Channel 4 to air 'horrific' Sri Lanka footage

[Snoutport]

Source: Guardian UK

The investigation will examine films which Channel 4 said, "on the face of it, shows: extrajudicial executions filmed by Sri Lankan soldiers as war trophies on their phones; the aftermath of shelling in civilian camps and hospitals alleged to have been deliberately targeted by Sri Lankan government forces; dead female Tamil fighters who appear to have been systematically raped; and pictures which document Tamil fighters alive in the custody of Sri Lankan government forces and then later dead, apparently having been executed."

According to Channel 4, the footage was captured on mobile phones by victims and by perpetrators keeping the images as so-called "war trophies".

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/26/channel-4-sri-lanka-footage

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Another example of how mobile phones are changing the face of uprising and war. Of course, here in the States, we probably won't see any of this. Our Corporate War Machine does not like it when we see the real cost of war.

[inademv]

1. I'm not sure how to approach the whole Sri Lanka situation

one the one hand you have the soldiers in control of the government doing those horrible things but on the other you have the tamil fighters doing suicide bombings.

[aquart]

5. Dear me.

And people say the Israelis are so mean to the Palestinians.

But this is the first word of anti-Tamil brutality I've seen on DU. Certainly no one has had to set up a separate Tamil/Sri Lanka forum.

The comparisons do present themselves.

[inademv]

6. anti-tamil brutality?

The Tamil Tigers are famous for having pioneered modern suicide bombing.

[dipsydoodle]

2. It will eventually land up in the video section here

where many of the BBC's and Channel 4 documentary videos are archived.

http://www.thedossier.info/video_cover-ups.htm

You can spend the rest of the week watching all those already there. :)

[alp227]

3. I have posted C4 News coverage of the Sri Lanka situation on PV

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x574193

And here's a follow-up story to the one above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj-WnURrhiI

[Warren Stupidity]

4. the slaughter of the tamil rebels was of no interest

The world shrugged. No oil.