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| Government says another footage with Tamil voice has now emerged |
A group of exiled journalists from Sri Lanka have dismissed the "new executions video clip" with Tamil speech aired in a pro government television channel as "fake" and one that emerged two years ago.
Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) say that the "newly emerged" video was first published in a pro government website on 18 September 2009.
JDS also calls upon the government to submit the clip to an international investigation for authentication.
The Sri Lankan government claims that the video contains Tamil Tigers committing a crime against Sri Lankan soldiers.
Sanath Balasuriya, a spokesman for JDS told BBC Sinhala service that the new claim invalidates the government's previous claim that such an incident never occurred.
'An admission'
"In a report by a so-called group of experts, the government said it was staged and not something that actually happened. If the government now says that the video shows a crime committed by the LTTE, it is an admission that such an incident did actually happen," he said. Full Story>>>
"In a report by a so-called group of experts, the government said it was staged and not something that actually happened. If the government now says that the video shows a crime committed by the LTTE, it is an admission that such an incident did actually happen," he said. Full Story>>>
