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British documentary team forced to leave Jaffna
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Mucha-linda
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AU - 9 Oct 2007 02:16:07 GMT Report for Abuse
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Reporter Sandra Jordan, Director Siobhan Sinnerton of Quicksilver Media and a Sri Lankan journalist..
For those who are interested about the name of the Sri Lankan journalist whose name was *unknown* to Tamilnet, her name is DUSHYANTHINI KANAGASABHAPATHIPILLAI. Interestingly enough, she is the PRODUCER!! It appears that Tamilnet is more interested in reporting the English names of its reporter and camerawoman while deliberately suppressing the Tamil name of its producer.
-Muchalinda
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LK - 9 Oct 2007 02:31:39 GMT Report for Abuse
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| If any foreigner request to visit the North? Then there is a Tamil behind the request. |
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AU - 9 Oct 2007 02:38:02 GMT Report for Abuse
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The Sri Lanka Army (SLA) in Jaffna has forced three female journalists, including two journalists from UK based Quicksilver Media and a Sri Lankan journalist accompanying them, to return to Colombo Friday..
WICK,
See how they have reported it. They painted the role of the Sri Lankan journalist (while hiding her Tamil name) as someone who accompanied the other two British women, when she actually is the PRODUCER!!
This itself is enough for any sensible person to conclude the correctness of the decision made by the SLA.
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LK - 9 Oct 2007 05:25:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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If these idiots want to hide themselves from any criminal activity they become Sri Lankans.
If not they are damn PEELamists.
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CN - 9 Oct 2007 06:06:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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If any foreigner request to visit the North? Then there is a Tamil behind the request
wick::
I dont see anything wrong in above. That is the obvious in North, lets take it as the reality. Only issue is when the so called Tamils are voicing on behalf of LTTE DEVILS, white washing the LTTE as saints and tarnishing the SriLanka Legitmate, democratically ellected government as human right abuses. SO FUNNY journalists.
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GB - 9 Oct 2007 13:15:29 GMT Report for Abuse
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ya...and like their... when we need money
It seems to be still some lickers are there.
Wick, see our politicians showing colours to 'we Lankans' and going and trying to lick ... and getting 'Noondi'
Here you read one of the recent developments.
FM fails in mission to US: Senate refuses to withdraw ban on military sales
Courtesy: The Sunday Leader - October 7, 2007
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama failed in his efforts last week to get the US Senate to withdraw the provision in the Appropriations Act for 2008 preventing the sale and supply of military equipment to the country until the human rights situation improved.
The Senate approved Section 690 of the Appropriations Act last month whereby the US government is precluded from providing any military equipment to Sri Lanka until such time the Secretary of State makes a certification that Sri Lanka has taken necessary action to address the human rights issues raised and bring to justice those responsible for extra judicial killings and other human rights violations.
The Sunday Leader learns Minister Bogollagama met with the Chairman of the US Foreign Relations Committee Senator Leahy and lobbied for the withdrawal of Section 690 of the Act but failed.
Informed sources said Senator Leahy informed the Foreign Minister the Senate can consider the withdrawal of the provision when concrete action is taken on the human rights front. It is learned the minister also failed to get Sri Lanka on the eligibility criteria for the Millennium Challenge Account.
The Sunday Leader learns Bogollagama also failed to get any concessions on the trade front with Congressman McDemott informing the minister he ?will explore..? ways to add Sri Lanka to the developing countries Bill.
Informed sources said the US government also reiterated a strong message on the need to submit a power sharing proposal to resolve the ethnic crisis through Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to Minister Bogollagama. Burns had also raised human rights concerns and specifically the case of Sunday Times Defence Correspondent Iqbal Athas. It is learned Burns also raised the case of Athas with President Mahinda Rajapakse in New York. Informed sources said the President had retorted angrily that Athas was compromising national security but that Burns did not subscribe to that allegation.The Sunday Leader further learns Minister Bogollagama was not given an appointment with his counterpart Condaleeza Rice but a down graded meeting with an Under Secretary to signify the displeasure of the US on Sri Lanka's human rights record and the failure to submit a viable political package to resolve the ethnic issue.
The US State Department after the Burns meeting with Bogollagama also took the unusual step of issuing a statement after the meeting expressing concerns over the human rights situation and the on going threats to freedom of the press.
One top source in Washington said the bottom line was the Minister and the government got a public 'slap' from Burns, Sri Lanka is still on hold for the Millennium Challenge Funds, no military sales and transfers and nothing on trade.
Read this too and enlighten yourself wick http://www.asiantribune.com/index.php?q=node/7091
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GB - 9 Oct 2007 13:35:19 GMT Report for Abuse
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TruthHurts also lack of commonsense too hurts.
It is true that you, TruthHurts, help people with your own money. But don't you think that you are a bloody fool to visit them with a camera when the got embroiled in a fight.
wick, I am sorry to see you being such a fool. Most of the Jaffna is under Srilankan government control for the last 12 years since it was taken over by SLA from LTTE. That is what The Elected government of Sri Lanka has told we-Sri Lankans and the CFA mentions clearly. Going one step further the government clams the people of Jaffna are living happily with the presence of the GOSL Army and the people don't undergo any hardship and food is available freely.They also say there is no fighting/War in Jaffna.
The British documentary team visited this same government control Jaffna town which is suppose to be safe.
Now what you saying :
But don't you think that you are a bloody fool to visit them with a camera when the got embroiled in a fight.
What fight are you talking about ? Are you saying the people in Jaffna too are not safe ?
Now if I am not mistaken you are sitting on your brains or government is lying.!!
For your information this is what the foreign donors/countries wants to know before the part with their money.
Commonsense ? Do you buy that at Lakehouse? or at Mariya kade ?
You are happy the government is fooling you. So we are happy for you! but not all likes to be fools.! |
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GB - 9 Oct 2007 13:52:48 GMT Report for Abuse
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The above report is completly false. The team left on their own accord after finalising their recording.
The Daily Mirror story on quick silver media team is far from truth - Military spokesman
October 09, 2007
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, in a letter to the Editor of the English Daily, The Daily Mirror has informed that the story carried on the newspaper with regard to the visit of Quick Silver media team to Jaffna was far from the truth.
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GB - 9 Oct 2007 13:56:59 GMT Report for Abuse
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TruthHurts
criminal ltte bomb off this people,how is responsible,world will point the finger to Sri Lankan government,any body going to war tone area Sri Lanka have to response bale,3forces have to take this action.that very fair.i don't think because off financial players/contributors to our country, thy come to our country and thy do what thy want its not work that way.your way is Don't bite the hand that feeds, you want to Sri Lankan to lick there ass.
Kottechutta, You have a point by saying LTTE can bomb and put the blame on GOSL. But what Sri Lanka ended up doing by stopping their visit is shown the media they have some thing to cover or hide from outside world.
This documentary team is not going to stop writing or stop producing news about Sri Lanka.. but they will.... this time they be more hard on the GOSL and the SLA. Then we can not go like fools and blindly say they are LTTE agents all foreigners are LTTE agents....can we?. This is where the government should show some maturity. They should play the game nice and smooth. Also the government has to attract the people of Jaffna by showing them some sincerity to attract them back and take them away from LTTE.
But the government is playing media circus by showing us a different picture as they the brave ones and then going behind our backs and selling us all as jokers to Suddas.
Why do you think Mahinda Rajapaksa and the GOSL talks ill of Norway and then go to the USs and talk to Erik Solheim without much publicity?
By the way 'Don't bite the hand that feeds' dose not applicable here! they are not on state expenses. In case they are bringing foreign money during their visit.!
We should not lick and we should have some integrity and some self respect ..most of all we should not be treated as jokers and fools by foreigners curtsey of GOSL!. |
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GB - 9 Oct 2007 14:54:41 GMT Report for Abuse
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The above report is completly false. The team left on their own accord after finalising their recording.
The Daily Mirror story on quick silver media team is far from truth - Military spokesman
October 09, 2007
Military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, in a letter to the Editor of the English Daily, The Daily Mirror has informed that the story carried on the newspaper with regard to the visit of Quick Silver media team to Jaffna was far from the truth.
-MoD
Sure we believe the above!.
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=23905
Government ministers assail independant media and defence reporter, while foreign TV crew is prevented from working in Jaffna
Senior officials have threatened independent news media and investigative journalist Iqbal Athas in recent weeks, and the government is reportedly planning to increase restrictions on coverage of the security situation as fighting rages in the north, Reporters Without Borders said today. A foreign TV crew was prevented from working in the northern city of Jaffna at the end of last week.
'Although UN human rights high commissioner Louise Arbour is due to begin a visit to Sri Lanka in a few days, the government is seriously jeopardising the safety of certain journalists and is preventing the press from operating in areas hit by the fighting,' the organisation said. 'We urge President Mahinda Rajapaksa to appeal for calm and to take no measures that violate press freedom.'
The latest incident was the expulsion of three women journalists working for the British TV production company Quick Silver Media from Jaffna on 5 October. Reporter Sandra Jordan, camerawoman Siobhan Sinnerton and local producer Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai arrived in the city on 4 October and went to a hotel. But soldiers arrived and forced them to spend the night in a military base in nearby Palaly. They next day, the soldiers took them on a two-hour tour of the city and them told them to take a flight back to Colombo. As a result, they were prevented from working.
Athas, who writes about defence affairs for The Sunday Times, was accused of being a 'traitor' and of helping the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels in an article posted on the defence ministry website and published in a government newspaper on 2 October. The attack came just a few weeks after Athas resumed working following a period spent in self-imposed exile, without doing any writing, because of death threats.
Headlined 'Mr. Iqbal Athas, stop insulting our soldiers? sacrifices,' the defence ministry article suggested that he was 'assisting in the psychological operations of the LTTE terrorists.' Three days earlier, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakakara accused Athas of 'supporting terrorism' in his articles and urged the media to stop publishing them. All the media have reported the accusation being made against Athas, who told Reporters Without Borders he was very worried about this new campaign of intimidation.
The Free Media Movement (FMM), a Sri Lankan NGO, meanwhile reported at the end of last month that the government was planning to use new emergency measures to step up its control of the media?s reporting on the fighting, and would use the need to protect national security as its justification for the new restrictions. The FMM challenged the government to confirm or deny whether it was indeed planning to do this.
Government ministers have attacked the privately-owned media in speeches. Transport minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle accused the management of privately-owned Sirasa TV of links with the head of the Tamil Tigers on 22 September, pointing out that the station had not provided direct coverage of a ceremony marking a recent navy defeat of LTTE sea-borne forces.
A few days before that, labour minister Mervin Silva attacked the privately-owned media, accusing Sirasa TV and the Daily Mirror newspaper of defamation in their coverage of his son?s arrest. At the same time, the minister?s thugs prevented a Sirasa TV crew from attending an event at which he was present. Sirasa TV and the Daily Mirror had accused Silva of intimidating the judge in charge of his son?s case. The claim has not been denied by the judge, and judicial officials have also accused Silva of intimidation.
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