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This is proof, beyond reasonable doubt, of the execution of a child – not a battlefield death
The Independent – Feb 18, 2013
London, Feb 18 - Compared to most of the terrible images which have emerged from the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war, it seems innocuous. A young boy sits, like a child lost in a supermarket. He has been given some kind of snack.
Handed a snack, and then executed: the last hours of the 12-year-old son of a Tamil Tiger
The Independent – Feb 18, 2013
London, Feb 18 - New photographs have emerged which raise fresh questions about the conduct of Sri Lanka’s armed forces during the final stages of the operation against Tamil rebels and have led to claims the 12-year-old son of the militants’ leader may have been summarily executed.
Sri Lanka: Questioning the killing fields
The Guardian – March 1, 2013
London, March 1 - After the showing of the documentary No Fire Zone in the Palais des Nations in Geneva yesterday, the Sri Lankan ambassador denounced it and criticised the UN human rights council for permitting the event to take place in a United Nations building.
Given a snack and then taken out and shot: Horrifying last moments of helpless boy, 12, who was ‘executed by Sri Lankan army because his father was a Tamil Tiger leader’
The Daily Mail – Feb 18, 2013
London, Feb 18 - Disturbing new images have emerged of the dead body of the 12-year-old son of a Tamil leader that researchers say could prove he was executed by Sri Lankan government forces. The photographs of Balachandran Prabhakaran, son of Velupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, were taken in May 2009 at the end of the government's conflict with the rebels.
Balachandran Prabhakaran: Sri Lanka army accused over death
BBC News – Feb 19, 2013
London, Feb 19 - Photographs have emerged which are said to show the 12-year-old son of a Tamil rebel leader alive and well in custody less than two hours before he was shot dead.They show Balachandran Prabhakaran, son of rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, eating chocolate on a bench.
US may launch Sri Lanka war crimes investigation
BBC News – March 25, 2013
The US has warned that it may be forced to investigate alleged war crimes if the Sri Lankan government does not conduct its own "independent and credible" inquiry.
Revealing the horror in Sri Lanka
New York Times – Feb 27, 2013
New York, Feb 27 - In the series of photographs shot in 2009, the bare-chested boy is first shown seated on a bench watching something outside the frame. Then he is seen having a snack. In the third image he is lying on the ground with bullet holes in his chest. The photographs, which were released last week by the British broadcaster Channel 4…
4 years after end of civil war, pressure grows on Sri Lanka government to probe ...
Fox News - Feb 23, 2013
NEW DELHI – The photo shows a boy sitting by a row of sandbags as he glumly eats a snack. The next photo shows him with a series of bullet holes in his chest. The makers of a documentary on Sri Lanka say the boy was the 12-year-old son of Sri Lankan ...
Photo of dead boy ups pressure on Sri Lanka
The Miami Herald – Feb 24, 2013
Miami, Feb 24 - The photo shows a boy sitting shirtless by a row of sandbags as he glumly eats a snack. The next photo shows him lying face up in the dirt, a series of bullet holes in his chest.The makers of a documentary on Sri Lanka say the boy was the 12-year-old son of Sri Lankan insurgent leader VelupillaiPrabhakaran, and that the photos prove he was captured and then executed by the Sri Lankan military. Sri Lanka denies the charge.
Photographs suggest Tamil leader’s son, BalachandranPrabhakaran, was executed
The Australian – Feb 21, 2013
A NEW photograph showing the 12-year-old son of a Tamil Tiger commander apparently in the custody of the Sri Lankan army just hours before his death in May 2009 has raised fresh questions over whether the boy was executed in the last moments of the civil war.
NGOs should back off from Sri Lanka
The Australian - Feb 25 2013
THE main thrust of Gordon Weiss's attack against the Sri Lankan government (The Australian, February 22) is to dismiss the situation analysed objectively by the visit of Julie Bishop, the Liberal Party's deputy leader. Having got the inconvenient facts out of his ...
'Government unsympathetic to Lankan Tamils'
New York Daily News - Feb 23, 2013
Chennai, Feb 23 — DMK president M. Karunanidhi Saturday said the central government does not seem to understand the continued suffering of Sri Lankan Tamils who have lost their livelihood and their rights. Referring to President PranabMukherjee's ...
TN's Lanka stand hits Asian athletics meet
New York Daily News - Feb 21, 2013
New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- With the Tamil Nadu government firm on "not allowing Sri Lankan athletes" to compete in the 20th Asian Athletics Championships, to be held in Chennai in July, chances are that the continental event could be shifted to another city in the ...
Jayalalithaa flays Colombo, axes athletics meet
New York Daily News - Feb 21, 2013
Chennai, Feb 21 — Citing human rights abuses by Colombo, Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Thursday said Tamil Nadu won't host the 20th Asian Athletics Championship in July in which Sri Lanka will take part. "The state will not conduct the championship and ...
BalachandranPrabhakaran photos raise questions in Sri Lanka
Global Post – Feb 19, 2013
Boston, Feb 19 - The group Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) says it has photos showing BalachandranPrabhakaran, the rebel Tamil Tiger chief's 12-year-old son captured by the Sri Lankan army, safe and well just a few hours before his death. Sri Lankan authorities say the boy died in crossfire, while human rights organizations like JDS say he was executed, according to BBC News.
Sri Lanka protests screening of controversial documentary at UNHRC
NZWeek– Feb 26, 2013
Colombo, Feb 26 - Sri Lanka on Tuesday raised strong objections to moves by some human rights groups to screen a controversial documentary at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on the final stages of the war between the military and Tamil Tiger rebels in the country.
Film accuses Sri Lanka of war crimes
Japan Times – March 04, 2013
GENEVA/NEW DELHI – The Sri Lankan military committed numerous war crimes during the final months of the country’s 26-year-long civil war, according to a documentary aired for the first time Friday, amid vigorous protests from Colombo.
Chilling documentary accuses Sri Lanka
The Star Online – March 2, 2013
GENEVA: The Sri Lankan military committed numerous war crimes during the final months of the country's 26-year civil war, according to a documentary aired for the first time Friday, amid vigorous protests from Colombo.
Documentary maker claims photos offer fresh evidence of Sri Lankan atrocity
ABC News – Feb 21, 2013
Balachandran Prabhakaran was 12 when he died around the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka. He was the son of the founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil EelamVelupillai Prabhakaran. Sri Lankan authorities have claimed he died after being caught in cross-fire but a British documentary-maker has released pictures he says show he was executed in a calculated way.
Sri Lanka: Photos renew accusations that 12-year-old was executed
LA Times - Feb 20, 2013
Facing continued pressure over alleged wartime abuses, Sri Lankan officialsrejected renewed accusations that a 12-year-old boy was executed in the final throes of its bloody civil war. Questions surrounding the death of BalachandranPrabhakaran, the young son of the leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels, were stirred up again by photographs from an upcoming film
Photos of BalachandranPrabhakaran, son of Tamil Tiger leader, suggest he was murdered in Sri Lanka
Huffington Post – Feb 19, 2013
COLOMBO, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Photographs of the son of the leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels suggest he was murdered, and not killed in the cross fire during the chaotic end of Sri Lanka's three decade war, a British-based documentary maker said.
Sri Lanka: Hunger striking Tamil students arrested in India
Blottr.com – 11 March 2013
Eight students who were participating in a hunger strike in Koyambedu in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, were arrested on Monday and removed from the site of their protest.
India: Mass protest in Chennai in support of Tamil students’ hunger strike
Blottr.com – 20 March 2013
A mass demonstration is taking place in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, on Wednesday in solidarity with Tamil students currently on hunger strike across the state.
New Photographs Show LTTE Leader Prabhakaran’s Son before and after Execution
The IB Times- February 19 2013
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12-year-old Son of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger Chief Allegedly Murdered
The Hispanic News Network USA Blog- February 20 2013
CallumMacrae: The distressing killing of a young boy
The Gulf Today- February 20, 2013
‘War criminals’ in Sri Lanka should be tried: Jaya, MK
Oman Tribune- “Date published not shown”
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa demanded that those who committed “war crimes” in the island nation be tried in an international court.
Photos show Sri Lanka executed militant's child: director
The Standard, 19 February 2013
Photos released on Tuesday to publicise a new documentary on Sri Lanka show that government soldiers executed the 12-year-old son of separatist chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran in 2009, its director claimed.
BalachandranPrabhakaran: Sri Lanka army accused over death
Kigali Konnect-February 20 2013
Photographs have emerged which are said to show the 12-year-old son of a Tamil rebel leader alive and well in custody less than two hours before he was shot dead.
Given a snack and then taken out and shot: Pictures of a Tamil Tiger leader’s son taken just hours apart ‘prove’ he was executed by Sri Lankan government force
In2EastAfrica- February 20 2013
Photographs have emerged which are said to show the 12-year-old son of a Tamil rebel leader alive and well in custody less than two hours before he was shot dead.
Sri Lanka army 'executes' BalachandranPrabhakaran, son of Tamil leader, in custody
WhatsonShenzhen.com- February 20 2013
Photographs have emerged which are said to show the 12-year-old son of a Tamil rebel leader alive and well in custody less than two hours before he was shot dead.
Sri Lankan 'war criminals' should be tried: Jayalalithaa
Yahoo News, Singapore- February 20 2013
Chennai, Feb 20 (IANS) Comparing the Sri Lankan regime with Hilter's, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday demanded that those who committed "war crimes" in the island nation be tried in an international court.
UN rights body urges more thorough Sri Lanka probe
Arizona Daily Star- March 21 2013
For the second time in as many years, the U.N.'s top human rights body approved a U.S.-backed resolution Thursday calling on Sri Lanka to more thoroughly investigate alleged war crimes committed by both sides during the country's quarter-century civil war with the Tamil Tiger rebels.
Photo of dead boy ups pressure on Sri Lanka
The Big Story- February 24 2013
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Was LTTE chief’s son killed in cold blood?
NDTV – Feb 19, 2013
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Sri Lanka denies LTTE chief’s son was killed in cold blood
NDTV – Feb 19, 2013
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Sri Lanka rejects film on alleged war crimes shown at United Nations as ‘orchestrated campaign’
NDTV – March 2, 2013
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Sri Lanka war crimes: Time for India to take a stand?
NDTV – March 7, 2013
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LTTE chief's son's death: Filmmaker claims he has more evidence
19 Feb 2013, IBN (India Breakfast News) – CNN
News item and interview with Callum Macrae
LTTE chief’s minor son killed in cold blood?
Times Now – Feb 20, 2013
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New evidence of war crimes stumps Sri Lanka
Headlines Today – Feb 22, 2013
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No Fire Zone: The killing fields of Sri Lanka
India Today, March 13, 2013
Video- 18 minute clip of CallumMacrae’s Documentary “No Fire Zone: The killing fields of Sri Lanka”.
Prabhakaran's son's killing 'war crime', says Jayalalithaa
The Times of India, Feb 20 2013
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa described as "a war crime" the alleged cold-blooded killing of the son of the late Tamil Tigers' chief Velupillai
YouTube- The Social Architects South Asia- 27 March 2013
This documentary tells a story of silent agony, trapped screams and repressed mourning. A story of women forced to deny their identity, who are trapped in between a government which sees them as "Tigers," and a society whose norms they are no longer deemed worthy of.
Tamil Nadu assembly adopts resolution: Centre must stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country
NDTV- 27 March 2013
Chennai: With emotions running high in Tamil Nadu over the Sri Lanka issue, the state assembly today adopted a resolution asking the Centre to stop treating Sri Lanka as a friendly country.
Jayalalithaa cancels Asian Athletics Championships, says she won't host Sri Lankans
NDTV- 21 Feb2013
Tamil Nadu will not host the Asian Athletics Championships scheduled for July, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said, because the Centre has not asked Sri Lanka to skip the event
Prabhakaran's son's killing 'war crime', says Jayalalithaa
The Times of India, Feb 20 2013
CHENNAI: Strongly denouncing the killing of slain LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabakaran's son Balachandran as totally inhuman, Tamil Nadu chief minister and AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa on Wednesday reiterated her government's demand that the Centre, with the help of other countries, should move the United Nations to get an economic embargo imposed on Sri Lanka.
The pictures do not lie
Times of India The Crest Edition– Feb 23, 2013
New Delhi, Feb 23 -The photos and videos from the Lankan army's final offensive against the LTTE have turned the spotlight back on war crimes committed by Lankan forces. It was the final surge in Sri Lanka's 25-year-old conflict with one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world.
Sri Lanka dismisses documentary on Prabhakaran son's death allegedly in cold blood
Times of India - Feb 19 2013
A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son, which was on Tuesday dismissed by Sri Lanka as "lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation".
Callum Macrae: Without truth, there can be no justice or peace
Times of India– Feb 22, 2013
Delhi, Feb 22 –Callum Macrae’sdocumentary No Fire Zone: Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is making waves, showing war crimes during the LTTE-government conflict. Speaking with Manoj Ramachandran, Macrae discussed his views on the Sri Lankan government, why accountability is crucial and how India can help.
Killing of Prabhakaran's son casts spotlight on human rights violations in Sri Lanka
The Times of India, Feb 20 2013
NEW DELHI: Fresh photographs of a bare-chested, plump 12-year-old boy “ who happens to be LTTE leader V Prabhakaran's son” apparently shot dead at close range, released by Channel 4 TV on Tuesday has stirred afresh the controversial issue of human rights violations in Sri Lanka and India's role in the matter.
Authenticity of BalachandranPrabhakaran photos to be probed: Sri Lankan ...
Times of India - Feb 25, 2013
KATCHATHEEVU: Sri Lankan minister Douglas Devananda has said an inquiry would be conducted into the authenticity of the photographs of the slain LTTE chief V Prabhakaran's son Balachandran, circulated by a channel. The lankan minister for traditional ...
Missed opportunity for aspiring athletes
Times of India - Feb 25, 2013
The 20th Asian Athletics Championships was scheduled to be held in Chennai in July this year but Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has pulled the plug on the event due to the war crimes against Sri Lankan Tamils. While many people in the city do protest the war ...
Karunanidhi finds fault with Pranab's speech over Lanka reference
Times of India - Feb 23, 2013
CHENNAI: Three days after a scathing attack against the UPA government for its silence on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka, DMK chief M Karunanidhi launched another tirade against the Centre on Saturday, this time over President PranabMukherjee's ...
Opinion divided on showing door to meet
Times of India - Feb 22, 2013
CHENNAI: The government's decision not to host the Asian Athletics Championships in Chennai has brought into focus the state's standing as an international sporting destination. Chief minister J Jayalalithaa announced on Thursday that the city would not ...
Fishermen hope for a peaceful Katchatheevu fest
Times of India - Feb 22, 2013
MADURAI: Despite mounting tension over the alleged execution of LTTE chief Prabakaran's son and the subsequent denial by Tamil Nadu government to host the Asian Athletics meet in Chennai, Rameswaram fishermen are optimistic that the annual St ...
Tamil Nadu won't host Asian track meet: Jayalalithaa
Times of India - Feb 21, 2013
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday chose to mix sports with politics when she refused to allow the 20th Asian Athletic Championship in Chennai scheduled in July to condemn Sri Lanka's participation in the event. As protests ...
Lankan MP on pilgrimage in Tamil Nadu forced to retreat back home
Times of India - Feb 21, 2013
TRICHY: The visit of a Sri Lankan MP and his wife to Nagapattinam was cut short following protests by political parties on Thursday morning. Police said the Sri Lankan MP KarunaratneJayasurya and his wife Vasantha had checked into a hotel on ...
Ministry to help AFI find new AAC venue
Times of India - Feb 21, 2013
BANGALORE: Terming Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalitha's refusal to hold the Asian Athletics Championship in Chennai in July as unfortunate the Union sports ministry said on Thursday it would try and help the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) to find an ...
We will try to keep Asian Athletics C'ship in India: AFI
Times of India - Feb 21, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Athletics Federation of India (AFI) has said that it would try its best to hold the Asian Athletics Championship in another city of the country after the prestigious event, schedule to be held in Chennai, was shunned by the Tamil Nadu ...
When the no fire zone became a killing field
The Hindu – Feb 23, 2013
Delhi, Feb 23 - A week before its official launch in the Geneva Human Rights Film Festival, the capital on Friday caught a 20-minute preview of the film ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka,’ which included footage of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief V. Prabakaran’s minor son.
Sri Lankan media ignores Indian reactions
The Hindu – Feb 23, 2013
Sri Lankan media largely ignored the sensation created in India and elsewhere in the world, after the publication of new pictures which suggested that Tamil Tiger chief V. Prabakaran’s youngest son, Balachandran, was captured by the Sri Lankan forces ahead of being shot dead.
The killing of a young boy
The Hindu– Feb 19, 2013
Delhi, Feb 19 - It is a war that has produced some truly terrible images, but this one is particularly disturbing. A young boy sits looking distressed, like a child who has been lost in a supermarket. He has been given a biscuit or some kind of snack. In the second photograph, he is looking anxiously up, as though hoping to see someone he recognises.
Karunanidhi slams Pranab's remarks on Sri Lanka
The Hindu - Feb 23, 2013
DMK president M. Karunanidhi, an ally of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre, on Saturday criticised the reference made by the President in his address to Parliament on improving ties with Sri Lanka. “When the entire world has taken note of Sri Lankan ...
Rajapaksa denies Army killed Balachandran
The Hindu - March 1, 2013
Sri Lankan President MahindaRajapaksa has denied that the Army killed LTTE chief Prabakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran.
No compromise on more powers for Sri Lankan Tamils, Manmohan tells MPs
The Hindu - Feb 22, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday reportedly stressed that there would be no compromise on Colombo's promise to implement the 13th Amendment of the Sri Lankan Constitution which provides more powers to Tamil areas in Sri Lanka's Northern ...
Inhuman
The Hindu - Feb 22, 2013
The three sequential pictures, of the planned murder of BalachandranPrabakaran (Feb. 19), are unerasable evidence. They show the wanton and brutal murder of a child. Sri Lanka has consciously violated the Geneva Convention on the handling of women ...
Parties stage protest against Sri Lankan MP's visit to Tamil Nadu
The Hindu - Feb 21, 2013
The visit of Sri Lankan MP KaruJayasuriya to Tamil Nadu evoked stiff opposition from members of various political parties who staged a demonstration at Thirukadaiyur in Nagapattinam district on Thursday. Mr.Jayasuriya, a former deputy leader of the United ...
We won't host Asian Athletics Championships: Jayalalithaa
The Hindu - Feb 21, 2013
Stepping up her campaign against the Sri Lankan government after the emergence of what appeared to be new evidence of war crimes, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that the State would not host the 20th Asian Athletics ...
Jayalalithaa bars Lankans from Chennai IPL matches
The Hindu - March 26, 2013
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa said on Tuesday that IPL matches involving Sri Lankans should not be played in Tamil Nadu in view of the “popular antipathy and anger” in the State against the actions of the Sri Lankan government.
Mixing of politics and sports unfortunate: Sri Lanka
The Hindu - March 27, 2013
This article discusses the unfortunate mixing of sport with politics.
IPL withdraws Sri Lankan players from Chennai matches
The Hindu - March 26, 2013
The Indian Premier League (IPL) General Council on Tuesday decided that Sri Lankan players will not play in IPL matches to be held in Chennai.
British documentary alleges Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son killed, Sri Lanka dismisses charge
Indian Express– Feb 19, 2013
Colombo, Feb 19 - A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran's 12-year-old son, which was today dismissed by Sri Lanka as lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation".The Channel 4 documentary titled 'No War Zone the killing fields of Sri Lanka' is to be aired in Geneva at the next session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March.
Witnesses support claim Lankan army executed LTTE rebels 'after they ...
Indian Express - Feb 25 2013
Two eyewitnesses have supported allegations that the Sri Lankan army executed two Tamil Tiger rebel leaders after they surrendered the island's civil war in 2009. Last week, photographs of the 12-year-old son of the Tamil Tiger chief eating a snack after ...
Poor sport
Indian Express - Feb 25 2013
Days after grim photographs of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran's son were released in the public domain, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa declared the state would not host the Asian Athletics Championship in July. Her evident aim — to keep Sri ...
Jaya: Won't host athletic event if Lankans take part
Indian Express - Feb 21, 2013
The resentment in the state over the killing of the 12-year-old son of slain LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran escalated on Thursday with Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa refusing to host the 20th Asian Athletic Championship over the participation of Sri Lanka.
DMK, AIADMK step up pressure on Centre over human rights violation against Tamils in Sri Lanka
India Today– Feb 20, 2013
Tamil Nadu-based political parties, including ruling AIADMK and opposition DMK, have been stepping up pressure on the UPA government to take a strong stand against Sri Lanka at the United Nations for the alleged human rights violations against the Tamils in the island nation.
Was Prabhakaran’s son shot dead by Sri Lankan forces? Activists say yes, Govt says no
India Today– Feb 19, 2013
New Delhi, Feb 19 - Even as Sri Lanka has time and again denied the allegations of human rights violations by its forces during the final stages of the operation against Tamil rebels, some shocking pictures have emerged which contradict Colombo's stand on the controversial issue.
India Today- Feb 21, 2013
'13th Amendment will be implemented'
The New Indian Express - Feb 25, 2013
Condemning Tamil DesiyaKootamaippu (Tamil National Alliance) for spreading false propaganda on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Tamil Politician and Sri Lankan Minister for Traditional Industries & Small Enterprises, Douglas Devananda, said that president ...
We are being treated as second-grade citizens, say Tamils
The New Indian Express - Feb 25, 2013
“My children love eating peanuts candies. I paid `1,000 to buy a packet,” said Xavier, a Sri Lankan Tamil from Jaffna, with a smile displaying the packet. Xavier, along with a group of Sri Lankan Tamils, visited Katchativu to participate in the annual festival of St ...
TN Congress MPs meet PM on SL rights row
The New Indian Express - Feb 22, 2013
A delegation of Congress Members of Parliament from Tamil Nadu on Friday met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and urged that the government join hands with the United States of America and other like-minded nations to pass a resolution against Sri ...
The bloodiest hand of all
The New Indian Express - Feb 23, 2013
The recently released pictures of the former LTTE supremo's son, BalachandranPrabhakaran, that suggest that he was cold-bloodedly shot dead at point blank range, has evoked predictably strong reactions across the political spectrum in Tamil Nadu.
Jaya's Lanka heat burns Congress
The New Indian Express - Feb 23, 2013
There has never been a lull in the constant bouncers Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has been hurling at the Centre. Jayalalithaa has kept a steady stream of letters to the Prime Minister and the Centre. She has raised a host of issues and demanded action from ...
Karunanidhi ratchets up rhetoric on Sri Lanka
The New Indian Express - Feb 23, 2013
“The Centre has not understood the unprecedented struggles of Tamils who have lost livelihood and rights,” DMK Chief M Karunanidhi lamented. In a stinging attack on the Centre, DMK Chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday accused it of showing little regard to ...
Tales which pictures don't tell
Lankaweb - Feb 24, 2013
by N. SathiyaMoorthy The writer is a member of the Observer Research Foundation Courtesy: Defence.lk. As was to be expected under the circumstances, the Sri Lankan Government has promptly dismissed the published pictures of LTTE leader ...
Mudslinging campaign against Sri Lanka: Channel 4, the mouthpiece of LTTE ...
Lankaweb - Feb 24, 2013
The London based Channel 4 TV station is the mouthpiece of the LTTE diaspora. The LTTE rump is said to fund this station heavily to carry out its mudslinging campaign against Sri Lanka. The money raised by the LTTE rump in Britain and Europe is allegedly ...
Terrorist-criminal-political nexus in Tamil Nadu growing – Prof. Rohan Gunaratna
Lankaweb - Feb 24, 2013
International counter terrorism expert based in Singapore, Prof. Rohan Gunaratna warns that there is a well concerted campaign in Tamil Nadu, launched by the LTTE, to make Tamil people rise up against Sri Lanka and this is a development that Sri Lanka ...
Sri Lanka is unique: it vanquished terrorists militarily and it has TNA
Lankaweb - Feb 24, 2013
The small island nation of Sri Lanka can point out two of its aspects that no other country can even dream of having. The large majority in the US never knew where Sri Lanka was on a world map – it was just a speck somewhere in the East, in the vast oceans, ...
Human Rights Watch 2013 Sri Lanka: Sexual Violence
Lankaweb - Feb 23, 2013
The first is of a 31year old Tamil woman picked up from her Colombo home by CID officers in November 2011. HRW says that the women had been taken to the 4th floor of CID office denied food/water and the following day photographed, fingerprinted and ...
Alleged Murder of 12 Year Old Son of Tamil Tiger Leader
Lankaweb - Feb 23, 2013
On Sunday, 11 March 2012, CallumMacrae wrote that new footage from the final days of the war in Sri Lanka shows that a child, Prabhakaran's son, had been summarily executed by the armed forces. This was featured in the 2012 Channel-4 TV allegations ...
Well Said Mr Defence Secretary For Exposing The Possible Duplicity Of The
Lankaweb - Feb 23, 2013
It seems quite in order to request a trashing of rubbish wherever it surfaces as Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary has done relative to the latest Channel 4 portrayal. As Channel 4 continues the rubbish it regularly throws at the international community over cooked ...
Canada Overtakes GTF in Anti-Lanka Offensive
Lankaweb - Feb 23, 2013
Canada has overtaken other pro-LTTE groups against Sri Lanka as the current Canadian Government is being “guided/dictated to” by the LTTE front organizations in Canada on it's policy on Sri Lanka. It is now the Canadian Government that is pushing the ...
Reconciliation : A wonderful story
Lankaweb - Feb 22, 2013
The breadwinner of this family was a member of the LTTE and he fought against the Sri Lanka Army in the final battle in 2009 and killed in action. In 2013 some members of the Sri Lanka Army volunteered to build a house for the former militant's remaining ...
Balachandran on Sale?Another Market Gimmick by Channel 4
Lankaweb - Feb 22, 2013
A death of a child, no doubt is a reason to mourn. The disturbing image of a bullet-ridden body of a boy and the pictures of him, said to have been taken a few hours before he had fallen dead; the latest pictures extracted from the controversial Channel 4 video ...
Jayalalithaa's refusal to host Sri Lankan athletes
Lankaweb - Feb 22, 2013
Chief Minister Jayalalithaa had said that Tamil Nadu will not host the 20th Asian Athletics meet because the Central govt had not asked Sri Lanka to skip the event. According to her, the participation of Sri Lankan athletes will hurt peoples sentiments in Tamil ...
The ghouls of South Asia
DAWN.com - Feb 20, 2013
WHEN South Asian leaders met at their first summit in Dhaka in 1985 there were just two democracies among the seven-member states that formed Saarc at the time — Sri Lanka and India. The remaining five leaders comprised two military usurpers, including ...
Tamil Nadu refuses to host Sri Lanka for Asian Athletics Championships
DAWN.com - Feb 22, 2013
NEW DELHI: The Asian Athletics Championships in July looks set to be moved from its original venue as the chief minister of the Indian state that was to play host has refused to organize the meet because of the participation of Sri Lankan athletes. Jayaram...
Geneva vote: No final decision by India yet
Asian Tribune - Feb 23, 2013
The claim by Tamil Nadu Congress leaders that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured them that India will vote against Sri Lanka at the Geneva meeting of UN rights body in March is not being given much credence. For one, Parliament is currently in ...
Assault on Sri Lanka from Three Fronts: Tamil Diaspora - UN - the...
Asian Tribune - Feb 23, 2013
You could, of course, sit back, slack-jawed, thinking about how mindlessly repetitive Sri Lanka's foreign policy, public diplomacy and strategic communication are these days. Or you could wield all sorts of fancy analytic words to ex. plain it; using professorial ...
SL MP on pilgrimage returns after facing protests
Zee News - Feb 21, 2013
SL MP on pilgrimage returns after facing protests Nagapattinam: A Sri Lankan MP on a pilgrimage to the temple town of Thirukkadaiyur in this district had to return on Thursday after activists of various political parties, including pro-Eelam outfits, staged a ...
`Govt unsympathetic to Lankan Tamils`
Zee News - Feb 23, 2013
`Govt unsympathetic to Lankan Tamils` Chennai: Launching a tirade against the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, key ally DMK on Saturday accused it of showing little concern towards the plight of ethnic minorities and failing to see Sri ...
Jaya seeks economic embargo against Sri Lanka over ‘war crime’
First Post– Fen 20, 2013
Chennai, Feb 20 - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday described as “a war crime” the alleged cold-blooded killing of the son of the late Tamil Tigers’ chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran.“The killing of Balachandran (Prabhakaran) is a war crime,” the chief minister told the media here, and urged India to work with the US to pass a resolution in the UN denouncing rights violations in Sri Lanka.
BalachandranPrabhakaran’s execution video rattles Colombo
Deccan Chronicle– Feb 20, 2013
Chennai, Feb 20 - The tragic pictures in the latest release of Channel-4 expose of Sri Lanka’s ‘Killing Fields’ showing LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran’s son being fed with snacks and executed in a brutal manner shortly after by the Sri Lankan forces has shaken the conscience of civilised society. This further raises the decibel levels in the demand that President MahindaRajapaksa and his aides be tried for war crimes.
Outrage over killing of LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s son: Sri Lanka rejects reports
Mid-day– Feb 20, 2013
Chennai, Feb 20 - Prabhakaran's son could have been killed in crossfire while he was in a little bunker. There is no need for an international probe. The photos are morphed," Prasad Kariyawasam told CNN-IBN. A section of the media carried photographs of 12-year-old Balachandran Prabhakaran seated in a Sri Lankan army bunker just before he was killed allegedly at close range.
New photographs show LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s son before and after execution
International Business Times– Feb 19, 2013
Feb 19 - Sri Lanka strongly denied fresh allegations Tuesday that the 12-year-old son of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was brutally killed at a close range by the Sri Lankan forces.
The last hours of the son of Prabhakaran
The Colombo Telegraph– Feb 19, 2013
Colombo, Feb 19 - New photographs have emerged which raise fresh questions about the conduct of Sri Lanka’s armed forces during the final stages of the operation against Tamil rebels and have led to claims the 12-year-old son of the militants’ leader may have been summarily executed.
The GTF Conference in London: Who Is Afraid Of Sinhala-Tamil Unity?
The Colombo Telegraph- February 24 2013
The other half of murder
Khaleej Times - Feb 25, 2013
Could death be a half-truth? This question is obviously a killer's last hope and best alibi. There is enough truth in that great genre of mystery fiction to suggest that murder can often be an open debate. This does not help the dead, for there can be no murder ...
India vs Australia 2013: Protests against Kumar Dharmasena at Chennai
Cricket Country - Feb 24, 2013
A video of protests against the Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena officiating in the first Test match between India and Australia at Chennai. Dharmasena had turned down an appeal when Michael Clarke was found to be out after he nicked a delivery on to ...
The photo shows a boy sitting shirtless by a row of sandbags as he glumly eats a ...
Jakarta Post - Feb 24, 2013
The makers of a documentary on Sri Lanka say the boy was the 12-year-old son of Sri Lankan insurgent leader VelupillaiPrabhakaran, and that the photos prove he was captured and then executed by the Sri Lankan military. Sri Lanka denies the charge.
Cong MPs from TN meet PM, want resolution against Lanka
Hindu Business Line - Feb 22, 2013
Seeking to exert pressure on the Centre, Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh demanding that India join western countries like the US in bringing a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC over the alleged human ...
Why India needs Jayalalithaa to take on Rajapaksa and SL
Firstpost - Feb 22, 2013
Even as India continues its refusal to take a stand against Sri Lanka for its alleged war crimes despite the recent images of Prabhakaran's young son's alleged execution, the Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa has taken the bull by its horns. Her decision ...
Asian Athletics Championships
Pakistan Daily Times - Feb 21, 2013
CHENNAI: India's southern Tamil Nadu state refused on Thursday to host the Asian Athletics Championships because of the participation of Sri Lanka, which it accuses of war crimes. Chennai, the state capital, was due to host the event in July, but Tamil Nadu ...
AFI non-committal over alternate venue
Daily News & Analysis - Feb 21, 2013
Soon after Tamil Nadu chief minister Jayalalithaa called off the 20th Asian Athletics Championships on Thursday, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) asked the Asian Athletics Association (AAA) to decide on an alternate venue. AFI president Adille...
Sri Lankan MP on pilgrimage faces protests; returns to Chennai
Business Standard - Feb 21, 2013
A Sri Lankan MP on a pilgrimage to a temple in Nagapattinam district was forced to cut short his visit and leave for Chennai after he faced protests by activists of pro-Eelam outfits and political parties. As KarunaratneJayasurya, accompanied by his wife and ...
Indian province refuses to host Asian Athletics Championships due to Sri Lankan ...
Edmonton Journal - Feb 21, 2013
NEW DELHI - The chief minister of an Indian state scheduled to host the Asian Athletics Championships is refusing to organize the July meet because of the participation of Sri Lankan athletes. JayaramJayalalithaa, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, said in a ...
Asian meet runs into trouble over Sri Lanka protests
Eurosport.com ASIA - Feb 21, 2013
The Chennai local government is refusing to host the Asian Athletics Championships in July in protest against Sri Lanka for alleged war crimes that targeted Tamil Tiger rebels. Asian meet runs into trouble over Sri Lanka protests - Athletics Eurosport...
TN not to host Asian Athletics Championships: Jayalalithaa
Hindu Business Line - Feb 21, 2013
Amid protests over the alleged brutal killing of slain LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran's son, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa today called off the 20th Asian Athletics Championships scheduled to be held here in July, saying Lankan players have no place in ...
Sri Lankan military urged to withdraw from former war zones
Radio Australia - Feb 25, 2013
A major humanitarian organisation in Sri Lanka says the demilitarisation of former war zones is vital for displaced civilians who return. Sri Lankan military urged to withdraw from former war zones (Credit: ABC). The Sri Lankan military has defended its ongoing...
Karunanidhi slams Pranab on initiating rehabilitation process in Sri Lanka
TruthDive - Feb 25, 2013
Chennai, Feb 25 (TruthDive): DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Saturday initiated a biting outburst against the central government for its silence on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. Accusing President Pranab Mukherjee for mentioning to hold a rehabilitation ...
The choices before MahindaRajapaksa
Saudi Gazette - Feb 25, 2013
A 140-page report about sexual violence against Tamils by Sri Lankan security forces prepared by the Human Rights Watch (HRW), a global human rights organization, is expected to be released today. The UN Human Rights Council is to open its 22nd ...
'12-year-old could've touched the gun that killed him'
Ahmedabad Mirror - Feb 25, 2013
It'scalled a “carefully evidenced and powerfully measured” film. It's about a war which was supposed to have been fought without witnesses. But, there were witnesses - survivors, victims, militant Tigers, government soldiers… who filmed what happened ...
Wide Spectrum of Tamil Nadu Leaders Condemn Balachandran's Murder
Salem-News.Com - Feb 23, 2013
(CHENNAI) - Tamil Nadu Chief Minister JayalalithaaJayaram today blasted the Sri Lankan President MahindaRajapaksa's Government over the "inhuman act" of alleged cold-blooded killing of slain LTTE Chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran's 12-year-old son ...
Some Tigers are Ligers Now
Salem-News.Com - Feb 24, 2013
Feb-24-2013 11:41 print comments. Some Tigers are Ligers Now. RajasinghamJayadevan Special to Salem-News.com. In the climate of dead rock silence maintained by the government, it is hard to contest the claims by the civil society. Liger vstiger, fight!
The War Crime Sri Lanka Can't Hide
Salem-News.Com - Feb 23, 2013
Sri Lanka could eventually be tried for a vicious Genocide against women and children and civilian non-combatants. BalachandranPrabhakaran and his father, LTTE Chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran. (SACRAMENTO, CA) - Many Americans are catching bits and ...
Without Truth, There Can Be No Justice or Peace
Salem-News.Com - Feb 22, 2013
Why Lanka is losing the battle for peace?
GreaterKashmir.com - Feb 24, 2013
Chandrika Kumaratunga, former President of Sri Lanka, may be out of power but her words still carry plenty of weight. I met her at a wedding in Delhi recently and asked her what she thought of the current situation in Sri Lanka. Her answer was succinct: “We ...
Suspect genocidaire gives US marines lessons in war
TamilNet - Feb 24, 2013
Tamil activists questioned the bonafides of the U.S. Government in the US attempts to push for accountability in Sri Lanka's war, after the alleged war-criminal, Sri Lanka's United Nations Deputy Permanent Representative Shavendra Silva, was invited to ...
The Numbers Never Lie: A Quick Look at Sri Lanka's LLRC Progress
Groundviews - Feb 24, 2013
The administration of President MahindaRajapaksa won the ethnic war, but Sri Lanka's protracted conflict is more alive than ever. There is a lot of talk about how the situation in the North and East has improved, but most of these assertions are misleading.
UNHRC must prove its sincerity
Sunday Observer - Feb 23, 2013
The LTTE rump has resorted to various tactics to mislead the international community ahead of every United Nations Human Rights Council session (UNHRC), UN General Assembly (UNGA) or any other international platform such as the Commonwealth ...
Living Under Murderers In A Savage Land ?
Sunday Leader - Feb 23, 2013
Topping this week's news was the heartrending photograph of 12-year-old Balachandran, showing that he was in army custody before being murdered. The Sinhalese are rightly upset about the CJ's impeachment and the Matale massacres. Yet the absence ...
'Accountability Issues' And 'Transitional Justice'
Sunday Leader - Feb 23, 2013
A fortnight has passed since President MahindaRajapaksa's Independence Day address to the nation, described by many as denial of autonomy to the Tamil minorities. Yet, no one has asked what he has in mind instead, for an all-embracing political solution ...
Signs Are Ominous For Lanka At Geneva
Sunday Leader - Feb 23, 2013
BBC's Channel 4 produces annual editions of documentaries on the Sri Lankan armed forces alleged war crimes against the LTTE around February – March. The latest edition is out, timed for the UNHCR sessions to be held soon. A main objective appears to ...
Doctored films shootings and petty brawls reigned
Nation on Sunday - Feb 23, 2013
The week began with the releasing of another set of photographs by the usual and known petitioner; Britain's Channel-4 TV against Sri Lanka, while the Presidential Secretariat and the Ministry of External Affairs were getting ready with the necessary ...
Diplomatic dickering and damnable deceit
Nation on Sunday - Feb 23, 2013
The demolition of the Tamil Tiger war machine by Sri Lanka's security forces in May 2009 took the nation and the world by complete surprise. Our armed forces succeeded in what was thought an impossible mission by wiping out the world's most ruthless ...
Karuna lashes out at Centre on Lankan Tamils issue
Press Trust of India - Feb 23, 2013
Chennai, Feb 23 (PTI) Attacking the UPA government over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, key ally DMK today accused it of showing little concern towards the plight of ethnic minorities and failing to see Sri Lanka's "designs" on the matter. DMK chief M ...
Blake, architect of Tamil tragedy, spectator to genocide
TamilNet - Feb 22, 2013
Blinded by the 9/11 terror and impelled by the perceived need for swift action against "terrorism," the US-led International Community, made two serious miscalculations in Sri Lanka war: By allowing unhindered space for Sri Lanka's final military thrust, they ...
Tamil Nadu CM bars sports event citing Sri Lankan participation
TamilNet - Feb 21, 2013
Citing the participation of athletes from the genocide-accused Sri Lankan state in the 20th Asian Athletics Championship that was scheduled to be held in Tamil Nadu State, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms.Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that her ...
Sri Lankan government's 'constitutional coup' stirs ICG censure
Crikey - Feb 22, 2013
Hot on the heels of the revelation that Sri Lankan soldiers murdered the 12-year-old son of Tamil Tiger leader Prabhakaran in cold blood and last week's shooting of a journalist in Colombo, the International Crisis Group has released a report deploring what it ...
Cruel Face of Sri Lankan Govt Exposed with the Release of Brutal Trophy ...
EIN News (press release) - Feb 22, 2013
2) Thousands of Tamil Children were murdered in 2009 and thousands more are today enduring servile existence under the same military that killed their relatives & friends. 3) Countries urged to invoke universal jurisdiction against Sri Lankan political ...
CallumMacrae insists that revealing the truth is essential to create peace and justice and that is his job. Killing Field 3. (NEW DELHI Times of India) - Macrae's documentary No Fire Zone: Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is making waves, showing war crimes during ...
Get at the truth
Deccan Chronicle - Feb 22, 2013
In the wake of photographs and forensic evidence that appear to confirm a terrible war crime occurred three years ago with LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran's innocent young son brutally killed, Sri Lanka has a lot to answer for. The least it can do is order an ...
Amnesty seeks independent probe
The Asian Age - Feb 22, 2013
Amnesty International on Friday demanded an independent international investigation into the alleged warcrimes committed by both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan Army in the final stages of the war that saw the Tamil tigers getting uprooted root and branch in ...
Sri Lankan regime stands exposed on war crimes
Daily Pioneer - Feb 22, 2013
The camera cannot lie. The video footage released by Channel 4 shows the sequence of events leading to the cold-blooded killing of 12-year-old Balakrishnan, son of LTTE chief V Prabhakaran, and comes as further proof of war crimes in Sri Lanka.
Tamil Nadu Parties Slam 'Brutal Killing' Of Prabhakaran's Son
South Asian Link - Feb 22, 2013
CHENNAI – Leaders of various political parties in Tamil Nadu strongly condemned the alleged cold-blooded killing of the 12-year-old son of slain LTTE chief V Prabhakaran, purportedly featured by UK-based Channel 4, and demanded action against the Sri ...
Tamil Nadu not to host Asian Athletics Games: Jayalalithaa
TruthDive - Feb 21, 2013
Chennai, Feb 22 (TruthDive): Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said that her government has decided not to host the 20th Asian Athletic Championships to be held in July this year. She is likely to request the Centre to shift the event to ...
Jaya shuts door on Asian athletics meet
Deccan Chronicle - Feb 21, 2013
Chennai: Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa on Thursday announced that the state will not host the Asian athletic meet in Chennai in protest against Sri Lanka's participation. She made it clear that the state would not host the mega sporting event and said the ...
Asian athletic meet put off
Daily Pioneer - Feb 21, 2013
Tamil Nadu will not host the Asian Athletic Championship scheduled to be held in Chennai in July 2013. This was announced by Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday. She said the prestigious athletic meet is being called off because Sri Lankan athletes ...
Protests in Tamil Nadu force Sri Lanka opposition MP to cancel visit to temple ...
Colombo Page - Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party parliamentarian KaruJayasuriya visiting a Hindu temple in Tamil Nadu was forced to cancel his visit and return to the country today, Indian media reported. Jayasuriya Wednesday night has ...
Southern Indian state cancels Asian Athletics Championships
Nzweek - Feb 21, 2013
NEW DELHI, Feb. 21 — The government of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu Thursday said that it will not host the upcoming Asian Athletics Championships as sportspersons from Sri Lanka are participating in the event to be held in this country after a ...
Jaya cancels Asian Athletics Championships
indiablooms - Feb 21, 2013
Chennai, Feb 21 (IBNS): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Thursday said the state will not host the 20th Asian Athletics Championships later this year to protest against the participation of team from Sri Lanka in the event.
Short docufilm on Lanka violence screened in Delhi
Telegraph India – Feb 23, 2013
Calcutta, Feb 23 - Balachandran Prabhakaran, 12, snacks on biscuits. Two hours later, the LTTE chief’s son is dead, shot in the chest five times at point blank range. Shoba, a young television anchor for a Tamil channel, is reading the news in a bright yellow and red sari. Minutes later she is lying dead on the ground, hacked and shot.
US expects a full account on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka
Colombo Page- February 20 2013
Balachandran on Sale ? - Another Market Gimmick by Channel 4
Ministry of Defence and Urban Development Sri Lanka- February 21 2013
CallumMacrae- 'These Photographs Are Genuine'
OutlookIndia- February 22 2013
The British filmmaker whose latest documentary has unearthed pictures of slain LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran, suggesting he was killed in cold blood and not in an exchange of fire
DailyMirror.lk- February 22 2013
‘12-year-old could’ve touched the gun that killed him’
Ahmedabad Mirror- February 25 2013
Filmmaker’s documentary, which shows the cold-blooded killing of LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s son, is to be screened at UN Human Rights Council meet next month
Peek at SL killing fields - Short docufilm on Lanka violence screened in Delhi
The Telegraph India- February 23 2013
New Delhi, Feb. 22: Balachandran Prabhakaran, 12, snacks on biscuits. Two hours later, the LTTE chief’s son is dead, shot in the chest five times at point blank range.
Tamil language coverage
Prabhakaran’s son killed brutally – Channel 4 reveals photo evidence
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb 19, 2013
Balachandran’s killing and the truth behind the brutal act
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb 20, 2013
Sri Lanka will not escape from war crime
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb 19, 2013
Sri Lankan war crimes exclusive
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb 20, 2013
Give a missed call for a noble cause
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb 21, 2013
Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
PuthiyaThalaimurai– Feb, 2013
Photo of dead boy ups pressure on Sri Lanka
Asian Correspondent – Feb 25, 2013
New Delhi, Feb 25 - The photo shows a boy sitting shirtless by a row of sandbags as he glumly eats a snack. The next photo shows him lying face up in the dirt, a series of bullet holes in his chest. The makers of a documentary on Sri Lanka say the boy was the 12-year-old son of Sri Lankan insurgent leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, and that the photos prove he was captured and then executed by the Sri Lankan military.
Dark and disturbing
Hindustan Times - March 2, 2013
Looking away from the camera, 12-year-old Balachandran appears grim and confused, munching a snack and staring out at what must have been a terrible scene. In another picture, he's dead, with five shots to his chest.
No person resident in Sri Lanka helped us with No Fire Zone
Colombo Telegraph – March 5, 2013
Colombo, March 5 - “No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says CallumMacrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’. Macrae issued a statement this evening responding to a report published in today Sinhala language Divaina newspaper.
No person resident in Sri Lanka helped Channel 4
Lanka Sri News – March 6, 2013
“No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says CallumMacrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka‘.
No person resident in Sri Lanka helped Channel 4
Viva Lanka – March 6, 2013
“No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says CallumMacrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka‘.
Sri Lanka seeks to ID sources for Channel 4 film
Committee to Protect Journalists – March 5, 2013
New York, March 5 - The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry says it wants to identify sources who provided information to the UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 for a new documentary alleging that government forces committed war crimes during the country's long civil conflict, The Divaina, aSinhala-language daily, reported today.
Channel 4 documentary full of half truths says Sri Lanka
First Post – March 6, 2013
Colombo, March 6 - A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief VelupillaiPrabhakaran’s 12-year-old son, which was today dismissed by Sri Lanka as “lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation”.The Channel 4 documentary titled ‘No War Zone – the killing fields of Sri Lanka’ is to be aired in Geneva at the next session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March.
Chilling new Channel 4 images
First Post – March 6, 2013
Colombo, March 6 - If the desperate cries of women and children under carpet bombing, summary executions, and the tender body of slain LTTE leader V Prabhakaran’s young son weren’t enough for India to take a stand against Sri Lanka, will it still run away from spine-chilling new evidence that stares at its face?
