SL rejects fresh Channel 4 video

1 December 2010 06:12 am

The Sri Lankan government has rejected the latest video broadcasted by the British Channel-4 network, coinciding with the visit to the UK of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

“Last year when Channel 4 News telecast a similar video the Government of Sri Lanka clearly established, by reference to technical considerations, that it was not genuine but fake. The present video is nothing more than an elongated version of the same video,” the Sri Lankan High Commission in London said in a statement.

The statement alleges that these are calculated “sinister moves” orchestrated to coincide with the visit of President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the United Kingdom.