SRI LANKAN SNUFF PORN

By VBS Staff

Disclaimer: This video contains footage that will decidedly ruin the rest of your day. Please don’t watch it if you bum easily.

When we were putting together our special on the last days of the Tamil Tigers back in Spring, we started getting a teensy bit nervous that all the footage we’d been given and which the Sri Lankan government had decried as staged propaganda was exactly that. Well, not the “staged” part—it’s pretty hard to fake a blown-off arm on a Tamil farmer’s salary—but overly slanted. The whole idea of “objective reporting” goes out the window when you ban all journalists from the country and make illegally embedding yourself with the guerillas the only option for coverage, but what we were worried about was the possibility that what we were planning to run had been recontextualized by some Dennis Hopper type. All the video we were receiving showed the aftermath of mortar attacks on Tamil villages, but aside from the “swearsies” of the person who smuggled them out of the country, there were no clear indicators which side had done all the mortarin’, you dig?

We ended up going with our gut and running the footage, but there was always a niggling little doubt in our mind about whether or not we’d been taken in. Seeing shit like this come out, however, makes us glad we didn’t pussy out.

By VBS Staff 2 years ago

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