{"id":136852,"date":"2023-09-04T15:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136852"},"modified":"2023-09-04T15:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T22:18:31","slug":"britains-channel-4-to-air-documentary-on-sri-lankas-easter-sunday-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/09\/04\/britains-channel-4-to-air-documentary-on-sri-lankas-easter-sunday-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Channel 4 to air documentary on Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>UK\u2019s \u2018Channel 4\u2019 has announced that it will broadcast a new documentary, which will allegedly uncover shocking revelations on Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday attacks, on Tuesday (Sep 05).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Channel 4 claims that the new documentary titled Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Bombings \u2013 Dispatches,\u201d contains shocking new revelations about Sri Lanka\u2019s deadly Easter bombings of 2019, as high-placed whistle blowers allege complicity by officials inside the government\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Britain\u2019s Channel 4 to air documentary on Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday attacks (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Te59CVVxBy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is also reported that one highly placed insider claims in the interview with Dispatches, to be aired in the UK on Channel 4 tomorrow, that he set up a 2018 meeting between a senior military intelligence official and Islamic State-affiliated bombers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whistleblower is reportedly revealed to be a close aide of the leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) and current State Minister for Rural Road Development, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The informant of the TMVP, the breakaway faction of the LTTE, had also made explosive revelations to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The British television channel \u2018Channel 4\u2019 became well-known in Sri Lanka in the past after airing several controversial videos alleging that war crimes had taken place in Sri Lanka, including its 2011 documentary Sri Lanka\u2019s Killing Fields,\u201d a hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana UK\u2019s \u2018Channel 4\u2019 has announced that it will broadcast a new documentary, which will allegedly uncover shocking revelations on Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Sunday attacks, on Tuesday (Sep 05). Channel 4 claims that the new documentary titled Sri Lanka\u2019s Easter Bombings \u2013 Dispatches,\u201d contains shocking new revelations about Sri Lanka\u2019s deadly Easter bombings of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}