Reuters continues with its misinformation Campaign in Sri Lanka

There was a sea confrontation near Jaffna today. This is how Reuters covered it.

Total Words (including the heading) = 223

Total words for the Sri Lankan Military side story = 136 (61%)

Total words for the Tamil Rebels side story (Taken from Tamilnet) = 60 (27%)

Total words which says Rebels not available to comment = 20 (9%)

By the way Reuters do not have reporters in Kilinochchi the Tamil Rebel capital. They only have reporters in Colombo the Sri Lankan government capital

Military's story has been given complete prominence. The heading fully covers the Military's claim almost as a fact although clearly conflicting reports emerged almost at the same time.

One reporter was called Ranga Sirilal probably a Sinhalese. Then the editor was Jeremy Laurence probably a westerner.

Most of the news papers and other news media would pick this report up from the Reuters and further edit it so that only Sri Lankan military's claim is heard loud and clear to the outside world.

So eventually a picture is successfully painted in the West that Tamil rebel got a beating although the fact is most likely complete opposite. Also an opinion would be manufactured in the west that shells from Tamil rebels killed civilians when in fact it could be the Military's shelling probably killed the civilians.

So much for the lofty ideals of free media and objective factual reporting. In fact a possibly a total lie is successfully implanted in the west as fact mainly Reuters. Keep it up Reuters!

Reuters Story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSCOL165550

TamilNet version of the same event:

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25807

BTW, AFP report was more closer to facts giving more prominence to the rebel side story. See the link below:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkqf6N9l8UzH3Oxk-rzsia0jr2KQ

So no complaints yet on the AFP;-)

Reuters campaign against Tamils

Reuters carried the following follow up report on yesterday's bomb attack in Colombo:

http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSCOL27242

These are the worthy southern victims for the reuters to be reported extensively.

Tamilnet carried the following follow-up report on the claymore bomb attack in Kilinochchi. These northern victims were unworthy lives for Reuters - so no reports on them.

http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=25764

Both attacks are brutal and should be condemned. It should also be noted that the bomb attack in the south gives an impression of a revenge attack for the civilian killing in the claymore attack in the north.

Having blacked out the first massacre (in the north), Reuters then goes on to paint a picture that the attack in the South is due to the so called "military setbacks" in the North and not likely to be a revenge attack for targeting the civilians in the north. In fact for Reuters northern attack did not happen at all right?

Both are targeted killing of the civilians and people should be sick of those people behind these acts. They should be even more sick of those people who discriminate between worthy and unworthy victims.

Thanks a lot Reuters for your neutrality in reporting the conflict. Keep it up follow your agenda and don't file any report on the unworthy (northern) victims!

Bomb attacks and the BBC

Recently civilians were killed by two brutal bomb attacks. One near Kilinochchi where 16 civilians were killed. Another in Colombo where 9 civilians were killed.

Here is what BBC said about the bombing in Colombo:

Bomb rocks busy Sri Lankan train

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7420231.stm

And here is what BBC did not say about the bombing in Kilinochchi:

Bomb rocks packed Tamil van

At least sixteen people have been killed and 3 injured in a bombing of a packed van in Vanni, Tamil rebel forces say.

The blast hit the van between Kilinochchi and Akkaraayan near Mu'rika'ndi , a suburb of Kilinochchi, rebel forces said.

They blamed the Sri Lankan military for the attack, the latest in a string targeting civilian vehicles.

The local authorities in Vanni say they defused several claymore bombs recently in main roads in Vanni.

Earlier today another claymore bomb near Mannaar killed 2 civilians including the assistant director of Fisheries.

In February 8 people died in an aerial attack at a civilian settlement near Pooneryn.

Sri Lankan Air force was blamed for that incident, although they routinely deny involvement in bombing civilians.

Toll 'could rise'

Local authorities said Friday's explosion occurred at 14:15 local time (09:45 GMT), and the area had been cordoned off.

Bodies have been pulled from the wreckage and rescue teams said the number of dead could rise.

Father Xavier, a local rescue worker told TFP 5 children were among the dead.

A passenger in another van Ragu Selvathurai, 43, told TFP the van was suddenly slowed after a "deafening noise".

"people were shouting 'bomb, bomb!' and scrambling to get out of the windows of the van.. I managed to jump out from the door. There was blood every where in the wreckage of the van in front and body parts were every where," he said.

Eye witness T A Vishali told PPC Tamil service the explosion took place as the van was moving out of Mu'rika'ndi.

"I ran to the place where the explosion happened. I saw people scream in pain."

The van doors were blown out and parts of it roof was torn off in the blast which left bloodstained cloths and bags strewn among the debris.

Battles are continuing in other parts of the Vanni, whereTamil rebel forces continue to thwart military offensives aimed at crushing them.

On last Monday rebel forces attacked military positions and recovered 5 army bodies and large quantity of weapons, according to rebel forces.

Warning

Correspondents say that number of deep penetration attacks by the Sri Lankan army has increased as the fighting intensified.

The Sri Lankan military have fought for a generation to stop the Tamils forming an independent state in the island's north and east.

About 70,000 people, mostly Tamils, have been killed since the civil war began in 1983.

Violence in the island intensified when a hard line Sinhalese politician Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected by the Sinhala majority as president of the country on a militaristic platform. Eventually the Sri Lankan government formally pulled out of a ceasefire agreement in January.

At the start of latest outbreak of hostilities, the Sri Lankan government had warned to wipe out the Tamil rebels with heavy-handed military offensives.

The warnings has been followed up by many claymore mine blasts, aerial bombings and explosions targeting civilian transport and settlements in Vanni, although civilians in the south have also become victims of explosions allegedly carried out by the Tamil rebel forces.

Analysts say that if the violence continues, the rebels may be forced to redeploy some forces from the battlefront to the interior for security.

Are you in the area of the blast? If you have any information you would like to share with the PPC you can do so using the form below:

(By the way the contents and quotes are imaginary. Report was about a claymore blast which killed 16 civilians recently in Vanni. The facts of this incident were based on Tamil Media reports. The report follows a BBC report about another bomb blast in the South where 9 civilians were killed. BBC only carried an elaborate report on the southern bomb blast and more or less blacked out the northern blast. This was produced here to show how blatantly biased western media is. They shamelessly follow the establishment wishes to manufacture consent for their morally bankrupt foreign policies while claiming lofty ideals. Policies which prolong the suffering for many people in the unreported world - Thanks BBC! So much for your objective reporting)

US Ambassador's Democracy

The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert Blake said from his discussions with Tamil people in Sri Lanka, he thinks "95 per cent of them support a solution within a framework of a united Sri Lanka.

"They (the Tamil people) are not seeking an independent Tamil Eelam which Prabhakaran is seeking," Blake told the Sunday Observer Newspaper.

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=445056&sid=SAS

Thanks a lot Ambassador, but I don't seem to remember that we elected you to represent our views on the possible solution we are seeking. It is truly amazing that you made a survey among the Tamil people (the first ever) and came up with the percentage (95%)of Tamils who do not seek independent Tamil Eelam State. By the way Ambassador, I really hope the margin of error in your survey is not 100% by any chance? Or did you first say to each one of the Tamils that you (the US) would never ever support independent Tamil Eelam before listening to their opinion?

You could try this Ambassador. Try telling them that the US would support an independent Tamil Eelam if majority of Tamils support it. The person you mentioned above (It might be illegal in your or most of the western laws now to even mention his name. So I will refrain from mentioning his name) would, I am sure be very happy to take a referendum to gauge Tamil opinion on that as long as it is held free and fairly. Are you ready to go on that direction Ambassador? Please Sir, do not recommend the Sri Lankan election commission who have just conducted a very "free and fair" election in the East!

I am asking this because I guess I must be counted into that 5% minority who believe a solution for the issue would be the creation of Tamil Eelam state. If your survey is truly authentic then I am a bit worried. Or may be I am an expatriate and possibly we the rich Tamil expatriates are the only Tamils who seek this independent state sitting in the the luxury of the western life? Yes I know you would say that championing the voice of the poor suffering Tamils in Sri Lanka who are a different breed to that of the Tamil expatriates?

So I checked with my uncle and cousins who are still living in Jaffna. And guess what? It seems they too were within your 5%.

Ambassador, you can say any thing you like because you are representing the most powerful state in the world. But please leave us to express our own views. Please don't hijack our right to express our political aspirations. Last time I checked that was called democracy which a greatest nation called United States of America claim to champion.

Of course you can say that you want a solution to the conflict in which the power would be solely vested in Sinhalese just because you like it that way. You can also say that you hate the Tamils and that is why you support the brutal Sinhalese government. Or you can even say that US interests (whatever those might be) are best served by propping up a Sinhala racist government. We have no problems with that.

What annoys us a bit is that you at times hijack our right to express our own political views and appoint yourself as our (sole) representative. Yes of course you are after all Ambassador of United States government and you have the right to be arrogant this way or in fact any way. But is there any chance that you could let us keep our beliefs and views? It is our belief that only solution to the conflict is an independent Tamil Eelam. It is just a belief Ambassador deep inside our mind. A belief we arrived at after decades of grief. We cannot just change this belief because you don't like it.

Certainly you don't have to agree and as you have been doing for decades you can throw every obstacles in the way to stop this belief of ours becoming a reality. But still we can keep this belief, can't we? Or would you be soon passing a legislation outlawing it so believing in an independent Tamil Eelam as a solution would also be illegal in most of the great western democracies?

Publicity Seekers

See the link below:

http://www.puthinam.com/full.php?2bXVtpe0dJc3A0ecEF7T3b4gcIE4d3i5e2cc2JvQ2d434UV2b027Qn3e

It looks from the pictures that he caught up with her in some sort of gathering. Any one who gets an invitation can have a few minutes of chat with dignitaries. Mr(Dr) Moorthy probably got his invitation through some thing else and then managed to have a small chat with her and some photos.

It is a real shame that these things are put as big achievements - and the fact is they are not. The photos might be good for his personal collections and not good for the Tamil National Project. In fact the Sri Lankan government might pick this up and then eventually Jacqui Smith might deny any knowledge about Mr Moorthy's Tamil National Background. So in reality this false propaganda might acutally be hurting Tamil national project. Mr(Dr) Moorthy is a publicity seeker who already waste time with his "crap" in Tharisanam.

Tamil national project can certainly do better without the likes of Mr Moorthy.

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