Channel 4 video holds no water

The Ministry of Defence has released a new video - "Shadows of terror", a rejoinder to the one that was released last week,on Channel 4- "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: A War Unpunished." The new video contains true accounts of the victims who had seen the LTTE terror during the final months of the battle in 2009.

Meanwhile, the Ministry, rejecting allegations in the video, claimed that the newly released video by the Channel 4 was baseless and unacceptable. Referring to the first such defamatory video released by the same source, it was announced that when the Sri Lankan government proved beyond doubt that the footage featured was definitely technically engineered, all media groups which were ready to support Channel 4 did not respond.

Channel 4 itself was unable to prove the authenticity of the first video after the Sri Lankan Government publicised the actual footage which was a part of the documentary done in 2010-2011 by the Ministry of Defence for public awareness both local and international.It is noted that the Channel 4 has come up with the second and similar video aiming at defaming Sri Lanka at the current UN summit for Human Rights held in Geneva.

The Ministry of Defence rejects all allegations of human rights violation stating that it was able to prove with valid evidence that it was the LTTE that committed gross violation of human rights over the past three decades.The Channel 4 had the opportunity to present the said information to the LLRC officially and take action internationally against HR violations.

Instead they had opted to air the video given the fact that they are unable to prove the authenticity of the footage if confronted by a responsible body.

The Channel 4 video aims to impress upon the international community that thousands of lives were lost periodically with no provable supporting evidence, the Ministry said.