You can keep denying all you want, but the truth will keep coming out.

Yes, there is more to come… wait and see.

The Sinhalese don’t seem realize the fact that these Rapists and Murderers (Sri Lankan Army/Police) who haven’t been identified/arrested, will one day do this to YOU!!! Yes, Sinhalese Army Rapists and Murderers will rape/murder Sinhalese women sooner/later. So it’s in your interests to have these criminals arrested.

* The Sinhalese people have always dismissed most reports of Tamils being killed/raped/tortured/kidnapped as LTTE propaganda. But they were not. Most of the Tamils have had atleast one relative/friend who was a victim of these crimes.

It’s time for you to stop denying, and start accepting.
(Like Chandrika B.K., etc)

& don’t forget your own, Lasantha W, Dr. Brian S., etc

There is some good info on Sri Lanka on this website > > TamilNation.co

and

if Sri Lanka HAD nothing to hide(in 2009 & earlier), they would have allow an independent media into SL/north-east

This too is incorrect. I remember there were stories about doctors performing amputations without anasthesia, something that was scoffed at by the actual doctors. At the Marga seminar, a gentleman who was actually in charge of IDPs said that nothing was denied (though there were shortages) and there was no distinction made between injured civilians and combatants.

The Vavuniya GS was a retired man and gave examples of how in previous years the Tigers inflated population numbers to get additional GoSL supplies for their troops, thereby making previous population counts suspect. If you are going to discredit every witness who won’t agree with you by either labeling them GoSL lackeys or acting out of fear, any discussion is a pointless exercise. The point is there is no evidence of medical supplies, food, or other necessities being deliberately withheld. At the Marga seminar it was made clear that all possible efforts were made to look after the IDPs, though there were many shortfalls due to logistical problems and simple incompetence.

No I am certainly not saying that no civilians died. In fact, if you follow the thread, you’ll see that I am personally making no claims one way or the other.

I am merely highlighting what Dr. Rajiva Wijesinha has written in response to the Ch4 documentary. I am not presenting his arguments as incontrovertible, but I do respect him for at least responding directly to each of the charges made in the film rather than deploying the usual evasion tactics. I do recommend you read his comment and draw your own conclusions, I have provided the link above.

I also want to make it clear that I am NOT Dr. Wijesinha, if there is any confusion about it!

As for OFCOM, I think you’re wrong. I highly doubt that they vet everything that goes out on Britain’s airwaves to determine their accuracy. If you think about it, that would pose a fairly serious threat to freedom of expression. I would be greatly surprised and humbled if you were to offer me proof that they do.

With regards to the dishonesty of the GoSL, let me say that I am in total agreement with you. I don’t think they have a monopoly on dishonesty as far as the current controversy goes, but I would say that their conduct impacts more lives more directly than any of the other actors, and so it is right and proper to focus on it.

I remember Government spokespersons repeatedly gave a figure of 120,000 as the number of people in the Vanni. Even after 120,000 people had arrived in the concentration camps they were making those assertions. Hence how can we trust the GoSL?

The Mullaithivu GA during the last stages of the war said: ‘there are around 375,000 people in the Vanni’. Surely when the GoSL’s own agents were saying this why did the GoSL spokespersons say 120,000?

Due you think the Vavuniya GS spoke the truth or was he under some fear, since he is a government employee to not say anything against the GoSL? Do you really think he is free to utter the truth? With the kind of governance structure we have and the 18th amendment how can government officials say things contradictory of MR?

What happened to previous presidential commissions? APRC?

As for OFCOM they do have resources to ascertain the veracity or genuineness of the footage. I’m sure OFCOM would not allow a false footage to be shown as authentic.

There is also this matter of Ch4′s editing – that on occasion they have spliced together various unconnected pieces of footage and then presented them as a single instance, thereby misleading the audience. David Blacker has written about how they went about doing this, but I can’t locate a link at the moment.

As for OFCOM, as far as I know, their remit is to ensure that broadcasters do not violate the interests and sensibilities of the British audience, either by engaging in unfair competition or airing offensive material. They are not there to ascertain the veracity of any given piece of reportage, and I doubt they have the resources to do so.

A hack who used to work for C4 confirmed that the footage used in the first SLKF documentary was hawked around the place and only C4 took up the challenge, because it seems that ever since C4 got kicked out of Sri Lanka, they’ve been behaving like a bunny boiler ex-girlfriend.  It’s obviously deeply personal :) :)

He said “The documentary is not a ‘coup’ – other broadcasters had the footage and did nor air it.“

I have looked at the actions of the LTTE over the last few years see:

http://jestforkicks.blogspot.com/2011/07/politics-in-blogosphere.html

What is bad is bad.

One almost wishes the GoSL had a better quality of enemy :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9144300/Sri-Lankas-Killing-Fields-War-Crimes-Unpunished-Channel-4-review.html