Warning – Disturbing Images: The Last Hours Of The Son Of Prabhakaran
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.
A series of photographs taken a few hours apart and on the same camera, show Balachandran Prabhakaran, son of Villupillai Prabhakaran, head of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). One of them shows the boy sitting in a bunker, alive and unharmed, apparently in the custody of Sri Lankan troops. Another, a few hours later, shows the boy’s body lying on the ground, his chest pierced by bullets.
Balachandran Prabhakaran1
The images were taken in May 2009 at the very end of the Sri Lankan government’s operation to crush the LTTE, which had launched a bloody, decades-long insurgency against the state that led to the deaths of perhaps 70,000 people. The authorities always said Prabhakaran’s son was killed in cross-fire, as troops moved in to take the LTTE’s last stronghold, located on a scrap of coastline near Mullaitivu in the north-east of the country.
Balachandran Prabhakaran 3
But the images, contained in a new documentary, No Fire Zone, which will be screened at the Geneva Human Rights Film Festival during the UN Human Rights Council meeting in March, suggest the boy was captured alive and killed at a later stage.
A forensic pathologist who examined the later images for the film-makers, said the boy was shot five times in the chest. Furthermore, propellant burns around the wound suggest he was shot at very close range.
Balachandran Prabhakaran
“The new photographs are enormously important evidentially because they appear to rule out any suggestion that Balachandran was killed in cross-fire or during a battle. They show he was held, and even given a snack, before being taken and executed in cold blood,” claimed the film’s director, Callum Macrae.
“It is difficult to imagine the psychology of an army in which the calculated execution of a child can be allowed with apparent impunity. That these events were also photographed and kept as war trophies by the perpetrators is even more disturbing.” The 12-year-old’s father, Prabhakaran, was killed along with most of the senior leadership of the LTTE as Sri Lanka’s army advanced on the rebels’ position. There were reports at the time that several LTTE officials were shot and killed as they tried to surrender.
Balachandran
“No substantive evidence have been presented for us to launch an investigation,” he added, referring to alleged human rights abuses.
Sri Lanka has always insisted it did what it could to ensure no civilians were killed during its operation against the LTTE. Yet a team appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon found that up to 40,000 civilians may have been killed. The team said there were credible allegations both sides committed war crimes.
The photographs will place additional pressure on David Cameron to announce whether or not he will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM), e in Sri Lanka in November. A Downing Street official with Mr Cameron on his visit to India said on Monday that no decision had yet been taken.
NGOs and organisations, among them the cross-party Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, have called on him to boycott the meeting.
Courtesy the Independent UK
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Interesting photographs. The manner in which this boy may have died bothers me. The innocence and the tinge of worry seen on the face of this boy moments before his death, are unforgettable. There are many stories circulating, including the one that this boy had pointed out where his father was hiding, just before his death. Finally, in a photograph circulated last year , the bullet ridden body of this boy was shown circled by the bodies of dead and bleeding LTTE cadres. In the present photographs I see boot and slipper clad persons standing and the shadow of a person with an uncovered head over the belly and right arm.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
12:57 am
Left arm.
Dr. RN
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
2:25 am
i dont, not for a second condone the killing of a 12 year old child, summarily or otherwise, however, I have many questions about this picture which was apparently taken “minutes before” the kid was “executed”.
Firstly, as Indi quite rightly put it, “He’s just a child eating a snack”. But, my questions is, the kid seems quite relaxed. Quite at ease and not bothered with what is around him. He doesnt look scared neither does he seem to be crying. Taking all this into consideration, i think it is highly doubted that this picture was taken “moments before his death”.
Secondly, just the mere fact that he is wearing the same pair of shorts while he was having his snack and when he was executed does not, and cannot mean it to automatically be that this picture was taken “moments before his death”. I wear the same pair of shorts so very often on very different days.
Also, the picture of the Bunker does not look as if there has been much “activity”. I doubt that any bunker would be this well kept especially at the latter stage of the War when the Government was wacking away in the No fire Zone.
In all things considered, i highly doubt that this picture was taken just “moments before his death”. It just doesnt seem so but good enough to get the International community worked up!
Dave - February 20, 2013
9:52 am
You seriously think that the boy in the picture looks ‘relaxed’? It seems quite obvious that he was given ‘the impression’ along with the snack that he would come to know harm. And yet his wide eyes suggest anxiety in the 1st picture and he seems to be in serious thought in the 2nd.
‘Campaigning group Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka says analysis of the photographs’ metadata shows they were taken by the same camera at 10:14 and 12:01 on 19 May 2009 – on the final day of Sri Lankan forces’ bitter 26-year war against the Tigers. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21509656)’.
Most of us I believe are broken by the sight of these images of a child and the evidence of vicious inhumane actions by a military that was supposed to be representing us – the nation of Sri Lanka.
Most of us are concerned about the way it all panned out because we know that nothing can stop that being repeated again… and again… but at the end of the day, all of this will amount to nothing, will be denied by the bigwigthugs and with the stand they have taken the military is empowered to act knowing that they have noone to answer to.
Dav - February 20, 2013
3:43 pm
@Dav.. Mass graves in Matale.. and yet you and the world are only concerned about the War, i mean justice for only the LTTE side of the war.. You just have to look ate the amount of comments here compared to the mere 6 on that.. the agenda is clearly set.. There will never be justice becuase you and people like you never seek justice for the many sinhala, muslim, non LTTE tamils, and bughers of this Land.
emily grace barr kumarakulasinghe - February 20, 2013
4:09 pm
emily grace barr kumarakulasinghe
Assuming you are a novice in this forum, may I take this opportunity to inform you I am the only commentator who consistently called for an independent investigation into war crimes and crime against humanity since 5th April 1971, including those committed by
Sri Lankan state’s armed forces and its paramilitary
JVP
LTTE and other armed Tamil Groups
IPKF
Muslim Paramilitary linked to state
Party affiliated killer squads
and others
You say:
“There will never be justice becuase you and people like you never seek justice for the many sinhala, muslim, non LTTE tamils, and bughers of this Land.”
Remember the island once belonged my ancestors yet you have not mentioned my people in your comment. I demand you include my people’s suffering and losses in your future comments.
As far as I can see you people don’t even acknowledge our existence.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
8:44 am
You dare assume with a typical Sri Lankan masses mentality, that any heart for the ruins of the war is ltte related.
How pathetic.
You ought to be ashamed of your narrow outlook which is the cause for the easy dismissal by the powered ones as they know that fools in our land will not pursue these ‘petty’ things which DO include all crime against our people as a nation.
Your description (how foolish) dear, is completely inaccurate. Rather than waste your days trying to tarnish what others are (with what seems like the vengence of one accused – are you?), try and use what little remains upstairs to (try &) fathom how the article you are commenting about (if read at all???) relates to the comments people have made.
Make room for some positive influence instead of standing stubbornly in such an obvious way with the many who do not care a damn about a long term peaceful resolution for the nation as a whole.
Dav - February 21, 2013
10:32 am
Native Vadda,
You really need to get over yourself!
Dave - February 21, 2013
10:40 am
Dav you said’by a military that was supposed to be representing us’ Dav You are a coconut living outside the country and must have done for a very very long time. So please stop acting as you have been effected by anything… The only calamity you would have had is a VERY HARSH WINTER SNOW STORM….
emily grace barr kumarakulasinghe - February 20, 2013
4:13 pm
ROFL… Good one!
Dave - February 21, 2013
10:29 am
My dear Dav boy.
let me tell you.. if my dad and family were captured/killed I would be just sitting there looking like that. He may not be as relaxed as you when your on a hamock near the beach, but he certainly doesnt look as if he is scared or worried.
i’m not too sure whether you own a camera, but, it is pretty obvious that you can change and/or put any “date” you would like on a camera prior to taking a picture. so that is not definitive at all. And what makes you sure that the fellow was captured and/or killed on the 19th? get a grip of yourself.
collateral in not something that only happens/happened in Sri Lanka. Its part and parcel of War and a armed conflict. I like you to name one war that was fought without collateral. I’m not for a moment saying that i condone it. What I am saying is that it is an eventuality.
When USA killed OSAMA, they made a decision to shoot on sight, prior to even going in cause they thought that everyone there slept with Explosives wrapped around their body. what an absurd justification!!!
All this fuss… whooo are cry is just by you people abroad… or for some other collateral purpose… funds funds funds
Dave - February 21, 2013
10:37 am
Dave says:
“You really need to get over yourself!”
I will, once the descendants of kallathonies have left my ancestral land/shore.
It depends how soon you get both Tamils and Sinhalese out of my ancestral property.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:55 pm
Why don’t the many who comment READ & UNDERSTAND BEFORE making accusations left & right that are simply showing off their naivity or is it foolishness…
The quote was a press release.
I strongly believe that we have to be open to the evidence that is presented. What a sad state of suffering of our people (those who have sadly perished and those of us who sadly choose to IGNORE the obvious).
Dav - February 21, 2013
2:45 pm
@DAV.. how simplistic is your approach to follow the Ch4 and Hr narrative.. I do not Blame the LTTE alone. Yet people like you and CH4 accuse GOSL..That outdated Narrative..’HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A TERRORIST GROUP, WITH A ELECTED GOVERNMENT) the simple fact is this.. It WAS THE SAID WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND HR GROUPS THAT FORCED SUCCESSIVE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS TO SIT AND TALK WITH TERRORIST’ FOR the sake of peace, and yes that was the price of Peace we had to pay as a nation.. JUSTICE then went out of the windows as Captain Prabhakaran along with Akila and Aman were wanted Criminals by India (Proclaimed Offenders)…and Also by Lankan High court for countless Suicide Bombings and Murder of Leading Tamilean Politicians… NOW young man HOW MANY WESTERN GOVERNMENTS SAT AND TALKED WITH OSAMA BINLADEN AND AL QAEDA of PEACE?????????..AND WHAT ABOUT the TAMIL NADU POLITICIANS and EElam GROUPS IN THE WEST WHO SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK FOR SUPPORTING A TERRORIST GROUP if u follow the Ch4 Narrative???? SO WHER IS THE COLLECTIVE JUSTICE????? IT WAS NOT JUST ONESIDED AND simplistic AS YOU AND MANY HAVE PUT IT…JUSTICE MEANS MANY PROSECUTIONS FROM WESTERN EELAM GROUPS, TAMIL NADU TOP POLITICIANS, SOME NGO GROUPS AND LANKANS.. THAT IS TRUE JUSTICE.
emily grace barr kumarakulasinghe - February 21, 2013
12:02 pm
trying to compare the US’s war against terror with our own civil war can only be done by a mind inherently incapable of any basic thought. Negotiating with OBL was never an option- the LTTE weren’t fighting for some vague, all-encompassing purpose like OBL- they were fighting for political and territorial power.
after persecuting the tamils much like we’ve now suddenly begun doing to the muslim community, we created a war that never should have been started in the first place. blaming other people for telling us we should repent is an exquisite example of the utter stupidity and inability to accept the shortcomings of “our side” that has plagued both the tamils and the sinhalese: most especially the sinhalese. There is a limit to which we can blame the white man, ms. kumarasinghe.
kp - February 23, 2013
3:32 am
Haha. what a commentary? nice summary and we all know the summary. you are not a Dr. like Mervin.
LOL - February 19, 2013
4:05 am
What Rubbish.. A dead child killed with a Bullet, There are thousands of photos people giving kids cyanide capsules and then sending them to get shot.. there are photos of dead kids in trains, Buses, with their tiny bodies torn to pieces and with ball bearings embedded.. There are photos of Bikku Kids hacked with machetes.. No Great revelationas such by these CMB gurdian, ch4 etc etc etc… The little is devil is dead so what.. This is a Brutal war which ended and now no more deaths.. These fools think the we in sri lanka will be moved by these.. We lived in this nation for thirty long brutal years seeing dead kids and more.. we may hate the Government.But every Lankan will stand with our military because Every Lankan no matter race, creed, Genda fought this war and witnessed it.. It will take more than a dead boy of a terrorist to get to the Lankan People.
Appapillai Amirthalingam - February 19, 2013
6:52 pm
Dear Brother:
I was “moved” by your article…I do not understand whether you are really a tamilian or tamil imposter…even after such carnage you standby Sri Lankan Army, really great gentleman…it is not your fault, it is the tamil blood, which does not understand unity, brotherhood, it is a inherited curse of tamilians to live like animals and get killed like animals…long live brother in ur newly liberated nation by Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa and be destined to live like non human beings.
Anand Mani - February 20, 2013
4:33 am
Thes are called Tamhalease. Not a Tamil
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
12:50 pm
You are right. Those who killed the biku boys. those who killed the surrendered policemen those who bought the arms and bombs are all in the government now. Please go after them. Arrest them and try them. If you cant do that why bother talking about this. Try touching them you will see what happens.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:18 am
Like i said we and most dont like the Government, and when we see former members of the LTTE once heroes who led the Kittu, charles anthony brigades and bled this nation in the late 90′s and now in GOSL, we hate it.. But that is the price of peace. Mr Prabhakaran held socalled peace talks with GOSL after 91, even though he was a proclaimed offender and a wanted criminal by India, That is the price of peace. So i say again and again one dead boy, compared to thousands of photos people giving kids cyanide capsules and then sending them to get shot.. there are photos of dead kids in trains, Buses, with their tiny bodies torn to pieces and with ball bearings embedded.. There are photos of Bikku Kids hacked with machetes. We all in this nation no matter what creed or genda got used to the killing.. we all had to realise that we had to put away justice for the sake of peace..hence the talks with a proclaimed offender wanted by india.. We may hate GOSL but we will never compromise the end of death now.. Every Lankan in this nation fought this Brutal war and we all GAve our support to end it by any means
Appapillai Amirthalingam - February 20, 2013
9:14 am
You have forgotten the so called communal riots of 58 73 82 … so on. One Tamil university student was burnt alive in front of his house. One Hindu priest was immersed in a molten Tar barrel. Thousands of women were raped, properties and libraries burnt. The unique feature in this country is its sadistic nature. They celebrate killing dancing around the corpse singing the national anthem. Those photos too are available but you become photo blind for those photos. Did the system punish a single criminal? The perpetrators are not proclaimed criminals of India or Sri Lanka. They are a race proclaimed as thugs rapist and murderers. Do you want any body to proclaim this nation as criminals. Look, crime is a crime. If you do a crime you do the time. No one should be spared Tamil Sinhalese Germans or anybody. But civilized nations have system to deliver justice to the victims and to see these crimes don’t happen again. They do not deny the crime however horrible it may be. See the white van abductions, raping of tourist, slaughtering journalist, destroying temple, we can go on and on. You name any crime you find it in this country. According to your argument we should forgive Sadam Hussains Gadhfi Pol Pot Idi Amin and Hitler in the name of peace. This is called Lanka talk. The world has moved on. It has no time or space to take your argument seriously. Next time you get a speed fine tell the policeman “Please officer leave me along in the name of peace.” By trying to cover up these crimes you not only tarnish the name of the country you are encouraging another generation of criminals to roam the streets. Very soon this country will be characterized as a nation of crime. Are you happy about that. This is not liking or not liking a particular government. It is a simple civilized behavior to call a crime a crime and to enforce justice. there is no substitute for justice , even peace.. How long are you going to hide behind LTTE. It is SLTE which has to be dealt with now. LTTE is gone as far as the Tamils are concerned but for the Sinhalese it is still alive and provide a license and cover to commit crime
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
1:18 pm
@Lankan Liar.. Your are true to you name..And i quote you ‘. One Hindu priest was immersed in a molten Tar barrel.’ This was the same lies Mr Prabhakaran repeated to Anita Patrap. The Tar barrel story.. But the truth can be found in emergency 58 by tarzie vittachi.. Which states it was a SINHALA BABY that was tossed into a Tar barrel in Trinco, and yes despicable sinhala mobs killed a hindu prest in panadura, like wise despicable tamil mobs killed and destroyed Nainatheevu (Buddhist Temple).. Sir you dont know your facts..
Dr. E.M.V. Naganathan - February 20, 2013
2:17 pm
Appapillai Amirthalingam AND”;
HEY YOU JARAPASSA;
“Teach The Children To Value Humanity – Mahinda Rajapaksa”
IS THIS only to Matara and Hambanthota???.
BECAUSE WE ARE SO CALLED SINHALA BUDDHISTS.
It is not fair to TALK BIG like this and save Wijeweeras family, kids and kill Pirapaharans family and kids.
I HOPE;
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY CLAN [SELF CLAIMED, SO CALLED BUDDHISTS] WILL PAY FOR ALL THESE SINS IN THIS LIFE.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
7:10 am
I think you are wrong here. All what he is trying to say is nothing else than the millitory victory against brutal lTTERS should be commended even if he or we the majority could hate the prevailing regime.
For this reason, I still take the side of SF, regardless of him being an immature politician, but a well disiplined millitary senior who should be given the due CREDIT for the victory not the heads of the regime that have hitherto proved not once several dozens of times that their decisions made without vision /wisdom have taken nation to be branded as most brutal – and shortly before being gotten imposed sanctions by UNO.
Sam - February 20, 2013
9:40 am
Killing of the “Bikku Kids” made the LTTE terrorists..what does this make us?
Ranjan - February 21, 2013
5:19 am
yOU IDIOT.. AS I SAID THIS IS THE PRICE OF PEACE.. HOW CAN YOU COMPARE A TERRORIST GROUP, WITH A ELECTED GOVERNMENT) the simple fact is this.. It WAS THE SAID WESTERN GOVERNMENTS AND HR GROUPS THAT FORCED SUCCESSIVE ELECTED GOVERNMENTS TO SIT AND TALK WITH TERRORIST’ FOR the sake of peace, and yes that was the price of Peace we had to pay as a nation.. JUSTICE then went out of the windows as Captain Prabhakaran along with Akila and Aman were wanted Criminals by India (Proclaimed Offenders)…and Also by Lankan High court for countless Suicide Bombings and Murder of Leading Tamilean Politicians… NOW young man HOW MANY WESTERN GOVERNMENTS SAT AND TALKED WITH OSAMA BINLADEN AND AL QAEDA of PEACE?????????..AND WHAT ABOUT the TAMIL NADU POLITICIANS and EElam GROUPS IN THE WEST WHO SHOULD BE IN THE DOCK FOR SUPPORTING A TERRORIST GROUP if u follow the Ch4 Narrative???? SO WHER IS THE COLLECTIVE JUSTICE????? IT WAS NOT JUST ONESIDED AND simplistic AS YOU AND MANY HAVE PUT IT…JUSTICE MEANS MANY PROSECUTIONS FROM WESTERN EELAM GROUPS, TAMIL NADU TOP POLITICIANS, SOME NGO GROUPS AND LANKANS.. THAT IS TRUE JUSTICE.
emily grace barr kumarakulasinghe - February 21, 2013
1:11 pm
May the srilankan army perish due to a conflagration in the Armoury! May all the members of the Rajapakshe government perish! May all their bodies and souls be destroyed!
Truth - March 14, 2013
11:34 am
Is a Dogtor
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
8:26 am
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
This is another proof that there is no difference between Tamils and Sinhalese, both share their stupid gene, both are full of hatred for humanity, both are capable of heinous crimes, both are in denial, both are greed driven and self destructive.
Please stop defending these two stupid people.
Native Vedda - February 19, 2013
8:45 am
Native Vedda,
I am not defending the stupidity of either. I am pointing out each ones stupidity, as the occasion demands. Going by the comments directed at me personally or at what I say, I have come to believe the Sinhalese are more amenable to see reason than the Tamils who mostly choose to comment under assumed Tamil,
English or Sinhala pseudonyms. I think we are both trying to achieve the same objective, but in our own inimical ways!
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
9:48 am
Before commenting on others, why don’t you fix yourself
(physician heal thyself)
You promised a public fund to help the ex-CJ and your screaming over her impeachment muct have reached the high heavens. I challenged you to start the fund with your money and put you money where your mouth is and then …..nothing ! I of course expected this from you…so I suggest that you do fix yourself before commenting on the behaviour of others !
Dev - February 19, 2013
4:31 pm
Dev he won’t, just another evil vellala and mahinda ass licker. He depend on others tears and sweat. They can lick any one not any tamils.
r.kovian - February 19, 2013
10:16 pm
Are you telling that Sinhalese don’t lie. There was no war. Nobody died in the war. Soldiers were carrying books not guns. After incarcerating hundreds of thousand of people “this is a humanitarian operation”. The famous one was the soldier got a sun stroke and hit Rajiv Gandhi. LTTE burnt the Jaffna library All these lies(Sinhalese Truths) were told by perhaps Engilishman or Americans Chinese may be Tamil speaking Mongolians. Well your are trying to point at stupidity I know where you are pointing at
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:23 am
That’s why we wanted to get rid of both. One is gone and the other is waiting to go……Pretty soon.
Mahela - February 19, 2013
6:53 pm
This is good evidence for a war crimes trial.. sooner or later…
Mahinda Rajapakse and Gota the White van goon will militarize Lanka and turn it into a dictatorship in order to cling to power forever because if he loses power an international war crimes trial awaits this murderous regime..
To dislodge the murderous Rajapassa Brothers, with Ranil Wickramasinhe supporting them tacitly, it will take another war – Syria style Arab spring style, another blood bath.. Unless India’s RAW and IB with CIA step in and finishes him off swiftly..
Impeaching the CJ was just another step to ensure his unhindered dictatorship!
Dinuk - February 19, 2013
1:40 pm
Dinuk,
Hay stupid moron, what the hell Ranil got to do with the regim’s continuity? You donkeys voted for the stupid bastards and they are now buttfucking you all! It is all your fault and nothing to do with Ranil!
Nirosh - February 19, 2013
5:03 pm
“what the hell Ranil got to do with the regim’s continuity?”
you seem to be forgetting the fact that RW is the opposition leader , it’s RW ‘s rightful duty to be the countries’ real opposition leader and start acting like one not as a government minister !MR has taken the advantage of an incompetent opposition leader and he is exploiting to the maximum , on top oh host of other under hand dealings RW’s inactions , greediness , inappropriate silly comments and selfishness bare the real testimony of the sorry state SL is in .
srilal - February 20, 2013
5:16 am
In the genocidal war conducted ‘without witnesses’, the perpetrators have turned into the witness leaking evidence one by one. I am sure there will be much more evidences (images and video) before the next UN meeting, one year from now. One of the key steps to take towards reconciliation is to have an independent investigation into what both the LTTE and the Sri Lankan military did during the last few years of the war. Otherwise, these kind of leaking evidences will continue to haunt the SL government and many open wounds will stay remain open and will not heal. Thousands of people, both Tamils and Sinhalese, who were affected by the war, want answers. Who killed their loved ones? Are they really dead? Or, are they still alive in a secret prison somewhere? Families need closure.
Mahinda Rajapakse has won the battle in the armed conflict phase of the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict but he is getting ever close to losing the war. All he had to do was to fully implement the LLRC. But, for reasons best known to him, he chose not to. Instead, he brought down the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, expanded the Jumbo Cabinet into Mega Cabinet and tried to reduce even the limited powers the current provincial councils enjoy by having economic development projects implemented directly at district level unit of the government.
Mahinda could try to protect his brother, Gothabaya Rajapakse and his then frontline commanders who carried out orders to execute prisoners of war. Or, he could distance himself from the soon-to-be prosecuted Defense Secretary and Army Generals who carried out war crimes under his orders. But, Mahinda is way deep in the muck now with the powerful states in the world who gave all the help his brother needed to prosecute the war and destroy all key assets (especially its supply ships) of the LTTE. In return, these powers expected Mahinda to follow through on measures on political reforms, ethnic reconciliation, and for accountability for the crimes committed by both sides to the war (brining to closure, the thousands of unanswered questions parents have on the whereabouts of their sons and daughters who disappeared after taken into custody by the Sri Lankan military, extrajudicial executions and massacres at the hands of Sri Lanka Army and STF and assassinations, massacres and civilian bombings carried out by the LTTE). But, nothing of that sort happened since May 2009. Instead, Sri Lanka’s judiciary and police focused only on what the LTTE did during the war.
Vannian - February 20, 2013
5:48 am
you must not have seen aranthalawa massacre of child buddhist monks
solomon mendis - February 20, 2013
7:18 am
I believe the 3 rd pic from Top – should be taken several hours after the little boy was shot dead. Bulet wounds look no blood stains – as if they were dried out.
Sam - February 20, 2013
1:26 pm
Doc. how can you describe the water/liquid/sweat that is visible 3rd image?
Dr. Maverick - February 20, 2013
4:49 pm
For all those who have posted comments possibly the longest thread with 236 and those who have tried to justify the murder of this boy citing various stories and those who try to exonerate the Forces without an International Inquiry, what if the siblings of Rohana Wijeyweera were dealt in similar fashion? WHY were they spared? Is it because that Rohana Wijeyweera was a Sinhalese? Or we had better quality Army personnel like Janaka Perera? The Brutes like Shavendra Silva after having committed this type of heinous crimes are today provided sanctuary by the very Guardians of Human Rights as Diplomats in the West. The Tamil diaspora and all peace loving citizens should assist the voices in the West who are trying to have an International Inquiry Opened, not only to expose the War Crime Murderers here but the Western Governments who have been having their business interests over Human Rights Violations in this country, assisting the MR govt and doing business of providing arms sales. What Hypocrites?
gamini - February 20, 2013
7:17 pm
gamini, this point about wijeweera is exactly what i keep asking these people. still no answer though. the spines of the patriots seem to wilt, suddenly.
kp - February 23, 2013
3:35 am
KP,
You will find the answer if you find out why families of Soosai & Tamil Chelvam live under forces protection & not killed.
Hela - February 26, 2013
12:03 pm
where the hell you get gunshot injuries without bleeding?
Baba - February 19, 2013
1:22 am
Do you see shit in you a** after wash/clean it? there are thousands way you can clean it before take the photo. if you want to prove child was killed in cross fire, you have to clean and keep it in a way.. but still regime failed to cover up their so called Buddhism.
LOL - February 19, 2013
4:04 am
YOU KNOW THIS IS ” BABA HUKUN” AS MODAWNASA SAID.
“THIS BABA HUKUN IS COMMENTING FOR MONEY FROM JARAPASSAS.
TELL YOUR BOSSES, THAT THEY ARE SO CALLED “DOWN SOUTH SINHALA BUDDHISTS”.
PREACHINGS from rulers to the masses;
ONLY HATE, REVENGE, KILL, RAPE,AND LOOT.
UNP, SLFP LSSP, JVP, AND ALL P S WITH ALL T S.
AND THEY ALL ARE WOWED TO RULE AS PER THE GUIDANCE OF BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHY.
I THINK THEY FORGOT;
” NAHEE WEAREIANA WAERAANI, SAMMANTHEEDA UDAACHANAN.
AWAEIRANA SAMMANTHEE, ESADHAMMO SANANTHANO “.
THIS NOT MY WORDS BUT GREAT PHILOSOPHER LORD BUDDHA’S TEACHINGS.
BUT AGAIN ALL HATE, REVENGE, KILL AND LOOT.
GOOD GOVERNANCE????????????????????????.
JUST IMAGINE YOUR KIDS IN THIS AGE.
ARE THEY RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING TO SOCIETY OR OTHER?????????????.
ANYWAY THIS INNOCENT KID BALACHANDRAN IS/ WAS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT HIS FATHER OR HIS CLAN DID TO THEIR RACE AND OTHER INNOCENTS CIVILIANS.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
6:14 am
This is the problem when you see too many Indian movies with tomato ketchup!
When shot at such close range where the surrounding skin is scorched blood does not spurt out through a burnt wound.
Get a picture of the exit wound at the back.
Mahen - February 19, 2013
6:02 am
Mahen,
Which means he is not lying where he was shot. The body had been moved several times, for the photograph of last year, where there were blood patches under the bodies of the LTTE cadres that were in a circle around the dead boy; and the present photograph where there are no signs of blood either below or in the circle around the body. Where is the original photograph with blood seeping from the exit wounds, soaking the solo below around. This raises the question why the body was moved so many times in the midst of an intense battle?
I am yet however hoping that the boy and his mother are alive somewhere. what Mohamed Aswer said in Parliament some time back and claimed was a mistake, keep my hopes yet alive.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
10:00 am
Huh, Baba. So, Balachandran is still alive? If he is dead, then how did he die from the first two pictures to the third? Oh, by the way, don’t come up with the nonsense (even Michael Roberts did this!) that there was man with a rubber slipper, then it can’t be a Sri Lankan military man. Prabaharan and the Diaspora knew Balachandran would be captured and made to disapper. So, before he left the Nanthikadal area, the rubber slipper brigade (sic) LTTE took these pictures and let the young man walk to his fate. An invitation to Gota: If you believe what your soldiers did the right thing, why don’t you come out and say, “He is a son of the terrorist leader and he deserved this”? By the way, Sri Lanka follows the teaching of Buddha!
Rohan - February 19, 2013
7:06 am
Baba,
You sound like a baba.
Kumar - February 19, 2013
7:44 am
Baba
You are a bloody sick man. I never agreed with VP, but what happened to this young boy by the Mahinda regime is a brutal crime. I’m sure you would have seen when Mahida shed crocodile tears for the LTTE’s child soldiers….!!! Ps – I’m 100% certain this brutal murder could not have taken place without orders from MARA/GORA….!!!
Real Peace - February 19, 2013
10:15 am
Ask brother Mervin. He will tell you.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:25 am
good point
solomon mendis - February 20, 2013
7:19 am
Over to you Mr.David Blocker. Please let us know if Prabahakaran’s son was killed by the army or the tooth fairy.
Namalie Rajapaksa - February 19, 2013
1:24 am
According to Blockhead, no one is guilty unless they confess and the confession is validated by 101 others (usually the accomplices of the guilty party, but never the victim). Using this *brilliant* logic, the Sri Lankan Army never shelled the NFZ’s, there are no mass graves in the North of the island, Gothabaya is the next Mother Theresa, etc.
Lester - February 19, 2013
4:52 am
Perhaps you can consult with the tooth fairy and explain to us how those photographs prove he was in Army custody, given that we cannot identify anyone in those pictures as being SL servicemen.
I hate to bust this bubble, but like the infamous execution clip aired on CH4, these pix shed no light on the circumstances of the boy’s death.
David Blacker - February 19, 2013
6:15 am
Mr [Edited out] Blacker
Here’s some simple logic, let me explain to you like to a child.
1. VP’s son is dead wearing a pair of shorts.
2. The Sri Lanka Army said he was found dead.
3. Someone photographed him alive wearing the same pair of shorts.
4. So the LTTE photographed him alive and dead wearing the same pair of shorts????
I don’t think you still understand, neither does the rice eating buffaloes of this country. Keep on bum sucking!!
lawyer - February 19, 2013
12:43 pm
I hope you’re only joking when you call yourself a lawyer, because if this is the way you argue a case, I pity your clients.
“4. So the LTTE photographed him alive and dead wearing the same pair of shorts????”
Firstly, I never said the LTTE photographed him. Secondly, why do you find point 4 so incredulous? Thirdly, how does any of this prove the Army killed him when 1. we don’t even know if this is VP’s son 2. we don’t know if he was ever in Army custody?
Now, can you explain to me like an adult and a lawyer and not like a child? If I wanted to talk to a child, I would. Thanks.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:42 am
“we don’t even know if this is VP’s son”..so if this was some other random kid then there is no issue?
Ranjan - February 21, 2013
7:08 am
You tell me. Why the fuss?
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
12:46 pm
Bloody good Sri Lankan logic
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:47 am
Who else was there in the War Theatre other than the LTTE and the Govt. Forces. The photo where the boy is alive cannot be by the LTTE for the child to be killed afterwards. It is obvious that he was in the custody of the Forces, unless the LTTE gave the photos to the govt. Forces according to David Blacker’s Logic or a third party did it to embarass Block Heads. If the Govt. Forces did not do it, who else could have done it? The LTTE????
gamini - February 19, 2013
1:47 pm
We don’t know if the third pic of the dead boy is at the same place or time as the first two pix, or even from the same camera. I have not given any alternate theories, so please don’t attribute your ridiculous notions to me. I am only questioning the lack of evidence to substantiate the theory in the above article. There is no need to call names or make personal comments if your theory is sound. It is only liars and the desperate who get worked up.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:46 am
David for your information all photos are from the same camera. ‘A series of photographs taken a few hours apart and on the same camera, show Balachandran Prabhakaran’. What more have you to say? The paralel I drew was not to question your paternity, but to elaborate the kind of evidence you are looking for to evade responsibility of the Sri Lanka govt. Forces of having committed War Crimes. This and the five students in Trincomalee and the 17 Aid workers, there is enough evidence if an International probe is conducted as a Local Inquiry will never allow the truth to come out.
gamini - February 20, 2013
3:25 pm
If you want to take McCrae’s word as gospel, you may. I don’t. He has repeatedly lied about previous releases, and there’s no reason to think he is anymore truthful today. Ask yourself why he hasn’t released the metadata on the pix which will give date, time, and camera.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:25 am
Ex army Blacker is trying hard to defend his paymasters. It can be easily proved Blacker as some of your mates who were in the field are now in the West after having secured political asylum. They will testify and in fact already they have given affidavits.
Stop kidding yourself. All these guys will eventually face trial….its not a case of if, but when and they will get the same judicial independence that Rajapakse is practising today.
Dushy Ranetunge - February 19, 2013
7:52 pm
Dushy Ranetunge
Do you have any evidence to prove that this boy was the son of VP? If you have please, pass it to David Black and Decker.
You also need to attach proof of VP’s wife actually giving birth to this boy, preferably un-doctored video clip.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
12:19 am
Native Vedda,
Do you have any evidence to prove that your mother gave birth to you? do you know your father? i think you know only when your mother told who is your father? do you know whether your mother told lie or not? probably your dad is still thinking you are his son/daughter. but still he doesn’t know the truth. even don’t know you are a adopted baby when your actual parents threw in the road side bin. LOL
Lol - February 20, 2013
10:29 am
Lol
raises very important points:
“probably your dad is still thinking you are his son/daughter.”
My father is 100% confident that he is my biological father. He says that my mother wore a chastity belt for over many months before and after conception. That is the caste iron proof.
The elders in my community tell me that they are aware of new field of science which has some thing to do with DNA. According to my elders DNA can confirm paternity as well as maternity.
Is it true?
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
12:06 pm
native said it correctly,
this is a matter of killing a prisoner, and a innocent kid.
NOT HIS MISTAKE, BUT BORN TO PIRAPAHARAN FAMILY AT THE WRONG TIME AND RACIALLY, A TAMIL.
BUT KILLERS NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THEIR COPY OF GENIVE CONVENTION / [ FOR ME THE COPY OF ABHIDAHARMA WITH T 56].
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
2:35 pm
In the absense of SF at the front, it was Shavendra Silva who was at command. See where Shavendra is placed today and offered Diplomatic immunity by those who helped MR to commit this ghastly crime? Not only Shavendra many Ex- Forces are serving as Diplomats in these very same countries providing immunity and security lest the whole truth will be exposed.
gamini - February 20, 2013
2:33 am
So where are these affidavits, Dushy? You have been promising them since 2009. But all we get is useless pix that prove nothing. All we hear from you is ad hominem attacks of an old buffoon who cannot back up what he claims.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:48 am
The British Channel 4 television said that the photos, which had been taken before and after the brutal slaying of the boy, stemmed from the same camera within a period of two hours. Apart from the documentary evidence released now by the Channel 4, a high ranking SL military commander, who escaped to West two years ago, had revealed already in the past that Balachandran was captured with five LTTE members and that he was killed together with them after being questioned on the whereabouts of LTTE leader.
Ranjan - February 20, 2013
12:31 pm
As I said before, McRae’s word that the pix are from the same camera and timeframe isn’t good enough. He has lied before on Ch4′s “evidence”. Ask yourself why the metadata which would indicate time, date, and camera hasn’t been released. Ask yourself why metadata on previous “evidence” has yet to be released.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:29 am
Where Blacker goes is his business. He was not kidnapped
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:27 am
The ex-soldier (left after injury) David Blocker thinks that he is an expert analyst in military and war others think the opposite. This shows that all his arguments based on assumptions do not hold water.
Kumar - February 19, 2013
7:42 am
Don’t worry so much about who and what I am. Please explain how these pix prove that the Army shot him when there’s no one in those pix identifiable as soldiers. How many times have we been through this song and dance about having definitive proof only to have it all just blow away?
Also, do you somehow feel that misspelling my name will somehow insult me?
David Blacker - February 19, 2013
10:30 am
Dear Mr.Blocker/Blockhead,
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.
President Rajapaksa said that the army went into war with the UN Charter in one hand and a gun in the other…what he did not mention was that some of them also had camera phones in their pockets as well. It’s hilarious to see you still trying to whitewash the armed forces and the government even after all this evidence that has come out. I guess some people love putting their foot in their mouths and getting egg on their faces.
Namalie Rajapaksa - February 19, 2013
1:21 pm
For David Blacker type they want a photo where the Army shooting the boy, to admit that it is the work of the Forces. The fact that there is a picture of him alive and the next he is killed, who else could have done this, other than the Govt. Forces as there were no third parties at the front. Is David Blacker trying to imply that the LTTE killed this boy? Come on David, why do you call your father as your biologiacl father, is it because you saw him do your mother up?
gamini - February 19, 2013
1:57 pm
Firstly, my paternity is of no concern to you, unless of course you have doubts about your own patronage. If paternity was a crime we would look for solid evidence of it, as in the case of paternity being contested in court. At other times it is something we accept on trust. If you cannot understand the difference between the two, you should perhaps check your own genealogy for for signs of retardation.
Secondly, saying who else could have done it is a childish and unintelligent argument. You need to prove your case, not say who else could have done it. When your parents left you Christmas presents, and told you who else but Santa could have left it, i’m sure you believed them. But now it’s time to grow up.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:55 am
I am not trying to whitewash anyone. I am asking you to provide conclusive evidence. Why are you getting so worked up? Instead of calling me names, why don’t you prove what you’re claiming. Or is that too difficult for you?
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:50 am
Dear David Blacker,
Of course this photograph itself may not prove anything; but don’t you want to find out precisely what happened?
Would you not react differently depending on which of the following three scenarios is actually true:
(a) the kid shot himself;
(b) the Tigers shot him to create propaganda against our government, our heritage and culture — after all, we have a long list of atrocities committed by the Tigers, so we wouldn’t put this past them;
(c) soldiers shot him in the heat of battle; and
(d) he surrendered, the soldiers called Colombo to ask what to do with him and a civil servant ordered the execution.
Don’t you think as citizen you ought to know? Don’t you think that knowledge might help you build a better Sri Lanka?
Chandra - February 19, 2013
2:52 pm
As citizens then shouldn’t we also want to know about the thousands of children on both sides killed in this war? What’s so special about this one boy? The only reason he is being singled out is for his PR value as VP’s son. No child deserves to be killed in war, but there are many children far more worthy of justice than the son of a mass murderer (if indeed this is VP’s son). Gamini (above) has cast doubt on our traditional views of paternity, possibly from his own childhood experiences.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
5:59 am
David,
What evidence do you have to prove that Blacker was you bioligical father?
Sam Johnson - February 20, 2013
6:48 pm
Better Sri Lanka with knowledge. Read Ma Hinder Chindanaya Sri Lanka is already better there is no need to build any thing new. All they need is few more white vans.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:28 am
in the second picture, it looks like the figure of an army soldier has been inserted later.
sach - February 19, 2013
3:16 pm
sach
Actually the other way round, Balachandran’s photo has been super imposed on army photograph by Tamil Diaspora supported by the imperial powers.
Native Vedda - February 19, 2013
9:08 pm
Army soldiers are experts in inserting things. Did we see them in action in Haiti
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:29 am
David,
All these theories /assumptions can be solved if the SL Govt. agrees to face an independent investigation. But the Govt. does
is so scared to face any independent inquiry.
Why??????? Oh why??????
Rani - February 19, 2013
6:20 pm
Why should they? if the SL people want it, our government will agree. If I claim that in fact you are a prostitute and must submit to a public examination of your genitalia to prove your innocence, are you compelled to agree to avoid being tarred as guilty? The accuser must prove, not call on the accused to prove their innocence.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:02 am
wow , what a logic !i remember Dayan J bringing a similar argument about the virginity, way to go DB !
DB , please don’t ask me to quote !!!!!! ( I simply have no time to go through the archives )
PS: I just sit back and enjoy the fire works here man , go Blacker …go Blacker……..
srilal - February 20, 2013
8:51 am
I can’t help it if you don’t like logic, Srilal. Logic cannot be tailored to fit your own theories. The accuser must prove, that is the universal law.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
11:52 am
Man, this is absolutely hilarious. This guy, an O/L drop out at Wesley College is talking about Universal law. What Universal law is that, where the hell did you hear about this kind of universal law? The entire world is talking about international investigation and this guy is confused with Rajapakshe’s kangaroo law as universal law. We need some jesters in this forum to entertain us and this is the best clown we got. Enjoy folks!
Sam Johnson - February 20, 2013
4:56 pm
David,
These all could be a casual chat while we take account of the after maths. It might be useful to manage the pain.
The image was examined by an independent forensic expert hired by channel 4 and was certified as not tampered. The image and Balachandran have just become very powerful symbol of atrocities that Sri Lanka allegedly committed against its minority citizens. It is not about one incident and one image anymore. It has become about the entire ethnic conflict and the failure of Rajapaksa to follow up on war victory with genuine reconciliation and reforms.
Contesting the authenticity of image can no longer be done in isolation of entire issue. Because Sri Lanka has just lost the battle of narratives. Right now, SL has a serious situation in hand. Even its territorial integrity is threatened!
Btw, you seem to be an expert on universal law, tell me why the SL government is not going to the International court of law to sue the channel 4 if these images were tampered and their accusations are false.
Theesan - February 20, 2013
7:10 pm
Johnson, leave your johnson alone and open a book and have a read. You might learn something.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:32 am
“The image was examined by an independent forensic expert hired by channel 4 and was certified as not tampered. The image and Balachandran have just become very powerful symbol of atrocities that Sri Lanka allegedly committed against its minority citizens. It is not about one incident and one image anymore. It has become about the entire ethnic conflict and the failure of Rajapaksa to follow up on war victory with genuine reconciliation and reforms.”
Yes, a body of lies can be more useful than proving the truth. As for CH4′s experts, please. If they want to prove the authenticity of the timeframe and the camera, they can release the metadata. There’s no need for a forensic expert.
“Contesting the authenticity of image can no longer be done in isolation of entire issue. Because Sri Lanka has just lost the battle of narratives. Right now, SL has a serious situation in hand. Even its territorial integrity is threatened!”
So you admit that the truth is unimportant? Thanks for your honesty. Also, do explain how SL’s territorial integrity is threatened. Maybe the GoSL will give you a job
“Btw, you seem to be an expert on universal law, tell me why the SL government is not going to the International court of law to sue the channel 4 if these images were tampered and their accusations are false.”
One doesn’t need to be an expert to have common sense. On that subject, have you heard of any government ever suing anyone?
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:38 am
Reading a book is not going to convert an O/L dropout into an intellect or a scholar or an expert. Instead of reading some garbage, try to go at least to some night school and learn what you missed in your youth.
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
11:53 am
It is surprising that you haven’t heard of a thing called ‘the presumption of innocence’, Sam. Doubly so given the amount of daytime TV you probably watch
Siva Sankaran Sarma - February 20, 2013
6:18 pm
So Johnson, you admit that even a book won’t help you? I agree.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
12:49 pm
David Blacker,
Why don’t you think and speak like a grown up?
What more evidence are you talking about? Are you looking for a complete video footage of the boy’s captivity and execution by the SL army to prove this?
Do you think that the boy in this pic is under LTTE custody and they (LTTE) shot him?
C’on David, why are you bluffing? Whom are you trying to cover up/protect here? You have already lost your credibility as a military analyst. Everybody here considers you as a buffoon? You are turning into a laughing stock. With this kind of logic, no wonder they are calling you a blockhead weather you get insulted or not.
I wish you had some brains to think rationally before blabbering nonsense in a public forum and making yourself a stupid moron.
Sivakumar - February 19, 2013
7:14 pm
If I am all the things you claim I am, you must be a bigger buffoon to waste time engaging with me.
But more to the point, you ask what evidence I want? I (and anyone serious about this) would want evidence that the boy was captured alive by the Army. Ie photographic or video evidence of the boy in the company of individuals identifiable as soldiers. Why is this such an intellectual stretch for you?
If I tell you that these pix contain no more evidence against the SL forces than the famous execution clip aired on CH4, will you be shocked? If you’re, you really are as stupid as you accuse me of being. Even in that “incontrovertible piece of evidence” there is no way to say who is shooting who. That is why this evidence will fade away just like that did.
You are clutching at straws. Dig deeper, look further. This is not enough.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:08 am
The Tamils don’t care who did what. All needs to be exposed and everyone brought to justice. No one can exonerate themselves by blaming others.
Have an open investigation. Acknowledge what happened. Show remorse. Repair the damage. Then move on.
The government, as the legitimate ruling party is the most responsible. And its leaders are accountable. The government killed its own citizens.
Non-governmental entities such as LTTE, where responsible, should be charged, if the leaders are still alive. If you equate the LTTE crimes to the government, you are accepting that there are two nations in that island.
Where any individual has been involved in war crimes, that individual has to be brought to book.
But fundamental to all this is an open investigation.
By denying repeatedly, your bloody hands are not going to be washed clean.
Siva - February 19, 2013
8:32 pm
david blaker;
DON’T BLACKOUT??.
BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO WENT FOR HUNTING.
AND
DO YOU ENJOY MUCH ON KILLINGS?.
I THINK PERSONALLY, YOUR LUNATIC, SYCOPHANTIC AT MINISTRY OF DEFENCE ALSO enjoying and get satisfaction in killings.
don’t tell me that your expertise, there are lot more experts in the field.
[I AM NOT AN EXPERT].
on expert who was at the last stage of Mulaithive war theater told me,
ONLY S L Army had NEW GREEN COLOUR POLYSTYRENE BUNKER SAND BAGS.
SO WHO WAS KEEPING THIS INNOCENT KID IN THE NEW GREEN COLOUR POLYSTYRENE BAGGED BUNKER???????????????.
YOU WILL REAP, WHAT YOU SOW.
THAT IS MY EXPERIENCES AND WHAT I HAVE SEEN IN MY EYES.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
7:03 am
If you can stop trying to type with your nose maybe I could understand your comments. At the moment it’s too much effort trying to decipher them.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:41 am
Never seen professional soldiers wearing thongs in the battle field.
K.A. Sumanasekera - February 19, 2013
1:50 am
Aha… nobody thinks K.A. Sumanasekera is smart. But, who all are watching the dead body of the boy?
Rohan - February 19, 2013
11:57 am
K.A. Sumanasekera
Do you think only the professional soldiers were standing around the dead body?
Sivakumar - February 19, 2013
7:20 pm
There are no professional soldiers in Sri Lanka. All are thugs and hooligans.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:30 am
Come on Siva,
Didn’t even some hierarchy run away and surrendered?.
Who was the brave foot soldier in thongs standing next to the boy after he was supposed to be executed by the special forces?.
And who is this brave cameraman to take multiple shots before and after the execution?
Did Nanthikadal have power generators to light up the scene so evenly for this camera work and even throw a shadow of a person , a male who looks a typical dravidian?.
Why didn’t your mate McRae publish all frames in the SD Card to fix the culprits once and for all.
By the way why don’t you ask Mc Rae and Diaspora to show the Kathankady Massacre also at the Geneva show at least for the audience to have a fair idea of real time photography and digitally doctored versions.
K.A. Sumanasekera - February 21, 2013
10:41 pm
That is why they are not professionals. Ask Ma Hinder to buy some thongs for them. They will wear them on their head.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:48 am
SO YOU AGREED THAT,
THEY ARE NOT PROFESSIONALS LIKE YOUR MINORITY COMPLEXIONED BOSSES TO HOLD A GUN IN ONE HAND AND GENEVA CONVENTION COPY IN THE OTHER HAND
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
7:17 am
The injuries are the entry wounds and therefore may explain why there is no blood. The exit wounds and the the blood will be on the back. The explanation of the GOSL is as usual the load of rubbish. Even though no evidence may ever surface orders were definitely given to execute on site the entire LTTE hierarchy and their families. The regular armed forces should not be held responsible for these atrocities as they did not shoot this boy without being ordered to do so. They seem to have the right attitude where they actually gave him some thing to eat and kept him protected in a bunker. Knowing the record of the ongoing culture of violence and murder and who the main culpits giving the orders now and protecting the criminals carrying out these orders it is not a mystery as to who gave the orders.
Pulle - February 19, 2013
2:12 am
This isn’t true. Bleeding occurs from both entry and exit wounds. However, that doesn’t mean that the boy wasn’t shot. VP had no blood on him either. Stop tilting at windmills and look at the actual facts.
David Blacker - February 19, 2013
10:32 am
Now I know where you sustained your injury! In the head right….right???
lawyer - February 19, 2013
12:46 pm
David
Could the person wearing slippers been employed to handle the dead body and he may have cleaned the blood from the wounds?
You seem to be an expert and you were with the Army- so you may be able to answer this.
Rajan - February 19, 2013
6:28 pm
It’s hard to say definitively that a soldier would never be wearing slippers, especially since we don’t know where the pix were taken. IF it is indeed in an Army area, it is unlikely that the boy would have been held and killed in a frontline position, as he would have been a valuable find, and rear area troops could very well have been in slippers.
Similarly, Tamil paramilitaries and other non-Army personnel worked with the troops, and could easily have been wearing slippers. It could be the foot of a civilian. Who know? The slipper neither proves or disproves anything.
As I said before, what is necessary as evidence is proof of the boy alive in Army hands. Without that, these pix are just a waste of time, though I am sure the media will value and milk them.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:15 am
What kind of evidence will satisfy you?
A full video of the murder? Oh wait, it could have been edited!
Time travelling back to the actual event and seeing it for yourself? oh wait, you could be hallucinating.
This apathetically neutral position is lazy and intellectually dishonest. You would be ridiculed out of academia if you were to apply such poor excuse of a logic.
Mystic2 - February 20, 2013
10:07 am
I have already answered your question. There’s no need to time travel or perform any other such fantastical feats, or make great predictions about academia. It is very simple. The same very basic evidence that is required in any murder inquiry. First prove that the victim was last known to have been alive in the presence of the accuser.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
11:57 am
*of the accused.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
11:58 am
You would not care for the facts as I can see from your comments. Picture number two shows on its edge a man in camouflage. There is a distinct difference between the type of camouflage worn by the SLA and the LTTE. I noticed this many years ago and was able to identify which side was shown in any given picture based on this. That camo is not LTTE. Also it appears that the body has been moved hence the absence of any blood. What you are doing here is just being a big bully who thinks he can refute every one else. Of course this is not the kind of evidence that can get a court conviction. No one on this blog givens a damn about absolute proof. We know that no amount of proof is ever going to make any difference anyway. But what we do no is enough to draw a conclusion. So just shut up and go away. By the way even if you think you can come back with another wise ass answer to my post I wont bother replying because it is a waste of my time.
Pulle - February 21, 2013
5:58 am
This time channel 4 got caught in red hand look at the photo there is a guy in slipers , that definitley not SL ARMY that means either this boy died in cross fire or LTTE killed this boy before he get caught to SL Army , I couldn,t belive stupidity of chanel 4 to publised this photograph
kris - February 19, 2013
2:29 am
The racist Sinhala-Buddhist regime is caught pants down!
One wonders whether the Sinhalese think thru their ass in blaming everything from ‘LTTE Shell’ to ‘LTTE Camera’ to ‘LTTE Cellphone’ that recorded all the war crimes!
Seriously, don’t you Racist Sinhala-Buddhists seriously miss LTTE to give a boo leaf to cover your racist nakedness for last four years now..???
Siva - February 19, 2013
8:23 pm
What a thick head! Someone in a slipper on the photo next to the dead body lying in the mid day sun possibly hours after the execution absolves the army of the atrocity committed! Aren’t they clutching at straws?
I didn’t realise that there were so many forensic specialists and ballistic experts in Sri Lanka. Are we not glad? There are so many u solved murders in SL. And these guys i am sure would solve every one of them. For eg start with all those journos….
Lasantha, taraki Rohana and then we can get on to Baratha laksman, hasitha….the list gets longer and longer……
We should thank CT for finding all of them by publishing these few photos.
Mahen - February 22, 2013
3:42 am
It is clear as daylight that the bullet injuries were self inflicted. A classic case of suicide, where the boy shot himself again and again.
K A Sumanasekera - February 19, 2013
2:31 am
good one !
srilal - February 20, 2013
5:36 am
Yea you are right. Same thing happened to SWRD Banda Minister Kadirgamar Lassantha they all committed suicide.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:50 am
Lanka liar
You are out of your mind, SWRD Banda was assassinated by a LTTE black tiger. Get your facts right. In fact SJV Chelva trained him and personally brain washed the assassin.
The assassin wore saffron robe.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
9:15 am
I see I didnt know there were Buddhist monks in the Black tigers. So the Buddhist monks wear the black tiger uniform is it and SJV bran washed men in saffron robe to become black tigers- very intelligent isn’t he
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
1:26 pm
https://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.344941622203997.84062.100000644857390&type=3
kasun - February 19, 2013
3:00 am
Think about thousands of innocent children killed by Prabakaran over thirty years of bloody terrorism.He saw n reaped the same..army end with grt bravery..salute them!!
ajith - February 19, 2013
4:37 am
Great count. Number of children Pirapharan killed is very much less than the Children killed by State terrorist and State sponsored terrorist starting from 1956.
Raja - February 19, 2013
4:54 pm
The fact is that Balachandran is the face of thousands of children killed by the army in the final stages. We care about every one of them. The world cries for justice.
Siva - February 19, 2013
8:38 pm
You have gone one step further. Upto now even the master liars of Sri Lanka cooked up a story to tell LTTE raped. You know who are the rape masters. Do you know the Haiti experience the SL soldier doing humanitarian operation on underage school girls. May be LTTE went there too.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:33 am
ajith
We know VP had killed many people including children.
Had the army kept VP alive now he would be a key witness to what he did in his life time answerable to people.
Who killed more children than the other should be left to the experts and warrant a comparative study in atrocities.
Two wrongs don’t make it right.
Here was a child who was caught in the madness of war and killed by the Sri Lankan armed forces out of hatred for humanity.
Beware, those who killed this boy are out there heads screwed up roaming freely among the Sinhala people.
Now is the time for the Sinhala people to hide themselves from these criminals. Already 400 members of armed forces have committed suicide and have already started killing their own people.
End of the day Sinhala/Buddhist state has no glory but created more misery by winning the war by any means it felt necessary.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
9:28 am
That look like cigarete mark.no bullet injury.
Dev - February 19, 2013
4:45 am
Very Good observation, the boy died of cigarete burn and not bullet.
Sivakumar - February 19, 2013
7:26 pm
Yea you are right. Probably the boy lit a cigarette after he died. That is the true story. Please believe me I am a Sri Lankan.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:51 am
Cigaret burn.not bullet
Devar - February 19, 2013
4:47 am
President Mahinda Rajapakse’s 65th Independence day celebration speech….
In Sinhala.
—————–
Eva Balava………Harda shakshiyata ekangava……….Kan Getta ketuwa lamayata……….or Lamaya eyatama vedi thiya gatta…..Case close. Suba Angathayak.
In English.
—————-
I request to the International community. Come and see the truth. According to my conscious…….this is a speck by Kangetta (crow)(killing of this child)…….or May be the child took a gun and killed himself…….Case closed…..By Bye……
Mahela - February 19, 2013
5:58 am
A very good Sin Ha Lease story. We heard many of these.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:34 am
Until this regime atones we will continue to see this type of image and constant reminder. Its a fact we must get used to. No different to the previous massacres just a fact. We must learn to live with and move on with the perpetrators in the dock, not the whole country!
Patta Pal - February 19, 2013
6:03 am
Look at the first two photographs very very
disapassionately, without a prejudiced mind
or a pre conceived notion.
One thing emerges clear – the two photographs
of Balachandran were taken in a bunker. No
dispute on that.
The question is which bunker – Sri Lanka military
or LTTE.
I can bet my bottom dollar, sorry rupees since I
have no dollars like Nivard Cabraal, that the photgraph
is from an LTTE bunker.
Why? See the demeanour of the young Balachandran. There
is no fear or stress on his face. He is quite relaxed
and shows no no signs of distress.
Passing that off as a photograph of a military camp therefore
is a puerrille act. Not because I love the Rajapaksas or
the Wickremesinghes. It is because I love the truth and
want it to prevail.
John Rambo - February 19, 2013
6:24 am
Rambo
Why did you not mention anything about the 2 photos of the dead body?
Who would have taaken them?? LTTE or Army?
Rajan - February 19, 2013
6:37 pm
You may be right . But it is the stupid R brothers who did not allow the military to do their job, but started giving directions to lakies in the army ,like the sex maniac Silva. And claiming there were ,zero cassualties and , of course all those killings stupid ones lstarting with Lasantha ,that got these fools and Sri Lanka in to this state
P.B - February 20, 2013
5:48 am
It is a pity that you are more relaxed after seeing this. If I were a Sri Lankan like you I would be ashamed of the country
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:35 am
Why? See the demeanour of the young Balachandran. There
is no fear or stress on his face. He is quite relaxed
and shows no no signs of distress.
How can one be so blind….can you not see that face wide eyed and full of anxiety ? Averting the gaze from the camera.
He realises that he is now all alone in the world and ponders about his future. All that is written on that face. In the second one it continues with that empty look while munching on that snack. Totally oblivious to the camera.
Mahen - February 22, 2013
4:10 am
Most of the LTTE photos are in groups. I did not see a single LTTE photo of a single cardre taken individually. Also there’s no need for LTTE to take a photo of Balachandran leaving the faces and bodies of other cardres on the side.
This is purely a last supper photo.
Jayantha - February 26, 2013
5:38 am
look at the photo Number 3 . The head is cut and pasted , no blood mark also ??
Babeeq - February 19, 2013
6:29 am
look at the photo number 3, one man standing with a slipper. may be he is a LTTE Member. forces never goes with slipper
Babeeq - February 19, 2013
6:37 am
Those are civilians observing the dead body.
Mystic2 - February 20, 2013
10:21 am
Sri Lankan holocaust deniers crawl out of their dark holes in reaction to such statements, just as just as quickly as blow flies reach carrion post mortem.
Decent Sri Lankans and the whole world knows what took place and are slowly coming to terms with the atrocities.
However, the knowledge that the murderers and their troglodyte cronies are still in power and busy denying this holocaust is truly a cause for despair.
Gerard Thurai - February 19, 2013
6:50 am
Load of rubbish. There is no evidence to confirm that this is an army bunker. The bunker could be equally an LTTE terrorist bunker. Do you expect Prabhakaran’s body guards to place him in a sandy foxhole for protection when the army was closing in. And who gave the kid this posk lookingshawl to cover himself up, lovingly, in a climate that was hot. The boy could have been equally likely to have got shot with a spray of bullets from a gun held by a terrorist or soldiers attacking the bunker. This was war, and the soldiers do not go round to the battlefield with young kids ID cards and birth certificates when they are also fighting for their own lives. Anyone get caught in their line of fire get felled. If Prbhakaran was a good leader he should have thought about the carnage that war would bring to his family as well as to all other Tamil people he was holding against their wishes in the battle field. This is just propaganda and misinformation to cover up the foolishness of the LTTE leaders, using a corpse of a child to curry sympathy. It is just another set of pictures with someone else’s words writtn to the captions to fabricate a story.
bonaparte - February 19, 2013
7:07 am
Just a few observations on the photos from a photo analyser with no particular interest on the event itself. These are digital photos.
The first two photos are clearly taken inside a bunker reinforced with sand bags and the bunker would easily be the safety Pirabaharan provided to his family. Trying to link the army to this scene would be a difficult job for Mr Mcrae.
The third photo could well be taken on the day, at the same time the bodies of Pirabahran and others trying to escape were recovered. The background detail suggests this.
There are absolutely no forensic or other clues on these photos to associate anyone in the army or government with the possible assasination as Mcrae is trying to do. The photos could easily have been taken days apart. The bullet wounds could well have been inflicted during the escape attempt.
A court of law will throw these images, no matter how emotionally compelling they are, as non-evidence.
Investigator - February 19, 2013
7:11 am
I fully endorse your views
Lion - February 19, 2013
9:52 am
Investigator, were not the LTTE bunkers including that of VP’s in the hands of the Govt. Forces? Then what is the difficulty for the Forces to use them, as and when it pleased them? I am afraid your argument does not hold water.
gamini - February 19, 2013
2:14 pm
Investigator,
Don’t you know that in final battle for Nanthikandal, the whole area was surrounded by Govt. forces by Air, land and sea.
Nobody was allowed to escape and every Tamil tiger suspect and civilian was strip searched before either killed or sent to refugee camps.
No International agency or monitor was allowed to talk, meet or access to any refugee camp for months after war ended.
So how do you claim this could be a Tiger ploy to discredit Govt. forces.
Your theory is absurd absolute nonsense.
All the Channel 4 video clips were accessed and given by SL Army personnel and more will come out in the coming months.
Also SL army recruitted thousands of labourers and manual support staff to dig bunkers, trenches and dig mass graves and to clean up and other field work. The guy with slippers on may be one of them.
Gen.Sarath Fonseka’s white flag statement say it all.
Please correct your investigation.
Mahela - February 19, 2013
8:11 pm
You have mistaken the Tiger strategy of employing civilians as manual labourers for that of the Army.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:18 am
David Blacker,
Just listen to BBC news what Gen Sarath Fonseka say. He say it was on 29th May at 10 in the morning that Troops completed the war ending siege on Nanthikandal…….It is around 12 pm, same day that troops informed that they found Balachandran’s Body.
According to forrensic report these camera shots have recorded the shots were taken at the same time.
BBC talked to the organisation which got access to these photos first and they said they got them from a Sri Lankan soldier. May be they have info. on the soldier who gave it to them.
Please listen to today 19th FReb. BBC Sinhala news….Sandeshaya.
Also listen to what Gen. Sarath Fonseka say.
Please don’t come up with unacceptable fairy tale logic.
Truth is coming out from Horse’s mouth.
Mahela - February 20, 2013
8:34 am
Well, what proof is there that these pix were taken on the day you claim? McCrae hasn’t released that. Why hasn’t he? Unfortunately, the so-called truth is coming out from you who heard it from someone who heard it from someone. I don’t think it is the horse’s mouth that is speaking.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
12:06 pm
David Blacker,
Do you know why US is pushing so hard for Sri Lanka to reconcile with Tamil Community to bring justice to them.
Do you know that US satellites could read the newspaper you read in your Varanda or in front lawn.
US has more first hand info. than anybody…….and these photos are nothing compared to what they have. But still they give time for MR to come to terms with tamil community. MR cannot play Beliatte/ Weeraketiya Nadagama with them.
Pres.Rajapakse still live in his old Hambanthota buffalo curd era while thinking to dupe the world. It doesn’t work anymore.
Remember how Gaddafi narrowley escaped US misile by a few feet away in his bedroom.
World is too advance in technology for both you and Rajapakses to understand. It’s pathetic….but true.
Mahela - February 20, 2013
10:44 pm
“Do you know why US is pushing so hard for Sri Lanka to reconcile with Tamil Community to bring justice to them.”
Really? You think they’re pushing hard?
“US has more first hand info. than anybody…….and these photos are nothing compared to what they have. But still they give time for MR to come to terms with tamil community. MR cannot play Beliatte/ Weeraketiya Nadagama with them.”
So after five years they are still giving MR time? Ok, keep that dream alive.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:48 am
Spokesperson for the US State Department, Victoria Nuland responded to recent allegations against Sri Lanka and the death of LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s youngest son by stating that the US support a full accounting for all who have violated international humanitarian laws.
She further went on to confirm that the US will introduce its own resolution on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council while commending UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay’s report regarding the reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka.
Answering a question regarding the allegation surrounding the death of Balachandra Prabhakaran at a daily press briefing, she stated,
We continue to be deeply concerned by allegations of violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in Sri Lanka. At the end of this conflict, we support a full accounting for all who are engaged in acts of violated international humanitarian law. We also welcome the report by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, noting the strong concern about the Government of Sri Lanka’s lack of action to address these longstanding issues of reconciliation and accountability. And as you know, we plan to introduce our own resolution on this into the Human Rights Council .
Yanky - February 21, 2013
7:15 pm
Blind Investigator
Can’t you see the boy wearing up the same trouser in captivity as well as after being murdered with both pics taken by same camera???
Oh yeah, you can blabber that Prabakaran’s Son was so poor that he had to wear only that trouser for years..!
The Tamil ‘STRATEGY’ of pitting Fonseka against Rajapakshe has borne fruit now with disgruntled army majors sharing the war crimes of Sinhala army!
Looks like there are still a lot of info left to be auctioned for dollars by the ‘Patriotic’ Sinhala army men loyal to Fonseka.
Siva - February 19, 2013
8:13 pm
No one said he was wearing the trousers for years. Why all this exaggeration? Can you not rely on a reasonable argument? It is quite possible that the pix were taken days apart, and it is not unreasonable to think that the boy wore the same shorts for a couple of days since he couldn’t carry around his designer wardrobe.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:20 am
Why all these trouble. Shall we say the boy did not die. He is just sleeping. The crime is so heinous that you have gone to such an extent to deny that. Just a Sinhalese translation of the real story would have done the job. Lie Lanka Matha. Upe Lie Lanka
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:38 am
This is nothing but Blue Murder.No escape. No excuse
Kautilya - February 19, 2013
7:31 am
Kualith Podian
What about the little monks that were killed in Arantalawa? Do you have the same feeling too?
What about Osama Bin Laden’s family members – DO you have the same feeling too?
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 19, 2013
9:56 am
as far as i know very few members of osama were killed during the raid.in fact if i remember correctly his son was killed while trying to defend his father.osama’s extended family was given medical treatment and they were flown to their respective countries by the embarassed pakistani authorities.i dont think prabakaran family was given such a royal treatment hence comparing osama last hours and prabakarans last hours are not strictly comparable.
jagan sriram - February 19, 2013
5:16 pm
When Osama Bin Laden was killed by US troups, everything was recorded and telecasted live to Pres. Obama and white house staff and later shown in public TV.
Nothing was hidden from Government, public or International community.
Also after Bin Laden was killed, he was taken on board of the US carrier fleet and a muslim buriyal was conducted by an Imam on board of the ship before sending the body to the bottom of the sea.Everything is on record.
Also none of the US drone attacks or any other operations of major enemy targets were hidden from public and almost all the civilian victims and their families were compensated by US government.
Japan,Germany, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, afganistan, Pakistan…….all these countries that US went and been to war were later compansated both economically, politically and were administered into economic power houses.
There’s a big difference between how US and west fought wars….and how GOSL fought it’s LTTE, JVP and other communal wars and uprisings. eg. Matale skeletons…..etc..
Please open your eyes.
Mahela - February 19, 2013
11:25 pm
Oh, you poor fellow. Do you also believe in Santa Clause?
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:50 am
Yes, Mr. David Blacker, I believe in Santa Clause.
But this year he coming early…….in March to Geneva.
Jayantha - February 21, 2013
3:31 pm
But have you been a good boy?
David Blacker - February 22, 2013
5:12 am
The link to the documentary “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka.” is:
http://nofirezone.org/
Kumar - February 19, 2013
7:34 am
Callum McCrae gives his game away when he writes of the Sri Lankan army advancing into “the Tamil homelands of the north” (see Director’s Blog on that website) as if this was an army invading a foreign country, which is presumably how he sees it. Interesting also how British taxpayers (who pay for Channel 4) are unknowingly funding political propaganda for a separatist group with terrorist connections in another country!
Candidly - February 23, 2013
5:23 am
Next MARA /GOTA / Basil children on firing line……..days are numbered….in Sri Lanka or abroad………..First come first serve….
Mahela - February 19, 2013
8:09 am
Oh Really Mahela.
Are you goin go do that?
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 19, 2013
9:52 am
Oh really Mahela
Are you going gto do that?
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 19, 2013
9:53 am
Rajakaruna,
Including you MARA goons.
Mahela - February 19, 2013
7:02 pm
Mahela
Go and have a good wash and come and see me after that.
Rather than what you think, you see the heaven Podian.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 20, 2013
9:58 am
Rajakaruna,
There’s a saying that pigs are born and neither be corrected nor listen to it’s masters.
Both you and your Athi Garu are same, but please don’t pig shit in my yard. Not only stink my house but the whole country.
Mahela - February 20, 2013
5:25 pm
Ma-hela
What country? Your Peelum idiot?
It is in the hell. Go and join your Sun Goat(or god) who is having eternal pain for the merits he collected for 30 odd years.
Your bu##ards never learn.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 21, 2013
7:37 am
Manesh Rajabaksa
“Go and have a good wash and come and see me after that”
What do have up your sleeve, an iron rod to explore Mahela’s posterior?
Are you a Sadomasochist?
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
5:38 pm
This guy sounds like a Sod or a bi-sexual. Most probably a Buddhist monk.
Sam Johnson - February 20, 2013
6:25 pm
No Sam. A Catholic priest.
Hela - February 26, 2013
12:31 pm
John Rambo is dead on right. Its not only an
LTTE bunker by the Army does not give captives
short eats to much nor a sarong as replacement
for a blanket. Why can’t some fools see through
this but run with their clothes on to claim this
is an Army bunker.
Colonel Bogey - February 19, 2013
8:41 am
i dont understand how Prabkaran can send his own child to surrender to army. when he has asked his own civilians not to surrender, His mentality has always been that it is better to die than to surrender army. That is why he used cynyide capsules .
wimal - February 19, 2013
9:16 am
How do we know that VP didn’t surrender? Just saying…
Just Another Citizen - February 19, 2013
10:22 am
wimal
VP too surrendered the armed forces. Rest is history.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
6:44 pm
The world gasps, horrified. But what about the Sinhala nation, how did they respond to this execution of an unarmed mentally disabled child in a country supposedly blessed by the Buddha? An outcry? A protest? A demand for an inquiry? No, all they want to know is who the hell allowed the armed forces to carry Camera Phones, otherwise no one would have known about any of these war crimes. I think this alone sums up the character of the Sinhala Buddhists.
Tamilan - February 19, 2013
9:38 am
Only Charles Anthony, the eldest was said to be mentally handicapped. Balachandran was a normal, healthy child .
Dr.R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
11:41 am
What about Prabhakaran? He shouldn’t have been killed because he was mentally sick too. Prabhakaran was a seriously disturbed person: a psychopath, sociopath, sado-masochist, egomaniac and a meglomaniac. He had torture chambers in the Wanni to satisfy his sick desires. He ordered the killing of over 600 captured poilicemen during the Premadasa regime. He ordered the infants in bordering Sinhala villages to be killed by smashing them on the walls. He ordered the raping of LTTE women cadre who defected with Karuna. [Edited out]
Ajay - February 19, 2013
1:57 pm
Ajay
For all those reasons and many more VP should have been kept alive.
An independent war crime tribunal would confirmed his crimes
Did the president order the killing of VP?
Native Vedda - February 19, 2013
6:44 pm
Agreed,no questions. but?.
pirapaharan was a mentally sick killer and
your same descriptions;
[ seriously disturbed persons, psychopaths, sociopaths, sado-masochists, egomaniacs and a megalomaniacs. they have/ had torture chambers in ???.].
applies to our present [Buddhist] presidency and his siblings??.
DOESNT IT?.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
8:57 am
VP was not mentally sick. A mentally sick person could not have led the LTTE for 30 years.
Lester - February 23, 2013
6:01 am
How do you know you fool charles antony mentally handicapped. Shut you idiot sucker. You kind of people responsible for tamils present sorry state.
r.kovian - February 19, 2013
6:56 pm
@ r.kovian: I’m sorry to say, but looking at this picture, it’s almost certain that Charles Anthony was a retard. And my apologies in advance to other, non-criminal mentally defective persons.
Mango - February 19, 2013
8:09 pm
U sinhala numps, never going to under stand. you live in a world different from others. Again praba not come from from hell, u created your own hell. u created praba, he’s gone for good but u sinhala monsters u live in blood and tragedy and u love it and we tamils paying heavy price.
r.kovian - February 19, 2013
10:02 pm
I am glad that you are Sri Lankan. Sri Lanka need people like you. Mervin will be very proud of you.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:39 am
@ Mango:
Charles Anthony was a retard? He had a degree in aerospace engineering. Go back to your arsenic-laced kiribath now.
Lester - February 23, 2013
9:32 am
Tamils are in a terrible situ. Yes.
Guys like you, who sucked up to VP is the main reason.
Ben Hurling - February 19, 2013
8:41 pm
Now we Sinhalese are heading towards the same situation as VP era.
Terrible but true.
Mahela - February 20, 2013
5:30 pm
This dogtor is an expert in mentally handicapped people. All he needs is a good mirror.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
8:34 am
Dr Narendran
You are incorrect my friend. What about blood suckin VP Appa? He was also mentally handicapped for last 30 odd years. That is why he had 30-odd horrible years in SL.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 20, 2013
10:01 am
Manesh Rajakaruna
“What about blood suckin VP Appa?”
What about him?
VP rigged ballot and helped MR to become the president of the island and depriving Ranil the victory.
VP fought a war against invading IPKF while the Sri Lankan armed forces were hiding behind their women folks. Premadasa armed and financed LTTE between 1988 and 90.
Mind you MR was scared stiff in case IPKF just walked down to South. You should watch his interview.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:17 am
Gossip, huh! “Said to be mentally handicapped’? Who gacve you the doctorate, mate? Heard about Dr. Mervin Silva?
Rohan - February 20, 2013
11:57 am
@Dr.Rajasingham
Why don’t you check this link out. this appeared on Thursday, 14 June 2012.
Major General Kamal Gunaratne had murdered Balachandran on Gotabhaya’s order
LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s 14 year old son Balachnadran Prabhakaran had been killed after surrendering to the army on a direct order of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
Lanka News Web learns that Balachandran had been killed under the supervision of the Commander of the 53rd Brigade Brigadier Kamal Gunaratne.
Balachandran had surrendered to the army near the Nadikadal Lagoon at 7.30 a.m. on May 19, 2009. He had surrendered to a group of eight soldiers led Sergeant Mutubanda from the 4th Vijayaba Infantry Regiment.
Balachandran had said his father, Velupillai Prabhakaran had been shot dead the previous night and that his body was hidden in a shrub near the Nandikadal Lagoon. Mutubanda had then informed the detail to Lieutenant Nalaka from the C Group of the 4th Vijayaba Infantry Regiment.
Nalaka together with another officer named Kirinda and Sergeant Wijesinghe were engaged in a search operation in the Nandikadal Lagoon at the time.
Nalaka had informed the Commanding Officer of the 4th Vijayaba Infantry Regiment Lieutenant Colonel Rohitha Aluvihare that a boy claiming to be Prabhakaran’s son along with two security personnel had surrendered to the army. He had then informed the head of the 53rd Brigade, Brigadier Kamal Gunaratne about the matter through head of the 681 platoon, Lieutenant Colonel Lalntha Gamage.
Following orders, Brigadier Gunaratne together with Lieutenant Nalaka and Balachnadran had gone to the shrub in the Nandikadal Lagoon and shown Prabhakaran’s body to the army.
Lalantha Gamage had then personally taken charge of Balachandran and taken him to Gunaratne.
Gunaratne had then personally interrogated Balachandran.
During the interrogation Balachandran had said his father was killed the previous night when he was caught in the crossfire between the LTTE and security forces.
He had said that his father’s body was hidden and two of his security personnel who had survived the battle the previous night had then surrendered to the army with him.
Balachandran had said that he was with his father in one boat trying to escape the gunfire while his mother and sister were in another. However, he had said his father was shot during the battle and that he was unaware of what had become of his mother and sister.
Balachandran had also revealed that his father and his few remaining security personnel had fought back, but excluding two members of the security detail, everyone had been killed in the gun battle.
Gunaratne had informed all the details he had learnt from Balachandran to the Defence Secretary on his mobile phone. The Defence Secretary had informed all the details to Karuna Amman.
Karuna Amman had told the Defence Secretary that Balachandran should be killed since there was a possibility that he would become the next LTTE leader if he survived and because he would be released from courts since he was under age.
The Defence Secretary had then ordered Gunaratne to personally supervise Balachandran’s killing and to destroy his body.
These details have been revealed by an army officer to a foreign government since he is now being accused over the telecast of footage of Balachandran’s murder in a Channel 4 film. The army officer had said that he did not want to be held accountable for sins committed by others.
PresiDunce Bean - February 22, 2013
5:06 pm
This sarong is having typical tamil identity.Can anybody enlighten me if singhaleses often use this type.
Sulary - February 19, 2013
11:08 am
Try the amude mate.Fact:70% of all India’s textile exports are from south east India. All Sri Lankas go for – palayakat lungi.
Wuliangguobinjiu - February 19, 2013
11:02 pm
Wuligu Puhulan under leg.
Are you wearing one now. If not better do so, your private parts are on the show the way you carry on in CT forum.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 20, 2013
10:04 am
At the end of the day, this was the life of a child.
Yes, the son of a terrorist – but was Prabaharan Sri Lanka’s only terrorist? It seems to me that the inflictors of terror are more often wolves in sheeps attire and they roam in many numbers among us.
Gaddafi in all his greed for power & wealth probably never saw the destruction that was coming upon his household.
At the end of the day, this was the life of a child…
It may be useful to pause and consider the fate of our own children – should they pay the price of our wrong doing…
Dav - February 19, 2013
11:19 am
I would not do any wrongdoing. I would not take the chance. I love my children so much to take that risk
Atheist - February 20, 2013
2:47 am
Sadly, that must mean that you are the first real saint on the planet as none of us can truly claim to be without wrong having committed various crime in our thoughts and words and sometimes actions (in VP’s case). But who are we to judge who is worse than another and then go to to punish a child for the sins of the father? What a ruthless, sad, COWARDLY bunch of murderers.
All this may be swept under the carpet, but how can we think of moving on (as so many have suggested) when with a nasty attitude like ours we will all pay in full and perhaps with interest for the wrongdoings we have done as a nation – for is that not the foundation of all the religions our nation believes in?
Dav - February 20, 2013
3:55 pm
Since this was obviously in the last stages of the war there wouldnt have been LTTE bunkers. VP and others were said to be hiding in the bush. No time to sit, eat and drink with the army closing in. Note he is wearing the same clothes in both pictures. Also both pictures from the same camera. Both cameraman and camera survive the bloody end. LTTE?
Safa - February 19, 2013
11:56 am
Someone suffering from paranoia has killed this child,thinking he could become a rallying point for another bout of violence by the LTTE with balachandran leading it.Ha!ha.Just imagine balachandran leading the LTTE.It will collapse before it starts.It would have been better to have let him live as he would have been a thumping liability for the LTTE.they would have been in a dilemma.They can’t get rid of the liability because he is prabha’s son,at the same time the decisions or lack of decisions he makes will take them nowhere.
shankar - February 19, 2013
12:18 pm
I remember seeing a photograph of VPs daughter dead and dressed only in her panty,that was circulated soon after the war. There were also insinuations that she had been raped. What happened to this photograph and the story line ? There was even a photograph of VP, live and kicking, reading a newspaper of a date later than of his death, circulated widely!
What should we believe and what should we not? If we are now instinctlvely skeptical of even what is true, who is to be blamed? The story of the Shepard Boy who cried wolf too many times comes to mind. When the wolves really came, the villagers did not believe him!
We have also seen and experienced enough violence, blood, gore and deaths to be emotionally less vulnerable. We have also been bombarded with propaganda , an alternate name for falsehood, over almost our entire life time. We have been robbed of our innocence and our goodness has been severely abused. None of are the people we were bound to be when we were born. We are all diminished and less human, to various degrees, than we would have otherwise . This is a burden we have to live with till the end of our lives. Let us at least permit the little ones in our midst to grow up without the poisons that we imbibed because of circumstances that overwhelmed us.
Lies of whatever sort ultimately boomerang . The government too is and hasnbeen playing the same game and this will come to haunt it sooner than it imagines. Karma works in inexorable ways!
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
1:12 pm
Dr RN,
That pic of a ‘dead VP’ you’re looking for is this one: http://oi46.tinypic.com/sqkok4.jpg and it’s almost certainly faked and old.
As for these pix, I feel really sorry that he was killed. It’s obvious that he paid for being his father’s son. And it was pretty well acknowledged in early 2009 that VP and his entourage wouldn’t emerge alive. The question is, were specific orders given to those at the front? If they were, will those who carried out the orders keep their silence?
Given the way that MR has deliberately inflamed the post-war situation for family gain, the way that many senior officers (and other ranks) have been treated, the entrenchment of family rule etc, etc, there’ll be more people willing spill the beans. At some point, even the Chinese will wash their hands of their troublesome clients. Their long-term future is now starting to look less rosy.
Mango - February 19, 2013
1:51 pm
Mango,
I wass searching the Google this morning for photpgraph I referred to in my preceding comment. Although I could not locate the exact photogaph I referred to, I came acroos the following report on the killing of Dwarka- VPs daughter:
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2009/12/17/was-duvaraka-tortured-and-killed
Why are these photographs and the related story not being highlighted?
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 20, 2013
3:37 am
Mango,
The following links also explain how earlier propaganda efforts from both sides of the war have undermined the truth:
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-369439
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/01/20/prabhakaran-is-alive-ltte-spokesman-tamil-maran.html
http://www.nation.lk/2009/03/01/militarym.htm
Also search with the words ‘Dwarka Prabaharan in death’on google and you will see a half clad girl supposed to be Dwarka (Different from what I remember seeing some time back). Now the same image is apparently identified as that of Isaipriya.
The big questions are what is the truth, which is the truth, whether a search for truth will reveal the truth or the search for truth will bring forth more untruths. Both sides want us to believe what the propagate is THE truth!
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 20, 2013
5:01 am
Mango,
Sarath Fonseka says in an interview published today that they had no idea what happened to Madhivadani, Duwara and Balachandran (http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/16797)
What he says may not be gospel truth, but this is what he says. Could this also mean that they are alive somewhere?
Dr.R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 20, 2013
8:31 am
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
That photograph was not of Dwarka but of that Isipriya
Shantha Ranasinghe - February 20, 2013
1:26 pm
I have mentioned this in my comment. The intent in posting these links was to highlight the disinformation.
Dr.R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 20, 2013
4:14 pm
Dear Dr Narendran,
You’re correct in the misinformation angle of identifying VP’s daughter’s identity. For some reason, she’s been confused with the Isipriya and then the confusion’s been compounded with the original misattribution being repeated across the web.
Mango - February 21, 2013
12:57 am
The SLA killed so many women and imposed a media blackout. Of course identification is difficult. Did you expect the corpses to talk?
Lester - February 23, 2013
9:34 am
RN,
The picture you are referring to was confirmed by Channel 4 as not of Prabaharan’s daughter but of ‘Isaipriya’ who was an LTTE TV presenter a mother of one who was tortured raped and finally executed.
I am surprised that you missed all that as otherwise you seem to be well informed.
Mahen - February 22, 2013
4:21 am
None of us are the people—-
Dr.R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 19, 2013
1:15 pm
US who are these US
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:42 am
All kids died/killed in the war never ever want to be born in Sri Lanka which is governed by cruel adults either on Government or LTTE. This is the hard truth. Remote villagers just giving their opinion only…but reality is ‘some adults like to kill.’ This should stop!!!
Remote Villager - February 19, 2013
1:16 pm
Shame to tel i’m living in Buddah land.
Shame lanka shame Rajapaksa. still telling fake, LTTE & Diaspora story? Please don’t tel your buddies.
Independence international investigation only will bring justice for Tamils
aj - February 19, 2013
1:23 pm
Aj
Why not leaving SL. We do not want idiots like you in SL.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 20, 2013
10:08 am
Manesh Rajakaruna
“Why not leaving SL. We do not want idiots like you in SL.”
My people too don’t want stupid people in our ancestral land. When are you leaving?
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:09 am
the English will be sending their glorious prime minister David Cameron to sell more Arms to the Sri Lankan government so they may endeavour to kill many more children.
We must all kill more children.
Anthony Papagallo - February 19, 2013
1:39 pm
How true. The English must also extradite ‘Aunty’ Adele Balasingham, that much loved recruiter of child soldiers (“Freedom Birds”), currently living in London, to face trial in SL. Only then can we be sure that the Brits really care about children’s rights.
Mango - February 19, 2013
1:54 pm
Mango
Your proposed war crime investigation should commence its first sitting in New Delhi.
I hope your list of war criminals include Karuna, KP, Pillayan, Daya Master, MR, GR…………..and the Sinhala/Buddhists armed forces, its allies the paramilitary goons who are happen to be in Sri Lanka at the moment.
Native Vedda - February 19, 2013
5:12 pm
NV, New Delhi’s an excellent place to start. The Indians can start with their most famous and effective counter-insurgency specialist, Director General of Punjab Police, KPS Gill, who .. er…. with ‘questionable methods’ dealt with the Sikh insurgents, as the JVP was dealt with in SL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanwar_Pal_Singh_Gill
Mango - February 19, 2013
8:15 pm
Good you speak Sri Lankan? “If somebody killed somebody somewhere some time ago why cant I kill somebody now” – Ma Hinder Chindanay 1.2.2.1
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:44 am
@ Lanka Liar: I’ll make really simple so that even you’ll understand it.
I’d be happy to see the Sri Lankan government charged with War Crimes, as long as the UN has the guts to apply the same standards to Western governments engaged in their various wars of choice – usually involving killing large numbers of Arabs.
I oppose only Sri Lankan leaders being prosecuted. If Mahinda, Fonseka, Gota et al are suspected (with solid evidence) of war crimes, they must be prosecuted. Where is UN’s campaign for Gens. Powell & Schwarzkopf, Pres Bush II, Blair and Gen. Jackson joining them in the dock? Justice must be equitable.
Our guys did no more or less than anyone in the US/NATO/British leadership have done in the last two decades. If our guys our guilty, then so are the above and all should be treated alike.
——-
Mango - February 20, 2013
1:08 pm
Mango get the evidence submit them and articulate your point. Let us all campaign for that. You don’t let a thieve go just because your neighbor did not catch a thieve. Simple enough.
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
1:32 pm
Next time if you catch a thieve stealing something in your house is going to tell you “Hey there are so many big thieves in the government stealing millions of dollars why you are coming after me” this is even simpler. If you apply your argument no criminal in any part of the world can be charged in any court. Then all countries will become Lanka like. You want to live in such a world.
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
1:43 pm
we are talking about sacred Apa Sreeeeeee Lankaaaa.
and the killing of it’s citizens by a so called Elected government.
Not bloody Indians or western governments.
Mango nona Walge Paaga gena.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
5:31 pm
Silly Billy Native Vadda
According to your conclusion, more than half of the world should be war criminals.
No wonder David Blacker once told told you bloody thick Uruwarige Buruputha. It suits you very well. Well said Mr. Blacker.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 20, 2013
10:12 am
Manesh Rajakaruna
David Blacker didn’t address me as Buruputha but called me buruwa. It is a matter between David and me. You have no business poking your nose in our platonic relationship. So back off.
It was not him calling me thick in the first place. In all fairness to David please don’t misrepresent him.
I have myself proudly said many times in the past I was thick and will continue to assure the readers that I will be thick in the future as you would not have known all my teachers were either Sinhalese or Tamils.
As to your comment:
“According to your conclusion, more than half of the world should be war criminals.”
Karuna, KP, Pillayan, Daya Master, MR, GR…………..and the Sinhala/Buddhists armed forces, its allies the paramilitary goons and New Delhi don’t make half of the world.
I can understand why you people have not produced world class mathematicians in the past as your Sinhala/Tamil people lack reasoning mind.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
11:11 am
I was about to ask as to how many mathematicians Veddas have produced. Then realised they don’t need a brain at all to hunt or pluck bee honey.
Hela - February 26, 2013
12:49 pm
brits only care about selling their arms……no any thing except that………….and talk about human rights. should we cry or laughing about brits activities
barack - February 19, 2013
3:11 pm
Look at the 3rd picture. Sri Lanka army does not wear slippers.Only Tigers did.
Prashan - February 19, 2013
4:43 pm
Prashan the truth is that some of the later recruits to the Forces, walk in interview crowd the majority are comfortable without any foot wear for that matter. So to be in slippers does not sound improper for some of the soldiers who were in the front, although the Army rules may not permit them.
gamini - February 19, 2013
6:16 pm
These are buffalo soldiers hired to do manual work for Govt.soldiers like digging bunkers, trenches, supply water and dig mass graves etc….
Mahela - February 19, 2013
8:26 pm
David Blocker seems to be veteran in lanken Army, he could add here about the those slippers wearing soldiers.
Sam - February 20, 2013
1:03 pm
The person who is in slippers? He must have been the LTTE cadres being shown what they did to this young boy.
Real Peace - February 19, 2013
8:28 pm
Check the other channel 4 videos. You could see many of them along with Govt. soldiers. These are Manual Labour Buffalo soldiers.
Mahela - February 19, 2013
8:33 pm
WOW! What a logic!! Did you have Michael Roberts as your professor???
Rohan - February 20, 2013
12:02 pm
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 10, 2002
Bedrock Barney - February 19, 2013
6:17 pm
MR, GOTA, ALL criminals must be briught to justice. It will happen very soon.
Tamils live in peace only in their own tamil state. it will happen soon.
r.kovian - February 19, 2013
7:06 pm
r.kovian
How soon and is it in Tamilnadu?
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
12:06 am
I think MARA and GOTA opened their own Pandora Box. Nothing will stop taking over whole Sri Lanka by a third force making Sinhala as minority in their own Sri Lanka.
Nanthikandal may re-visit to South pretty soon.
Mahela - February 20, 2013
2:32 am
Ma-hela
You bet idiot. Keep dreaming you looser.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 21, 2013
7:48 am
Rajakaruna,
Get ready to vomit fun kiribath you ate. You are only good at eating kiribath.
Jayantha - February 21, 2013
3:10 pm
Never in your life,
and still you guys wants to make blood bath on innocents lives.
Is It because they are not your kids, and let others toil and die for your well being???????.
I am Buddhist Sinhalese and Ashamed of What Some of our sinhalese doing?.
who ever you are;shame on you,
trying to fish in trouble waters.only for your benifits, let others die?.
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
5:44 pm
The barbaric killing of a child bears testimony to the War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity committed by the Sri Lankan government and it’s Army. The act of the Sri Lankan Army has made the civilised world hang its head in shame.
J Karuppan - February 19, 2013
7:07 pm
Consider these facts
1) The Army and the Sri Lanka Government looked after and protected Parabhakan’s mother and father until the last moment.
2) Along with KP, Karuna , Daya Master , Thamalini over thousands of former LTTE memberes were not terminated by the Army and the Sri Lanka Government and most of them are free now.
3) Why would they kill a 14 y old boy ? what is the rationale?
Prashan - February 19, 2013
7:49 pm
Prashan
“Why would they kill a 14 y old boy ? what is the rationale?”
It a good question do you have an answer for it?
Sri Lankan state butchered 130,000 innocent Sinhala youth and killed Wijeweera between 1987 and 1991, yet the armed forces/state provided security for his wife and children?
Do you know the reason why?
I am still looking for the rationale for killing so many people.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
12:04 am
That is exactly my point
Sri Lankan Government kills the rebels (JVP/ LTTE) they never kill the family members or the top brass leaders , instead the Gov use them ,
Prashan - February 20, 2013
5:05 pm
Prashan
Rohana Wijeweera surrendered to army and was killed.
Vellupillai Prabaharan surrendered to the army and was killed.
VP’s eldest putha surrendered to the army and he was killed.
VP’s youngest Puththa surrendered to the army army and was killed.
KP, and others………. surrendered to the army and they are enjoying a good life.
Wijeweera’s family is alive.
Pottu Amman and VP’s wife are still missiing, where are they?
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
6:53 pm
Why are you lying in this forum, Jungle Boy? If you have nothing really to contribute, don’t. Don’t make up stuff just to have a voice.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:56 am
David Blacker
I am not a creative writer hence no need for your advice. However I value your contribution which helps me to prove my point.
The point being Sinhala/Tamil stupidity knows no bound in addition to their self destructive nature.
You inadvertently help them to remain as they are.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:10 pm
Nevertheless, why are you lying? Do you believe that the truth cannot support your viewpoint?
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
12:54 pm
Why they would kill. That is what nobody knows. There is no why in Sri Lanka. Only When and where
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:56 am
PIRASHAN OR WHO EVER YOU ARE;
THIS YOUNG Balacandran is a wanted criminal by INTERPOL also and he was hiding many secrets and not divulge any news to our sacred ministry of DEFENCE,
and
AS YOU SAYS; over thousands of former LTTE members AND SINHALA YOUTHS were not terminated [ OR DISMISSED] by the S L Army and the Sri Lanka Government and most of them are free now.
He was waiting to take revenge from Jarapassa family also because they betrayed his father of bribing for Election.
And even-though S L forces wants to LOOK-AFTER AND protect him, He did commit suicide.
[BUT I THINK BECAUSE OF YOUNG AGE, HE PLAYED RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH LT COL GOTA.
HOOOOOOOOOOO?????????????.
DO YOU KNOW it is said that THERE WAS A WELL CALLED Dolosmahe paana [ a lamp burning for 365 days day and night][ in side tiers burning] AT VAVUNIYA MAIN ARMY CAMP.
i think[to get heated water for the army camp].
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 20, 2013
5:23 pm
May be it was their strategy just because that needed to show the world IC how they treat relatives of VP.
But the manner that Rajapakshes behaved in the after math with SF and lately with CJ Dr. Bandaranayake, they proved how brutal they could be.
And Rajapkshes are unpredictable. They have been doing this with competent diplomats too. Today I heard even so called most compentent to him, Mahinda SAMARAsinghe was droped from the list to next Geneva sessions. Dayan, Tamara and Rajiva are all now becoming backbenchers.
Sama - February 21, 2013
1:32 pm
Everybody knows, except a few ‘cluck clucks’ with their heads in the sand.
The act of the Sri Lankan Army has made the civilized world hang its head in shame. It appears that certain senior officers in SLA were just looking after the 12-year old boy after the surrender. Then, the order came for the execution. Only one person in Sri Lanka had that kind of authority to issue orders to the frontline commanders in Vanni.
Mahinda and Co, ordered the execution of many of the surrendered, including men, women and even children. Many were actually tortured before being executed. We can only hope at least the children were spared the torture before death, but knowing the cruel and sadistic mindset of the regime, that’s simply hoping for too much.
Forensic analysis of the photographs had proved beyond doubt that the child had been murdered. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be made to face trial for the murder. Visiting temple after temple and embarking on pilgrimages would not cleanse Mahinda Rajapaksa’s soul of the stain and no God would forgive him for having an innocent child killed. When & Where is Rajapakshe’s next ‘Pilgrimage visit’ to clear the sins of massacring innocent children???
Sink or Swim, time has come for the Rajapakse Brothers. Sri Lanka is fast becoming isolated. When this is all over, they wouldn’t even have anything left to pick up! This is going the all familiar Rwanda/Zimbabwe/Libya way!
A few Dumbasses in this forum still thinks that the world trust their words when LIAR Rajapakshe regime’s Strategy is well known!
Siva - February 19, 2013
8:04 pm
Actually, most Tamils should hang their heads in shame at the levels of intellect displayed in this forum by their brothers and sisters.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
6:25 am
Bigoted David Blockhead with a tunnel vision,
First of all, being an O/L drop out, what the hell do you know about levels of intellect? Do you know your own level? If you see the replies to your comments, your level of intellect is very obvious to everybody here.
Secondly, what evidence do you have to prove that these comments are from Tamils for you to comment about their levels of intellect? Do not simply imagine things. Do not pretend that you do not have a mirror at home. You do not need to go very far, just ask your kids and they will tell you the level of your intellect.
Sam Johnson - February 20, 2013
5:50 pm
How can replies to my comments reveal my intelligence? It only shows the commenters’ intelligence. Case in point: your last comment. Before you worry about O/Ls, worry about the fact that you cannot string a coherent sentence together, and must rely on insulting people’s parents instead.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
7:59 am
The replies to your comments are somewhat similar to an evaluation of what you say. Here, most of them are considering you as an idiot, a clown, a blockhead, a bigot, a jester, a stupid moron, etc, etc, etc. The opinion of the majority counts in judging a person’s comment and subsequently the intelligence. In other words, you have proved yourself beyond doubt that you are a buffoon.
Insulting people’s parents???
Nobody insulted anybody’s parents. It is your own perception. It is your own logic. If you cannot comprehend your own type of logic what can others do?
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
11:38 am
So you believe that the majority is right?
Of course. we saw how the majority northeast Tamils treated the minority Muslims. Thanks for confirming that view.
As for insulting my parents, at least have the courage to admit what you have done instead of lying like the cowardly dog’s spawn you are. You asked me if I can be sure that my father is my father. Obviously you have no idea who’s johnson you came from, but please don’t apply your gutter ancestry to mine.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
12:57 pm
Sam Johnson
You are too hard on David Blacker.
He is having fun which he didn’t have as a child.
If I make a comment that is between Blacker and me. Please don’t use my comments to defend your position or offend him. I also don’t need others to defend me though I may not be capable in your eyes.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
2:46 pm
David Blockhead,
Your reply to me is absolutely hilarious. “Yanne koheda malle pol”. Great logic, keep it up man, keep it up.
Dambane Attho,
I do not know how you got into the exchange between Blockhead and me. I did not even read your comments in the first place to defend your position. Here, I commented on this Dumbass’s reply to Siva on Tamils. I am not sure if you are Siva or you are a Tamil. If you are Siva, then I am sorry for using your comment. Otherwise, you can bugger off or rather continue bum sucking this bigot.
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
5:33 pm
It’s probably hilarious because you don’t understand it ;D
David Blacker - February 22, 2013
5:15 am
Sam Johnson: The Sudu Lannsi left the country in 68 by the drones.
Kalu Lansi has no connection with the natives of SL or Europe. Therefore the wanker blocker has turned out to be a goon like Mervin and that is exemplified by him unable to have a discussion with his pop which is an exception with Lansi. To top it he is unable to get a teaching appointment to teach the language which he always tries to display.
Wuliangguobinjiu - February 22, 2013
12:56 pm
Looks like Willybijja wants to also say something since no one takes any notice of him. Do you have nothing of worth to say on the subject that you are forced to attack me with racist epithets? Your racism is the reason this country has problems, not because of governments, but because of racist fatherless people like you who were brought up on the streets with the morals of stray dogs. Thanks for taking the trouble to confirm it for us
Once before you mentioned that your mother was an Indian prostitute and that this has made you very bitter.Rather than using that bitterness on the internet, go and see a therapist and try and feel good about yourself so that you can thereby treat others with the respect that you don’y have for yourself. Good luck.
David Blacker - February 26, 2013
7:07 am
sinhala primitive savages after killing the little boy must have eaten his flesh. after all sinhala savages are cannibals.
Rama - February 19, 2013
9:05 pm
Rama fantasizing about little boys? Why am I not surprised
Siva Sankaran Sarma - February 19, 2013
9:33 pm
bogus sarma, why do you make a fool of yourself on this forum. i am not the right person to talk about little boys and girls. you must speak to sinhala bikkus who will have a whole load of stories to tell you.
Rama - February 20, 2013
10:05 pm
Mana-Rama
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Manesh Rajakaruna - February 21, 2013
7:52 am
you have no right to talk about my private life!
Aiyo Rama - February 22, 2013
8:42 am
Rama says:
“after all sinhala savages are cannibals.”
Since when did the Sinhalese become cannibals?
Do the Sinhalese eat babies for breakfast?
How come the population of this island has grown from 4 million in 1911 to 20 million in 2011 given that “after all sinhala savages are cannibals”?
Native Vedda - February 19, 2013
11:56 pm
Maybe they are a virus..
Mystic2 - February 20, 2013
10:58 am
nativa veddha, the rate at which sinhala savages were breeding say from the year that you mentioned i would have expected the population would be in the region of 30 million. can you account for the missing 10 million.
Rama - February 20, 2013
10:09 pm
Rama
How did you arrive at 30 million?
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:03 am
isnt this what u always suggest to do to sinhala people. May be they have taken inspiration from u.
sach - February 20, 2013
4:28 am
sach, you know as well as i do that sinhala barbarism and savagery preceded that of tigers at least by 35 years. where do you think the inspiration came from.
Rama - February 20, 2013
10:21 pm
@ Rama says : primitive savages after killing the little boy must have eaten his flesh. after all sinhala savages are cannibals.
your racial hatred does not take you anywhere it makes you a savage too
Prashan - February 19, 2013
9:46 pm
prashan, you are wrong. the term racist does not necessarily mean a savage. on the other hand a savage is always a savage.
Rama - February 20, 2013
10:34 pm
Same thing happened to this kid as what his father has done to the other kiddis, including killing 31 little buddist monks by his father
kris - February 19, 2013
10:37 pm
After death of these barbarian family(pabakaran) there won’t be any fear for the other klidds live in SL tamil or singhalees
kris - February 19, 2013
10:39 pm
To those who argue SLA doesn’t wear slippers– let me say this:
SL Armed forces included Special Forces, Deep Penetration Units and paramilitary forces, who often wore the same uniform as the LTTE to confuse the latter. So the fact that armed men in slippers belonged to the SLA/GoSL is not surprising to me.
What is more, in the theater of war, living under primitive shelters, SLA soldiers would have been finding temporary rest, doing nature’s call, etc. in between duty, and then rushed for combat; so it is only natural to find some with boots and others with slippers.
To me, that the GoSL committed war crimes is not something that needs proof–it was evident back in 2009, when the GoSL enforced a blackout and expelled even the ICRC. So these new pictures don’t add to the proof–they only help in keeping the issue alive, which is of course necessary.
The only thing that remains is the incarceration and prosecution of the regime’s top war criminals and their allies, with the Rajapaksas in the lead; failing that within a reasonable period, they can expect their utter destruction–if not self-destruction–by many forces that will be/are already aligned against them. Justice will take its course. If they think they can retire comfortably somewhere, they are pathetically mistaken.
Agnos - February 19, 2013
11:13 pm
Looks like LTTE carders killed this little boy to take the revenge from their LTTE leaders who kidnap them from their house when they were same age.very reasonable act
kris - February 20, 2013
2:19 am
Kris
You are absolutely right. End of the story.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 21, 2013
7:54 am
Definitly this boy has killed by LTTE child solders to take the revenge from LTTE leaders for recruit them by kidnapping when they go to school . proved this act when you look at third picture LTTE child solders in slippers
kris - February 20, 2013
2:27 am
These pictures only prove what the international community is accusing this governments about – war crimes.
The Sri Lankan forces are not supposed to be terrorists. They had this unarmed young boy in custody, and is responsible for his murder. Killing his father is one thing, but a democratic government does not kill young children for any reason. This is sad. We have stooped to what Prabhakaran, a ruthless terrorist has been doing – killing of innocent civilians including children. Unfortunately, with investigations and evidence of the brutality of the Sri Lankan government, no one should be surprised it is stalling and afraid of international calls for accountability, and verbally attacking those who dare criticize them.
With a record for human rights violations, and being uncooperative with international bodies, the Sri Lankan government’s refusal to be open and cooperate with the rest of the world, only adds to more suspicion and a strong impression of guilt.
Mimi - February 20, 2013
6:39 am
Unfortunately for your argument, the pix prove none of what you say.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
12:13 pm
Unfortunately for your argument, these pictures have been checked out, and tested for authenticity, and it seems they are credible. Of course, you can continue to be in denial and refuse to believe everything that highlights how brutal our government has been, but usually unless there is solid evidence, no international bodies will pursue going into international criminal courts. So keep being in denial and keep thinking we have a saintly government that can never do wrong. Keep you head buried in the golden sands of Sri Lanka.
Mimi - February 21, 2013
1:55 am
Unfortunately for your argument, we don’t know if they’ve been checked out. we just have McCrae’s word for it, and that doesn’t mean much given his past record. No one is saying the GoSL is saintly. But if people want anything to happen, they must find real evidence, not just give a TV channel extra mileage. And honestly, in a year these pix would have gone to the same place as all of CH4′s other pix.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
8:03 am
DEAR ALL
DOES IT MATTER WHO, HOW AND WHAT HAD KILLED THIS CHILD. CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO BRUTALITY. LANKAN, TAMIL, PAKISTANI, AFGAN,INDIAN, AMERICAN, RUSSIAN, CHINESE.. YOU NAME THE DIASPORA, ETHNICITY OR THE COUNTRY AND YOU WILL FIND THAT THEY HAVE BEEN PUNISHED FOR NO FAULT OF THEIRS.IT MAY BE TRUE THAT THIS CHILD WAS KILLED BY LANKAN ARMY OR BY A FATHER INSTRUCTING HIS MEN TO SHOOT EVERY ONE BEFORE BEING CAPTURED TO SAVE FROM ANY KIND OF HUMILIATION. WHATEVER IT MAY BE, THE TRUTH WILL DEFINITELY SEE THE DAY LIGHT SOMEDAY BUT THIS CHILD AND MANY OTHERS WHO HAVE DIED WILL NEVER. THE IMAGES OF CHILD’S DEATH BRINGS TEARS IN EYES AND HEAVINESS TO THE HEART BE IT ARANTHALAWA KILLINGS OR AIR RAIDS IN THE NORTH. THE KILLING OF AN INNOCENT LIFE, I AM SURE NONE OF US WOULD WANT. I CAN SEE MY CHILD IN ALL OF THEM AND I CAN FEEL THE PAIN OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEM. I STRONGLY BELIEVE WE HAVE NOT FALLEN SO LOW AS TO TRIVIALISE THIS BOY’S DEATH OR THE DEATH OF SO MANY CHILDREN. ISN’T IT TIME TO LEAVE ALL THE HARSH FEELINGS AND SHARE THE GRIEF OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LOVED ANGLES. A TIME TO LIGHT A CANDLE AND PRAY THAT THE DARKNESS WHICH SURROUNDS US IS REMOVED.
ASUTOSH - February 20, 2013
6:50 am
Why all these comments. If you want to know the truth please ask Mahinda or Goata they will tell what really happened. Then we can get the true picture.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:54 am
US citizen Gotha will think twice before entering the USA again. War criminals are not eligible for US citizenship. I suspect Gotha’s citizenship could even be rebuked given the severity of his crimes.
Lester - February 20, 2013
6:56 pm
Lester
“US citizen Gotha will think twice before entering the USA again.”
Gotha will not have any problem entering or leaving USA for the foreseeable future .
USA knew/encouraged his role in the army during 1987/91 period dealing with JVP. I would say his green card was the reward for his active services to USA’s foreign policy,part of stabilising the region at any human costs.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
12:00 am
Lester
Are you running the USA? You like your pipe dream to be true. Keep dreaming until you kiss the dust.
Manesh Rajakaruna - February 21, 2013
7:57 am
Given that most of the world’s current living war criminals are Americans, I doubt Gota will have any trouble, Heshan/Lester/Observer/Klosturmfuhrer.
David Blacker - February 28, 2013
9:58 am
Hi Chaps
By looking at these photos why cant we say that the boy killed all those innocent 14 year old soldier monks standing around him eating chocolate.
Lanka liar - February 20, 2013
6:59 am
Reading through his replies, looks like Mr.Blocker has totally lost it, just like his mentor and boss Mr.Gotapaksha.
“Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.”
~ Euripides (c. 480BC-406BC)
Namalie Rajapaksa - February 20, 2013
9:30 am
Looks like Ms Rajapassa has only insults left in her passa. Men use words; monkeys throw shit. Thanks for showing us where you belong.
David Blacker - February 20, 2013
12:16 pm
Dear Namalie,
Mr. Blocker lost it a long time ago.
“I myself have helped dispose of (nude female) bodies in this way, and we did make crude juvenile jokes. We were all just 19 or 20 years old, and you joke about everything if you don’t wanna go insane. Many of us had never even seen a real naked woman before, so obviously we commented, even though they were dead. It isn’t a polite tea party, but it isn’t a war crime either.” – David Blacker (ex-soldier, Sri Lankan Army)
http://groundviews.org/2011/06/21/the-story-of-the-hypocrite-in-a-tamil-man/
Lester - February 20, 2013
7:07 pm
Lester
Thanks for the link.
I too read this piece of Blacker’s partial confession but could not remember where.
Note his comment in under the same article:
David Blacker
06/21/2011 • 3:51 pm
Also, if there’s an accusation of rape, it is upto the accuser to prove guilt, not for the accused to prove innocence. And the accused isn’t obliged to help the accuser prove that guilt.
http://groundviews.org/2011/06/21/the-story-of-the-hypocrite-in-a-tamil-man/
He has a point there and says it casually.
Army rapes before or after killing women and disposes the body. Now victims relatives are expected to find the evidence which has already been disposed by army men of just 19 or 20 years old.
Once I mentioned him that there was evidence and it was members of the armed forces themselves who had witnessed or perpetrated war crime. He didn’t get the point.
Native Vedda - February 20, 2013
11:52 pm
Dear Native Veddah,
Yes, the fact that he says it casually is interesting. When people do things casually, that means they have no fear of the consequences. Mr. Blacker, having been a member of the Sri Lankan Army at its peak, is well aware of the consequences when a SLA soldier misbehaves. Very simply, there are no consequences.
On another note, from what I have read of Blacker’s writings, he takes the extreme viewpoint that anything a soldier does is acceptable during wartime. Whether it’s photographing corpses in a state of undress or shelling NFZ’s or executing unnarmed civilians such as VP’s son. As to why Blacker goes out of his way to justify this sort of behavior on various forums is a mystery. It could be due to lack of proper schooling or even more bizzare, that Blacker has himself been an accessory to certain unwanted incidents, and is exhibiting a rather extreme case of denial.
Lester - February 21, 2013
1:50 am
Lester and Ooruwarige Booruwa, don’t get so excited over nothing. There is nothing criminal in burying bodies after a battle. Both sides strip the bodies routinely for search. Please don’t attribute your own experiences with rape to me.
Also, Ooruwarige Booruwa, don’t accuse me of saying things I haven’t. Your self-confessed stupidity seems to have descended to the level of a mental handicap.
Finally, if any of you think you can stop me from commenting by making personal attacks on me or my family as is being done now, you will not succeed.
I will continue to point out the nonsense and lies that you cowards repeat here
Bring it on.
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
8:09 am
David Blacker
“I will continue to point out the nonsense and lies that you cowards repeat here Bring it on”.
The best place to start is your own stupid comments. If you need any help please don’t hesitate to ask. We are here to help you to see your own stupidity, in fact lots of them.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
9:52 am
Ha, ha, ha
Look who is talking!!!
Self-confessed stupidity???
A Master.
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
11:21 am
Well if you have the ability to counter my nonsense why is it that you, Johnson’s johnson, and all the others here can only resort to personal attacks? You’re not people of substance. Like I told your Ms Rajapassa, like monkeys you have only shit to throw
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
1:00 pm
David Blacker
“Your self-confessed stupidity seems to have descended to the level of a mental handicap.”
Mind your language.
I never confessed to being stupid.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
4:44 pm
Dambane Attho,
Here, my comment to the blockhead is a reply to the following and has nothing to do with you or your comment.
“Finally, if any of you think you can stop me from commenting by making personal attacks on me or my family as is being done now, you will not succeed.”
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
5:50 pm
Come on guys, please don’t threaten or insult DB because he is our official CT Joker and without him CT will be boring.
Imagine the amount of entertainment he provides to all of us. Even though he is a damn fool yet he is very funny and amusing.
Please don’t make him to run away from this forum…..pleeeeeeeeeeeeeease!
Yanky - February 21, 2013
7:22 pm
Don’t worry, Yankee, no one’s running away no matter how much you people want it. Keep up the insults. With every insult thrown you only reveal the fact that you are a mindless monkey with no arguments or reasoning who can only fling shit impotently. Keep it up
You have neither arguments nor answers — only shit.
David Blacker - February 22, 2013
5:19 am
OK, someone’s finally done Error Level Analysis – ELA, (a technique used to detect forgeries and elements added to an original picture) and shown that key elements in the first two pictures have been added from another source. i.e. the soldier, pieces of straw and even perhaps the child himself.
http://vibhushana.blogspot.com.au/
But, contesting the authenticity of images can’t be done in isolation because Sri Lanka due to its own inaction lost the battle of narratives a long time ago. And the insane, self-defeating antics of this regime gives succour to SL’s enemies and causes despair to its friends.
Vut too doo, no?
p.s. You can repeat ELA on these pix at this site: http://fotoforensics.com/
Mango - February 20, 2013
1:09 pm
Mango if you watch these picture very carefully you see the boy telling “No no they didn’t kill me. I killed them”. Good enough. Lanka talk.
Lanka Liar - February 20, 2013
1:35 pm
LL, are you having difficulties understanding what I wrote above? If you read it really, really, slowly, it might make sense.
Mango - February 20, 2013
6:43 pm
Look at these stupid government stooges, Mango/Blacker, etc. The authenticity of the pictures has already been confirmed by experts using the most advanced techniques. Those who failed to complete even their GCSE’s should not comment on such matters, but stick to cricket and kiribath.
Lester - February 20, 2013
6:55 pm
Hey Lester, tired of masquerading as Heshan/Nihal/Observer? Ah.. you couldn’t stay away from CT, could you?
Mango - February 21, 2013
12:31 am
Looks like the kiribath has been laced with arsenic.
Lester - February 21, 2013
1:51 am
Really, you need experts with advanced technology to figure out Photoshop and metadata? Oh dear, Lester aka Klofuhrer Heshan
David Blacker - February 21, 2013
8:13 am
Some people actually make a living from Photoshop. Others make a living from photographing naked corpses. I suspect you’re not in the first category.
Lester - February 22, 2013
4:13 am
Some people like Heshan/Nihal/Observer spend their time fantasising that the US won the Vietnam War and that Ranil wasn’t elected in 2001.
Mango - February 22, 2013
1:35 pm
Is it true that you are an O/L drop out. It doesn’t matter with regard to your right to an opinion, but it does matter whether your opinion should be taken seriously
Ranjan - February 22, 2013
6:44 am
Anybody who thinks the US won the Vietnam War, Lester/Heshan/Observer/Klosturmfuhrer etc, that Hitler won WW2, or that Britain doesn’t have a queen, really shouldn’t be allowed on the internet without medical supervision. So O/Ls are hardly something you need worry your five brain cells with.
David Blacker - February 26, 2013
7:12 am
For all those who have posted comments possibly the longest thread with 236 and those who have tried to justify the murder of this boy citing various stories and those who try to exonerate the Forces without an International Inquiry, what if the siblings of Rohana Wijeyweera were dealt in similar fashion? WHY? Is it because that Rohana Wijeyweera was a Sinhalese? Or we had better quality Army personnel like Janaka Perera? The Brutes like Shavendra Silva after having committed this type of heinous crimes are today provided sanctuary by the very Guardians of Human Rights as Diplomats in the West. The Tamil diaspora and all peace loving citizens should assist the voices in the West who are trying to have an International Inquiry Opened, not only to expose the War Crime Murderers here but the Western Governments who have been having their business interests over Human Rights Violations in this country, assisting the MR govt and doing business of providing arms sales. What Hypocrites?
gamini - February 20, 2013
7:10 pm
Only animals can do it. But
INDIA needs a similar LTTE like organisation to fight the ethnic cleansing activities of indian higher caste.
SL has done this in war. But but but more heinous crimes are being executed for generations in india by the higher cast to the lower caste peacefully in the name of hinduism. India should look at its OWN human right violations happening for thousands of years. This is barbarous more barbarous than the war crimes elsewhere in the world. And they are PEACE-CRIMEs by indians. Not a WAR-CRIME. India has no moral to comment for the crimes happening in others land.
LTTEIndia - February 20, 2013
7:15 pm
This page exceeding 250 comments, to me, is symbolic the milk of human kindness is very much within all of us across the ethnic divide. We mourn for the cruel, brutal elimination of such a starry-eyed and innocent child caught in the vortex of a meaningless and pyrrhic political battle. There he is, one moment eating a snack and hoping someone would come to take him home. Next moment he is summarily executed by clear beasts in uniform. Who among us will cheer such a savage slaughter by those trained in the tents of the Most Compassionate One. Wijeweera, arguably, committed worse killings of Sinhalese soldiers and civilians. But his wife and children gained the protection and goodwill of the State – within the safety of Navy facilities.
Is the communal hatred far too ingrained it is congenitally incurable?
Senguttuvan
Senguttuvan - February 20, 2013
10:38 pm
Senguttuwan,
A note to your comment:
Thamil Selvan’s and Soosai’s families though taken into custody are living in Colombo and Tricomalee now. They may be under close surveilance, though not in army or police custody.
From what I hear theree are many other senior LTTE leaders yet in custody, though not named. I am sure we will know who they are in time.
Dr.R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 21, 2013
4:03 am
Oh Senguttuvan, you must be smoking something really good to conclude 300+ comments here indicate human kindness of the bloggers. Let’s put these photos (massacre of teenage monks at Aranthalawa) also online in a separate article and see whether they attract the same vigorous, vociferous response from the cabal here!
http://english.srilankamirror.com/2012/06/25th-anniversary-of-aranthalawa-monks-massacre/
Navin - February 21, 2013
5:43 pm
Navin
Its you again
You are rest assured I will continue to demand an independent investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by
Sri Lankan state and its armed forces
Paramilitary and Tamil armed groups
LTTE and other Tamil groups
IPKF
JVP & DJV
Party supporters
………
……….
since 5th April 1971.
Anyhow it would not matter to you as you have selective morality and different kind of human rights.
Killing unarmed civilian is wrong whoever the perpetrator is.
It is wrong, wrong, wrong…………………
In your case it is only wrong when Sinhala/Buddhists are killed by Tamil terrorists. When sinhala terrorist JVP and the state killed numerous Sinhala/Buddhist monks I did not see or hear any protest coming from Sinhala/Buddhists like you. What was the reason for your silence during those dark ages.
Native Vedda - February 21, 2013
9:06 pm
Vedda,
Do not utter things that you do not know & do not lie. There were many brave people (majority of them are Sinhala Buddhists) without any govt protection who stood up to JVP terror (& some sacrificed their lives).
Navin’s suggestion is a good one to test.
Hela - February 26, 2013
1:17 pm
Hela
The key words here “I did not see or hear any protest coming from Sinhala/Buddhists like you.”
Those good Sinhalese people or Buddhists who protested against state’s atrocities are no longer with us or were silenced. Similarly those good Sinhalese people or Buddhists who protested against JVP’s atrocities are no longer with us or were silenced.
In both cases, those who voiced their concerns were either Sinhalese or Buddhists and not Sinhala/Buddhists.
Native Vedda - February 28, 2013
12:30 pm
There could be a possibility of a War within the Army due to Gota and Mara looking for the soldiers who leaked these photos to Free Media.
Very soon the perpetrators who authorised to shoot this child will be revealed…..and it will be the end of Rajapakse era.
Calling to Hague to answer war crimes against Defense Minister, his Secretary and the Army Commander is inevitable.
No amount of ITN / Rupawahini propeganda or false west bashing will help anybody.
Leaders False Pride with stupidity and bad judgment brings misery to our country.
Jayantha - February 20, 2013
10:59 pm
Well the best way to sort this conflict is to arrest Macrae who put fabricated this package together, put him in a court of law and get him to prove his material.
bonaparte - February 20, 2013
11:05 pm
Bonaparte,
It is no point blaming Kallum Macrar.He is just an investigative reporter similar to other reporters. It is President Rajapakse and his Government that are solely responsible for this fiasco.
Pres.Rajapakse was given ample time by International community UN,EU,US,CW, India etc, to reconcile with the nothern Tamil community and war refugees to implement LLRC which he never gave a hoot of attention.
No country want to prosecute another country for nothing……but to help the communities to live in peace and harmony.
But in fact of making use of the time given to heal the wounds of war and to recover from wounds of helpless nothern tamil people, and to make a bridge among communities, president Rajapakse made them a scapegoat to hoodwink International community and politicised the majority sinhala community to show off their superiority and dominance.
President’s Independence day speech say it all.
There could be many more photos and videos that are in possession with international community which will be used to justify their cause and show Govt. atrocities.
It is nobody but Rajapakse Govt. should be accountable for the blunder they made by not implementing LLRC, while doing the opposite by acquiring more nothern tamil peoples land by force.
Very soon Rajapakses will have to face Hague courts due to their own False Pride, cunning and cheating life styles and their own stupid blunders and decision making.
Macrar is just an investigative reporter like other reporters
and it is his duty to publish reports of ground reality.
JUST WAIT TO SEE THE ONE AND HALF HOUR VIDEO CLIP AND THE REST OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON…….ALL DUE TO RAJAPAKSES BLUNDERS WHO HEPLED OPEN THE BOX OF WORMS..
Jayantha - February 21, 2013
1:47 am
It is much easier and faster to put Macrae in the court. If not he should volunteer, if he is courageous enough to present his material to a court of law. Otherwise the world at large believe that he fabricated false evidence to create a stunt and to disparage a state. There is no fat chance to arrest and try MR or GR. Not a chance unless US police the sea, land and air at the boundaries of SLK sovereignity. Just be realistic. None of the western financial institutes would do anything as long as their investments are in SLK.All this hotair in this column will come to nought, in one or two months just like the killing fields.
BTW, the case for Balachandran was lost even before stating it: the boy’s father abandoned him and ranaway through the backdoor. That shows how much the father loved his family. He loved only his own skin, whereas a father that loves his kids would stay behind and protect them placing his own life in danger. This wicked man showed no pity or care for his family, nor for the lives of thousands of Tamils that he kept as his shield nor for the kids that he sent to war and self sacrifice as walking bombs.
bonaparte - February 21, 2013
6:24 pm
@bonaparte
This might interest you.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/probe-sexual-violence-against-tamils-in-sri-lanka/article4439922.ece
…and this is what the cops do to the people in the south as well.
http://youtu.be/0FppYUIa1vI?t=9s
PresiDunce Bean - February 22, 2013
5:53 am
dont look at my photos and lifestory….
Aiyo Rama - February 22, 2013
8:55 am
Aiyo Duncy: The article you are looking for is no longer available in this website
David Blacker - February 22, 2013
9:12 am
Bonaparte,
There are lot of black boxes lying all over which you or I or even GOSL don’t know about.
But when one puts the dots that are available such as news stories and photos that came out from servicemen, photos and videos that were available, what media told and what Gen Sarath Fonseka said about the white flag, you could come to a certain conclution.
That’s why I am confused why Rajapakses did not implement LLRC…..when they were warned and knew that International community has all these info. on GOSL atrocities……Some of them are…..
USA CIA, India RAW, UN UNIC, Norway NIS, UK SIS, MI6, and Pakistan ISI have more info. of GOSL war atrocities…….more than what govt think they have……and GOSL was warned about having them.
What do you think those countries doing in Sri Lanka for the last 30 odd years………Do you think they were mere helping poor war effected tamil people….. No they they were gathering more info. and have more info than even what GOSL has.
Following are some info I think most of them have and will prove with evidence……in March ar UNHR.
1)USA, RAW, ISI and other intelligence groups have first hand info. on all GOSL. war criminal activities, atrocities, Geneva violations, human rights violations, and subsequent cover ups……obtained through Govt.soldiers,army commenders, paid moles, intelligence agencies, LTTE and tamil communities and special ground listning devises and GPS Communication equipment and through Spy Satellite info. gathering.
2)By imprissoning Gen. Sarath Fonseka…..Rajapakses opened their own LTTE WAR BLACK BOX……..Most of the info. were relayed to international community after Gen. Fonseka’s arrest and Imprissoning.
2)VP sent his wife, daughter and son(Balachandran) along with other senior leaders with white flags to surrender to govt. soldiers at the end of war.
3)Govt soldiers….. with the orders came from higher authorities….killed all of them.
4)VP and his eldest son died fighting and later their bodies were recovered by Govt. soldiers.
5)Over 140,000 innocent tamil children, women, men, eldery people, wounded and sick were killed by govt soldiers……at the last stages of war.
6) Over 9,000 LTTE carders who surrended were killed
7)Most of the dead were brought to Anuradhapura and were burned in the two incinerators.
8)VP’s 12 year old son Balachandran (above photos) was photographed and later killed by Govt. Soldiers…….due to orders coming from Colombo.
9)All top LTTE commanders and their familier were summery executed.
10) All tamil land owners, business owners, parents and children whose parents and children who are abroad, Christian and Hindu Clergy, govt. servants, teachers, professors, doctors,nurses, engineers and other professionals who surrendered to govt. forces were executed……….
I could write more….but these are very few of those info.
All the above international spy agencies have these info.
That’s why I wonder how GOSL did not know……or just ignored when they were warned by International community……….and now trying to deny and cover up when these information are leaking out.
It is more than enough time given by IC , UN,CW and EU to Rajapakse Family to reconcile and implement LLRC which they ignored…….and now the war atrocities are been released and reported by international community.
KILLING 12 YEAR OLD BALACHANDRAN, HIS SISTER AND MOTHER AFTER SURRENDERING TO GOSL FORCES WITH A WHITE FLAG IS TRUE……..AND GOSL WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DENY IT.
Also await for the one and half hour new video clip…..and more photographs and video clips to appear…….which will be published soon.
MARA FAMILY BROUGHT THEIR OWN DOWNFALL BY NOT LISTENING TO INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND NOT IMPLEMENTING LLRC.
IT’S TOO LATE NOW……..MARA TO BE PREPARED TO FACE HAGUE NOW……NO POINT HANG ON TO BBS.
Jayantha - February 22, 2013
7:01 am
Jayantha, all your statements are inuendos not evidence in a court of law. There is nothing to substantiate, and no one reliable to give evidence. Yes your words help you to come to terms with your own mind formations. You have done your duty and taken the stress out. That I understand.
bonaparte - February 22, 2013
11:34 am
bonaparte
Evidence that you demand is already there, nearly 300,000 armed men of the state.
If you really want the witnesses to come forward two things have to happen.
Witness protection and
right to trade confessions for amnesty.
Native Vedda - February 22, 2013
12:19 pm
It will never happen. All these people are just blowing their hot air. Nothing realistic will come out of this. It gives people with nothing better to do soemthing to do, write bloggs at a website that has no power or influence over what goes on out there.
Mahasohon - February 24, 2013
11:25 pm
Amnesty for what? There have been no charges against SL.
David Blacker - February 26, 2013
7:14 am
Jayantha,
In fact Bonaparte is right. Macrae is not a journalist. He is a paid propagandist of LTTE overseas rump.
Hela - February 26, 2013
1:20 pm
@bonaparte
Well the most logical thing to do would be to put PercyPaksha, Atilla the Gotapaksha, FunnyShaker, Shove-In-Dra ect in a court of law if you want to know exactly what happened during the last days of the war. This will probably happen in the future and then we will all finally know what happened.
…in the meantime.
The Truth, The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth…
(and may humanitarian lighting strike you down if you don’t believe us)
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Three Tranquil men…a butcher, a baker and a candle stick maker were captured in a tub by the Idiot Island Navy (IIN) while trying to escape to Tranquil Naadoo. The IIN recovered 50 loves of bread, 20 pounds of chicken beef and 150 candles that were hidden in the tub. Informed sources say that an investigation will be held to ascertain whether the bread, chicken beef and candles had been brought into the island during the period of the ‘If You’ll Don’t Shoot, We Wont Shoot Agreement.’
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In news just in, an eye witness states that Tourist Leader Rolypoly Prebiocarrom was teleported up to the ‘Starship Enterprise’ a few minute ago! The witness said that as Peacekeepers surrounded Tourist Leader Prebiocarrom, he spoke into a satellite phone and said, “Beam Me Up, Scotty!” Then a flash of light emanated from the Enterprise and engulfed the Tourist Leader. When the light faded away a few seconds later, there was no trace of Mr. Prebiocarrom. Efforts to contact Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock of the ‘Starship Enterprise,’ were to no avail.
Idiot Island April 3rd 2009 AD (22.56am)
Commandant of the ‘Treblinka Welfare Holiday Camp,’(TWHC) Major Himmler Heyadrich told reporters today, that the Tranquil Tourists of this camp should consider TWHC as a tourist resort, and their stay there as an all-expense-paid government holiday. “The barbed wire surrounding the camp, and the unarmed Peacekeepers were there to protect the Tranquil Tourists from unscrupulous tour guides and inquisitive journalists,” said the commandant. Major Himmler Heyadrich also stated that he would leave no stone unturned in trying to provide 5-star-hospitality for all the holiday makers in the TWHC. Major Himmler insisted when asked by a reporter that a 7 course meal will be provided 3 times a day to each Tranquil Tourist for the next 26 years, courtesy of the Utopian Paradise of Idiot Island. Major Himmler also said that United Bankers Secretary General, Mr. Banking Boom who visited the TWHC had praised him for his efficiency in running the holiday camp.
Idiot Island April 3rd 2009 AD (23.46am)
Atilla Da GoatPaksha today denied charges that 40,000 eggs had been broken to make omelettes for the heroic Peacekeepers fooling around in the north of Idiot Island. Atilla Da GoatPaksha told reporters that not a single egg was broken while making omelettes. He further stated that his Peacekeepers had proved to the whole of Planet Mirth that they were the only Peacekeepers who could make omelettes without breaking a single egg. When asked by reporters about the thousands of egg shells that were strewn around the ‘Please Don’t Fire We Are Only Innocent Eggs Zone,’ Atilla Da GoatPaksha said that those eggs were broken by the ‘Liberal Tourists of Tranquil Elysium,’ to make omelettes for their Tourists. In closing Atilla Da GoatPaksha said, “What I have said is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth…and if you all don’t believe me, may humanitarian lightning strike you all down and may “White Unidentified Four wheeled Objects”(WUFOs) make you all vanish in the middle of the night!”
Jaya Way Waaa!
PresiDunce Bean - February 21, 2013
2:30 am
This child is another child solder therfore his fate is resonable, either he gets killed from bullet or cyanide capsule
kris - February 21, 2013
2:39 am
Senguttuvan
From where you gets the numbers to prove that Wejeweera killed more than Prabakaran, pabakaran kiled more then Bin Laden they bothe had same fate, Wejeweera’s family has not involve with any policts or killings but Pabakan whole family is mass murders ( except his mum and dad saved by the SL Army ) that is why they had to face this consequences
kris - February 21, 2013
2:47 am
Kris, Wijeyweera did not kill people, they cut off the heads and stuck them on fence poles of some innocent poor bread winners for going to work and the families of Forces. Remember how Udugampola’s eighty year old mother, sister and two small infants with the domestics were burnt alive in their house and prevented the neighbours from rescuing them? The irony was that the Forces provided security for the family of Wijeyweera living in luxury using blood money robbed from the public, after they were caught. Udugampola did not kill the children or the family of Wijeyweera. One cannot really blame Udugampola for seeking all who took part in the killings to be killed in return and the last was the Lawyer Liyanaarachchi who sanctioned killing of the Udugampola’s family.Today some of the JVP bastards who escaped, are posting comments in these blogs trying to white wash the crimes committed by Rohana Wijeyweera and the JVP.
gamini - February 21, 2013
4:17 am
For record the following is the Ananda Voketan interview with Sarath Fonseka:
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/7635
Q: A large number of children have been killed in the war, particularly the youngest son of Prabhakaran. The wounds found on his body indicate he was shot at point blank range. What do you say about it?
A: You are asking speculative questions. As you say I don’t believe Prabhakaran’s youngest son was killed. We had found the bodies of some women and four or five children on the last day of the war. Most of them were found to have taken cyanide. We have brought Karuna Amman and some others, who had been closer to Prabhakaran to identify the bodies. They said none of the bodies belonged to Prabhakaran’s wife or youngest son or daughter. What we know is that Prabhakaran and his eldest son were the only members of the family that had been killed. We don’t have any information on the other members.
Is Sarath Fonseka telling the truth, does not know the truth or is lying through his teeth?
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 21, 2013
3:56 am
If SF is put on the dock and asked to explain the white flag story he will spill the beans. How the Americans and the Indians coerced VP with a promise of a way out and got VP to help MR being elected as President, then to bury all their heavy weaponry wrapped in Polythene, then to close the Mawil Aru anicut to draw the govt. Forces to the staged war. The LTTE merely conceded their Strong hold Killinochchi without a fight as done to the rest of the area secured by the Forces, although a propaganda war was carried out. The fact that there was no such war and a casualty figure on the Forces side could be established if a list of the dead soldiers for the thirty months from Jan 2007 to May 2009 is made public. As for the suicide bombers sent to Gota and SF was due to the reason for their plan of luring VP to be killed before the plan provided by the very powers who have been blocking an International Investigation on War Crimes with graphic evidence available. If the graphic evidence is false as they say why not allow an Investigation? The truth is all fear their involvement will be exposed and these Foreign governments will get exposed with their business interest riding over Human Rights violations here, doing business with MR.
gamini - February 21, 2013
4:36 am
If SF’s afidavit is published, which he wrote just before he was arrested fearing that he will be killed by MR, will reveal a lot of home truths. The truth is America wanted a strong dictator to run Sri Lanka. Towards this end the US groomed both SF and MR, but finally decided to go with MR but keep SF around in case MR gets out of hand. The US also have RW on the touch line in case the US have to change the game plan in the future.
gamini - February 21, 2013
4:47 am
This story you seem to be repeating. But it could well be a theory. I cant hear this again and again. If Americans want MR the unedcuated to rule the country why would not they draft the resolutions together with UN ?
These may be just theories to cover that the prevailing opposition inadequate heartedness on the issues of the folks today. Entire folks were convinced how RW supported or failed to react at the time Dr SB was illegally impeached and appointed a man with criminal records as her successesor.
So then tell us why MR was not invited to the US within his current term. Why the US relatios have been shattered with country today ?
Surawimala - February 21, 2013
2:48 pm
Three years after the war the Americans come out with a watered down resolution because there is mounting pressure on unfolding evidence by the Human Rights watch dogs. The envisaged resolution once again is to satisfy the World forces crying for Justice, lest the American connection gets exposed. Yet the Americans will try to save the day for MR come March, wait and see?
gamini - February 21, 2013
4:33 pm
Sorry Corrections:
Why would the draft resolutions together with UN ?
Surawimala - February 21, 2013
5:12 pm
May be US cant intefere as we think – because they are also not clean in terms of several issues like Irak, Afaganistan and and.
But I believe, this time, the lanken rulers will have no chance to survive in Geneva sessions. Consequence will be all forms of sanctions. Right at the moment, Lanken state is not second to N korea. Day to another, nothign like good news about the country. Rajapkshes are being isolated by indians,americans, canada and EU.
Surawimala - February 21, 2013
2:57 pm
Two wrongs don’t make one right. This boy was an innocent twelve year old child. What can he do if his father was a cold blooded killer. He wouldn’t have had a clue as to what his father was doing or what was happening around him. They should have spared his life and helped him to become a decent human being with human values, the same way they are trying to rehabilitate LTTE cadres.
weera - February 21, 2013
8:05 am
LAMENT FOR THE TWO BROTHERS SLAIN BY EACH OTHER’S HAND (from “The Seven Against Thebes”)
by: Aeschylus
OW do our eyes behold
The tidings which were told:
Twin fallen kings, twin perished hopes to mourn,
The slayer, the slain,
The entangled doom forlorn
And ruinous end of twain.
Say, is not sorrow, is not sorrow’s sum
On home and hearthstone come?
Oh, waft with sighs the sail from shore,
Oh, smite the bosom, cadencing the oar
That rows beyond the rueful stream for aye
To the far strand,
The ship of souls, the dark,
The unreturning bark
Whereon light never falls nor foot of Day,
Even to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 21, 2013
12:09 pm
Will Channel 4 take up the MOD’s challenge?
The MOD says of these pix, “..if the [sic] Channel 4 was interested in having these investigated, it should cooperate with credible evidence and the army will institute a probe.”
This is a golden opportunity for C4 and its friends to prove their charges, re-enforce their journalistic standards and prove GoSL guilty of the charges.
The clever thing to do is to take up MoD’s challenge, send the original data to SL (with proper data cloning safeguards to prevent files being tampered with etc), the original camera, memory cards etc to the MoD. They could even use Navi Pillai as a go-between. Hell, they could even have two sets of experts to decide on the facts.
Mango - February 21, 2013
12:30 pm
Mango
C4 will im sure will share that information provided its a independent one. Interesting C4 has not as yet published the text message records of certain high ranking individuals that they have in their possession.
I guess its waiting for a further installment
Chandra - February 21, 2013
8:49 pm
So that the GoSL/MOD can do another whitewash like in the murders of Trinco-5, ACF-17, Lasantha W, Prageeth E., Taraki Sivaram, TRO personnel, many Tamil MPs?
Ch4 can provide all the evidence it has collected to a comprehensive international inquiry into the GoSL’s atrocities during the war.
Short of such an inquiry–personally, I don’t believe there will actually be an international inquiry given the complicity of many powers — just teasing the pieces of evidence without actually furnishing it to the GoSL, and keeping the issue alive internationally, is the right thing to do. The GoSL’s serial killers need to be under constant pressure, causing them to commit unforced errors, which will enable justice to come in unconventional ways.
Advocates for the victims should be prepared to take full advantage of “black swan” events. The Karuna revolt against LTTE, Fonseka split with Rajapaksas, stumbling onto Matale mass graves, the sudden emergence of Bodu Bala Sena/anti-Halal protests, are all examples of “black swans.” More are likely within the next year or two. Those who are prepared can take advantage of it in unorthodox ways.
Agnos - February 22, 2013
2:43 am
Agnos,
Have Channel 4 provided the original footage etc from their first documentary for investigation? After all, GoSL keep saying (with a straight face) “if you make a proper complaint, we’ll look into”.
C4 should put them to the test. And that means providing original, un-manipulated footage, documents etc. As far as I’m aware, they’ve never given anyone (except their own ‘impartial’ experts) access to the original footage from the first atrocity documentary.
And all calls for ‘international investigations’ will be thrown back with the justification that it’s an internal matter, which it is.
You make a good point with your listing of other, older atrocities. All of these should be examined in a strict temporal order. So these latest allegations have to go to the back of the queue, unless Channel 4 have become true Sri Lankans and want to push to the front.
Mango - February 22, 2013
1:28 pm
Army had no info. about Prabha’s family- SF
Daily Mirror Wednesday, 20 February 2013 10:43
Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka speaking to Daily Mirror online said the Army had “no information” about the deaths of slain LTTE leader V. Prabhakarans, “ wife, daughter and youngest son”.
“After the final battle which went on from 2009 May 17 night, 18 and 19th till about 10 o clock, we only recovered Prabakharans body together with about 400 other terrorist dead bodies, and his elder son’s body, his elder son Charles Anthony. These two bodies were personally identified by the present member, I think, of the cabinet Karuna Amman, who was the LTTE military wing leader at the time before he joined the government. He himself went and identified these two bodies” he said.
Speaking further Fonseka who led the Army to a decisive victory against the separatist LTTE, said the Army “did not have clue about the presence or whereabouts of” the rest of Prabhakarans family.
“Other than that the Army had no information, never had any positions of Prabhakrans wife, daughter and the youngest son. We did not have clue about their presence or the whereabouts, whether they were in the country or they died during the war, we didn’t have any information about them” said.
Fonseka in reference to the latest ‘pictures’ revealed by Channel 4, which are alleged to have been taken while the youngest son of the LTTE supremo Balachandran was in Army custody, reiterated that the Army had no knowledge or information about the youngest son.
“About these pictures I don’t know, we had no knowledge about this youngest sons whereabouts when I was the Army commander during my time and I can give the assurance that the Army had no information of his youngest son” he said. ( H.F)
Randeniya - February 21, 2013
12:33 pm
Ajith
And you quote Sarath Fonseka
Tsk! Tsk!
Chandra - February 21, 2013
9:03 pm
The cold blooded killing of Balachandran has evinced a lot of interest on this blog.The number of comments is unprecedented for an article.However we must not forget that balachandran is just one more child that has suffered due to this protracted conflict of over 25 years.Just because he is Prabha’s son does not make him special to me.Every child that has been killed will fell the same pain.Every mother and father who has lost a child will feel the same grief.We have to grieve for all the children killed in this war whether they are tamils or sinhalese. Tamils should grieve for the little child monks slaughtered by the LTTE and babies hacked to death by Karuna’s mob.Sinhalese should grieve for the countless children that have died due to to the indiscriminate bombings of the the airforce which has done more than 10000 sorties in the north and east.only then we can consider ourselves a civilised race of people.Now we are both like tweedledee and tweedledum an uncivilised set of barbarians.
shankar - February 21, 2013
1:33 pm
It is true that Balachandran is just another child out of many who got killed in cold blood but the fact is that Balachandran is the face of thousands of children killed by the army in the final stages.
Sam Johnson - February 21, 2013
6:01 pm
Sam,what does it matter whether it is final stages,opening stages or middle stages.The whole world is a stage and we are the actors.Many of us could be bestowed with academy awards for our acting abilities. Now Jayalalitha wants a oscar, shedding crocodile tears for Balachandran.Maybe for her he is the child she never had.Once an actress always an actress they say.
My contention is you have to look at the complete picture,the whole war,not just the final stages as you proclaim.Are you saying that a child killed in the opening or middle stages of the war feels less pain than a child killed in the final stages?Who cares what stage it is.Both tamils and sinhalese have behaved like uncivilised beasts during this war.
The best way to avoid the emergence of the beast in man is to have no wars.To do that you have to govern in a far sighted and wise manner.All this came about because that was not done by the imbeciles who were handed the baton by the british to govern.
The sad thing is Mahinda has not learnt from the mistakes made by his predecessors.He thinks a political solution is not necessary,the imbecile and sinhala chauvinist as aptly described as such by Lee kuan yew who noted all his previous utterings.
shankar - February 21, 2013
11:42 pm
Balachandran who was only 12 years old, was just a child. He had not committed any crime. He had been killed ‘simply because he happened to be the son of Prabakaran.
Yanky - February 21, 2013
7:17 pm
yanky,the thousands of children who have been killed in this war have also not committed any crimes.Killing of balachandran is definitely a crime,but it should not be highlighted as something special just because he was Prabha’s son.Those who shed crocodile tears for him so that they can get at the rajapakshes should also shed some genuine tears for the other children killed.
Got the point? We srilankans are a barbaric uncivilised race of people but let us not become hypocrites too.
shankar - March 1, 2013
12:58 am
Prabakaran’s wife and daughter are said to have been executed by the army. His elder son fought and died in battle.
This is the younger son. He neither fought nor commited suicide.
justice - February 21, 2013
2:25 pm
“Thamil Selvan’s and Soosai’s families though taken into custody are living in Colombo and Tricomalee now. They may be under close surveilance, though not in army or police custody” says our friend
Dr. R. Narendran, who, though we do occasionally have different perceptions on specific issues – also makes us believe he works towards eventual reconciliation. But the fact is, Sir, as the late
Senator S. Nadesan QC pointed out the State does not do the Citizen a favour when it protects the Citizen. By jove, that is what it is expected to do. When the State today tells several multiple thousands of Tamils they do not know where they are or even if they are alive, the state not only fails the citizen but is collusionist in their disappearance or engineered murder. Our governance becomes a joke when a front-line official – now the Chief Justice – goes and is caught lying to an international court on the whereabouts of Ekneligoda. When questioned about his double-tongued testimony the man throws his hands up and declares “Only God knows where is” What do you think the global community will think of what goes as our judicial system.
My comparison of the VP/Wijeweera families was to show when one is
summarily executed – including an innocent child as we learn now – the Constitutional provisions work in respect of the other. This aberration taking place in our context leaves a racial flavour, that I need not emphasise.
Senguttuvan
Senguttuvan - February 21, 2013
10:18 pm
I believe the doctor’s point wasn’t to credit the state with looking after Soosai’s family, VP’s parents, etc, but to question the reason why the state should pick on just VP’s son for execution when it did not do so with VP’s parents, Soosai’s family, Wijeweera’s family, and so forth.
David Blacker - February 22, 2013
5:25 am
Mr Sengutuan reckons the wife of Wijeweera the horrible is alive and well.
So are the wife and children of Brigadier Soosai, and another Senior LTTE Leader s says Dr Rajasingham .
If Mr Sengutuan cares to watch the YOU TUBE Video of the Kathankaddy Masscre, he will realize that there are atrocities and atrocities, that were committed in our Motherland.
Even grown men would cry when they see the faces of innocent young boys and youth in their bare Timber coffins .
The lines of corpses wrapped in lily white clothes. and hundreds of raw timber coffins lined up in one mass grave ready to be covered is so distressing and disturbing that iI could not bear to watch the Video in full although it is only a 4 minute clip.
This must be one of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind, which has been recorded for the posterity to see and understand the brutality and barbarism of these Liberators of the Century 21.
Unfortunately there were no Navai Pillays, or McRaes to project these images ,let alone digitally doctoring them for Gold Class screenings for Super power audiences.
K.A. Sumanasekera - February 21, 2013
11:14 pm
Senguttuwan,
The example provided was to signal that amidst all the darkness there is hope.
Dr. R.N
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 22, 2013
1:02 am
Senguttuvan
“This aberration taking place in our context leaves a racial flavour, that I need not emphasise.”
Why can’t we agree on one important issue that Sri Lankan state and its institutions are run by racists, and tolerated by racists.
Let us stop beating around the bush.
Native Vedda - February 22, 2013
1:34 am
Mango: Will Channel 4 take up the MOD’s challenge? This is a Typical SL probe by SLA(Judge) when the same SLA is accused. In other words heads we win and tails you loose.
Srilankan - February 22, 2013
3:43 am
The main thing is that if this is how the SLA treated children, imagine what they did to adults.
Lester - February 22, 2013
4:17 am
Gamini , What I said Wejeweera’s family kids have not involved with any killing but prabakarans kids involved with killing, did I said Wejeweera has not involve with killing , get the facts correct, JVP are all bastereds and murderes there is nothing to hide. and udugampola is another murderer too you can’t white wash him too
kris - February 22, 2013
5:05 am
Here’s a link to an interesting article from the UK’s Guardian in 2008 on the topic of “the camera never lies”. It deals with the claimed faking of an iconic photograph taken in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa. The full title to the article is “The camera never lies. But photographers can and do.” And we might add, so do film directors and TV channels.
This article and the comments with it are worth reflecting on, especially as Capa’s deception was carried out in pre-photoshop days.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/27/photography.pressandpublishing
Candidly - February 22, 2013
7:30 am
Following the comment of Sandiyan in another thread, I looked at the figure standing near the bunker in the second photograph carefully. He is absolutely right. It is a female dressed in a suridar (Salwar Khameez).The hand seen is also that of a female. The stitched border of the shawl is quite visible. The design on the shawl is also different from the adjacent clothing, although the colours closely match. Interpretation?
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 22, 2013
8:32 am
What a damn fool this guy, may be living in his twilight of his time. Must be absolute 3 monkey..see nothing hear nothing or complete dump. Hope and pray this guy shut everything and go away from this world.
r.kovian - February 22, 2013
9:56 pm
Hey wise man,
Your leader VP is yet alive! Please see the authentic photograph of VP alive in the following link. If you have the capacity please also read the link in its details too.
The son is dead and the father was resurrected and is somewhere!
http://www.srilankaguardian.org/2013/02/the-boy-in-bunker-faked-photo-or-real.html
You now wish me dead! Pray a little harder and break a few more coconuts, and it may come to pass. Since he is yet alive the’Sun God’, who has the expertise on such matters, can also help you
expedite your wishes. This may be a shorter cut.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 23, 2013
3:25 am
ditto!!
Randy - February 23, 2013
9:39 am
Dr R N ,
It is Not A surdar As You say taht Salwar khmeeze.
that is a unform of a soilder or an officer.
do you think his mother or Ispriya was their ,
otherwise female RDF soilder with them wareing Suridar before going to Kovil.
this is like a same crimes that done by Jvp, Ltte Unp, And Slfp since 1971 to date.
FORGET ABOUT WEST OR EAST.
PLS tell me Where is That SO CALLED HUMANITY WE ALL BUDDHIST, HINDUS, CHRISTIANS, MUSLIMS,TALKING ABOUT WITH OUR SRI LANKANS ??????????????????? .
JULAAMPITYE AMARAYA - February 23, 2013
3:06 am
some of the comments here are absolutely hilarious… so i take it the bodyguards given to protect balachandran, instead of taking the kid to safety out of the war zone, sat him down in a bunker, gave him food, took off his tshirt (maybe they were pedos too, those ltte scum!), and then took photos of him eating JUST IN CASE they failed at their job and were killed by the army “accidentally” later on, thus allowing the diaspora to mount a case against the sri lankan government years down the line. jesus, whoever thought of this plan must be time-lord of Dr. Who’s calibre indeed!
my god, occam’s razor must be like magic to y’all no?
kp - February 23, 2013
3:46 am
That would make sense if you were a retard, yes.
The simple fact is that the pictures don’t indicate any simple storyline. It’s just three pix, the third of which in many ways (colour, location, etc) doesn’t belong with the other two. So we have a boy eating in a bunker, and then dead. It is pure assumption that all three pix are from the same location, time frame, or even camera.
So in reality the simplest possibility is that the boy was in LTTE hands, safe, fat and well fed, and that during his escape he was killed accidentally by one side or the other, or that he was shot by his bodyguards under VP’s orders to avoid capture.VP himself boasted that his own bodyguards were under orders to kill him if he attempted to surrender. The Tigers themselves killed many of their own crippled veterans by the busload.
Not being privy to the info on the pix, it’s all assumptions, all of them equally possible. Given the fact that the families of other Tiger brass were not killed, but instead cared for, makes the theory of the Army killing VP jr less probable.
David Blacker - February 28, 2013
9:51 am
According to Blocker’s razor principle, all of the above that he mentioned is possible including such hilarious fairy tales as “Zero Casualties” and soldiers going to war with the human rights charter in one hand and a humanitarian gun in the other.
(While the Occam’s (or Ockham’s) razor principle is attributed to the 14th century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham….Blocker’s razor principle is attributed to the 21st century blockhead and armed forces apologist Duh!Vid Blocker.
Namalie Rajapaksa - March 1, 2013
8:27 am
So beyond lies and personal attacks, you have no argument?
I have never made either of the claims, you attribute to me. Keep talking through your rajapassa, “Namalie”. Every time you open it, we see that you’ve got nothing but shit in your mouth and your brains. Thank the gods that SL’s enemies are nothing but idiots. As long as you guys are out thee. SL has nothing to fear.
David Blacker - March 5, 2013
9:41 am
Those who choose to reply to Sandilyan’ s original observation and my subsequent occurrence should explain why they disagree without trying to insult. I have looked at various designs of the Suridar/ Churidar/ shalwar Kameez on the google and saw designs where what is intended to mimic the shawl are sewed on to the upper garment. The differences in colour and design between the main shirt and the ‘ Shawl’ are very noticeable in visual 2. Why should a uniform be stitched this way ? Further, on researching the colour, design or material used in both army or LTTE uniforms on the Google, I did not find anything similar. The question is about who this person is. What I asked was for an interpretation of what seems rather odd and not an expression of sarcasm or insult. I may be an idiot to some who may wish I am one, but regardless I will understand a rational interpretation.
The death of this boy has bothered me for a long time. However, I want to understand how he died, if indeed he is dead,given all the fiddling that is done with photographs. If someone can make a dead VP watch the report on his own death, what else cannot be done. This concern applies to both sides of the new battle line.
Dr. Rajasingham Narendran.
Dr.Rajasingham Narendran - February 23, 2013
7:41 am
This is partly in reply to Dev and in general my own opinion about the whole saga.
Dev said “It may be useful to pause and consider the fate of our own children – should they pay the price of our wrong doing…”
I replied to Dev saying” I would not do any wrongdoing. I would not take the chance. I love my
Children too much to take that risk.
Then Dev said to me
“Sadly, that must mean that you are the first real saint on the planet as none of us can truly claim to be without wrong having committed various crime in our thoughts and words and sometimes actions (in VP’s case). But who are we to judge who is worse than another and then go to to punish a child for the sins of the father?”
Dev may call me a saint but he hasn’t noticed my user name ”Atheist’. I don’t believe in such things as sainthood. I know what is right and what is wrong. When VP chose his mission in life which was fighting for a separate state through terrorism he should have stuck to that mission only. He, a grown man (of 30+ when he got married) and his wife who knew her husband is a ruthless killer shouldn’t have started a family producing 3 children. After all, the said youngest child was born in 1997 when VP was 42years old. Then VP has been responsible for so many deaths of poor innocent village children and babies whose parents have never committed any murderous crimes. VP and his wife are themselves to be blamed for the fate of their own children. Their children‘s fate was sealed the day they were born. After all you reap what you sow. My regret is that VP was not alive when this fate happened to his family. At least then he would have been to feel like when you lose your child.
VP must be one of most pitiful cowards ever to have existed in the world to have brought children into this world to be murdered by rivals who may have been in their early 20s.
Getting back to my so called sainthood: Yes. My mission in life was chosen for me when my children were born. That was to raise them with good values, instilling in them honesty and courage to face injustice and cruelty of this world with non-violence. At the end of the day it is pure joy to see that I have achieved that goal.
Atheist - February 23, 2013
10:45 pm
When I forwarded some of these pix in the interests of truth within a few months of the end of the EW 4 via yahoo mail, some apparently influential people from within the LTTE rump had complained to Yahoo and had my email blocked for almost a month. I am perturbed as to why some people are arguing over trivialities when there are larger issues at stake.
There is quite often some sense of honour even amongst thieves, thugs, and ruffians and even would be revolutionaries. Relatively speaking the personal life of Adolf Hitler showed greater sense, honour and courage than VP in not fathering any children and in the conduct and manner of his exit from life.
In contrast VP extended his life span by about 19 by the elimination of Rajiv Gandhi and much of the evidence indicates greater self gratification and self aggrandisement than the cause he claimed to have espoused. Yet the root cause of much of the ills of SL remain with the so-called leaders of the country, who created a fertile soil, ploughed it then irrigated and fertilised it for weeds such as RW, VP and their ilk to grow and what is more they still persist in their self serving erring ways.
Even as Mugabe continues to hold on to the reigns of Zimbabwe, so will MR unless the unexpected elaborated elsewhere happens and/or is MR trying to emulate VP as naturally without any effort?
m c spencer - February 24, 2013
5:07 am
Apparently channel-4 Investigator shot
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rajesh - February 24, 2013
7:19 am
It was a known fact that International community told President Rajapakse to allow LTTE fighters to surrender to GOSL troups, who bring a white flag with them while President assured them that he will do so.
But the Govt. never showed us any TV footage of Tigers bringing white flags or surrendering to govt. soldiers……..except dead bodies.
Only Govt. showed was dead Tiger rebels…..while Gen. Sarath Fonseka said Gotabaya Rajapakse told army to kill everybody who carry white flags.
All we ask GOSL. is to show us the video clips where the Tigers or Civilians CARRYING WHITE FLAGS who subsequently surrendered to govt. soldiers.
THIS WILL PROVE PRESIDENTS INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY.
Jayantha - March 2, 2013
9:41 pm