Thursday, February 19, 2009

LTTE Press in Putukkudirippu and CPA's Saama Vimarshi Magazine

Above are few selected pictures of the LTTE Press in Putukkudirippu,recently capture by the Sri Lanka Army's 57 Division.whats interesting is that few pictures depict CPAs' Saama Vimarshi or Peace Monitor mags among the LTTE propaganda material.

Tri lingual Saama Vimarshi was published by the CPA under its Peace and Media Unit and was headed by its former Director, so called Journalist Mr.Sunanda Deshapriya and Mr.Lionel Guruge. while former has fled overseas,currently based in Chennai,India citing threats to his life (actually running away from funders,due to failing to account for his finances! ) latter is still with the CPA.

I guess CPA may have sub contracted the LTTE press to print Saama Vimarshi as a measure of confidence/trust building and building capacity of the LTTE for its 'peacetime' role!

I'm sure Mr.Guruge has valid reasons for using the LTTE Press, but my sadness is of those glossy calenders of V.Prabakaran are not going to be on the walls of CPA and other LTTE institutions and LTTE camps this year around due to 'anti peace' actions of the Govt.of Sri Lanka.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how the forces didn't find them printing posters for Ranil or JVP, for that matter.

It would have been a hell of a contract to print one magazine. I wonder how much they charge for printing that one magazine.

Acromantula said...

duh.....it was done for free...lol

Anonymous said...

what happened to the MR posters printed by LTTE after the hora givisuma signed just before 2005 presidential elections.