LTTE's money talks again
Channel4 has come up with another disgusting piece of
journalism aimed at tarnishing Sri Lanka's reputation. We deny outright
the wild allegations contained therein.
The programme is yet another example of western media
arrogance in dealing with or claiming to report on the emergent and
developing world. Sri Lanka may be in focus at the moment, but it will
be another developing world country in the not too distant future.
The programme represents nothing more than the
self-indulgent and deeply-flawed focus of self-selecting, middle-class
white elite. This white, western elite is represented by British
journalists, British politicians, British international bureaucrats,
Canadian and American Human Rights activists - all of whom were
commenting on the internal affairs of a sovereign state. Read more...