Channel 4 to telecast documentary on Easter Sunday attacks
UK’s Channel 4 News has announced that it will telecast a special documentary tomorrow pertaining to the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka in 2019.
Channel 4 in its weekly programme parade announced that a highly anticipated documentary that would make shocking revelations about the Easter Sunday carnage would be aired from 11.05 pm to 12 midnight London time on Sept 5. The programme, titled “Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches”, will shed light on new information brought forward by highly-placed whistle blowers, implicating government officials in complicity, the organization announced.
Whistle blower was leader of the TMVP Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan.
A British television station is to reveal shocking details over the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, which it says alleges complicity by officials inside the Government.
Channel 4 television announced it will broadcast the program, ‘Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches’ on Tuesday 5th September based on information from highly-placed whistle blowers.
Just last year Colombo Gazette and Daily Mirror had reported that a whistle blower had shared sensitive information related to the Easter Sunday attacks to diplomatic missions in Colombo.
That whistle blower was later revealed to be a close aide of the leader of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) and current State Minister for Rural Road Development Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan.
The informant of the TMVP, the breakaway faction of the LTTE, had made explosive revelations to the United Nations (UN) in Geneva.
Diplomatic sources had told Daily Mirror last year that the informant had revealed sensitive information related to the Easter Sunday attacks and a number of murders and enforced disappearances.
The informant had written to some key diplomatic missions in Colombo and overseas giving brief details of the information in his possession.
He had then fled the country and sought refuge overseas fearing for his life.
Pillayan later told Daily Mirror that the allegations were baseless.
The MP told Daily Mirror that anyone can leave Sri Lanka and seek asylum by making false allegations.
Complicity by officials inside the government
UK Channel-4 News has announced that it will unveil shocking revelations about the 2019 Easter bombings in its latest programme titled “Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches” to be broadcast tomorrow (5), what it says, ‘allege complicity by officials inside the government’.
“Shocking new revelations about Sri Lanka's deadly Easter bombings of 2019, as high-placed whistle-blowers allege complicity by officials inside the government,” it stated.
Informed sources said that the primary source of the programme is the former spokesperson of Pillayan, who is currently living in Geneva, Switzerland seeking asylum.
He was the media spokesperson and finance secretary of Sivaneshthurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan group.
Sources also said that Channel 4 had planned to broadcast this video on August 15, but had stopped broadcasting the video on that day following a clarification given to Channel 4 by the Chief of State Intelligence Service (SIS), Major General Suresh Salley through his lawyers about the allegations levelled against him in the video.
It is also reported that Major General Suresh Salley has informed Channel 4 with documents confirming that he was not on duty in Sri Lanka during the period related to the incidents that Azad Maulana made using his name.
However, it is reported that after Major General Suresh Salley’s response, Channel-4 had reportedly changed the title of the video and scheduled to broadcast it tomorrow.
Channel 4 previously aired a documentary video titled Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, a hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war.
Source: Media + ENB
