British Channel-4 TV
allegations
Manipulating the medium
and showing horror executions
by/of LTTE terrorists ?
Planting the story?
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The first UK show was on Ch. 4 TV, in August
2009, showing a naked bound man being shot
from behind – the war ended on 19 May 2009.
The time difference between the gunshot sound
and the appearance of the image is 0.296 sec.
Hence the victim was ~102 meters away. But
the victim is only a few feet away in the picture.
The words, claimed to be Sinhala are unclear –
dubbed in ? – from a Tamil original ?
First Gunfire
Diagnosis
The time synchronization etc have
become impaired during the dubbing
and doctoring of the original video.
 A close shot does more damge than
shown in the video !!!
 This seems totally untrustworthy.
 Source and authorship unknown.
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LTTE practice of executing
prisoners
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That the LTTE routinely executed its prisoners, and sent assassins to
target any dissent or opposition is well known.
Videos were made by the LTTE – the source of these Ch4-footage.
The fleeing tigers killed and executed their prisoners: see:
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http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20101126_01
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Adel Balasingham’s book records teaching young Tamil kids to use
arms, even suicide, to kill the `enemy’.
600 policemen who surrendered were executed in cold blood by the
LTTE negating an assurance to the President of the country.
Canadian refugee-seeking Tamils have testified to the killing of
prisoners by the LTTE
See Globe and Mail, April 19th 2011 story:
“Tamil migrant …shooting soldiers”
A second show in Boston
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Boston-Lanka news, June 14, 2010 aired
the same Ch4-TV execution but with killers
speaking Tamil, unlike in Ch4TV !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohI3CSD4neM
Boston Lanka News Edition June 14, 2010)
Are Tamil tigers wearing army dress
executing prisoners, but mocked up by
LTTE propagandists and Ch4-TV to say
the very opposite?????
GTF program against Sri Lanka
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The actions of Ch4-TV have to be understood in the
context of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) made up of
Tamil separatists who previously supported the Eelam
program of the LTTE, and collected money to buy arms.
The wealthy GTF has recruited Labour- and Conservative
MPs, especially those who lost their seats.
The GTF hired Joan Ryan (former Home Minister/Labour)
as its Chief Executive after she lost her seat at the last
parliamentary polls
Are there deep reasons why the GTF has a hold on Joan
Rayn who is obliged to work for this group?
The GTF has backed the Ch4-TV item as proof of its
allegations as it seems to have nothing more definitive.
Darusman report on Sri Lanka
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The pressure on the UN came from many quarters
One typical example is the “campaign for justice and peace in Sri
Lanka” , set up to pressurize the UN
This involved an “Asian Human Rights Commission” run by a Basil
Fernando whose links with Garry Anandasangaree and Harini
Sivalingam are well exposed.
What are their links with Navaneetha Pillai?
Why did Ban-ki-Moon choose a Darusman whose record of activities
in Indonesia/South Asia go contrary to human-rights concerns?
Why was the Ban-ki-Moon advisory panel chosen deviating from
standard UN practice of using its own experts?
Why produce an anecdotal report of mere allegations ?
Geneva sessions, UNHCR June
2011
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UN Rapporteur, Chris Heyns (friend of
Navaneetha Pillai) claims that a “new” Ch-4 TV
video is `authenticated by three forensic experts
of the US’, and tables the video in Geneva.
The “new” video is the same “old video” with
“added footage” and details to further
authenticate the item.
Callum Macrae who directed the Ch4 extended
video admits that the ‘killing fields of Sri lanka’
are from photographic stills, clippings, old
footages and satellite imagery – a collage - also
shown in Geneva by Amnesty International.
If there were new evidence?
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Why was this not made available to the
Ban-Ki-moon panel?
Wasn’t the Moon panel not high-powered
enough than Channel-4 to get at existing
facts?
Why was due process side-stepped for a
trial by TV without inputs from the other
side?
The view of an independent expert
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Executive director of IPTV systems,
Sydney (previously, head of Cisco’s global
broadcast and digital video practice
division) has also examined the new Ch4TV item of Chris Heyns
His conclusions are the very opposite of
the `authentication’ claimed by the UN
lobby and the British-Tamil Forum.
Views of the IPTV (ex-CISCO) expert-part I
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These views have been summarized in a news report in
the Asian Tribune, June 6, 2011.
The video is dated UTC 2009-07-15, and taken from a
video camera and not from a mobile phone, as claimed
by one of Heyns’ experts but not the other ?
There is more than one video layer, and the
unexplainable time off-set between audio and image is
0.296 sec as in the old Ch4-TV.
Grant Fredericks (hired by Heyns) claims that the video
uses an optical zoom which is not available as yet on
mobile phones, and that Philips Editing software has
been used, contrary to claims of Jeff Spivak, another
expert hired by Heyns).
Views of the IPTV (ex-CISCO) expert-part II
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There are 17 new frames inconsistent with
the old video.
It is suggested that this arose when
transferring from Video format to mobilephone format. Mr. Grant (hired expert)
says that he cannot explain it.
The editing of the “new” part of the
execution is similar to that of the old part,
and probably done on a PC.
Broadcasting gory horror
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Most civilized countries prohibit the airing
of gory horror, or profiting by showing
executions, torture etc.
If you can show such stuff, you make
money
A neat way to side-step the law is “the
need to air war crimes”.
THE BOTTOM LINE – making money ?
To kill a mocking bird-I?
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Was it a public lynching of Sri Lanka by an
enraged righteous “holier-than-thou”
western crusade?
Why not fully reveal the well known past
of some the persons focused in Ch-4:
like Issipriya the “innocent journalist” – a
Lt Col of the Tiger military and married to
Sea Tiger Ram?
See ministry of defence
To kill a mocking bird-II ?
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Another Channel-4 witness is Ramesh alias
Romeo-Siera alias Thurairajasingham.
Ramesh is an LTTE military commander
who led the attacks on many fronts (e.g.,
the Ellavala attack) since 1995 and led the
Iranamadu (Ranamaduwa) battle in 2008
He was an executioner of 600 policemen
as instructed by Anton and Adel
Balasingham.
To kill a mocking bird - III
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Another Channel-4 witness is Thimalvamy
Kumar – she was a Britisher working with
the LTTE and brought to the freed IDP
camps in Vavunia (Vannimava) in 2009.
How did she, a Britisher, get into the
Vanni war zone?
She was released instead of being tried
for collaborating with the enemy.
Justice needs to be done
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Parading ex-Tiger military cadre as
“witnesses”, & using footage supplied by
them kill the chances for a future fair trial
of “war” criminals.
Channel-4 has hardened the the Tamil
diaspora and the Sri Lankan nationalist,
diminishing RECONCILIATION.
This is a beggar's wound for Channel-4
and “HR NGOs” to make money
International fall out
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The claim of genocide and torture implicit
in channel-4 helps the bogus refugee
claimants and their highly paid lawyers.
These claims help manipulate the ethnic
vote by political parties.
The NDP in Canada adopted an adverse
vote on Sri Lanka after Channel-4.
Wanted – probe into Channel 4
Given the extensive ramifications of the
channel- 4 broadcast :
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Media transparency – public access to all
documents and sources needed.
Justice to both sides needed.
WE CALL FOR A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE
BROADCAST FOOTAGE, WITNESSES, AND THE
JOURNALISTS INVOLVED.