Channel 4 released video evidence on Sri Lanka's war crimes

Tamiya, I suppose anyone who supports tamils must be Tiger? Wake up people. Genocide against Tamils is a fact that will come to light one day.

My heart skipped beat when I saw this terrible footage by Srilankan chauvinists. These kinds of heinous acts must not go unpunished. The whole world was blindfolded by Srilankan's government "War against terrorism" agenda which culminated in extermination of innocent Tamil civilians. Just because Srilankans are majority in number doesn't empower them to kill Tamils at will. It is imperative that the World wakes up to these atrocious acts and give the Srilankan government it's due.

I thinking this world watching & enjoying the tamils peoples Murder.The sri lankan army's, how can did this, if they are brother's & sister's there. they are happily done this kind of activities. all world should be wake up to see the video's. otherwise today srilankan's hitted tamilians. tommarow other world peoples also learned this activitesr.  if.we dont stop. it is spred out to everywhere, they were shotted one prabhakaran. tommarow thousands of probakarans come to world.what we do our indians govt also support to srilankan govt.                                

Did you give any serious thoughts why the "WORLD® WATCHING™ " happened? Because the WORLD® knew exactly what was happening and why was it happening. So when LTTE deleted the master terrorist and his bunch of derrymen and women from the face of the earth, the WORLD® tsk-tsked in the open, but rejoiced behind the walls. Not much WORLD® leaders are fortunate enough to see the clean-wipe of a dreaded terrorist organization and when that happened, they just could not believe their eyes. Those terrorists were not tamils. They were just plain terrorist-next-doors. Oh, yeah - ofcourse the remaining terrorists can produce thousand® Prabhakarans™. But ultimately they too will "setha pochchi" like the last one did. Without any use to the world and just as a target for shooting practice.

Where are those who Sri Lankan agents who regularly post Sri Lankan propaganda materials on this web site. Let the world know, this is the reality in Sri Lanka. Racist Sinhala Military is killing the Tamils for the last 30 years. Shame on any Sri Lankan agent like Laith and other guys who come and post their lies here. This is the truth. Tamils are being persecuted in Sri Lanka.

All sinhala chanuvists.

Where are you?

Don't just say this is fabricated. Prove it.

If you can't then accept the fact and ask your idiot raja pakses to come in front of justice and ask them to prove them they are clean.

If not don't worry, Soon your rajapakse pimp group , Hindu ram , cho ramasamy , pon seka will be same as sethi pochi.

And sri lanka sorry sinhala high commission says this is not original. If not original why it must be leaked after 8 months.

Why not they can fabricate during the times of war? Why now.?

If during the war then ltte might be in strong position.

This is very basic question. Rajapakse is a Hitler.

My dear mates.

Do you think srilankas sinhala government don't know this? They know but they don't have any other alternative to claim this is fabricated.

But this fellow sinhalas in NP can't agree it. Why ? Bcos they paid by srilanka sinhala government.

But we are not paid by anybody. We talk or argue here to save our peoples from the killer idp camps.

Sinhalas don't kill tamils here after. If not. . . . .? Time will say the answer.

[q url="blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/2009/08/26/authenticating-the-sri-lanka-war-crimes-footage/"]Investigating claims of Sri Lankan ‘war crimes’ Author: Jonathan Miller|Posted: 8:36 pm on 26/08/09 Category: World News Blog | Tags: Sri Lanka/ Tamil Tigers/ war crimes On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes and cracked jokes; the cameraman complaining that his handycam battery was dying, urging the others to “get on with it.”  The men and boys were forced to lie down with their hands tied before they were shot in the back. After watching the video, I put together this report: This video contains images that some may find distressing. Last night I watched another video in our newsroom, this time from Sri Lanka. It was sent to us by a group of exiled journalists. It was chillingly reminiscent of the Bosnia video.  The casual banter and laughter of the uniformed killers was what I immediately found so callous and shocking, as they kicked in the head and then shot – point-blank – their bound, blindfolded, naked victims.  The raw footage – one continuous shot lasting one minute and eight seconds – is sickening.  The group Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka – comprised of Tamils and Sinhalese – claim the footage they’d obtained was filmed in January this year and depicts the extra-judicial execution of Tamils by Sri Lankan government soldiers. This video contains images that some may find distressing. Today, the Sri Lankan Army spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, dismissed the footage as a fabrication “made to discredit the armed forces.” He told AFP news agency that the Tamil Tigers also operated wearing the uniforms of government soldiers. Channel 4 News was sent a second “categorical denial” from the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in London, who branded it “a deliberate and sinister attempt to prevent the reconciliation process that is now taking place…” In Colombo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs weighed in, calling our report a “concocted story” intended to “cause embarrassment and bring disrepute to the government of Sri Lanka.” The Sri Lankan president’s media unit then released a statement saying the government “will make a strong protest to Channel 4 with regard to the contents of this video and also bring the matter to the notice of the relevant authorities…”  It described the footage as “false and doctored.” It promised to “pursue remedies available with regard to the distortion of truth.” Personally, I think Steven Spielberg would have had a hard job staging this grim scene. We were unable to verify the authenticity of the footage, but we did our level best to do so and we would not have broadcast our report had we not been confident with the expert analysis we received.   Before we went to air, I watched the video with a leading Sri Lankan human rights investigator – a Sinhalese himself – who provided forensic insights into its authenticity. This investigator has many years of experience looking into abuses and impunity in his homeland, but he’d never seen anything like this. Many detractors have made their points of view clear in emails to Channel 4 News or on the websites of newspapers like Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror. While it’s true that Tamil Tiger insurgents were known to masquerade in government uniforms, what makes the video credible is that telltale casual dialogue between the killers as they dispatch their helpless captives. In rough provincial Sinhala accents, they jokingly argue over who gets to shoot whom. They take turns, mockingly play-acting the popular folk game ‘kurupiti gahanawa wage’ – ‘Your Turn, My Turn.’ When the Bosnian Scorpion video emerged in Belgrade in 2005, the then UN War Crimes Prosecutor was in Belgrade and commented: “I have seen the video and there is no doubt about the perpetration of crimes.” Two years later, a Serbian war crimes court sentenced four members of the group to a total of 58 years in prison for the extrajudicial executions. Will this happen in Sri Lanka, if this video is indeed authenticated and these killings deemed prima facie evidence of war crimes? The answer is a resounding “No.” The Sri Lankan government has summarily rejected all calls for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes. It is not within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged war crimes in a state which is not party to the Rome statute (Sri Lanka isn’t) or in the absence of a UN Security Council Resolution, which instructs the ICC to investigate. This extremely unlikely to happen.  On 27 May, the UN Human Rights Council passed a flawed resolution, drafted by the Sri Lankan government, which actually commended the Sri Lankan government for its policies and celebrating its victory over the Tamil Tigers.  The resolution ignored calls for an investigation into alleged war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law. Because of the clunky mechanics of the UN Security Council and the difficulty of passing unanimous resolutions on countries’ internal problems when many of those voting have awkward internal problems of their own, no resolution censuring Sri Lanka has been passed. With the UNHRC resolution, the government of Sri Lanka probably thinks it’s off the hook which is perhaps why video footage of the sort that emerged yesterday has so alarmed Colombo. Sinhalese and Tamil Sri Lankans who want to see impartial investigations into alleged human rights abuse have either had to flee into exile (like the group of journalists who obtained the video), have been arrested, beaten or killed – or remain there, ducking for cover. Yesterday, an eminent Sri Lankan academic, Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu, director of the Colombo-based think tank, the Center for Policy Alternatives, said he’d received an anonymous death threat.  His crime, it appears, was to lambast the UN for its failure to hold the government of Sri Lanka accountable. “In Sri Lanka,” he’s quoted as saying, “there were a lot of us who had a palpable sense of disappointment with regard to the UN. Perhaps our expectations were too high.” Sri Lanka’s long and horrible civil war killed as many as 80,000 people. The Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam pioneered the use of suicide bombers and paid scant heed to the lives of civilians. They trained and used thousands of child-soldiers to fight the Sri Lankan Army.  If we’d obtained a video tape of these atrocities and abuses, we would have certainly sought to authenticate and then aired them too.[/q]

Did anybody know that the LTTE had a school to teach the Sinhalese language to the terrorists who were going to operate in the South?Did anybody know that the instructors were, Sri Lanka Army officers and soldiers who were captured in battle?Did anybody know that these instructors were killed after their job was done?Did anybody know how they were killed? Can't be cyanide.Stories have been recorded from those who escaped from the clutches of the 'sickos'. The govt will put those stories out at the right time I am sure.Did anybody know that channel 4 is speculating?Did anybody know that channel 4 is not saying specifically it was the GOSL troops? and finally:Did anybody know how one time Prabhakaran's closest ally Mahaththaya was killed by Prabhakaran?Same way - Blindfolded, naked and shot in the back. Unfortunately, no video this time, huh!The circumstances of Mahaththaya's death should be known to all the die hard supporters of the terrorists. Nothing comes out, huh! And we talk of media freedom. OMG!

Hi,I think these are to be expected. Much worse things had been done by LTTE. I'm sure the victims are LTTE leaders and they are gettting the Boomerang Effect!

When theres war theres always incidents like these. You stupid blogggers cant understand this.U honestly believe these are crimes. LTTE did this for 30 years and u stupid AH's dont say a word about it. It hurts when you loose. Best thing to do is keep your ******* mouth shut for a while and do some other work(Non violent)