“Channel 4 has provided solid evidence that Shoba was murdered and that a war crime may have been committed,” said Bob Dietz, CPJ Asia program coordinator. “The footage has since been authenticated by the United Nations, though the Sri Lankan government refuses to accept that,” Channel 4 says in the film. The Sri Lankan government denounced the videos as fake, according to the documentary. TamilNet reported relatives had identified her as the woman shown. Channel 4 reporter Jon Snow said in the documentary that Shoba’s body was found among some that “appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, and then murdered.”Ĭhannel 4 first released extracts of the footage, which it dates to May 18 or 19, 2009, in December 2010. The manner of Shoba’s death is not shown, although several point-blank executions of bound prisoners were filmed in the same location. The footage, shown June 14 in the documentary “ Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields,” shows Shoba’s body, half-naked with her hands bound, among the corpses of Tamil Tiger rebels apparently captured, and executed by Sri Lankan government forces. “Her role was as a journalist rather than a direct fighter,” Channel 4 reported.
Shoba, who went by one name, also reported under the name Isaipriya or Isaippiriya for the media division of the secessionist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), according to Channel 4 and the pro-LTTE TamilNet news website. The U.K.’s Channel 4 has screened amateur footage of the body of Tamil news presenter Shoba, indicating that she was shot and killed during the government’s final military surge in the northeast. New York, June 20, 2011–Video footage of a Tamil journalist apparently executed in the final stages of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war underscores the need for an urgent international inquiry, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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