‘Your crude journalism exposes both Callum and yourcalumny”, said the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in the UK, Dr Chris Nonis,responding to the latest Channel 4 video timed to coincide with UNHRC sessionsin Geneva, and purporting to be about rights abuses by Sri Lankan forces.

His reference was to Callum Macrae the producer ofthe so called Channel 4 documentary series on alleged abuses by Sri Lankanforces during the 2009 assault on the LTTE.

‘Your allegations are such unmitigated andunsubstantiated rubbish that you make even gutter journalism appear to bePulitzer Prize-winning professionalism. Your latest attempt to denigrate SriLanka is a continuation of your pernicious campaign that has already beenexposed in the book Corrupted Journalism Channel 4 and Sri Lanka,” HighCommissioner Nonis stated.

What makes your journalism doubly dubious andobnoxiously unbalanced is that you expect us to comment on footage which, infairness, we have not even been given the opportunity of seeing or hearing.

It is a pity that your continuing propagandistvendetta against Sri Lanka only continues to undermine the process ofreconciliation and healing that we have undertaken after a near three-decadelong terrorist war.

It is certainly not going to help those in SriLanka you pretend you are helping but who only wish to live in peace withoutexternal meddling and posturing, Dr Nonis added. Meanwhile, the Sri Lanka Armyspokesman states that the release of the latest video about Sri Lanka byBritain’s Channel Four has been timed for the UN Human Rights Council Session.Military media spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasuriya added the latest videowas no different from the other videos Channel Four had telecast earlier. Herejected in total the charges levelled in the new Channel Four video.