The Israeli air force killed only 400 Hebollah but also killed 1,400 civilians & eight UN observers during the war on Lebanon in 2006, with their most modern airplanes.
The US & UK in Iraq & Afghanistan have killed thousands of civilians and dozens of their own soldiers by “friendly fire” with their most modern warplanes.
But the SLAirforce with their ancient refurbished warplanes have NEVER killed civilians – according to official sources !

If you take a clue from Dr.DBSJ’s article,then you would find some kinda clear picture of the SLA war efforts for the past 7 months and the outcome of it all.

Even the Colombo Media got the wind of LTTE arms shipments unloaded without a hitch recently. What does this tell you?

Dailymirror unwillingly publishes MCNS media news bulletins, even though the accuracy and correctness of MCNS output is highly dubious.

Simply put, US Coalition cowed down the US media during Rumsfeld days and everyone was relying on Aljazeera for accurate news disemination from Iraq.

One cannot zip up the local media forever and truth will come out sooner trather han later. The war efforts stagnated on all fronts tells you that all is not well within SL Forces and General Fonsika will retire without the whitewash of LTTE.

Sri Lanka is under the microscope at present and world leaders and Human Rights organizations are realising the crimes committed against Tamils by the GOSL.

Sinhala media and Sothern media are responsible for instigating violence against Tamils as they failed to write and report responsibly, sensibly, truthfully and honestly.

1. When an incident happen in public in south govt. cannot lie much. e.g. 18 injured at Mt. Lavinia bus bomb.

2. The similar matter applies to north. If tigers says that 7 civilians killed in air attack, that news comes in the northern news papers. Tigers cannot lie on that, because public knows the truth.

3. When it comes to militery targets, like when the militery says 60 tigers killed and ltte says no one kiled, I would vote for 0. Because if atleast 10 tigers killed either ltter will keep quite or will say 4-5 killed.

4. Similarly when ltte says 40 SLA killed and govt. says 10, I would expext atleast 10.

when public targetted in south the exact numbers are knwn to everyone. But as per the government record they never killed a civilian. LTTE also never claim civilian killings. But the different is that ltte keeps quite on the news. But govt will convert the deths as ltte died.

So, we can conclude the civilian casualities are true by both sides. For the real news of the militery casualities, minimum accepted by the parties are the least count.

Note that NGOs are the most hated by this govt.

But one thing for sure: while some media are biased towards thier group or community, others just do the ’shame’ for making money.