Sri Lanka: UNESCO Chief condemns bombing on Voice of Tigers radio station

Monday, 03 December 2007

The Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Koïchiro Matsuura, on Monday condemned the deadly attack on a radio station run by the rebel Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan army planes struck the Voice of Tigers (VoT) radio station near Kilinochchi in the north of the country on the afternoon of November 27, killing five of the station's staff and injuring more than five other people, according to a news release from UNESCO.

"Regardless of the content of the broadcasts aired by the Voice of Tigers, there can be no excuse for military strikes on civilian media," said Koïchiro Matsuura.

"Such action contravenes the Geneva Convention which requires the military to treat media workers as civilians." Mr. Matsuura stressed that "killing media personnel is not going to help reconciliation" and urged urge the authorities "to ensure respect for the basic human right of freedom of expression."

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Kaffir said:

Civilian Media...? If there is a media operated in any country should be taken the real authority to do such things from the government and should be comply with the rules and the laws of the country...? Who do they think they are to say that anyone can do anything in this country as if there is no such government to do the administration in the country..?

2007-12-04 04:36:36

namal said:

How sad of UNESCO about the terrorist media! UNECSO you need to understand that no body in LTTE working as media perssonells. All them are terrorist. Branding and doing propoganbda for terrorist activities. If these you consider as civilian media its bulshitt!!

2007-12-05 10:45:21

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