Sri Lankan situation: the truth must come out
Tonight, ABC's Four Corners will show Killing Fields , the UK Channel 4 documentary that claims to provide evidence of war crimes committed at the end of Sri Lanka's decades-long civil war.
But yesterday, the Sri Lankan High Commission asked the ABC not to broadcast the documentary. The program was shown to the UN Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva last month and has already aired in the UK. The Sri Lankan government claims the documentary contains manipulated videos and is biased. The Sri Lankan government is also claiming it now has the 'original' version of a video that it says has been doctored and sent to the documentary's producers by pro-Tamil groups.
The conflict between the government of Sri Lanka and the separatist Tamil Tigers, also known as the 'Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam' (LTTE), left the country in tatters. It also gave the world suicide bombing - the LTTE pioneered the use of suicide belts and introduced female suicide bombers. The LTTE fought for an autonomous homeland in the island's north and reacted with violence against government policies seen to have privileged the dominant Sinhalese population to the detriment of Tamil Sri Lankans.
There is no doubt that as part of their fight, the LTTE was responsible for killing thousands of both Sinhalese and Tamil civilians, kidnapping children and forcing them to become soldiers, and assassinating several public figures, including India's prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1991 and Sri Lanka's president Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1993. The fact that the LTTE, a known terrorist organisation committed atrocities cannot come as a surprise to anyone. But the most worrying part of this tragic story is evidence that appears to show that the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) was also committed crimes against humanity during the dramatic conclusion to the conflict in 2009. Killing Fields claims to have proof the SLA executed unarmed LTTE soldiers and knowingly shelled civilian safe areas.
In March of this year, a UN panel released a report (UN Report) concluding there are ' credible allegations ' that both the LTTE and the SLA were involved in the commission of war crimes. It's alleged that the LTTE used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields during the final throes of the conflict, and that the SLA indiscriminately shelled no-fire zones, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to hospitals, a UN hub and Red Cross facilities. The Sri Lankan government, which had previously prevented the UN panel from actually visiting the country to conduct interviews and gather evidence ( UN Report , p 6), urged the UN not to make the report public, but it was eventually released.
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Main segment showing extra-judicial killings is a digitally altered video per experts with 17 frames and apparently dubbed Sinhala words not in sync with the rest. Inscribed date on the video is UTC 2009-07-15 13:17:23, which is after the war ended. The perpetrators, victims or place of the incident are not known, but John Snow asserts the victims are Tamils and the perpetrators are Sri Lankan Army soldiers. A 2nd video of the same event with Tamil words spoken can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI3CSD4neM . It is well known that Tamil Tigers have carried out similar atrocities dressed in Sri Lankan Army uniforms that came into their possession when they overran army camps in past years. Asylum seeker to Canada admitted to his having been asked to shoot Sri Lankan soldiers held prisoner, vide Global News of 4/19/11 by Doug Quan in the Postmedia News, i.e. http://www.globalnews.ca/world/Tamil+migrant+have+taken+part+shooting+soldiers+hearing+told4643627/story.html. It could well be Tamil Tigers in Lankan Army uniforms killing soldiers to frame Sri Lanka. Snow’s figures of population stats and civilian deaths are baseless guesstimates and only tallies with numbers given in the Tamilnet which is a propaganda arm of the Tamil Tigers. Gordon Weiss’ estimate of 7000 civilian deaths was rejected by UN’s Sir John Holmes as unverified and unreliable, as he pointed out that the UN did not have a presence on the ground. Rest of the video has an assortment of unattributed and uncorroborated pictures with comments from unknown sources incl. Vany Kumar a LTTE activist from UK with 3 aliases being used as a narrator. Assertion of rape of female Tiger cadres, targeting of hospitals and civilian food lines not established. Injured at makeshift hospitals could be Tiger cadres and combatant civilians injured at the front and not victims of shelling, as Tigers mainly wore civilian attire in battle. Some footage from Airforce bombing a jungle target was misrepresented as an attack on civilians. It is a malicious attempt to tarnish Sri Lanka’s image. “The channel has accumulated a large collection of samizdat amateur footage from mobile phones and video cameras – mostly un-attributed and uncorroborated. It mixes this footage with comment from unnamed sources with distorted voices and shadowed faces and human rights lawyers. It was brutal, it was shocking, but it wasn’t journalism.
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Shocking piece from four corners on Sri Lanka's civil war and UN's blind eye. - - video to follow
Just horrified watching abc's four corners repot on Sri Lanka.
Four corners on ABC. Horrific story about war in Sri Lanka. Terrible waste of a wonderful country and people. Sad :(
Four corners abc twitter has response from i guess Sri Lankan denying what what presented on show. Hmm program looked pretty damning to meFour Corners Abc - Bookshelf
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