UN Chief welcomes Sri Lanka's two-day truce.

So who else the Sri Lankan Government allowed to report on these situations other than defense.lk - the propaganda site for Sri Lankan Government's genocide.

In the so called "ceasefire" period, why not invite foreign media & journalists to show the real situation in the "safety zones" in Sri Lanka ? Would not a ceasefire situation nicely accommodate things like this to show the world what is actually happening in the "safety zones" ? That is if the Sri Lankan government actually have ceasefire in place, otherwise it is a pits too, what can I say.

Then Tamils don't have to still rely on their own sources to defend themselves, right?

I was just wondering, If TamilNet correspondent can report peacefully from the safety zone with such comfort, then the situation must be real good over there. With internet , fax and all other facilities.

So, where is this shelling / systematic bread making is happening?

Don't you agree, Sudharaka?

.Agent.

I have seen that video before. Though that was a terrible experience, it reminded me of something. In certain parts of world, you can see mafia rackets those kidnap our kids, maim them (blind, deform and disfigure) and then use for begging. Or you can see lepers who show their lost and disfigured limps to earn money.

I think that is exactly what happens here - but in a much brutal level and way. LTTE just hack the limps of people who try to escape - especially children, record them and broadcast through media. Giving captions saying that this happened during Sri Lankan shelling. Any one who see this and get the shock of their life will not think that how can a bomb / shell explosion injure only some parts of the body keeping the other intact. Second, how you will get a professional cameraman ready at that exact and at exact time. Any normal person would run to help the injured instead of taking videos.

“Diasporans”, despite of knowing all these still support LTTE and Prabhakaran because still they think that their "Eezham" dream will come true.

The limps of  thousands of such children are a "small" price to pay for the safety of their "leedar and preseedant" Prabhakaran and his remaining cronies.

After all in any revolution there has to be some front line martyrs.

Still  the LTTE " diasporans" do have the nerve to talk about humanity and humanitarian crisis. Whoever have seen their comments and posts would have noticed one common factor in those. The request for "independent" media. Since they have such professional propaganda machinery, it is easy to mislead the media person using such gruesome videos and real looking , but fabricated incidents.


.Agent.

Sara Star:

The only way to figure out the actual truth is to let the free media in and let the foreign aid agencies in to see the actual situation in Sri Lanka.

UN have to entertain on even small propaganda distributed by the Sri Lankan Government if they want to keep an dialogue open with Mahinda Government. Otherwise he will boot out UN calls to as he did for media and aid agencies.

Tamils in Sri Lanka & Tamils Diaspora's requests are:

(1) free media & journalists

(2) allow aid & aid agencies to come in to the war torn regions

(3) hold a independently held referendum for Tamils for a long term solution. I think the Tamils in Sri Lanka at least deserve that after 60 years of oppression.

It is waste discuss Sri Lankan Government's propaganda here, because it is obvious from the heavy media ban that they are trying to hide something. 

Ok, let's say the LTTE is holding the civilian hostage, the Sri Lankan Government can easily give access to aid agencies and journalists to the area so that they would do the PR fighting for the government, right? Why the Sri Lankan government does not want to stop shelling and bombing even during the current 2 day "ceasefire" and does not want anybody to go near the so called "safty zones" ? If the so called "safe zones" are "safe" for Tamils civilians and the government directed them to go there, then why it would not be safe for journalists and aid agencies to operate from?

There is always two sides to any story, and it is preferred if independent sources are allowed to tell the news, and that is what urgently needed in Sri Lanka.

Sara Star:

The video you have uploaded here shows a little body without legs cut off / or shelled off and Tamil mom crying "see this, see this, please help" hysterically and a nurse trying to attend to the little boy's wound. It is not clear what happened to the little boy. I watched the video entirely and many times to see if there are any signs or voice to actually express that LTTE has done this, I found there is not even slight evidence to support the title of the video.

In an already on going propaganda war in the current situation, you are using a suffering a small boy shown on video to make a huge judgment on a freedom struggle without any evidence. The video can be easily came from a Sri Lankan Army's shelling and bombing.

Nowhere in the video there is any evidence the LTTE has anything to do with it. Somebody used the title to accuse LTTE in here.

In the current situation it is wise to campaign for media freedom and media access to Sri Lanka so that the world can hear the truth of the war and their casualties, but using a hasty judgement to post a video without any evidence does not improve the current situation for the Tamils civilians. It only becomes part of the propaganda against the Tamils civilians dying in Sri Lanka, intentionaly or unintentionly.