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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 10.02 GMT |
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"Channel 4"
video absolutely false - Govt. |
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The
video
footage
recently
aired on
'Channel
4' UK
claiming
to show
alleged
atrocities
committed
by Sri
Lankan
forces
against
Tamils
is
absolutely
false
and has
been
deliberately
put
together
to bring
disrepute
to the
Government
of Sri
Lanka,
states
the
Presidential
Secretariat
in
Colombo.
The
Government
of Sri
Lanka
will
make a
strong
protest
to
Channel
4 with
regard
to the
contents
of this
video
and also
bring
the
matter
to the
notice
of the
relevant
authorities,
as well
as seek
to
pursue
remedies
available
with
regard
to the
distortion
of
truth.
The
Government
of Sri
Lanka
sees
this
unsubstantiated
and
admittedly
unverifiable
video
footage
as an
attempt
by
elements
opposed
to the
success
of the
reconciliation
process
under
way in
Sri
Lanka
and the
ongoing
efforts
to
rebuild
the
country
after
nearly
30 years
of
terror
by the
LTTE.
The
Government
has
reasons
to
suspect
that
those
who
provided
this
false
and
doctored
footage
are
those
still
supportive
of LTTE
terror,
who
failed
in their
attempts
to
discredit
the Sri
Lankan
government
at the
recent
UN Human
Rights
Council
in
Geneva.
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