Britain’s Channel 4 team that arrived in Sri Lanka today to cover the Commonwealth summit to be greeted with “public” demonstrations at the airport and at their hotel now claim they are being followed in and out of their hotel in Colombo.
The Channel 4 team includes No Fire Zone Director Callum Macrae.
Photo credit Duncan Stone, Twitpics
Channel 4 News Editor Ben De Pear tweeted a short while ago that a car with plates ending 4612 were following the media team from their airport to their hotel and now from the hotel out.
Channel 4 Journalist Jonathan Miller also tweeted that they were being followed by a motorbike, a car and three men.
“Tailed by lka intel (intelligence) from airport to hotel & now to dinner. 1 motorbike, 1 silver Kia Sedan reg 4612, 3 men with taches,” Miller tweeted.
Even as the capital is mostly shut down for the summit and VIP arrivals demonstrators managed to get very close to the airport’s main exit door at the arrivals terminal. The Government has however prevented accredited media covering the summit from going to the airport to photograph and report on arrivals.
It is also curious that the demonstrators happened to know exactly what time the Channel 4 team was landing at the BIA, said one reporter based in Colombo.
With the degree of surveillance on the Channel 4 team so high, local journalists are unlikely to engage with the broadcasting team and they are unlikely to be able to travel freely to other areas of the country without endangering the people they speak to on their travels, the journalist explained.
Yesterday the crew from Britain’s ITV had their flight to Jaffna cancelled and were forced to take the road to the North, with the authorities now fully aware of their movements.
Sukirihami / November 12, 2013
This’s what and how I feel in terms of lanken tamil cause
I am a sinhalaya living on the west
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Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace
You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world
You, you may say
I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one
I hope some day you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
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Ahamed / November 13, 2013
The life will be very boring and the people will start to commit suicide.
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Ajith / November 12, 2013
It is diagnosed as cancer. It has spread well in all organs of the body. Who can save this patient?
Dr Ban ki moon?
Dr Nambiar?
Dr Sharma?
Dr Man Mohan Singh?
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Sukirihami / November 12, 2013
None of the mentioned Drs are able to handle it yet.
It has become to the metastasized stage. If ones like late Kadirgamar had been within us, we could keep more hopes.
Dr. Banki Moon – not at all capable
Dr. Nambiar ?
Drs Sharma & Man Mohan Singh – no means capable of doing anything regarding the grave issue
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srilal / November 12, 2013
Didn’t Bandula Jayasekara openly threaten Callum that he will personally interfere and block his entry visa to SL , where is he now ?
Bandula should lead the agitation and start confronting C4 team along with other patriots in SL.
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Sukirihami / November 12, 2013
Yes, he did (recalling he would personally not allow Calum to get in as if SRILANKA was his own property).
Now he has to resign ( he even challenged to do something) if the bugger has balls. If estranged man keeps his words, he has to react :)
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JULAMPITIYE AMARAYA / November 13, 2013
Siri lal;
Bandula Jaysekara is another One of the Leaches like Kudu Marwiya, Malindha, Raajapaal, kudu duimia.
He does not have any Self respect like his Bosses, The Jarapassa clan.
He is shouting like other leaches to get attention Of Jarapassa morons.
Let them have it as they are the same bag of sour ONIONS, smells shit, who goes after COLONIAL MASTERS, but Blaming others.
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Fathima Fukushima / November 13, 2013
Tamils have LOST again when Callum came to SL. They tried to block him and now out of defeat shy away in shame!
Tamils are very good at hiding their defeats.
Too bad no Tamilian is invited to CHOGM! :(
British took Tamils as slaves to SL, Malaysia, Mauritius, Fiji, Singapore, etc., etc. but no Tamilian in CHOGM.
Brits sure know how to treat slaves!
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Fathima Fukushima / November 13, 2013
USA spies on everyone.
SL intel should spy on all Tamilians. Tap all their phones and internet. Not hard because all are routed through SLT.
May be they are already doing it.
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PalmSquirrell / November 13, 2013
You think too highly of GOSL’s ability.
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Madayan Siva / November 13, 2013
Chogm began with a bang! MR invited Calum for a cup of tea. What happened to the Sinhala king ???
He is now inviting even Terrorist Supporters who raped Sri Lanka’s good name ???
Selling the Sinhalaya’s dignity for the sake of chairmanship???
Interview I am eagerly waiting.
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Point of View / November 14, 2013
Aren’t he wining & dining with the Terrorists who procured arms, raised funds, killed innocent monks and created mayhem in the South ?
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Mahendra de Alwis / November 13, 2013
Fully support the Governments monitoring of C4 movements. They have a hidden agenda. SL appears to be the easy target for all these so called “Humanitarian Groups”. I wonder why they all came to life after the war in SL ended. So many others wars, so much more war crimes and crimes against humanity in the rest of the world. Where were these people when the LTE operatives / supporters in the Western world demanded money from tamils in those countries and if they didn’t pay up, their families back in SL were apparently harmed or killed?? (Not crimes I guess)
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Point of View / November 14, 2013
My, my, Mahendra – where were you when our politicians and the armed forces sold fuel and other necessities to the Tigers? Where were you when different governments handed out millions and millions of rupees to the Tigers for favours ? Didn’t our own Sinhala men in our armed forces sell inside information to the Tigers ?
If we Sri Lankans do not have the backbone to stand up for what is right, atleast let someone else do it. Let them do it for the sake of your children and the grandchildren !
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ela kolla / November 13, 2013
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Jim Hardy / November 13, 2013
It looks Govt is wasting tax payers money in their P.R campaign , it looks many of their stooges defending them in C.T for their supper.
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Mikhael / November 14, 2013
I wonder if any of these men would tweet the amount that the LTTE has deposited in their accounts so then everyone will know who these fraudsters really are. I used to have utmost respect for British journalism ever since the documentaries I saw in the 80’s of poverty in Ethiopia but it is so blatantly obvious that these so called reporters/journalists have an agenda that they bring shame to the profession.
As they say to journalists, there are not two sides to every story, there are a hell of a lot more!
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