vanni.1

The Cage is a controversial, anti-government view of the end of the war. His book is well-written, as

might be expected of an articulate, middle-class and well-educated international bureaucrat. The

problem is that it is a deeply-flawed account of a crisis that in several key respects was impossible to

document – most notably with regard to civilian casualties. The events said to have been described in

The Cage were infinitely complicated. Leaving aside mistakes in historical detail and other simple fact

2, it is Weiss’s inability to answer key questions he begrudgingly or accidentally poses; selectivity with

information and a particularly self-serving slant on the events in the Vanni from late 2008 up until May

2009 that are of concern to anyone expecting an accurate account of the crisis.

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Appalling Journalism

Jon Snow and Channel 4 on Sri Lanka

In June 2011, Britain’s Channel 4 News broadcast a programme entitled “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”, which made a number of allegations about the last few months of the war in Sri Lanka.1 Jon Snow, the Channel’s senior news presenter, claimed the programme was “a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.”2 Channel 4 claimed that the government was responsible for the targeted shelling of civilians, extrajudicial executions of prisoners and the apparent rape, sexual assault and murder of female Tamil fighters, allegations said to be supported by “devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast”.3 Channel 4 also claimed that the government was responsible all told for the deaths of as many as 40,000 civilians towards the end of the war

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Unprofessionalism revisited

Channel 4 News, Sri Lanka and “Fernando”

On 27 July 2011, Channel 4 News screened a programme in which they claimed to have testimony from an eyewitness, “Fernando”, who said he had seen systematic war crimes committed by Sri Lankan soldiers in the final stages of the 26 year-long civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE, also known as the “Tamil Tigers”).1 Channel 4 claimed that “Fernando”, who as usual for Channel 4 allegations about Sri Lanka was unidentified and disguised, was operating with Sri Lanka’s 58th Division during the final assaults in question. Channel 4 News claimed that he said “men, women, and children were actively targeted with small arms by government forces”.

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The Radicalization of Children

AN Insight into LTTE Administered Tamil Schools in Europe

  

 Examining the beginnings of the „Thamilcholai’ school system, it is clear that it was designed and created by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist movement, initially within Sri Lanka. The beginnings of this school system can be seen as beginning as an orphanage in and around the year 1990 in accordance with the wishes of the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabakaran. This orphanage was established with 90 children aged between 2-12 years. In the years 1991 and 1993 the LTTE established two orphanages namely „Sencholai‟ for female orphans and „Kantharuban Aravichollai ‟ for male orphans (Kantharuban was the name of the first LTTE “sea tiger” suicide cadre who took part in a suicide operation to destroy the Sri Lanka Navy ship “Edithra”, in 1990). These orphanages were controlled and administered by the LTTE but to the outside world they were presented as orphanages run by an independent social welfare group.

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