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by lalith | May 7, 2009 at 06:17 am
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UNOSAT images and comments on civilians in NFZ Partial, provisional, unconfirmed - UN Resident Coordinator
(Lakshmi DE SILVA)
The UNOSAT images released to the media as well as comments on them regarding civilians in the No Fire Zone (NFZ) are partial, provisional and unconfirmed, says UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Neil Buhne in a letter addressed to Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe on May 4.
Buhne says that he did not authorise the UNOSAT comments as the images and comments on them could be "misinterpreted" as a 'UN finding'.
According to him the imagery and the commentary have reached the public through a technical fault of posting them without password protection. Hence, when it was found out public access to them was withdrawn, says Buhne.
Minister Samarasinghe goes on to say "satellite imagery is one of the tools and information sources among many and neither it nor any accompanying commentary, can represent the overall view of the UN on any particular situation. That comes from statements by the Secretary General or other senior figures".
Reading this article it seems that the United Nations, however pristine it might look has wronged Sri Lanka.
The satellite information has been saved by the authorities in the UNOSAT without password protect. Do we smell a rat in the vicinity?
UNOSAT takes the blame for this lapse (as they would like to depict it) . Lapses are unacceptable from High Security organizations like the UNOSAT.
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at 07:54 on May 7th, 2009
"According to him the imagery and the commentary have reached the public through a technical fault of posting them without password protection."
That sounds absurd and lame !
Must not forget the UN claim of Army using cluster bombs which they withdrew later....
at 09:17 on May 7th, 2009
Government supporters, if you are not guilty why are you panic about these photos ??
at 09:48 on May 7th, 2009
errrrrrr
About an analysis the UN now says they cannot be responsible for? Hellooooo - use what is inside that skull of yours.
And BTW this is our democratically elected Government - there is no question of supporting or not. Simply, a government is a government.
We are not used to supporting and sympathizing with TERRORISTS.
at 11:55 on May 7th, 2009
First you use your head before commenting... He only told it is 'unconfirmed' . That does not mean false. If there is a responsible government existing, let it analyze and get the truth ..which is never going to happen !!
at 04:41 on May 8th, 2009
It is the pro-LTTE "Carnival Barkers" who harped on these "unconfirmed" UNOSAT images. What we have been telling from the begining is that any satellite image can be "confirmed" by a ground verification.
at 04:47 on May 8th, 2009
The democratically elected GoSL does not have to do such ground verifications, merely to satisfy the bandwagon of a totalitarian terrorist outfit which is proscribed in more than 30 countries.
at 05:30 on May 8th, 2009
Right now. 33 to be exact, and growing.
There may not be a requirement however, to ban a dead outfit.
at 11:43 on May 7th, 2009
No, I didn't think Tamilnet had a hand in it. This was too straight forward.
at 10:06 on May 7th, 2009
If we didn't panic, you will say that we were quiet because we were guilty.
If we didn't panic, the lie would have gone on record as a truth, and while you may have used the false information to protest against our government and to jeer at us the supporters, UNOSAT would have been smug about its (pseudo) competance.
The entire world owes us for having panicked and thus exposing UNOSAT not as reliable as professes to be. Now everybody will think twice! I personally am happy we panicked. We did the world a favour!!