Mudslinging campaign against Sri Lanka:
Channel 4, the mouthpiece of LTTE diaspora
by S. Thillainathan
The London based Channel 4 TV station is the mouthpiece of the LTTE
diaspora. The LTTE rump is said to fund this station heavily to carry
out its mudslinging campaign against Sri Lanka. The money raised by the
LTTE rump in Britain and Europe is allegedly spent lavishly on such
covert operations against Sri Lanka.
According to reliable sources, the LTTE pays the Channel 4 TV station
almost 300,000 dollars annually for the services rendered.
The Editor and presenter of the Channel 4 TV station is Shirani
Sabaratnam. She was born at Vaddukoddai in Jaffna. When she tried to
enter Sri Lanka on June 5, 2011 she was detained at the Katunayake
airport by Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities and later deported to
Britain. It is reliably understood that Shirani, a former member of the
LTTE had arrived with her British husband from Britain, via Dubai and
when she was detained at the airport her husband had disappeared.
When she was questioned by the authorities, she said that she had
used different passports to travel to Sri Lanka’s North, during the war
against terrorism and after terrorism was eradicated.
Her husband, Stuart Cosgrove is a director of the Channel 4 Station.
They are reportedly playing a major role in diaspora activities against
Sri Lanka. The authorities believe that the husband and wife duo had
visited Sri Lanka to do another documentary which was critical of the
Government.
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