UN Officials Channel 4 Video Analysis - Forensic Hoax [July 26 2011]

Two high ranking UN officials hell-bent on using the disputed Channel 4 ‘Killing Fields’ video as a springboard for initiating an international war crimes investigation against Sri Lanka have misled the world and are  getting away with it under the cover of ‘forensic science’, states the Sri Lanka-USA Update website.

Accordingly, an investigation into the background of the ‘experts’ the two officials, Special Rapporteur Philip Alston and  Special Rapporteur Christof Heyns, commissioned to authenticate the disputed video has revealed some startling discrepancies and shocking professional lapses which question the legitimacy and objectivity of their findings as much as their professional credentials.

The website further notes that in addition to hyping up and misrepresenting the qualifications of the ‘experts’ they commissioned to authenticate the video, the two officials used their high office to fool people into believing that ‘forensic video analysis’ – the apparent process their experts used to determine that the video was unaltered footage of live executions and atrocities by Sri Lankan forces captured on cell phone cameras during the final days of the war – is an objective, infallible scientific process.   The two ‘UN Experts’ who authenticated the video, Dr. Daniel Spitz, a forensic pathologist and medical examiner and Mr. Grant Fredericks, a ‘forensic video expert’ have been charged with using flawed methodologies, Sri Lanka-US Update reveals. The former has bungled an autopsy test with his failure to detect a bullet hole in the neck and a bullet lodged in the jaw of a murder victim, while the latter has been caught lying in a scandalous police cover-up in a Canadian courtroom.