Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa has reportedly said that the Sri Lankan authorities had the original Channel 4 video clip before it was doctored by vicious elements.
The video reportedly obtained from England was aired on a local television station.
The footage shows that armed men in military clothing shooting a group of naked and bound men similar to the footage aired by Channel 4.
The armed men in the acquired video are however speaking in Tamil, the language spoken by the Tamil Tigers while in the Channel 4 version, the shooters are speaking in Singhalese, the language used by the military.
"We got this original video and we gave it to a local television station to air. It shows the armed men speaking in Tamil and not Sinhalese. So that shows that the video aired in Britain was a fake," Sri Lankan military spokesman Major General Ubaya Medawala has told Xinhua.
The controversial video aired by Channel 4 drew the ire of Western countries and right organizations which called for an international inquiry on the war crimes allegedly committed by Sri Lanka during the last stage of the three decades long war that ended in May 2009.
The United States and the United Kingdom even issued stern warnings to the Sri Lankan government to conduct an inquiry soon into the alleged war crimes or else face an international investigation.
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