BRITISH TV AIRS FOOTAGE
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Lanka rejects video of soldiers on murder spree
Published on Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:00 in World section
Tags: Sri Lanka Army, LTTE , New Delhi
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New Delhi: The Sri Lankan High Commission in London has denied its army was involved in atrocities against the ethnic Tamil minority after Britain’s Channel 4 news aired a video on Tuesday allegedly showing a soldier executing two men.
News agency AFP reports Channel 4 News aired video of a man dressed in army uniform shooting a naked, bound and blindfolded man in the back of the head, while the bodies of several other men were seen nearby in a muddy field. Another man was also shot in the same way towards the end of the video, which is believed to have been filmed in January on a soldier’s cell phone.
The Lankan High Commission in London denied its army harassed Tamils while fighting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and claimed the video could be doctored.
“The High Commission of Sri Lanka categorically deny that the Sri Lankan armed forces engaged in atrocities against the Sri Lankan Tamil community. They were only engaged in a military offensive against the LTTE,” said a press statement issued by the commission.
“We have noted that in many past instances, various media institutions used doctored videos, photographs and documents to defame the Sri Lankan government and armed forces,” it said.
Channel 4 says it cannot verify the authenticity of the video, which it received from a group called Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka.
The United Nations has estimated that between 80,000 and 100,000 people were killed in Sri Lanka's decades-long conflict with LTTE rebels which the security forces declared ended in May.
The conflict ended after the military took control of all LTTE-held territory and killed LTTE chief V Prabhakaran.
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A clever mischief by LTT(Lankan Tamil Terrorists)/Their Touts
LTT did servive due to the war materials supplied
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Shocking brutalities unleashedby the Lankans. I hope they are charged under war crimes. As for the Indian govt, have they
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When the entire world is against Sri Lanka and its inhuman activities; India, Pakistan and China keep defending it. My
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The fact that brutalities were done during the Eelam war was well known...its just a more inhumane picture has emerged
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After seeing this video i was horrified.Is this the sort of counter-insurgency training that the SL army offers to impart
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