Sri Lanka's Killing Fields-atrocities by SL army against Tamil civilians

[Lankan Ranger]

Dutch Investigators arrive in Sri Lanka to probe overseas LTTE financial network

A team of Dutch officials investigating the financial network of the Tamil Tiger leaders in the Netherlands has arrived in Sri Lanka to interrogate former and current LTTE leaders in the country.

According to Dutch media reports the team is in Sri Lanka to investigate funding activities and weapons procurement by Tamil leaders based in the Netherlands during the conflict.

Spokesman of the team Jaco Beerends has said they are investigating funding activities and weapons procurement by Tamil leaders based in the Netherlands during the conflict, which lasted from 1983 to 2009.

Last month Dutch authorities initiated negotiations with Sri Lankan Attorney General Mohan Peiris seeking permission to interrogate 13 witnesses in Sri Lanka including former and current LTTE leaders.

The team plans to interrogate the LTTE's chief arms procurer Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) who is in the custody of Sri Lankan authorities.

Sri Lanka defense sources said the government has granted permission to the Netherlands investigators to record statements from KP.

The Dutch authorities have launched a complex and elaborate investigation called 'Operation Koninck' to uncover the prominent role Tamil Tiger leaders in the Netherlands played in financing the civil war in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka : Dutch Investigators arrive in Sri Lanka to probe overseas LTTE financial network

 

[ashokdeiva]

we do not support this genocide mate..i am not tamil..but i do understand your feelings and i also understand that no country should make enemies before negotiating..you blame India but during rise of LTTE India had its own problems..we were not in a position to take firm stand on this issue....non-regional powers were influencing our region when India had yet to rise..
please dont blame it on India..

do not blame on any country fair enough but blame it on humanity, we have UN to stop these kind of inhumane act by any government, where were they or where were the voice of people to stop the killing.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Did those LTTE terrorist scum have women and child soldiers ? Its good tht LTTE scum is exterminated!

 

[ashokdeiva]

There is no point in arguing with self-centered lunatics, who wish to see blood of a kind to make sure the other lives with the joy of killing. Those who don't see that killing people as bad, you are all hipocrats.

 

[temujin]

"Channel-4 video a fake", concludes video forensic analyst

The new Channel 4 video of alleged extra-judicial killings in Sri lanka which the new UN Rapporteur, Prof. Christof Heyns claimed as being authentic after having same tested by three US forensic experts at the Geneva sessions of the UNHRC in June 2011, has once again been determined as a fake by Mr. Siri Hewavitharana of Australia, who is one of the world's leading experts on digital video systems and former head of Cisco's Global Broadcast and Digital Video Practice division. Mr. Hewavitharana is presently the Executive Director of IPTV Systems in Sydney, Australia.

Mr. Hewavitharana's incisive comments relating to Channel 4's latest video have been published in a news report carried in the Asian Tribune of June 6, 2011, which is annexed hereto for easy reference.

It must also be mentioned here that Mr. Jonathan Taylor, the foreign affairs correspondent of the Channel 4 News of UK claimed that the gun wielding men dressed in Sri Lanka army uniforms were members of the Sri Lankan security forces and that the alleged victims were members of the Tamil community without providing any proof as to their identities other than the UN Rapporteur stating that according to experts hired by him the video was authentic.

We are aware that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), also known as the Tamil Tigers possessed such uniforms having overrun Sri Lankan army installations in the past, which they donned to carry out atrocities against their own Tamil people and other ethnicities. Yet other data to question the authenticity of the video, and grounds to reach other conclusions are given by us following the undernoted comments of Mr. Hewavitharana.

Channel 4 Video is Fake, Edited and Video taken by Video Camera

It seems new Channel 4 video at UN is worse than the previous one even though new video supposed to show old video clip with added drama and whole video is fake with a date indicating UTC 2009-07-15 13 :17:23 and taken by a Video Camera and Not by a mobile phone as indicated.

Worst part is UN's new Rapporteur Christof Heyns hired a new US based video specialist Mr Grant Fredericks to analyse the video. I am surprised, with his conclusion, that the video is Edited using Philips editing software and Never Came from the mobile phone since video is using an Optical Zoom which is not available in Any mobile Camera that is available to date.

To me, video editing is so obvious that all it needs is to look into the video end to see more than one video layer, and audio is also not synchronized in with the video as indicated by the previous Channel 4 video.... The technical foot print is identical on both videos indicating it is edited by the same software and by the same idiot.

Also Mr. Jeff S. Spivack is now giving different and conflicting answers but avoiding the main criticism that video is edited using a PC and he uses childish or dishonest analysis saying rudimentary editing possible on a mobile phone cannot do this type of a video... Who is he kidding?

At one part he says the video is edited using Philips software and using a PC and other part he said it cannot be done with the mobile phones editing applications.... How does he answer Mr Grant Frederick's analysis saying these are high quality video that came from a Video Camera?

What can he say about 17 frames of video that is inconsistent with the original video? This anomaly was created by a new video wrapper that try to create from original video camera to the mobile video format and if you work in this area you know why this happened, except Mr. Grant says he does not know why it happened? It will be cheaper that, UN hire clowns since only clowns speak like that.

To me these are what I call hired guns with an agenda but I would not dignify these people saying they are experts in video. They are experts in downright incompetence or dishonesty that can be bought for 30 pieces of silver....

My technical conclusion that was done with the previous and the present video is almost identical to Mr Grant Frederick's analysis.

Sri Lanka News | Ministry of Defence - Sri Lanka

Hmm...so says MoD Sri Lanka. Who would have thought??

BTW, Channel 4 has addressed this accusation in their piece..

 

[kingkobra]

do not blame on any country fair enough but blame it on humanity, we have UN to stop these kind of inhumane act by any government, where were they or where were the voice of people to stop the killing.

did you not read that i mentioned "non-regional powers"

 

[ashokdeiva]

did you not read that i mentioned "non-regional powers"

WELL IN 2009, we were a greater power, we had the ability to stop the ensuing war, we would have got the partis to table, this is the handy work for Indian agency to fulfill one families wish for avenging former PM's death. I do not want to name the guy as I feel as a disgrace as a Tamil.

 

[temujin]

Did those LTTE terrorist scum have women and child soldiers ? Its good tht LTTE scum is exterminated!

Watch the report and tell me how many of those lying dying in the bombed out hospitals or scurrying for cover under shell fire appear to be combatants? Or the 6 year old who had his arm and leg chopped off with a kitchen knife? Bet he was a child soldier, isn`t it? Or the newsreader who suffered a horrendous fate, as we find out later? She must have been an LTTE soldier moonlighting as a newscaster, right?

I find it highly disturbing that none of the Pakistani members on here (or on the other thread) find any of this objectionable-in fact, many appear to be of the opinion that it served the Tamil population right to be treated in this manner. I hope you feel the same way about civilians being killed during legitimate raids on insurgents in Muslim hotspots or even Radko Mladic, who rounded up and shot 6000 muslims in Srebrenica in the mid 90s. Having been to Bosnia myself, I have seen first hand how Bosnian Serbs seek to justify the mass murders by giving them a historical context etc but that does not legitimize RM's actions and he is rightly standing trial for it..

Geddit?

 

[harpoon]

WELL IN 2009, we were a greater power, we had the ability to stop the ensuing war, we would have got the partis to table, this is the handy work for Indian agency to fulfill one families wish for avenging former PM's death. I do not want to name the guy as I feel as a disgrace as a Tamil.

Lets face it brother, killing that former PM was the single greatest mistake made by LTTE. I don't know what was going through Prabhakaran's head when he ordered that hit.

 

[ashokdeiva]

Lets face it brother, killing that former PM was the single greatest mistake made by LTTE. I don't know what was going through Prabhakaran's head when he ordered that hit.

is one life worth killing of 40,000 lives and raping of women in large numbers

 

[Meengla]

I am too weak to watch it.
But I believe atrocities happened. Shame on SL.
I know LTTE was really cruel but SL didn't have to wrap up the war to 'teach' a lesson.

I am very upset about this.

 

[ashokdeiva]

I am too weak to watch it.
But I believe atrocities happened. Shame on SL.
I know LTTE was really cruel but SL didn't have to wrap up the war to 'teach' a lesson.

I am very upset about this.

Thanks mate, you are the first pakistani to support the tamils on a moral ground by accepting that systamatic genocide has been carried out by the SL army

 

[ramu]

Every report posted by Lankan is from a source that has a conflict of interest in telling the truth about the killings.
Not a single international source ?

 

[ashokdeiva]

Every report posted by Lankan is from a source that has a conflict of interest in telling the truth about the killings.
Not a single international source ?

Because nobocy will back them at the international level for the crimes they have committed against humanity. 20 years down the lane, Rajapaksae, his brother, army chief druing the war and all will be held responsible for the crimes and will spend the rest of their missarable lives in UN prison just like the NAZI war cirminals.

 

[DESERT FIGHTER]

Well if civilians were shot intentionally im feel sorry for them........ But it would be wrong to tht SLA killed all the civilians intentionally!

The guy who talks abt bosnia... yes an uncle of mine served in serbia at the time of the conflict i know what happened!

But where is ur so called morality when ur army commits mass rapes and mass murders in IOK!


collateral damage is a term used for such horrors...... Also i doubt they bombed the civilians for fun!


Anyways....RIP for the innocents killed...

U shouldnt have created LTTE though.