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Kebithigollewa images exploited for anti-SL protests
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Sri Lanka’s overseas missions alerted
NDTV footage comes under fire :
by Manjula FERNANDO
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A still from the NDTV footage
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The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has alerted Sri Lanka’s
missions overseas against a sinister move by LTTE sympathisers and
supporters to use images of LTTE atrocities, labelled as crimes
committed by Government forces, in their worldwide protests to sully Sri
Lanka’s image in the eyes of the world.
A spokesperson for the MEA said that the conspiracy came to light
when the Indian news channel NDTV telecast images of a Chennai based
protest on March 21 where the protesters had displayed images of a
grieving father carrying a dead child in his hands, a picture that had
been taken after the LTTE’s brutal bomb attack on a civilian bus in
Kebithigollewa in June 2006.
The MEA through the Sri Lankan mission in New Delhi has lodged a
protest with the NDTV for the footage carrying the misleading image.
There has been a disturbing trend of protests across Chennai, organised
by extremist political parties sympathetic to the LTTE, especially
during the run up to the UN Human Rights Council regular session that
concluded on Friday.
‘Their intention was to shame Sri Lanka for defeating the LTTE terror
outfit”, the spokesperson said. However, the DMK and other parties that
pushed for tougher action against Sri Lanka at the HRC were disappointed
that the US sponsored resolution was finally watered down and a good
part of the international community acknowledged Sri Lanka’s progress
after the end of the war against LTTE terrorism.
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