Showing posts with label Killing Fields. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Killing Fields. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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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Friday, March 9, 2012

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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