‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ screened at EU
The controversial video on the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka produced by Britain’s Channel 4 television was careened at the European Parliament yesterday (Wednesday).
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha said the timing of the screening of the film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ at the European Parliament was particularly sinister, coming on the eve of the presentation of the LLRC Report due next month.
“It would appear that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Crisis Group who sponsored the screening, are intent on pre-judging and discrediting the LLRC report even before it is released,” he said in a statement Thursday.
He added claimed that the hurry to host such events and to call for international inquiries, is probably due to their fear that once the LLRC report comes out, they will be short of one further excuse, with which to continue their obsessive attack on the government of Sri Lanka.
The Ambassador who strongly protested the use of the Parliamentary premises for the screening of the film through a private member’s initiative, highlighted that on his bringing this insidious agenda to the attention of the President of the European Parliament, Dr. Jerzy Buzek, the President’s office had assured him that “similar to many other events organised on the Parliament’s premises, this film screening is not organised by an official political organ of the European Parliament, therefore it does not represent or reflect an official position of the institution or any of its bodies”.
