{"id":117658,"date":"2013-12-30T17:57:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T12:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=117658"},"modified":"2014-01-06T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:40:20","slug":"witnesses-to-the-war-without-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/witnesses-to-the-war-without-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses To \u201cThe War Without Witnesses\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Michael Roberts<\/span><\/a> –<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Dr.<\/a>

Dr. Michael Roberts<\/p><\/div>\n

I commence here with the whole lot of close-up images snapped by Kanchan Prasad of Prasar Bharati and passed on to me at some point in 2010 or so.<\/p>\n

There may be others but these are the close-ups in my stock \u2013 where they are part of other photographs with more sweeping views of the flotsam and jetsam of the Last Redoubt between Nandikadal Lagoon and the sea.<\/p>\n

A selection from these other images can be found within these two items<\/p>\n

Indian Reporter Pics at NFZ-14-to-18 May 2009 ( Click here<\/span><\/a> )<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

Mullivaikkal Hospital in NFZ Last Redoubt<\/b>\u00a0( Click here<\/span><\/a> )<\/b>
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

Also click here<\/span><\/a> for Kanchan’s photographs of some of the reporters during two of her visits.<\/p>\n

Muralidhar Reddy and Kanchan Prasad were taken to the \u201cLast Redoubt\u201d every day on the 14th<\/sup>-18th<\/sup> May, returning to the SL Army HQ area by evening-night so that they could file their reports to their respective Indian offices. I had got to know Reddy (of The Hindu<\/i> newspaper) well in April-May 2009 when I was visiting Colombo and he asked me to write articles for Frontline.<\/i> He told me that he had been periodically embedded in the rear battlefront since late 2008; and that he recorded tales from some of the Tamil people who successfully fled from the c their corralled hostage situation from late 2008 onwards \u2013 with the aid of a translator [because his mother tongue is Telugu].<\/p>\n

\"Reddy<\/a>

Reddy with Major-General Shavindra Silva of the 58th Brigade at the SL Army base camp at Kilinochchi on 13th May when Reddy and Prasad were given a briefing and where the General “asked us what we needed for reporting purposes” (email from Reddy to Roberts, 28 Dec. 2013)<\/p><\/div>\n

I was not introduced to Kanchan till a year later when I visited Lanka in May-June 2010 \u2026 and discovered that Reddy used no camera and that it is Kanchan to whom we are indebted for a number of revealing still images during those visits where she was present.<\/p>\n

Note that Reddy has told the world that \u201c[t]here were no conditions spelled out on the coverage from the war zone.\u00a0 We were allowed unfettered and unhindered movement up to 400 meters from the zone, where pitched battles were fought between the military and the remaining cadre and leaders of the LTTE\u2026.Most important was the fact that we had interference-free access to the internet, including\u00a0Tamilnet<\/i>, the website perceived to be pro-LTTE and based somewhere in Europe.\u00a0 Within the constraints of internet time available, and not-unexpected problems of connectivity and speed in a war zone, there was just enough time to read and absorb the reports on the websites before sending news dispatches to our headquarters.\u00a0 No questions were asked\u201d (Reddy, \u201cAn eye-witness account of the last 70 hours of Eelam War IV,\u201d\u00a0Frontline<\/i>, Volume 26-Issue 12:\u00a0 June 6-19, 2009).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately Kanchan and Reddy had been flown back to Colombo on the 18th<\/sup> May and missed the final skirmish on the 18.19th<\/sup> night when a band of hiding Tamil Tigers were flushed out in swampy mangrove terrain on the edge of Nandikadal Lagoon and Prabh\u0101karan\u2019s corpse was discovered among the dead<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Prasad and Reddy may have been given a privileged place among reporters in mid-May, they were among a number of other foreign journalists airlifted to the front on other occasions in the months January-April 2009. ( See the list here<\/a>\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>\n

Therein lies a remarkable tale does it not. The accounts sent by these intrepid personnel were so noticeable \u2013 that is so buried or glossed over \u2013 that the general opinion in Colombo as well as the wide-wide-and-wild world is that no reporters were permitted even a sniff of the frontline arena.<\/p>\n

What does this gross error say to us now, today<\/b>? It demonstrates the power wielded by the Tamil psy-ops circuit working in association with their aides in powerful media outlets in the West. A LIE has been written down in stone and has lit the sky. This lie is now inscribed within several brains and repeated ad nauseam. Amen it is in THEIR SKY.<\/p>\n

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/b><\/p>\n

Government of Sri Lanka <\/b>2013 \u201cThe Last Phase,\u201d http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ngNeF5WY64s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gray, David<\/b> 2009 \u201cA Day at the Front Line in Sri Lanka (Photographer\u2019s Blog),\u201d 27 April 2009, http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/photographers-blog\/2009\/04\/27\/a-day-at-the-front-line-in-sri-lanka\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Groundviews<\/b> 2009 \u201cWould killing 50,000 civilians to finish off the LTTE bring peace?\u201d http:\/\/groundviews.org\/2009\/05\/03\/would-killing-50000-civilians-to-finish-off-the-ltte-bring-peace\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Noble, Kath <\/b>\u00a02013 <\/b>\u201cNumbers Game reviewed by Kath Noble: The full monty,\u201d 14 July 2013, <\/b>http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/14\/numbers-game-reviewed-by-kath-noble-the-full-monty\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Padraig Colman <\/b>2011 \u201c<\/b>Evaluating the \u2018Churnalism\u2019 from Channel 4 and the Moon Panel,\u201d 17 August 2011, http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/17\/a-credible-evaluation-of-%e2%80%9cchurnalism%e2%80%9d-from-channel-4-and-the-moon-panel\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Padraig Colman <\/b>2011 \u201cthe Cage by Gordon Weiss,\u201d Island, 13 May 2013, 2http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=78825<\/p>\n

Prasad, Kanchan <\/b>2011a \u201cIndian Reporter Pics at NFZ-14-to-18 May 2009,\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thuppahi\/sets\/72157626797805167\/<\/span><\/p>\n

Prasad, Kanchan <\/b>2011b \u201cMullivaikkal Hospital in NFZ Last Redoubt,\u201d in http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thuppahi\/sets\/72157626797848747\/<\/span><\/p>\n

Prasad, Kanchan 2011c \u201c<\/b>Two Indian Reporters\u2019 Post-War Pictures at the LTTE\u2019s Last Redoubt, May 14-19, 2009<\/a>,\u201d ed. by Roberts, June 2011, http:\/\/asiapacific.anu.edu.au\/blogs\/southasiamasala\/<\/a>2011\/06\/10\/two-indian-reporters%E2%80%99-post-war-pictures-at-the-ltte%E2%80%99s-last-redoubt-may-14-19-2009<\/p>\n

Rajasingham, Narendran<\/b> 2009 \u201cRise and Fall of the LTTE \u2014 An Overview,\u201d Sri Lanka Guardian<\/i>, 7 Feb. 2009, http:\/\/www.srilankaguardian.org\/2009\/02\/rise-and-fall-of-ltte-overview.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reddy, B. Muralidhar<\/b> 2009a \u201cAn Escape from Hellhole,\u201d http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/ 2009\/04\/25\/<\/a>stories\/2009042558390100.html.<\/p>\n

Reddy, Muralidhar <\/b>2009b \u201cMultiple Displacements, Total Loss of Identity.\u201d The Hindu<\/i>, 27 May 2009, http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/2009\/05\/27\/stories\/2009052755811500.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Reddy, Muralidhar<\/b> 2009c \u201cA first-hand account of the war and the civilians\u2019 plight as Eelam War almost comes to a close,\u201d\u00a0Frontline<\/i>, 26\/11, May 23-June 5, 2009<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2008 \u201cTamil Tigers: Sacrificial Symbolism and \u2018Dead Body Politics\u2019,\u201d Anthropology Today<\/i>, 24\/3: 22-23.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2009a \u201cDilemma\u2019s at War\u2019s End: Thoughts on Hard Realities,\u201d http:\/\/www.groundviews.org<\/a>, 10 Feb. 2009.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2009b \u201cThe Rajapaksa Regime and the Fourth Estate,\u201d 9 December 2009, www.groundviews.org<\/i><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2010a \u201cRealities of War,\u201d Frontline<\/i>, 9-22 May 2009, vol. 26, http:\/\/www.frontline.in\/navigation\/?type=static&page=archive<\/a> \u2026 later reprinted with different title in Roberts, Fire and Storm<\/i>, 2011.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2010b \u201cSelf Annihilation for Political Cause: Cultural Premises in Tamil Tiger Selflessness,\u201d in Roberts, Fire and Storm. Essays in Sri Lankan Politics<\/i>, Colombo: Yapa,\u00a0 pp. 161-201.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>2011a <\/b>\u201cA Think-Piece drafted in May\u00a02011,\u201d http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress<\/a>. com \/2011\/07\/23\/a-think-piece-drafted-in-may\/#more-2998, 23 July 201<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02011b \u201c<\/b>Reading \u201cdevastation\u201d: Botham, CMJ, Ban\u00a0Ki-Moon,\u201d <\/b>10 June 2011,\u00a0 <\/b>http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/10\/reading%E2%80%9Cdevastation%E2%80%9 D-botham-cmj-ban-ki-moon\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02011c <\/b>\u201cPeople of Righteousness target Sri\u00a0Lanka,\u201d 27 June 2011, http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com<\/a> \/2011\/06\/27\/people-of-righteousness-target-sri-lanka\/<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02011d <\/b>\u201cA Think-Piece drafted in May\u00a02011,\u201d http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress<\/a>. com \/2011\/07\/23\/a-think-piece-drafted-in-may\/#more-2998, 23 July 2011.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02011e \u201cAmnesty International reveals its Flawed Tunnel-Vision in Sri Lanka in 2009,\u201d 10 Aug. 2011, http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/10\/amnesty-international-reveals-its-flawed-tunnel-vision-on-sri-lanka-in-2009\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02011f \u201cThe Tamil Death Toll in early 2009: Challenging Rohan Gunaratna,\u201d 1 December 2011, http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2011\/12\/01\/the -tamil-death-toll-in-early-2009-challenging-rohan-gunaratna\/<\/a> and<\/i> http:\/\/transcurrents.com\/news-views\/archives\/6285<\/a><\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02013a \u201cPragmatic Action and Enchanted Worlds: A Black Tiger Rite of Commemoration,\u201d\u00a0http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/18\/pragmatic-action-enchanted-worlds-a-black-tiger-rite-of-commemoration\/\u2026<\/i>a reprint of an article in Social Analysis<\/i>, 2006, 73\u2013102.<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02013b \u201c<\/b>Introducing \u201cNumbers Game\u201d \u2013 A Detailed Study of the Last Stages of Eelam War IV,\u201d http:\/\/thuppahi.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/30\/introducing-numbers-game-a-detailed-study-of-the-last-stages-of-eelam-war-iv<\/a>\/<\/p>\n

Roberts, Michael <\/b>\u00a02014 \u201cTowards Citizenship in Th\u0101mil\u012blam<\/i>: The Tamil People of the North, 2 1983-2010,\u201d in Roberts, Tamil Person and State: Essays<\/i>, Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, pp. 132-183.<\/p>\n

Samarajiva, Indi <\/b>2012 \u201cChannel 4\u2019s \u2013 A Review,\u201d The Nation<\/i>, 18 March 2012, http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm201314\/cmhansrd\/cm131118\/debtext\/131118-0001.htm#1311188000001<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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