The original Channel 4 video clips before they were doctored by vicious elements are now with the Sri Lankan authorities – Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa
Posted on July 1st, 2011
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ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-The massive propaganda campaign carried out by treacherous elements in foreign countries against the countryƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s sovereignty and independence resulted in the controversial Darusman Report, the infamous video footage telecast by British Channel 4, among others,ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ said Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa today in Sri Lanka.
He said that the much talked about Channel 4 fiasco will face a natural death. The original audio and visual clip are now with the Sri Lankan authorities.
The minister said Sri Lankan authorities had the original Channel 4 video clip before it was doctored by vicious elements involved against the country.
Minister Rajapaksa stressed that the Channel 4 video is an attempt to disgrace the Security Forces who liberated the country from terrorists.
Speaking at a ceremony to inaugurate the carpeting of provincial roads in the Colombo district at Kolonnawa yesterday, Minister Rajapaksa said that this original video clip will be made public soon.
The minister said that there are people among us who support international forces against the country. He requested them not to betray the Motherland for dollars and Euros.
ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-Certain groups of people in the country is in the habit of opposing everything what the Government is going to do,ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ he said. He added that they voiced their opposition when the Government was going to introduce the pension scheme for the private sector. ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ…-These people have launched various campaigns against the fertilizer subsidy too,ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ he added.
ƒÆ’-¡ƒ”š‚ ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Sri LankanƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s economic dependence on foreign countries built by British rulers has now been eradicated to enable the country to stand on its own feet. Sri Lanka has now attained a growth rate of 8.5 percent and built up a foreign exchange reserve of 7 billion rupees equivalent to 24 months food imports.
In addition to mega development projects like airports, expressways, power stations and irrigation schemes the government has taken development to the village to enable people to lead a contented life without depending on others in a free and sovereign country.
ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”¹…”Those who felt jealous about this process were hatching conspiracies against the state for the sake of dollars and Euros,ƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ”š‚ Minister Rajapaksa said.
July 2nd, 2011 at 9:49 am
Well done, Minister, although quite overdue. Channel 4 should be taken to the courts and sued in such a manner that they will never raise their morally-bankrupt heads again.
The Govt should also alert Interpol about these “JDS” conspirators in Germany. They may have fled already.
July 2nd, 2011 at 3:46 pm
Minister Basil Rajapaksa, as a SINHALA American, I am very proud of you. Don’t stop here, expand your comments to sports. In UK Tamil terrorist fund rasies including British Members of Parliament; now target cricket,calling average Britisher to boycott Sri Lanka games. This parctice MUST be denounced at your level. Please make a statement similar to the one you made in Kolonnawa denoucing the disinformation distributed to cricket fans at the play ground. Please make this statemet before the UK serise ends. Insulting SANATH by the “Daily Telegraph” and other new papes are offencive to young and old Sri Lanken Cricketers who brought fame to the mother land. I hope some one will send these comments to you before the current Test series is over in UK
July 2nd, 2011 at 5:04 pm
Thank you Hon. Basil Rajapaksa.
Credit for bringing up the original video first must go to Asiantribune.com. It was published months back but was not taken seriously until recently.
K Samarakoon should be thanked for his persistent efforts via his web page to popularise this initially.
Kumar Moses gets credit for initially coming up with the fact that it was indeed Tamil Tigers wearing stolen SLA uniforms killing soldiers.
And thanks to all the good people who made the following article go viral in facebook, defence.lk, etc.
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2011/06/19/channel-four-doctored-video-shows-tamil-terrorists-wearing-the-uniforms-of-captives-killing-captured-sla-soldiers/
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2011/06/19/channel-four-doctored-video-shows-tamil-terrorists-wearing-the-uniforms-of-captives-killing-captured-sla-soldiers/
Dr Siri Hewawitharana and other professionals exposed that the C-4 footage was doctored but they stopped at that. No one in their right mind would have guessed the extreme cruelty of barbaric Tamil Tigers. But that’s the reality.
It boomeranged on Tamil Tigers!
July 2nd, 2011 at 5:11 pm
And thank you Lankaweb for carrying all the expose articles. It finally paid off.
This is the beginning of the end of both Tamil Diaspora and JDS credibility.
July 2nd, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Yes, a big thank you to LankaWeb for spearheading this: all the hard work to expose these terrorists’ fabrications is paying off.
And, Geoff, “It boomeranged on Tamil Tigers!” – that’s karma giving the due returns.
July 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 am
Yes Vis8, it is Karma.
Funnily enough they never learn.