Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 03:55 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
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Mar 25, Colombo: The Secretary of Sri Lanka Ministry of External Affairs Karunathilaka Amunugama says the government has sent an objection to India's NDTV via the Sri Lanka High Commission in India in writing regarding some footage shown by the TV channel. Amunugama said that an image shown in the NDTV as a killing conducted by the state security forces was actually a scene of a bomb blast by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
In the disputed image, a father is seen weeping holding his child's dead body in his arms. The image was captured as the LTTE blasted a bomb in a civilian bus in Kebithigollewa in Anuradhapura district in June 2006.
The claymore attack by the LTTE on a civilian a bus in Kebithgollewa in North Central Province on June 15, 2006 killed 66 civilians including several infants. The attack was a clear violation of the Norway-brokered ceasefire agreement that was in force at the time.
The Ministry has alerted Sri Lanka's overseas missions of the sinister move by pro-LTTE Tamil parties in India and LTTE supporters using the images of the LTTE atrocities on civilians to portray them as crimes committed by Sri Lankan security forces.
The government says the NDTV showed the footage as an atrocity conducted by the state military against the Tamil civilians.
The official further stated that this was a deliberate attempt by the NDTV to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka government.
"Their intention was to shame Sri Lanka for defeating the LTTE terror outfit," the official said.
