well said mate, can't help but agree , ............men of good will allow tyrants to rule . ...........about time the men of good will get real !!!!!!!!!

Well said Infidel I didn't see the show but I've been to countries like this and seen it myself. Money hungry corrupt self serving mongrels. A little bit of power and money can go a long way in those countries. They all want to be your friend when you show up, stand next to the white guy.. They have no compassion for fellow man and there stupid beliefs justify themselves. Stupid thing where seeing here in Oz is communityarism (like socialism communism ) our government doing things for us without asking us. In Qld we got council amalgamation which everyone hates and is a disaster and now where getting a carbon tax plan packaging on smokes a national broadband network and then an ETS.Where getting worked over for such a small country in population. The Un is well and truely out of date..

 

It was a pretty graphic story & vision for the ABC. The Sri Lankan Government are now in damage control:

Sri Lankan military denies war crime claims

Updated Wed Jul 6, 2011 10:41pm AEST

Sri Lanka's military says it has original footage that exposed the "malicious intentions" behind a British documentary on alleged war crimes committed by government troops.

The documentary was aired on ABC1's Four Corners on Monday night, and showed evidence of rape, torture and murder of civilians during Sri Lanka's civil war.

It featured Tamil Tigers using civilians as human shields and also showed government forces shelling civilians who had been offered sanctuary in no-fire zones.

But Major General Ubaya Medawela says the "unaltered" video suggests that what the documentary had presented as soldiers executing Tamil rebel prisoners actually showed rebels dressed in army fatigues.

The footage in the documentary, first aired last month by Britain's Channel 4, had an audio track with the soldiers speaking in the language of Sri Lanka's Sinhala majority.

Major General Medawela says the video the military has analysed had a Tamil soundtrack, suggesting the killers were rebels.

"The unaltered video received by the defence ministry provides ample evidence to prove the malicious intentions behind the doctored documentary of Channel 4," he said.

The "original" version Major General Medawela referred to was broadcast on Monday by a pro-government Sri Lankan television channel.

Last year, a United Nations panel of experts found there was credible evidence that up to 40,000 civilians were killed in the conflict.

But Sri Lanka has persistently denied that there were any war crimes committed by its troops while battling the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels, who were crushed in an offensive that ended in May 2009.

It has has also accused Channel 4 and Western nations of leading a campaign to discredit its human rights record by producing reports of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In an email to the BBC, Channel 4 spokesperson Marion Bentley insisted that all the footage used in its documentary, entitled Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, had been found to be authentic.

She said it had been independently verified by experts in forensic pathology and video analysis and had twice been subjected to months of tests by audio-visual experts commissioned by the United Nations.

"We stand by this excellent journalism and do not accept that the footage we broadcast has been doctored in any way," Ms Bentley said.

A Tamil politician said the soundtrack in the military-promoted version of the video was "suspect" and "unconvincing".

"The words don't really fit the images," said the politician, who asked not to be identified.

- ABC/AFP

Tags: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, rights, human-rights, unrest-conflict-and-war, sri-lanka

First posted Wed Jul 6, 2011 10:38pm AEST