OPEN LETTER to

Johnathan Miller and Channel 4 Producers of Sri Lanka Attack videos

124 Horseferry Road, Westminster,  London, SW1P 2TX,UK

 Dear Johnathan Miller and Channel 4 Producers:

 This is getting ridiculously exciting! Your latest foray into – WE GOTCHA SRI LANKA WAR CRIMINALS – trying to get by the short-curlies of Major General Shavendra de Silva by producing a phantom voice speaking over a ghost image is intriguing.  But is it enough to get this army man Shavendra by his short-curlies?

I like you to get him too by his short-curlies if Shavendra de Silva is indeed a War Criminal.  But here is my problem Johnathan.  I know you guys are getting eggs on your faces as your efforts are getting wacky at every video production which are getting unravelled like Shalome wiggling her hips and dropping her seven veils to the floor to show her nakedness.  So you guys are desperate aren’t you?

You just can’t get at Shavendra by his short-curlies by having a supposed to be a senior army guy who fought shoulder-to-shoulder with Brigadier Shavendra de Silva by not revealing the accuser’s identity.  Do you really, Johnathan!  I thought you were smarter than that!  Isn’t this phantom really Sediris Appuhamy, from Sudugonnu Gama, the private in the army who was really the cook and now impersonating as a senior officer under Brigadier Shavendra de Silva?

What is your problem, Johnathan?  To me to have that kind of dishonesty merely proves that this man is no Fernando, but in the eyes of Major General Shavendra  de Silva   he is a “For-U-none-Ado”,  just another phantom created in the studios of Channel 4.  Surely, Johanathan, are you trying to tell me that your Fernando is a gutless-spineless-nincompoop not wanting to show his face on camera, and only interested in bloating his wallet and his bank balance by hook or by crook?

The question that we all would want to know especially me is, if this man is no Phantom, what may have been the US$ figure that his statement on camera was worth for him?   Let’s cough it up.   Come on Johnathan, he is not going to risk his life for nothing.   Not even for a measly packet of peanuts bought at Harrods.  We are not living in such a benevolent world, are we now? After all, surely your Channel 4 guys have made this issue a million dollar business.  After all the cheer leaders  from the sidelines on this “WE GOTCHA SRI LANKA WAR CRIMINALS” are the Tamil Tiger Diaspora who are worth billions of dough in cash and assets.  Who would not want to put their hands into the tills of the Tamil Tiger sympathizing Diaspora.  For them to throw green dollar bills like confetti along the path on which you guys walk on is no sweat for them as long as you promise to get at Sri Lanka good.  Tell us the truth Johnathan!

If there is no truth coming from you guys and not producing the  phantom ‘For-U-none-Ado’ for Major General Shavendra  de Silva to recognize, identify, and question,  then  let us know the scoop on this guy if he is no phantom, so that we John-Q-Public be intelligent  judges and jury. If you can’t then just forget it and chalk it as another ‘egg-on-the-face’ attempt at WE GOTCHA SRI LANKA WAR CRIMINALS.

Not doing what any Court of Law would,  to provide the accused party the opportunity to prove his or her innocence by questioning the accuser for  the veracity of the accusatory story, then just forget it Johnathan Miller.  This is another pie in the sky video with a hocus-pocus storyline fit for a first year creative writer’s class exercise, and you know it.

By your holding back the honesty of the plot of this amazing storyboard you certainly won’t have the short-curlies on Major General Shavendra  de  Silva to leash on to, to frogmarch him to the Hague, as you would have given him enough time to shave them off since you have difficulty to produce your Phantom in front of a camera.

So what is the next chapter in your storyboard that is up your sleeve Channel 4,  now that you have made this Sri Lanka’s historical event of toppling the ‘invincible’ Tamil Tigers, the most ruthless terrorist group in the world with their butts whipped into oblivion,  into a million dollar business for some lucky ones, and members of parliament of some Canadians who taunted Sri Lanka to win Tamil votes based on your videos.

I know and you know Johnathan, that any success of the Sri Lanka Government’s effort on the reconciliation process among the aggrieved communities which is progressing so well will  make your dollar making entrepreneurship go up in smoke….swoosh!.....with no more  green confetti dollar notes to walk on.

Tell me in secret, Johnathan, are you all now aiming at the Nobel Peace Prize by trying to make Planet Earth a fair place to live on by cheating your way to get there not being fair on Major General Shavendra de Silva by not allowing him to meet his accuser this Phantom ‘For-u-none-Ado’?   Do the right thing Johnathan and coax this Phantom if he is not an impersonator to speak on camera, but please not as a shadow puppet.  Video tape his conversation with Major General Shavendra de Silva, who he says was his one time Army Commander-boss and let’s air it.

Tell me Johnathan, isn’t this murky exercise that you have been roped into really an extraordinary vengeful charade by Channel 4 because its News Team, Nick Paton Walsh, producer Bessie Du and cameraman Matt Jasper were deported from Sri Lanka on 10 May 2009 as they were alleged to have been  filing false reports on the Tamil Tiger terrorist war.    Hmmm...this won't go pass me!

  This is not kosher, Johnathan, nor is it cricket and stop crying for Sri Lanka.  But just give this wounded lady time to heal after a 30 year old nasty 388 suicide bombing war,  and her much wanted Peace a Chance.  And I'd say,  "Back off Channel 4".

Sincerely

Asoka Weerasinghe