Sunday, March 22, 2009

War- Vengeance? Truth?


Amos Roberts did a report from Sri Lanka about the 25 year old war against the Tigers that had seen thousands killed and how an estimated 150,000 civilians are trapped in the middle of this brutal conflict.

As Roberts reports, no independent journalists are allowed near the war zone and those who dare criticize the government or the military are either detained or murdered by shadowy forces
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The clip below was posted on YouTube on the 15th March, as shown in an Australian TV channel.

A
s stated in the clip itself, the interviews seemed to have been staged. Opposing to this segment, a video of an IDP (internally displaced people) camp shows otherwise, questioning the credibility of the video above. The IDP's are kept in these camps for over a year. Are they imprisoned? Are they happy with the conditions? What will become of them?
The clip below was taken when the camp at Visuamadu was attacked. The scenarios are contrastingly different.

While one clip shows the IDP's well looked after , another shows them hiding in sand holes dug to the ground at the camps. Roberts mentioned that journalist are not allowed near the war zone, it seems that the handful that were allowed haven't done a good job reporting, considering the fact that now we are faced with two contradictory sets of evidence witnessed. Again I ask what are we to believe ? Or more like What is happening?

If the war was in Colombo instead of in Jaffna, then we would be living their life wouldn't we? For all we know, the situation can change as such, never know what will happen next, so isn't it least bit essetial for us to see what happening ?

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