The controversial documentary No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka has been refused a censor certificate for release in theaters by the Indian Central Board of Film Certification. In response, Callum Macrae, the documentary’s director has decided to make it available free online in India. The film will also be available free in Malaysia, Nepal and Sri Lanka, other countries where the screening of No Fire Zone has been banned.
The producers of the controversial documentary, have accused the Indian authorities of “political censorship of unpalatable truths” for refusing a censor certificate on the grounds it “may strain friendly relations with Sri Lanka.”
Claiming that “most of the visuals are of a disturbing nature,” the Board turned down the censor certificate for the documentary.
This means that the film – which documents war crimes and crimes against humanity committed at the end of the Sri Lanka civil war – is banned from theatrical release in India.
The ban on the film will add to the controversy over the Indian government’s refusal to grant a visa to the film’s director, Callum Macrae to attend a premiere of the documentary in New Delhi and Mumbai in November last year.
Mr Macrae – a respected film-maker who has won many industry awards and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on exposing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sri Lanka – said today:
“I find it very disturbing that a country whose independent history is rooted in the struggle for democratic rights and free speech should have taken what is, in effect, an act of overt political censorship.”
In protest against the ban – and supported by a group of journalists in India – the production team have decided to make the film available for free streaming online in India. It will be available from Sunday 23 February on http://nofirezone.org/watch – both in English and in English with Hindi subtitles. The film will also be available for free in Malaysia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
The revelation of the Indian ban follows what appears to be a concerted campaign by the Sri Lankan government to pressurize foreign governments to stop the film being seen. In Malaysia a screening of the film was raided by between 30 and 40 members of the Malaysian Censorship Board and police officers and an organizer, Lena Hendry of Malaysian Human Rights organisation Pusat Komas, was charged under censorship laws. She faces a maximum of three years in jail if convicted.
That was followed by an order by the Nepalese authorities to give the organisers of the Film Southasia Festival in Katmandu just 24 hours notice that they must not show No Fire Zone and two other Sri Lankan films in their festival as planned.
Film Southasia issued an immediate statement: “We announce with great regret that the Sri Lankan Government has pressurised the Nepali authorities to stop the screening of all three documentaries” They described the attempted ban as: “an action that goes against the freedom of expression and the right of documentary filmmakers to exhibit their work.”
Director Macrae said: “While telling the world that it is investigating the allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity – the Sri Lankan government is in practice mounting an international campaign to deny the truth and silence the witnesses.”
“As national delegations prepare to meet in Geneva for the UN Human Rights Council – which will hear calls for the setting up of an international Commission of Inquiry into all the crimes committed in the last stages of the war in Sri Lanka – we hope making the film available in India, Malaysia, Nepal and Sri Lanka will stimulate debate on these vital issues.”
Lapatiya / February 22, 2014
I just don’t understand why this Callum Macrae is so jealous with our king and trying to tarnish his and his brothers Sinhala Buddhist Image. Why can’t Callum Macrae also agreed to accept a free Land in anywhere in the world and Interest free Loan along with Laptop and become a Lap Dog of our King like Rajpal Abenayaka, Milinda Seneviratna, Ariyananda Dombagahawatta and more than 500 of others.
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Javi / February 22, 2014
“why this Callum Macrae is so jealous”
It’s infectious Graft India = Graft Lanka
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Tamilafu / February 25, 2014
Any one can help me to get the full movie to watch pls
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Amarasiri / February 22, 2014
Dear Lapatiya,
” Why can’t Callum Macrae also agreed to accept a free Land in anywhere in the world and Interest free Loan along with Laptop and become a Lap Dog of our King like Rajpal Abenayaka, Milinda Seneviratna, Ariyananda Dombagahawatta and more than 500 of others.”
He has his price. The Sri Lankan shills are cheap and inexpensive. See how MR has bough the median and the Politicians.
MR need to outbid LTTE, GTF or GTTF ( Global Tamil Terrorist Forum) to make it happen.
DeJa Vu…..
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Thiru / February 22, 2014
Why ban the film ” No Fire Zone Killing Fields of Sri Lanka, if it is not true as Sri Lanka claims?
Why not show the correct version of these scenes?
Bloody barbaric genocidaires must be punished, to stop the barbarianism going on now in the North-East.
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Thondamanaru / February 22, 2014
Thiru…. Your people are making a mockery of themselves. Thereby it was banned owing to pity………..
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Javi / February 22, 2014
India is yet to gain true independence.
31May it would be Independence.
Father Nazi jailed for 2 years in Russia and 6th std educated fraud Sonia= kussi amma Sirima
That is your state of fraud. like namakll in glass case is the way Raul is supposed to have qualified when his mums case was disclosed by Cambridge. sajith did not pass like Gaddafi son.
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Mr Yanukovych left Kiev on Saturday purportedly to visit the eastern city of Kharkiv, his main support base. But it was unclear whether he had arrived and journalists found his residence about 10 miles from the capital was empty and unguarded.
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Shah Reza Pahlavi / February 22, 2014
“6th std educated fraud Sonia= kussi amma Sirima”
Agreed; But just one difference.Sonia may be a fraud but she did not drive her country into the bowels of poverty and political oblivion like our own kussia-amma Bathalawathy. Today India is one of the BRIC countries, the once mighty West is courting for its own economic repair. And Sri Lanka? Well, its famous for white flags and white vans isn’t it?
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Javi / February 23, 2014
She supports pakistani terror and MR terror OK that is what you love moron??
She lied to parliament that she was a graduate of English from Cambridge and tried to become PM. So porki Manmohan became PM.The wealth of india has nothing to do with the Nazi mason daughter or the gun wielding murderer son in law Robert Vadra (pakistani killed sis,father,brother and mother slut) and his Gota type deals. Read about the nation before commenting. oh I forgot it’s a muslim problem that even your minister tried to sell true cinnamon to china not knowing how Chinese see it so he was appropriately rebuked. NaMo puts your pavement Premadasa in the shade- 3 terms as Chief minister and he has not taken a 15 mins leave. He has much to do getting rid of graft created by the bitch. When the TN thieves pulled out the gov should have collapsed but Sonia invited al the known criminals of UP to join the party. May be your cup of tea- generally muslims bribe that makes nations stink.
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Read read then travel than taking shop india is not just your movie or TN.
India will keep on squeezing Lankas balls and MR familar will be in power for next 30 years. UNHCR can do nothing with Indian approval as they are all involved. NaMo has said he would be like Vajpayee non interfering as far as SL However if Porkistan tries any further bombing they will be nuked (1000 years no return) for sure to teach a lesson to the dynasty created by the americans and british and the persians/islam.
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Javi / February 23, 2014
” the once mighty West is courting for its own economic repair.”
This story is good for konde badepu singho’s dont play islam with me. I have very good islamic but they know where to draw the line with islam.
(Spain Carlos 1 son of Joanna the Mad)or Charles V holy roman emperor had to get the assistance of his aunt Catherine of Argon wife of Henry V111 on 3 occasions because the Ottamans never kept a truce once they were released to go home siting islam and doing this they always sought the French who fought for them.
Did you watch on TV Gulf war 2 the day before approval- Jose Maria (EU president from Spain) said yes then Bush asked the French President standing next to Putin “come on show us your cards” French cowed down.
What took place at the war is different but “there is no trust relationship with the Iranians” young Iranians in the west are trying to hoodwink the common folk that everything is in order but that is good for street talk because they are no different from the Fascist Japenese. The west will never trust the Iranians king or no king because their history speaks for itself- they will never give up bomb technology saying we are a former empire. Japan was more advanced than US but are doing well without bomb and with 50K American forces fu’king their women and leaving them as single mums- ha ha.
The Chinese are the only people who openly admit that when war comes they would be alone and are prepared for the worse.
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Shah Reza Pahlavi / February 22, 2014
“6th std educated fraud Sonia= kussi amma Sirima”
Agreed: But one difference. Sonia may be a fraud but she never drove her country into the bowels of economic and political oblivion like our own kussi amma Bathalawathy. Today, India is one of the emerging BRIC countries that the once powerful West is courting for its own economic repair. And Sri Lanka? Well, its famous for its white flags and white vans isn’t it?
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Javi / February 23, 2014
All you muslims know is indian movie brics but you dont know inside story like you know MR drugs and guns- know india same way before belching and farting.
The difference is you cannot compare indians with lankan rump who only hide under a womens skirt- I mean it.
India has and can come out in protest in millions and face death that is courage. i have seen stampede at old delhi when indira addressed crowds muslims ran like rats and many were dead. You fing heros by killing own people with international aid.
no one can help you get MR out thats for sure if india wont and even NaMo will not because porkistan is priority when it comes to interference and even the US cannot wake them on that because they are very powerful with china seeking alliance.
Yes thanks to China india is big and not the government. Ambani order is $10 billion (porters son)Indian gov does not do any real business with china- 50% of indias trade is with china. This trend was set by Vajpayee untill muslim coup master sent his sucide bombers to india post 9/11. BTW indian muslims will shoot to kill parkistanis and that is tradition for Sivaji Dynasty days. Travel read not wiki or google moron.
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Palmsquirrell / February 22, 2014
Further proof that India supports GOSL even though outwardly they try to give the impression they support International efforts to look into war crimes.
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Liberal One / February 22, 2014
It is better for them to stop these hypocritical international interventions on one hand and then persuade the SL government to do what they are really interested with. A self governing state in north and east which they could manipulate to control SL.
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W.milton / February 22, 2014
Welcome Indian decision, to release documents of “killing field” SL. At same time we here by request IPKF killed over thousands Tamil in North and East Sri Lankan during 1987 to 1990.
There IS documents Film belongs to Indian authority, who had been killed thousands Tamils, that kindly give to the world public.
Be fair play on ‘Human Rights’ and ‘War crime’ by Indian armed forces.
What about since last 66 years that hundred thousands of People Kashmir had been killed by Indian Armed forces or by Javans of Indian army?
No ‘war crimes’ for India! None of the violation of ‘human right’
by Indian big expansionism.
Why US, UK, & UN human rights council drop charges against Indian “war crimes”
The very reason behind is Indian hegemony power seek to re-colonized Sri Lanka or annex an Island of Sri lanka, that under the FLAG OF UNHRC. New pattern UNO, re-colonization of developing nation by Indian guidance.
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Ram / February 22, 2014
Macrae was not even allowed into India last year. Does the Indian government know even more than we do.?
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Dev / February 22, 2014
Callum can’t even give his punnakku away for free LOL
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Robert.R / February 22, 2014
Welcome back off the cuff, don’t worry about Callum’s punnakku, no one seems to be buying the punnaku about the wonder of asia either.
When will we see steve grafton ?
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Dev / February 22, 2014
Another butthurt victim of Off the Cuff barking up the wrong tree LOL
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sach / February 22, 2014
Are they showing the CH4 documentary regarding disappearances in Kashmir too?
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Javi / February 22, 2014
go ahead show it and the indian public would love you- have you seen the 47 declaration by the Maharaja of kashmir , No why not you are just the putrid typist.
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Anpu / February 23, 2014
” Are they showing the CH4 documentary regarding disappearances in Kashmir too? “
The answer is in KashmirTelegraph.com.
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Afzal / February 22, 2014
Having watched the movie, it’s indeed quite unfortunate and sad that many lost their lives and loved ones. It’s a quite disturbing to watch raw footage of injured and dead people all around. There is no question about it it’s a sad situation.
However it was not just some skirmish it was full scale war between 2 warring parties. It was not brought upon the Tamil civilians purposely. The war has been going on for 30+ years. This was the end result.
It is quite sheepish on the part of the film maker to concentrate all the finger pointing towards the final phase of the war and put the blame completely on Sri Lanka forces. One has to consider the whole picture in order to come to a conclusion. There has been horrendous atrocities committed by LTTE during this period of course this does not give any justification to state target civilians.
However if the intention of the Sri Lankan forces was to massacre the Tamils obviously we would not have so many civilians saved.
The Film make is projecting as if all other wars waged by west are with Zero civilian casualty and implying why this war was not carried out without a single civilian casualty.
The ground truth today is the war is over there is no more LTTE. And the killing has stopped from both sides. All of us in all over Sri Lanka can look forward to, plan for our future.
Having said that the current regime has not taken advantage of the golden opportunity presented to itself by sacrifices of so many to make Sri Lanka a better place.
It’s like “Kabalen Lipata” for majority of us.
For C4 it’s as if this is the only war in the whole universe, this is where they have lost credibility and popular support and by releasing all this cry baby video collections close to UNHCR reviews shows C4 is having a personal vendetta against the Sri Lankan government not a genuine effort to highlight civilian casualty.
What the Video shows is remains of war nothing else, and some acting by a brtish tamil women.
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aratai / February 22, 2014
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Ban means, a must watch.
More publicity to Ban news will make more people to see it,
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Palmsquirrell / February 22, 2014
In the other words, you support the Sinhala Nationalists in their attempts to gloss over and excuse away the genocide of Tamils.
Just because the GOSL didn’t kill more Tamils does not mean they weren’t trying to slaughter as many innocent Tamils as possible in the short window of opportunity they had.
You and anyone else who keep parroting the Nationalist propaghanda about GOSL trying to save Tamils are exposed as liars when one see how GOSL deliberately slaughtered tens of thousands of women and children in the NO Fire Zone.
You talk about the video focusing on the end stage as a negative but the video and Mcrae does not purport to explain or portray the entirety of the armed conflict. While you try to gloss over the slaughter in the end stage by deflecting (and it is delfelction) attention towards the entirety of the conflict, you ignore the decades of Anti Tamil pogroms. So you really aren’t concerned about painting the whole picture.
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Sengodan. M / February 23, 2014
It is not that the wars conducted by Western powers are bereft of civilian casualties. It is the proportion of civilian deaths that matter. For a small country like Sri Lanka the merciless massacre of no less than 40,000 civilians ( according to some reliable sources the actual figure is more than double this) within a very short span of time is not something that can be simply dismissed. We should accept it for what it is, a horrendous crime against humanity!
Sengodan. M
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Afzal / February 23, 2014
Palmsquirrell and Sengodan
Both of you mention Tens of Thousands and 40,000 or 80,000 dead.
In all C4 or any other war footage I have not yet seen at least 500 dead.
Given the ability posses by Tamils/LTTE propagandist to capture the injured and some of the few dead inside the “No Fire Zone” in a very clear videos do you really think they will ignore or failed to capture the Tens of thousands of dead or 40,000 (maybe doubled the amount) of dead ?
If so then you all have done real injustice to the Tens of thousands of dead civilians.
There is a limit to propaganda, it becomes meaningless when it’s so badly exaggerated.
I am no supporter of Raja Paksa Regime, but the Truth is the bloody war is over.
What did Tamils gain by the War ? apart from asylum for section of the community to have a better life misery to hundreds of thousand trapped within the warring parties. They are still struggling to rebuild their lives.
Why don’t the whole diaspora willing to contribute 10$ per person and send around $5 million a month to rebuild and help these poor people who are left to fend for themselves ?
You wont do that wont you ? as there in no gun pointed towards you to force you to do it !
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Punakku recycler / February 22, 2014
Macrae really wants his Oscar. Hope he’ll remember to share the credit with all those talented actors in his films.
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Paisa Must Appah / February 23, 2014
And he will get it soon. From the IHRC.
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Point Man / February 22, 2014
FABRIMENTARY
Callum Macrae’s films on Sri Lanka are prime examples of “fabrimentary” where fabricated lies are presented in the style of a documentary. Callum has been credited with inventing this new genre of film making.
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justice / February 22, 2014
In this day and age,nothing pertaining to political, national and international affairs,can be kept a secret.
Even private affairs of men and women,including royalty,are exposed.
Those who do no wrong,have nothing to worry about.
The internet is a danger to those wishing to hide injustice,and a boon to those wishing to tell humanity about injustice – past and present.
Freedom of Expression is one of the cornerstones of democratic governance.
Let those who see the film online make up their minds.
The lankan state can also counter the the happenings portrayed in it as artificial & manufactured.
Truth is eternal.
Truth will prevail.
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Robert.R / February 22, 2014
I don’t understand if the regime says it has nothing to hide, they saved hundreds of thousands of people then why fear this movie?
Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore accused many in the US government of conspiracy but it was NOT banned in the US and nor was he killed~~~~~~telling I think of this regime’s actions !
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John / February 22, 2014
Going by the spate of abduction & killings like Weliveriya & wholesale corruption & bad governance of current regime, even the Sinhala people may think twice about those films before rejecting them outright.
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Dev / February 22, 2014
Channel 4 could not even defend their own fabrication because the complaints exposing it “raised particularly lengthy and detailed concerns” and had “concerns regarding the cost and burden placed upon it to respond”. So in short they could not afford a few hours of the summer intern’s time to refute the claims made against it, which should have been easy, had they been dealing in facts.
Tamil Tiger terrorist supporters like to point to the Ofcom ruling as proof the Channel 4 fabrications are not in fact fabrications, but this is what Ofcom really had to say about it:
“While all subjects in news programmes must be presented with due impartiality and reported with due accuracy, in other non-news programmes there is no requirement in the Code for issues to be treated with due accuracy”
So even they considered the Channel 4 fabrications to be biased, non factual dramas which had no requirements to be accurate or truthful LOL
And this is what Tamil Tiger terrorist supporters hope to present as evidence to The Hague LOL may be they have a similar clause that evidence does not need to be unbiased, accurate and truthful !
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Robert.R / February 23, 2014
why didn’t your regime sue channel 4 if it was all false??
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Dev / February 23, 2014
Sue them for what? Can you read? There’s no requirement for fictional dramas to be impartial, truthful or accurate and since according to Ofcom the Channel 4 fabrication falls into this category, there’s nothing to sue thm over LOL
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Anpu / February 23, 2014
“according to Ofcom .. ” -do you have any weblink to substantiate your claim? Thanks.
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justice / February 23, 2014
The film is composed mostly of videos shot by sri lanka army personnel,supplied to Channel 4, by a sri lankan group outside sri lanka,which purchased them.
It is not a film produced like in hollywood.
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Native Vedda / February 23, 2014
Derv
VP, Rohana, Saddam, Quaddaafi, …………. all believed in their own propaganda and died a horrible death.
Man you don’t want to die like them, hence very often you need to have your reality checked
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Abhaya / February 22, 2014
is this version no 4 of lies . lol
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Ajith / February 22, 2014
India, particularly Sonia Gandhi lead I Congress has more reasons to block the truth reaching the Indian public. India was part of the Rajapakse regime that was involved in the decision making and implementing the genocide of Tamils.
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Liberal One / February 22, 2014
which journalists do make documentaries out of mobile phone footage? which do organize international screenings out of those documentaries? Which do travel the world giving lectures on the documentaries to foreign parliaments with the hope of isolating a country? Which do time the release of such documentaries to just before UN resolutions and the common wealth meeting? which media do create twitter handles and slander one country day and night? which media do call a democratically elected leader of a country as a despot publicly? which media do call tourists not to visit one country?
There is no difference between Sirasa and Channel 4. At-least Sirasa work to it’s own agenda and is not up for hire like a prostitute lol.
Since I know Macrae the lowlife mercenary trolls CT, we are still awaiting your documentaries on UK war crimes against Kandyans.
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Q-A-S-S-I-M / February 22, 2014
Well , my only question is why one rule to the suffering of one community and another to thee other?
How come these guys have been in lullaby for decades when the poor worst persecuted people The Rohingya people have been stripped off their legal citizenship , their women raped and made permanently sex slaves of The Burmese Military , girls as young as 11 and 12 and little boys sold to brothels in Thailand by the Burmese Military.
Whenever they feel like killing some of them they stage a story even rape and kill their own women or kill their own monk & accuse the poor helpless Rohingya , who live in starvation , whenever these animals get into a frenzy they go on a rampage after consuming locally made moonshine mixed with cocaine ,they slaughter unarmed men ,women and children , rape the young girls , burn new born babies , cut them into pieces pack them in plastic bags to dispose , few escape into the sea and some make it to lands where they face worse cruelty and most others die drowning .
The entire west is watching everything through their spy satellites ,including USA now for decades , and The UK who have to take most of the responsibility – so where is the full documentary of this UN declared worse persecuted peoples story , forget about their religion, race or whether they are Bengal people or whatever , here we are talking of humanity ,in fact the so called Burmese Buddhist who claim to be origins of Burma are also have Indian and half Tibetans (Indo Chinese),, so if All these guys can not first deal with Burma and the genocide of a people forget about being unarmed , they do not even have strength to walk being starved , worked without pay .
Where Sri Lanka is concerned one has to remember , (am not Justifying the genocide of what is talked widely today of what happened at the end of the war) , am talking of whatever happened during the war ,LTTE had been ruthless toward Sinhalese,Tamils and Muslims (of-cause I must admit I never heard of rape by The LTTE) , then the killing during The two uprising of The JVPs ,,,
First let them deal with Burma , let them bring Burma to books end this heartless killing of a helpless people.
Until then let them shove their documentary up their ares.
Bloody hypocrites as if we don’t know what they did in Iraq and what they are still doing in Afghanistan.
Tamils must not become party to this fake propaganda of this crooks , they just want to make a fast buck.
It is time Tamils let the wounds heal , it is time we start thinking as Sri Lankans and unite and demand the government to start improving our livelihood and start building our nation , otherwise better to get the fuck out of this place rather than becoming party to the destruction of our already destroyed motherland ,I would rather pack and leave than screw my own country.
Why cant we ask the entire Sinhala population to unite with the minorities and pressure the government to do equality and give all of what is our due and build and country and society ,where all people can live in peace and harmony ,without letting hypocrites like the JHU Ravaya and BBS do more damage and tarnish the image of Buddhism and Sri Lanka.? BBS/Ravaya and JHU are paid slaves of Zionists ,I can now assure you this(They salves of this evil force)
Why pullout the skeleton from the cupboards , why this bloodthirsty revenge ? will it bring back the dead? why not be more practical and demand for compensation , why no settle of our own house problems among us?
Do not watch the documentary I request the people it will only push you down to unnecessary depression and hate , instead think of a positive action .. or get out of Sri Lanka, while you still can.
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Javi / February 23, 2014
“The Rohingya people have been stripped off their legal citizenship , “
You are fatima/mango clan and is not asian but muslim like the sinhala buddhist both of your are thuna pah kuddu for India.
IAF which bombs porkistan have many a islamic pilot (5 year engg +6 year space engg) The 2nd best in the world – Janes Defence
The martial Race Maratha have islamic blood too and their mission was to drive away the persians, and the europeans. Both feared them one to one but lost because of generals excesses.
Understand indigenous not the emotion and patriotism and religion.
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Wretched Bathideen / February 23, 2014
And that cunning [Edited out] Aung San Soochi advised Davith Aiyya on her last summer visit to No 10 D Steet to personally visit Jaffna during his trip to Lanka for the CHOGM. And the bugger did! Now the regime is faced with HR investigations. However, when reporters in London asked her about what was happening to the massacre of the Rohingya muslims in Burma, she said something like “No comment; Its a matter for the military regime to sort out.” Politics is really a dirty game and the victims are the innocent citizens everywhere.
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Bruz / February 22, 2014
Callum Macrae is not a fool to go around and try to show his documentary all over the world if he was not sure or confident about what he is doing. He is not a novice but an acclaimed documentary producer of world fame. If the Sri Lankan government is denying all what is shown in this documentary as manufactured or fake, they are free to take legal action and sue him for damages and for tarnishing the wonderful image the world has about the wonder of Asia, Sri Lanka. India did a stupid thing by denying a certificate to screen the film in their country. Now Callum Macrae is releasing it for free in electronic media in countries who refused screening like in Malaysia, Nepal India and Sri Lanka. Why is Sri Lanka pressurizing these nations to prohibit this documentary release if they have nothing to hide or fear about ? Nothing could be kept secret anymore in this electronic media world of today. The more they try to hide, the more disastrous the results will be. There is no choice but the Govt. has to face the reality and the consequences followed with their actions.
The whole world knows about the ‘zero casualty’ and the ‘saving of civilians’ from the clutches of brutal, murderous, world’s most inhuman terrorist LTTE. So why worry about Callum Macrae or any one’s ‘fake’ documentary ?
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Dev / February 23, 2014
Channel 4 could not even defend their own fabrication because the complaints exposing it “raised particularly lengthy and detailed concerns” and had “concerns regarding the cost and burden placed upon it to respond”. So in short they could not afford a few hours of the summer intern’s time to refute the claims made against it, which should have been easy, had they been dealing in facts. Tamil Tiger terrorist supporters like to point to the Ofcom ruling as proof the Channel 4 fabrications are not in fact fabrications, but this is what Ofcom really had to say about it: “While all subjects in news programmes must be presented with due impartiality and reported with due accuracy, in other non-news programmes there is no requirement in the Code for issues to be treated with due accuracy” So even they considered the Channel 4 fabrications to be biased, non factual dramas which had no requirements to be accurate or truthful LOL And this is what Tamil Tiger terrorist supporters hope to present as evidence to The Hague LOL may be they have a similar clause that evidence does not need to be unbiased, accurate and truthful !
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Anpu / February 23, 2014
“Channel 4 fabrications to be ****biased****” – where is the evidence for this?
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Anpu / February 23, 2014
Dev,
This does not support your claim.
Not in Breach Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields Channel 4, 14 June 2011, 23:05
Page 45
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/enforcement/broadcast-bulletins/obb192/obb192.pdf
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Piranha / February 23, 2014
The Indian government knew that the Sri Lankan military was committing mass murder of Tamil civilians and is worried that the ungrateful Rajapaksa will expose the congress government’s complicity in it. That was the reason why the film was banned. However, the ban has given it much publicity and it will result in the film being seen by more people now.
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Javi / February 23, 2014
Son in law like Gooota carries a gun and is never checked even at airport but his wife priyanka is. (take some trouble to read with say india india because its not TN or just north.
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Raul and mum have robbed $10 billion media outright and want to be like Berlosconi.
In response to the alleged DLF-Vadra controversy, the entire Congress came out to defend Vadra. After a few days when another controversy about the alleged financial irregularaties in an NGO run by congressman and then-law minister Salman Khurshid broke out, Rajdeep Sardesai (news reader) had tweeted:
“Irony: when law min in dock, no UPA minister there to defend him. When Vadra in dock, cabinet ministers line up to defend.
INdia will only squeeze your balls and NaMo will not interfere. He has never taken even 15 mins leave as chief 3 times. he will be like Vajepayee only Pakistan and he would nuke them to put matters straight- lanka is inconsequential and helping vaiko would be disaster for india- go travel up north if you known northern languages and speak to people who matter.
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Javi / February 23, 2014
Fact: Even if BBS wipes out the total population after 31st May India would turn a blind eye. One problem less and next Bangala and finally Porkistan.
Sad but true:India will not interfere but squeeze lankan balls and let MR be in power no amount of UNHCR or US will change that.
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Rggtg / February 23, 2014
Of course Mcculum is a good film maker. Hallmark of. a good film maker is to make any fiction look real.
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Q-A-S-S-I-M / February 23, 2014
“The Rohingya people have been stripped off their legal citizenship ,
Javi – a few humble words to define my point again , this is not a part religion /race -or history .
This is about cruelty to humanity ,a people who are persecuted daily for no reason , but because the are
1) black
2)because they are suppose to be related to the neighboring country
3) Because they are people who’s religion are the same of the ones who have been branded as terrorist around the world ,which these people have nothing to do with.
4)Assuming they will become a majority and become a threat .
Where LTTE is concerned they had many opportunities to resolve the situation in peace , they had a lot of international support , they had arms they were able to go to full-scale war they took as much as lives as were lost ( I am not justifying killing & war ) but comparing the situation between two communities .
If you feel it is okay to do what is being done to these poor helpless souls with no help from anyone , then the same goes to all who are faced with simialr persecution everywhere .
” You are fatima/mango clan and is not asian but muslim like the sinhala buddhist both of your are thuna pah kuddu for India.
is like trying to compare apples and oranges
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Javi / February 23, 2014
“Javi – a few humble words to define my point again ,”
Sorry they are invaders and they multiply like no other race or religion and give a toss about other people who respect the issues and tighten belts.
You must understand the Burmese were persicuted by their own people for over 30 years and lived like animals trying to survive.- the land is rich in resourses so the west and china played. If the people asking for recognition were hard working and intelligent chinese the government would have considered because the chinese made malayasia what it is today. Inthe UK the Bengalis are the most backward equivalent to africans even with same and more resources being pumped into their kitty.In the UK thay take the benefit and then go to Saudi aid and take more to wear the burka- they are silent and dangerous- the need is for them to be medically treated so they dont produce. In 100 years bengal would be under water then what refugee- bob dylan now regrets when he sees who came when he sang because ravi shanker and george harrison not islam.
It is invasion by bengalis who only understand islam and breeding 5 kids each from 4 wives.This is how they try to capture places in the west too. Read the declaration of the Maharaja of kashmir in 1947. If you think history of Islamist breeding like rats and saying under democracy majority wins and capturing cities goes unnoticed better you commit sucide. In the UK Dobson (he bought them in 70 knowing this is the fuckvote machine is MP for life because the bengalis have produced so many devoid the place of all its resources. The west votes on local issues irrespective of party affilations but islamic vote for islam en block about islam in other countries- that stinks and it truly stinks as bengalis like livng in ghettos- 7/7 was bengali sucide bomb not arab but for arab.
They dont deserve anything from experience of Mujubir Rahaman.
Even Indian Islamic pilots/jawans gave their lives to rescue them from being raped murdered porkistani and the west as usual said no it is not so. So the gallant indians went in and gave them that freedom. immediatly mujubur looked up into the sky and saud allha gave it but all along allha bombed them and was having gahazel harem party. Henry Kessinger had duped Mujubur (looking for sudhu pukka)so kissinger told Indira that if they dont pull out or if they go to porkistan he would nuke. Now where is US when Bengali women are still giving nick names to India like lankans?? Study before your ablution and speak from backside.UK Bengali are trying to infiltrate into TN.Bengali is trying to infilterate India. In the west they have 4 wifes and produce 5 children each please take them into SL muslim abattoir which are empty.
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Q--A --S--S--I--M / February 23, 2014
Wretched Bathideen -She in-fact did worse than that, she shameless openly justified the killing of these poor helpless people by the Burmese Buddhist extremist Wiruthu’s supporters backed by the Military .
If She deserves Noble prize , then should Hitler , and all the rest of his kind.
And if people accpet what & agree on Aung San Suu Ky ..
Quote:David Blair
David Blair became Chief Foreign Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in November 2011. He previously worked for the paper as Diplomatic Editor, Africa Correspondent and Middle East Correspondent.
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How can Aung San Suu Kyi – a Nobel Peace Prize winner – fail to condemn anti-Muslim violence?
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The first common tactic is to draw a parity between perpetrators and victims. Suu Kyi duly said: “This is what the world needs to understand: that the fear is not just on the side of the Muslims, but on the side of the Buddhists as well.”
Then are we to say the same thing about Hitler and Jews?
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Unquote;
It is like squeezing a balloon no matter which side is squeezed another-side will bulge out .
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Q--A--S--S--I--M / February 23, 2014
What is the need of the our ????
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definitely not change of regime ..
Since Independent no single Political party have addressed the most sensitive issue the minority’s guarantee of a secured life in a country which is equally their mother land too.
Then at the same time while assuring the Majority to safeguard their right ,to also discipline them to make them see the reality that bullying is not the way forward for the civilized and as much as they have the right to live and enjoy this country the minority although different have the same rights , and the way forward is not by destroying the minorities or encouraging the Majority to live shamefully on KAPAN ( robbing by intimidation ) a very cheap means of livelihood, today the majority is made to believe and accpet that intimidating the minority and stealing from them is legal and not sinful , by fabricating many lies to justify it by the very clergies .
What is needed now is to change the political players in the same government , and the people with a sane mind can do this , the majority and minority of the same mindset of live and let live and country come first , should join hands and help The ruling government to replace the failed player who are crooks and in-capable and who are nothing but parasites on the entire nation ,they use racism to continue living off the people ,this was seen even in their political campaign they wanted to squeeze the peoples blood even to run for the elections they did not want to touch their robbed money in foreign banks ,craftily put on a show that they are broke and robbed the people the little they have to struggle through too .
Select some good sincere politicians and vote them in and vvote all the bigot politicians out and I am sure we can turn things around with Mahind still as the leader , give him a reason to think differently and act differently remove the racists from the grip of manipulating the government and ,there you are , everything will turn to the best to all.
make sure not to give a single vote to The JHU if you have any sense ,IF YOU VOTE IN BIGOTS , NO MATTER FROM WHICH COMMUNITY MAHINDA WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO GO AHEAD WITH THE BIGOTS AGENDA .
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Like The Zionist issue with America, in 1948 ;; I quote:
In a Nov. 10, 1945 meeting with American diplomats brought in from their posts in the Middle East to urge Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman had bluntly explained his motivation:
“I’m sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.”
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But believe me today that is fast changing and may become a possibility that the Arabs Truman – rather than bluntly but honestly I say admitted he does not have then in his constituents ,may become available to the future president of America and other western countries to consider Justice to The Palestinians, which is also why The Global Zionism is frantically doing all it can to hit the Muslim community everywhere in the most sensitive matters fear ,I say fear of more international support from other faiths too.
so let us do it here too, let us out number the bigots ,it is a good thing for all the people as well as the nation ,think about it .??? let us make racism and its advocate , mainly JHU -RAVAYA AND BBS. History forgotten ..
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Javi / February 23, 2014
If you think the west which is very conscious of quality of life and not having children is for islamic with sexual drive or any other community to take advantage is going to take it blindly You better go mad!
They are formulating laws like Singapore to keep a tab and promoting their own even Canada the land of immigrants eg I see in areas where there were predominantly hard working Italians with lovely gardens and landscaped. But now they are getting old and their kids are moving into other Picturesque areas so these folk are selling and moving to home for the aged- the indians and pakistanis who buy these divide these into 2-4 plots and make it an eyesore plus put demands on services which arent there because that was not the way of planning- indian and pakistans -somalis are behaving like camels. So even other in the neighbourhood are running away and the place becomes a ghetto. You must know where to draw the line to get respect- small is always beautiful.INGO workers are generally from lower classes trying to make a few bucks (official) and they like to lift a lower class of another society so that their rating goes up- nothing else; they are human and all decisions are finally political.
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Anpu / February 23, 2014
A very short version of NFZ (Interactive Flash version)is available at http://prezi.com/jez7luhd5cul/no-fire-zone-the-killing-fields-of-sri-lanka/
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Q-AS-S-I-M / February 24, 2014
Javi while you recommend medical treatment for Bengali people ,I strongly recommend you go see a shrink ,man never came across a mentally sick racist like you ,you are inhuman man .
You are sick to the core, OMG.
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Javi / February 28, 2014
“Javi while you mentally sick racist like you “
Ha ha ha,
In the west no one is allowed to display a cross at work.
But the Muslims wear beard, and burka exhibiting their bin lardens tainted knickers faith.
Muslims of Lanka need to be bombed by BBS because treating Muslims is a waste of resources.
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Q--A--S--S--I--M / February 24, 2014
Canada
Main article: Hate speech laws in Canada
In Canada, advocating genocide[15] or inciting hatred[16] against any ‘identifiable group’ is an indictable offence under the Criminal Code of Canada with maximum prison terms of two to fourteen years. An ‘identifiable group’ is defined as ‘any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.’ It makes exceptions for cases of statements of truth, and subjects of public debate and religious doctrine. The landmark judicial decision on the constitutionality of this law was R. v. Keegstra (1990).
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Javi / February 24, 2014
I am ashamed to admit that I get over emotional and angry sometimes ,please bear with me I do not mean to be racist , I am a bit DSM.((((
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reza / February 24, 2014
Very gentlemanly of you Javi; .I must admit you are a storehouse of knowledge and Ive learnt so much from you. Not just your wit and style but your wealth of info. Keep it up.
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Javi puss-able / February 28, 2014
Ha ha ho ho Yakoo is constipated (@_@)
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