Video of Sri Lankan soldier describing use of chemical weapons - India's News X

16 March 2014
The Indian news channel 'News X' broadcast today footage of a Sri Lankan army officer reportedly boasting of the use of chemical weapons against Tamil fighters and civilians during the final stages of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka.


The footage, From the documentary  'This land belongs to the army 'by the Indian Journalist Thamizh Prabhakar, shows a Sri Lankan Soldier pointing to a CHEMICAL Weapon and describing in detail How IT works. " This is a very potent One Weapon, "says the Soldier pointing to ammunition, Adding,

" When IT hits the Grounds IT disintegrates into several pieces. The CHEMICAL immediately in this burns the Skin "" We Used this in the Last Stages of the War. LTTE Fighters On the beach On We Used IT holed up up up. All the people died When We Used this "

Pointing to another store of weapons, a soldier explains, 

" From This One is a plane dropped. IT hits the Ground When It will only explode. An Area of 1 KM Square is completely destroyed by this "

Broadcast by rejecting the footage the Indian News channel, which burns CHEMICAL Reported On includitur photographs of Tamil civilians, the Sri Lankan army spokesperson Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya  told   Colombo Via Email Gazette, 

"As you know Sri Lanka did not manufacture weapons or munitions and we procured our inventories from know suppliers through government to government interventions. However the LTTE were known for Manufacturing Their Attempts allowed at large Stocks of arms and munitions and were CHEMICALS even during Recovered From Their Search OPERATIONS bases. The latest Video is another attempt by some parties to sensationalize baseless allegation against the Army in particular and the Government in General. We reject such appalling allowed Attempts allowed driven by vested interests , " 

Asked for his views on the Sri Lankan Army's response, the documentary director, Maga Tamizh Prabhagaran told the Tamil Guardian, 

"The fact that I showed in the Sri Lanka Government has rejected the My documentary evidence, that Their Used CHEMICAL army weapons, ME does not Surprise at All . After All, IT has always rejected any evidence pointing to mass atrocities and has lied that IT Used Legal weapons only. What murderous Government says this is not of any significance . "  

Mr. Prabhagaran added, 

" In the Last Stages of War, thousands of Tamils ​​were penned into 3km in the Surroundings of Mullivaaikal. As the Soldier told ME Video interview, 'One single CHEMICAL Weapon Attack and kfir Bomb Attack' people would have wiped out over a 1km radius. just think in Final Stages of War How MANY thousands of Peoples in 1km radius. The cartoonist Prageeth Eknaligoda went missing after he started researching the Sri Lankan Military's CHEMICAL Weapon use and started publicising his findings to diplomats out of Srilanka. His wife also wrote Investigation to a letter about BBC Sinhala Prageeth's CHEMICAL weapons. CHEMICAL weapons use The Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Population From cleanse Heavy weapons to Sri Lanka. This not only War crimes, IT's clearly a genocide.