WELL TIMED SELF DEMOLITION
It seems decisively to be end game for Channel 4 and Callum Macrae. There is conclusive evidence that so called key witnesses in his so called documentaries on Sri Lanka were known LTTE agents on the Tamil Tiger pay list, and after this fact was revealed by Lord Naseby in the British House of Parliament, Macrae is now in his last gasp, coming up with more impromptu works of fiction targeted for the Geneva UN HRC sessions, 2014.
When the witnesses from his tele fictions are called, Macrae will surely have the very little that is left of his reputation in tatters...
His latest so called documentary release purports to show videographed evidence of human rights abuses including rape by members of the armed forces.
The scenes are very probably staged, but even if they are not, they say nothing, as there is episodic footage of people being carried into vehicles -- and scenes purporting to show wounded men and women.
A so called forensic pathologist asserts, looking at the grainy pictures, that there is enough evidence to say that some of those shown in the video images were sexually abused.
This man must have extraordinary microscopic eyesight and amazing forensic skills to inspect grainy video images and determine from his vantage, that people who figure in them have been sexually violated.
As stated before, the footage is very probably of scenes staged for full theatrical impact, but even assuming that the scenes are authentic, there is hardly anything here that could even remotely implicate the Sri Lankan forces.
For example, there are scenes purportedly of supposed Sri Lankan army soldiers carrying those who appear to be wounded people and loading them bodily onto military vehicles.
At one point the soldiers appear to be discussing whether a person being attended to should be put into the vehicle or not.
Eventually, somebody appears to say in Sinhalese that one person ought to be left behind.
This appears to be the classic application of the principle of triage in the context of combat. Those who are determined to be beyond help are left for dead while those who can be dispatched to hospital are taken. This is to ensure that some will survive when obviously all cannot.
This seemingly normal application of triage in a war situation which is obvious from the footage, in fact paints the Sri Lankan soldiers in a good light. They seem to be keen on transporting the victims of war, civilian or LTTE cadre, to hospital.
This meshes in well with the image of Lankan soldiers as rescuers as depicted in the film The Last Phase which was Sri Lanka’s counter to the fictionalized Killing Fields productions.
There is also an allusion to the language used by the soldiers in some places which is ridiculous in terms of proving anything.
These are fighting men in a theatre of war and they can speak to each other in any way they want, and in a situation of raging combat, it is highly unlikely they will communicate in the dulcet tones of convent nuns.
If less than parliamentary language is a criteria for beginning to investigate war crimes, all schoolboys this big match weekend in Sri Lanka -- Tamil, Muslim and Sinhalese -- run the risk of being marched off to the Hague.
All this is written down after assuming that the footage is authentic, which is rather unlikely with emerging evidence that the Star Channel 4 witnesses have all been bought and paid for Tiger operatives, as Lord Naseby asserted in the British House of Parliament.
With an installment on the ready before each key event -- be it UNHRC sessions, CHOGM or some banshee Tamil Tiger bash -- it is the theatrical aspect and nothing else that is conspicuous in the Channel 4 productions.
This time Macrae is particularly lame in his reasoning that it takes one look at his recent production for any reasonable individual to conclude that it is indeed end game for this mountebank, with it being clear that in his last gasp he is straining to do his best with no material at his disposal.
His brief and notorious career as ‘a freelance documentary producer’ is definitely reaching its bitter end which is why he seems to be keen now on moonlighting as some sort of anti Sri Lankan advocate in the civil society circuit. Such people of course usually don’t even make a feeble show of having credible material at their disposal at all, and therefore this ‘filmmaker’ can slide into inevitable oblivion in whichever hole in wall NGO he chooses for his retirement.
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