Sri Lankan government caught posting pictures of dead Sinhala soldiers claiming they are LTTE

By Karuna Indranil

The above photograph was originally shown on the Sri Lankan army's official website in an article claiming they recovered 150 bodies of LTTE fighters, but today it has disappeared (but not before I had saved it). Please click on the photo to see a close up of the first soldier. It is obvious by his facial features, skin complexion, uniform and haircut that he is a dead Sri Lankan soldier. If you look down the line, you will see several other dead bodies with similar hair cuts, skin complexions and facial features.

Once this fact was pointed out in this blog, the photo disappeared from the Sri Lankan government's website. You can check the article here to see for yourself:

http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090309_08

Notice there are no longer any photos that show closeups of the dead fighters. Why? Because it was obvious many of them were Sri Lankan soldiers. That this was a deliberate act of deception is further proven by the fact they have replaced the old photos with completely different photos, but they have retained the same file names. This is done so all the links to the photos on various websites will not show that the photo has been deleted. People will click and go to the "new" photo and think the allegation is false. If the photos were not present, people would immediately understand the government was hiding something.

For example the original photo above is now the following:

http://www.defence.lk/img/20090309_LP06.jpg

Please note that in the old photos it was pouring rain, and in this new photo it is sunny outside. This new photo isn't even from the same area as the other photos. It is a very hasty attempt to replace the old photo with something, so people don't see that the dead bodies are Sinhalese soldiers mixed with LTTE fighters.

Here is the close up of the dead Sinhala soldier. Just see how the army treats their dead "heroes". They dump their bodies into piles and pretend they are the bodies of LTTE fighters.