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"State terror in Sri Lanka - a Tamil perspective" today at Resonance 104.4 FM

A Tamil perspective | 12.05.2009 17:35 | Repression | Social Struggles | Terror War

"State terror in Sri Lanka - a Tamil perspective". Listen to the programme at Resonance 104.4 FM (www.resonancefm.com), Tuesday 12th of May at 22.00.

Note: this is a repeat of the programme originally broadcasted on Thursday 7th of May.



Are we getting the full story? According to reporters without borders, the Sri Lankan state has one of the most restricted levels of press freedom in the world.The press are denied access to the conflict zone and only "select" journalist are given escorted access to the camps in which thousands of civilians are being held indefinitely. With few other sources regarding information on the ground, the main stream media is often reporting Government propaganda.

For the past sixty years the Tamil people have struggled for equality against the Sinhalese government of Sri Lanka.

The means of suppressing Tamil people ranged from discriminatory laws to pogroms, tortures, abductions and killings of Tamil civilians, political leaders and journalists.

In the latest offensive to crush Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a militant organization formed in the seventies to fight for independent Tamil Eelam state, the Sri Lankan armed forces have killed thousands of Tamil civilians, while having hundreds of thousands trapped in a war zone. The government tactics include use of chemical weapons, cluster bombs, bombings of schools and hospitals and herding Tamil civilians into what disturbingly resembles concentration camps.

Creditable reports are starting to emerge indicating murder, rape and starvation are occuring within the camps.

This programme looks at the history and the current events in Sri Lanka from a Tamil perspective and features interviews with members of Tamil community who have held an ongoing protest at Westminster since 6th of April.

Please tune in or listen online.

A Tamil perspective
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A reality perspective

12.05.2009 18:41

TIGER terrorists (LTTE), now breathing its last in the “New Safety Zone” is hell-bent on doing whatever possible to stop the last leg in the rescue operation at international level, particularly after regenerating its Media propaganda machinery to the hilt presuming that a last-minute “do-gooder” would save the day miraculously.

Live video footages, purported to have been taken by independent aid workers or world agencies, engaged in relief work in the “New Safety Zone” are largely used in this Media plot with the express intention of tarnishing the Army image and mustering foreign support for a last minute foreign intervention.

Harrowing tales, plastered with ghastly bloodbaths of infants, children, pregnant women and adults are overwhelmingly used for this Media blitz. In some instances, with the support of respective local politicians in areas where terrorist supporters are living, those visuals have found their way into TV stations too. Gullibility in the western hemisphere found expression through those visuals since those people were unaware what was going on in the field taking what they say for granted.

The Sri Lanka Army, as one of the most responsible and professional wings pooh-poohs terrorist Media manipulations and firmly asserts that it would continue its rescue operation with precision and offering maximum protection to entrapped civilians in the remaining patch of land of less than 2 sq km. The public are therefore advised not to get misled by those diabolical lies and technically manipulated stories to the advantage of the world’s most ruthless terrorist outfit.

Or alternatively...


"reality perspective" - FAIL

12.05.2009 20:20

"Reality perspective", i see you spend a lot of time trying to write those utter bollocks under every tamil related thread. Reading your comments would have been a big laugh if things weren't that serious. So "Sri Lankan army as the most responsible and professional wings on it's biggest rescure operation"? May be you tell us how much you get paid by Sri Lankan officials to write this crap? Or why your glorious government doesn't let any media in so everyone can see how responsible and caring they are? Because they kill, rape and put civilians in concentration camps and then cover it with "war on terror". And scummy idiots like you get hired to write this ridiculous propaganda which could be bought by someone reading small town right wing newspaper, but hardly anyone on Indymedia. FAIL.

Sri Lankan agents on Indymedia can fuck off


Dear Sri Lankan agent

12.05.2009 21:07

To echo the above post.

FUCK OFF!

No one is interested in eating your bullshit! Even the mainstream press is starting to get the shits with you and your propaganda!!!

You have innocent blood on your hands fucker! Much more than the LTTE

Me!


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