{"id":63744,"date":"2017-02-25T15:42:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=63744"},"modified":"2017-02-25T15:42:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T22:42:51","slug":"fake-news-from-unnamed-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/02\/25\/fake-news-from-unnamed-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake News From Unnamed Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokeperson, United Sri Lanka Association,<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Dear President Trump,<\/p>\n<p>As one of Sri Lankan origin I fully understand your anger and frustration with fake news\u201d\u00a0 quoting anonymous\u201d sources , criticising\u00a0 you, as has happened most\u00a0 recently from the NYT.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka has been subjected to similar and even \u00a0\u00a0greater injustice based on \u00a0fake news generated by the UK\u00a0 channel 4, TV , claiming to be from unnamed sources \u00a0that ultimately led SL to being sanctioned through a resolution\u00a0 at the UNHCR generated by your predecessor administration .<\/p>\n<p>Channel 4 \u00a0\u00a0did so by giving wide publicity to a whole host video\u2019s allegedly showing Sri Lankan forces committing\u00a0 human rights violations during their war liberating SL from\u00a0 three decades of Tamil Tiger Terrorism, in May 2009. The cash strapped\u00a0 Channel 4 , \u00a0had close connections with the UK based Tiger Terrorist diaspora that sustained Tiger Terrorism in SL with their multi billion dollar war chest , &amp; post war had it\u00a0 free to spend \u00a0\u00a0on propaganda. No doubt with handy encouragement from this\u00a0 war chest,\u00a0 Channel 4 gave wide and repeated publicity to these videos that had neither name of source nor\u00a0 place nor date of\u00a0 filming. They simply said that the videos \u00a0had been sent\u00a0 anonymously . These \u00a0\u00a0formed the basis of their film,\u00a0 Sri Lanka Killing Fields\u201d castigating SL forces \u00a0for alleged HR violations.<\/p>\n<p>Such reports played no small part in SL being sanctioned by \u00a0requiring it to ultimately carry out constitutional changes to the detriment\u00a0 \u00a0of the very people who were the victims of Tiger Terror, the Sinhalese majority of the country.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that your efforts would make the unsuspecting people\u00a0 world wide to realize, how sections of the world press have been misleading \u00a0them and identify the UK Channel 4 at the top of this list.<\/p>\n<p>Given your experience and consequent understanding of the corruption of sections of the press, I would appeal to you also to provide redress to the people\u00a0 most victimized by such corrupt reporting in recent times, the Sinhalese of Sri Lanka, by withdrawing\u00a0\u00a0 the UNHCR resolutions against them generated by you predecessor administration .<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>Spokeperson,<\/p>\n<p>United Sri Lanka Association,<\/p>\n<p>Wellington NZ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokeperson, United Sri Lanka Association, Dear President Trump, As one of Sri Lankan origin I fully understand your anger and frustration with fake news\u201d\u00a0 quoting anonymous\u201d sources , criticising\u00a0 you, as has happened most\u00a0 recently from the NYT. Sri Lanka has been subjected to similar and even \u00a0\u00a0greater injustice based on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63744","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=63744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}