Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya, Melbourne, 98088763

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Dateline
To the Attention of George Negus

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ This refers to the War Stories on Sri Lanka on the attach link

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/600331/n/War-Stories

And AfghanistanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s BagramƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Creature Comforts video clips of 28/02/10.

http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/600341/n/Bagram-s-Creature-Comforts

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ I believe Jinny Stien was sent to Sri Lanka, after Mr.George Negus inquired late last year from the Sri Lankan High Commissioner Mr.Welgampaya in Canberra, whether visa could be obtained

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ If so, one would assume that the report would be on post War Sri Lanka. Lo and behold, it was a rerun of archived footage of the War with a note that, images may disturb some viewers! Only the Government soldiers shooting and then the lined up dead bodies at various sites were shown, obviously with the intention of grabbing the wrath of the Aussie viewers. Was it really necessary to send a team of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-journalistsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ for this purpose? There were no reportingƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s of Tigers assault on the forces, so the independent cameraman could only film government forces firing at Tigers!ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Except a shot on Nadesan and Puleedevan stuffing possibly ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-TobleroneƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ chocolates into the rifles to despatch to the soldiers on the government side.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ A lot of Sri Lankan eminent Parliamentarians both Sinhalese & Tamil were blasted off, two presidents, one being Mr.Rajive Ghandi of India, thousands of innocent Sinhalese and Tamils too were killed. Such was the brutality of late LTTE, yet the entire West has accepted this mob is the goodies and the democratically elected Government as the real Terrorist.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Why? LTTE are not terrorists, because they are not a threat to the Westerners!

In fact Hillary Clinton categorised them as ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-good terroristsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚. Well they donƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t kill any of us, except handsomely contribute to our party. One wonders as to what length these people go to help them, America is now amending its Laws to make accommodations to support them morally without contravening Constitution!ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Well Norwegians did this under CFA, only some heavy artillery too landed in the North & East of Sri Lanka maybe they mistook Sri Lanka for some other country who bought this war weaponry!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Besides, all the Parliamentarians in the West, and anyone connected with media and the so called intellectuals too are continuously paid for their support to ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-PaintƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ LTTE & itƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s supporters as a God fearing lot.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ItƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s time Sri Lankan Government too redefine the definition of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-TerroristƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ and also create laws somehow to penalize sham INGOƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s who are sheltered by the foreign diplomatic missions and special laws even to lose the immunity of Diplomats if they contravene laws of the country that is detrimental to the Government.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ PHILIP ALSTON, UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR who should have an open mind, having watched the video ON alleged EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS in Sri Lanka, is already convinced beyond any doubt, that Sri Lankan government is determined to simply wipe out as many people as possible and not to follow the rules of international humanitarian law. My good man thereƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s no proof that the victims are Sinhalese or Tamil, or for that matter this event ever took place in Sri Lanka! Sri Lanka has sort expert advice from those who are qualified on this area and proved confidently that the video is a fabrication, but Alston was not satisfied, he used ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-someƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ experts and their findings were ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-inconclusiveƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚, UN did not accept it, now again he engaged, obviously “better expertsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ than the earlier batch of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-expertsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ just to bring the ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-pre concludedƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ verdict, yes video is genuine and they are ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Sri LankansƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ in the video.

These ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-expertsƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ have to possess some trace of ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-DivinityƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ to declare those beings in the video are definitely Sri Lankans and its Tamils thatƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s been executed!

Then the eye witness ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-AmbalanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ says ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-We have to just move from that area in order to save us from the shelling and firing, and we stayed in that place with the intention that it will be over in one or two days, or within one week. But it continued. So we have to move constantly in order to save our livesƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚, does he imply that he believed the forces will finish off the LTTE? Shelling will not be over until one of the sides are defeated, certainly not the government forces, at the rate they were capturing the LTTE area, he knows that, as he has been running with LTTE as the human shield. He doesnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t say who does the shelling and firing, itƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s only GOBI KRISHNA, the Australian a volunteer with a Tamil (charity a) front organisation for the Tamil Tigers who confirms these assaults are by the defence forces, naturally, if those who have never been at sites can tell lies, he is with the LTTE, he wouldnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t say anything different!

Ambalan found his wife been killed while attempting to escape by a vessel, ItƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s the LTTE who fired, bombed those who tried to escape from the human shield; government forces welcomed the escapees and extended protection. Today the ungrateful Ambalan lives because of the compassionate soldiers even to tell a lie, I am sure now his conscience must be feeling the hurt for having lied.

DR PAIKIASOTHY SARAVANAMUTTU, CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES says ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-More than 30 journalists fled the country during the war’s final months; others have been abducted or jailedƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚. CENTRE FOR POLICY ALTERNATIVES is a NGO organization, paid by the pro LTTE expatriates through a sham World body to churn out reports that denigrate the good name of the country. The other prominent spokesperson who falls in line with him is Jehan Perera. These are the two that the West media approaches when they want an update on the conflict issue.

These scavengers will even sell their mothers if one dangles a fistful of green dollars in front of their eyes. These journalistsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ may have fled because thatƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s the trade off for writing or uttering what those who employed them in the first place wanted. Their reports are not worth the paper those articles are written. He talks of 30 journalists, just because someone writes or talk on a subject, I cannot believe that person can be called a journalist, then I am also a journalist! I “no naathing” as in Faulty Towers. I am sure itƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s an insult to real journalists who have studied journalism and possess a very wide knowledge on almost all subjects and armed with facts at finger tips, so to say, so that they can grill anyone out of wits.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ 

Then the story of an army assault on a hospital in a designated no-fire zone. The government says there was no ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-HospitalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ even the Doctors who gave bogus reports confirmed that was a house where injured LTTE cadres were treated, these were said after these DoctorsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ came over to the government side.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Immediately after denying the existence of this ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-HospitalƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚, government showed an Ariel photo of the Hospital buildings intact.

What right have you got to say that this is an edited video released a few days later showing the hospital was untouched. You mean the roofs were painted with crosses? Or the video clip was edited adding crosses on the roof of the buildings which are not hospitals? So, Army was painting the roofs just to deny the bombing of this building nursing LTTE cadres? Look, the government need not go to that extent of wasting paint toƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  convince someone that there was no bombing on hospitals, they could have just said, ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-that was an accidentƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ thatƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s what the Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq says, does anyone give a toss after that?You used an archived footage of this site, why didnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t you go and see for yourself whether that was the case. You accept the LTTE agent from Australia, GOBI KRISHNAƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s lie that he was five minutes late when the hospital was bombed.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ GOBI KRISHNA says there was no food for these people, thatƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s true, for GodƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s sake these innocent people were herded along from place to place as human shields starting from Killinochchi, and they carried what ever they could carry in addition to bundles of U$ dollars which they later used to aboard a vessel to find their freedom either in Australia or Canada! Payments ranging from U$15,000 ~ U$45,000 according to escapees! Besides the food supplied by the Government right through out the conflict for 27 years were denied to people, but robbed forcibly to feed the LTTE cadres, as later discovered by the soldiersƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ stored in stacks in the bunkers in the jungle.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ GORDON WEISS, FORMER UN SPOKESMAN, looks like he was employed in dual capacity by the UN as a delivery man of humanitarian aid and a spokesperson inside the siege zone and according to him, he has been consistently stonewalled at various levels, by the Government? So he is loved by the LTTE? Ah! Yes our man has pulled wool over the UN officials to appear as an independent person willing to work for the good of the helpless innocent civilians in the conflict areas.

But he overstepped the guide lines of his portfolio, Sri Lanka brought this to the attention of his UN employers, they saw the compelling evidence and determined to terminate his engagement en bloc. But his version is as the work visa expired, he decided not just to leave, but to quit the UN. He has been on assignments with UN in other countries before posted to Sri Lanka, knowing the lucrativeness of the employment no sane person would quit UN. There may be gullible to swallow this line!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Dr.PALITHA KOHONA says, if that number died, I do not know where they were buried, because to bury 40,000 you would have had to have an army of people working day and night, digging graves and putting them in. That certainly did not happen.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Aussies viewers who are on the LTTE payroll will gulp it without any fuss, but I believe majority are thinking people.

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Then the incident of Nadesan and Puleedevan, where a so called independent journalist, who had contacts with the LTTE Marie Colvin says there was a deal, and it involved the highest levels of government. She says the UN Secretary-General’s Chief of Staff, Vijay Nambia, told her that he’d been: “assured by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse that Nadesan and Puleedevan would be safe in surrendering.” All they had to do was “hoist a white flag high”. There was no deal at that stage; however the President offered an amnesty long before things got worse for the LTTE, but they didnƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢t accept his sympathy, continued with the assault believing the Western leaders will apply pressure on the President as done in the past to save them.ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚  Milliband and BoucherƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s attempt failed.The eliminations of the Sri Lankan Parliamentarians and Mr. Rajive Ghandhi President of India, was carried out by the least suspected suicide bombers, so, even if these two had carried a ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-white flagƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ and when the rest were heavily armed and advancing slowly behind them to carry out the offensive at the opportune moment, soldiers were no fools to fall into that trap to end up being killed. Americans or for that matter any allied force in Afghanistan or Iraq would do the same, if any Al-Qaida leader was ignorant enough to walk like that! Being brown in colour, Sri Lankan soldiersƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ are no less intelligent than the Western counter part under the same situation. The motto ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-action first, questions laterƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ is good enough even for the Sri Lankan soldiers!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ MANIK FARM REFUGEE, a mother described how his son was snatched away from her by the Tigers and later heard over the radio his tragic fate. Other eye witnesses who had been sheltering at a church, claim the Tigers marched away 600 young people, and that other civilians were used as human shields. They too would have ended with aƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ similar fate!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ As usual SBSƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Dateline and ABCƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s Foreign Correspondent successfully portray the Sri Lankan governments “cruelty” to the LTTE the GOOD TERRORISTS.

Strange enough on the next segment by BagramƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s “Creature Comforts” on Afghanistan showed the happy American soldiers who spend a cushy life eating hamburgers, donuts (doughnuts) and shopping in the Mall for bargains served by Russian, Indian & Pakistani servants! American mothers must send their sons here to spend a safe comfortable life. All seemed to be rosy as per the video in this part of the World, perhapsƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ itƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s only the reports done by those 30 journalist defected from Sri Lanka spreading the unkind news to the World that we see daily on TV channels!!!

This is Australia mediaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s impartiality in presenting the news as it happens in the World!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ You must be elated Mr.Negus on this presentation! Happy Sri Lanka BASHING!!!

ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya,
Melbourne, 98088763