TamilNet cannot see the real from the false – as ever!

(April 21, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Pro-Tiger fanatic TamilNet indulges in brazen and blatant falsehood as if one can fool all the people all the time. On a day when the whole world read and saw through aerial and ground photographs and videos and various reports that over 35,000 human shield victims escaped and still the flow is on like a flood, Tamilnet came out with a report to the contrary which we publish below.

TamilNet even refers to the human shield victims as "CAPTURED civilians" as if the Armed Forces were engaged in a hunt.

It is sad to comment that there are people even educated professionals who should know better to believe what TamilNet says; it rabidly says according to what it wants to impress on others and also caters to their wishes, intentions and prejudices. This is journalism best categorized as insulting the inteligence of others. It is puerile.

Even more it proves the fact that the greatest danger faced by the Tamils in Sri Lanka are from their Diaspora kith and kin terminally ill with the 1983-shock. Revenge is their seeking and for this they are using their own folks in Sri Lanka.

This is exactly what TamilNet has published today:

Casualties cross 1000 in SLA's attempt to capture civilians

[TamilNet, Monday, 20 April 2009, 13:18 GMT] Hundreds of dead bodies and wounded civilians were still lying in Maaththa'lan and Pokka'nai, and more than 600 seriously wounded have been brought to a makeshift hospital functioning at a school in Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal in LTTE held area throughout Monday, TamilNet correspondent reports from Vanni.

The correspondent personally witnessed nearly 300 dead bodies while fleeing from the area. Cluster shells and smoke or white-dust-emitting shells that made people to faint were widely deployed on civilians by the Sri Lanka Army in its effort to capture them. However, a large majority of the civilians fled towards LTTE held areas while around 8,000 were trapped and captured by the SLA.

Several dead and wounded were lying along the roads in Maaththa'lan and Pokka'nai.

Only 60 wounded went to the hospital at Puthumaaththa'lan, which is almost not functioning at the moment. The hospital at Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal comes under Mullaiththeevu Regional Director of Health Services (RDHS). By Monday afternoon, the SLA was pushed back from parts of the civilian areas it had boxed earlier in the day.

However, civilians fear waves of attacks similar to the one on Monday to follow in the forthcoming days. The exact condition of the civilians captured by the SLA is not known.

Meanwhile, schools in Northern Province scheduled to start after term holidays on Tuesday were ordered by Colombo not to be re-opened until further orders. It is speculated that the SL government plans to accommodate captured civilians in the schools.

-Sri Lanka Guardian