Sri Lankan Army caught fabricating fake news

In the last 3 days the Sri Lankan army website has been caught altering their news stories and fabricating "weapons finds". First let us look at the orignal photos that accompanied the article titled "More & More Astonishing Weapon Hauls Found" (http://army.lk/morenews.php?id=20556):

As the title suggested, these "astonishing weapons" include an old pair of boots, and a wooden toy gun made in 1920.

The second photo of "astonishing weapons" includes some old calendars, a broken belt buckle, and some CD-ROM disks. It is believed the LTTE planned to throw the CD-ROMs at advancing troops to grievously injure them. We still havent figured out how the broken belt buckle was going to be used. We can't rule out the possibilty that the LTTE may have been planning to use the old calendars to make crumpled up balls of paper, which they would then hurl at the government soldiers.

The third photo of astonishing weapons shows the same deadly CDs we already discussed, but with the addition of two old pairs of pants. The pants, being seperated from the persons wearing them, indicates the LTTE planned a surprise naked assault to shock and scare the advancing troops. The army is currently searching for the two matching naked fighters that were previously linked to these pants.

That concludes all of the "astonishing weapons" discovered for this article. It is quite embarrassing for the Sri Lankan government to publish such a ridiculous find under the title "astonishing weapons". But don't worry, because they know how to solve this problem. Three days later, THE SAME ARTICLE HAS NEW PHOTOS:

Three days after the article is published, photos of the most sophisticated weapons ever found on the battlefield are added next to the photo of old boots and a belt buckle. All of the missile launchers are sparkling clean and brand new, with fresh paint, as though they just got unloaded from Pakistan in Colombo. Each missile launcher has Tamil words painted neatly on them, to give the impression that they were clearly in the possession of the LTTE.

Think for a minute. If you wrote this article, and had to choose between putting the photo of the old boots and broken belt buckle, or putting the photo of the super sophisticated missile launchers never seen before in the battlefield, which one do you put? Well the Sri Lankan government chose to put the picture of the old boots - that is until they changed their mind 3 days later and decided to put something better.

When you see the video of the 13 missile launchers being found, we find further discrepancies. In one place they show the missile launchers being dug up from the dirt, wrapped in plastic. In another place they show the missile launchers being carried out of a secret bunker in the ground, completely unwrapped. In a third place they claim the missile launchers were found inside an oil tank, and they show the picture of the very visible oil tank on their website, which obviously isnt a place to hide anything of value.

Another point to note is that in the last 3 days, the Sri Lankan army has reused the same battle photos in three different articles. The pictures found in this article http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090307_03 as well as this article http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090306_03 are actually the same as the story of the Chalai infiltration (http://www.defence.lk/new.asp?fname=20090305_10). So they have made three articles out of a single event. Further, they show 6 bodies, but claim to have killed 100 LTTE fighters. "Amazingly" they have 100 guns to show, but only six bodies.

In a recent article titled "LTTE Arms, Ammunition & Explosives Recovered" (http://army.lk/morenews.php?id=20558), the government shows the following photo claiming it to be the recovering of LTTE weapons:

We are supposed to believe that this cardboard box has been burried under the ground for days, yet it is not damp, not dirty, and not damaged in any way. This is clear proof that many of the photos provided by the Sri Lankan army are fake. Click on this closeup below to see clearly that this box was never burried under the ground:

There are absolutely no signs of this box having ever been burried under the ground. A hole in the ground draws water and moisture, so a cardboard box burried under the ground will be completely damaged. Further it will be covered in mud and dirt, and there will be very clear signs that it had been burried. This photo shows the Sri Lankan army has dug a fake hole, and then took a photo of two soldiers pretending to take this box out from the hole. For those of you who have served in the Sri Lankan army, ask yourself if that yellow tape is military issued. Case closed, fraud proven.