NEW DELHI: A shocking new video - released by Britain's Channel 4 - could expose the alleged war crimes against LTTE in Sri Lanka. The video shows slain LTTE chief Prabhakaran's 12-year-old son Balachandran's body stripped to the waist and with five bullet holes to the chest.
The video has surfaced at a time when Colombo is fighting off a US resolution at the UN, demanding an immediate probe into atrocities by Lankan soldiers.
Following External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and his officials' hints in recent days to suggest Delhi 'would do its best to bail out Colombo', the revealations by Channel 4 could not only embarrass the Sri Lankan delegation at the UNHRC session, but India too.
The footage, believed to be shot by Sri Lankan troops present during the cold-blooded execution of the Prabhakaran family towards the end of the Eelam war, suggests that the boy was shot from a close range.
There were also bodies of five men, perhaps his bodyguards, with shreds of clothing lying nearby suggesting they were blindfolded and executed, said The Independent of UK.
Beside the evidence of the murders, the Sri Lankan government has also been charged with deliberate denial of adequate humanitarian supplies of food and medicine to civilians trapped in those grotesquely misnamed No Fire Zones.
However, dubbing the latest footage as 'highly spurious and uncorroborated allegations', the Lankan High commission in London said the film had 'chosen to ignore the many positive post-conflict developments now taking place in the country'.