Forensic expert on digital video proves Channel 4 Video on Sri Lanka as a fake
Thu, 2011-06-16 11:47 — editor
A.A.M.Nizam in Colombo
Colombo, 16 June, (Asiantribune.com):
One of the world’s leading experts on digital video systems has proved that the new Channel 4 video of alleged extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka as a fake and a completely fabricated production. The video was presented by the UN Rapporteur, Prof. Christof Heyns at the Geneva sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and claimed as being authentic, and it was tested by three US forensic experts.
The video has been analysed by digital video expert and video forensic analyst Siri Hewavitharana of Australia, who is one of the world’s leading experts on digital video systems and former head of Cisco’s Global Broadcast and Digital Video Practice division. Hewavitharana is presently the Executive Director of IPTV Systems in Sydney, Australia.
Mr. Jonathan Taylor, the foreign affairs correspondent of the Channel 4 News has claimed that the gun wielding men dressed in Sri Lanka army uniforms were members of the Sri Lankan security forces and that the alleged victims were members of the Tamil community without providing any proof as to their identities other than the UN Rapporteur stating that according to experts hired by him the video was authentic.
The full text of the analysis report published by Siri Hewawitharana is as follows:
It seems new Channel 4 video at UN is worse than the previous one even though new video supposed to show old video clip with added drama and whole video is fake with a date indicating UTC 2009-07-15 13 :17:23 and taken by a Video Camera and Not by a mobile phone as indicated.
Worst part is UN’s new Rapporteur Christof Heyns hired a new US based video specialist Mr Grant Fredericks to analyse the video. I am surprised, with his conclusion, that the video is Edited using Philips editing software and Never Came from the mobile phone since video is using an Optical Zoom which is not available in Any mobile Camera that is available to date.
To me, video editing is so obvious that all it needs is to look into the video end to see more than one video layer, and audio is also not synchronized in with the video as indicated by the previous Channel 4 video.... The technical foot print is identical on both videos indicating it is edited by the same software and by the same idiot.
Also Mr. Jeff S. Spivack is now giving different and conflicting answers but avoiding the main criticism that video is edited using a PC and he uses childish or dishonest analysis saying rudimentary editing possible on a mobile phone cannot do this type of a video... Who is he kidding?
At one part he says the video is edited using Philips software and using a PC and other part he said it cannot be done with the mobile phones editing applications.... How does he answer Mr Grant Frederick’s analysis saying these are high quality video that came from a Video Camera?
What can he say about 17 frames of video that is inconsistent with the original video? This anomaly was created by a new video wrapper that try to create from original video camera to the mobile video format and if you work in this area you know why this happened, except Mr. Grant says he does not know why it happened? It will be cheaper that, UN hire clowns since only clowns speak like that.
To me these are what I call hired guns with an agenda but I would not dignify these people saying they are experts in video. They are experts in downright incompetence or dishonesty that can be bought for 30 pieces of silver....
My technical conclusion that was done with the previous and the present video is almost identical to Mr Grant Frederick’s analysis
Meanwhile the Ministry of Defense commenting on this faked video said that the tiger terrorists possessed uniforms of Sri Lankan Army personnel having overrun Sri Lankan army installations in the past, which they donned to carry out atrocities against their own Tamil people and other ethnicities. It is not surprising to use these uniforms and killing their own innocent Tamil civilians by the tiger terrorists to get a mileage in the propaganda front against the Sri Lankan’s state and the paid agents of the terrorists adopting this kind of propaganda material at the best of the vested interest who make every attempt to revive tiger terrorism in any form or means once again.
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Thu, 2011-06-16 11:47 — editor
A.A.M.Nizam in Colombo
Colombo, 16 June, (Asiantribune.com):
One of the world’s leading experts on digital video systems has proved that the new Channel 4 video of alleged extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka as a fake and a completely fabricated production. The video was presented by the UN Rapporteur, Prof. Christof Heyns at the Geneva sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission and claimed as being authentic, and it was tested by three US forensic experts.
The video has been analysed by digital video expert and video forensic analyst Siri Hewavitharana of Australia, who is one of the world’s leading experts on digital video systems and former head of Cisco’s Global Broadcast and Digital Video Practice division. Hewavitharana is presently the Executive Director of IPTV Systems in Sydney, Australia.
Mr. Jonathan Taylor, the foreign affairs correspondent of the Channel 4 News has claimed that the gun wielding men dressed in Sri Lanka army uniforms were members of the Sri Lankan security forces and that the alleged victims were members of the Tamil community without providing any proof as to their identities other than the UN Rapporteur stating that according to experts hired by him the video was authentic.
The full text of the analysis report published by Siri Hewawitharana is as follows:
It seems new Channel 4 video at UN is worse than the previous one even though new video supposed to show old video clip with added drama and whole video is fake with a date indicating UTC 2009-07-15 13 :17:23 and taken by a Video Camera and Not by a mobile phone as indicated.
Worst part is UN’s new Rapporteur Christof Heyns hired a new US based video specialist Mr Grant Fredericks to analyse the video. I am surprised, with his conclusion, that the video is Edited using Philips editing software and Never Came from the mobile phone since video is using an Optical Zoom which is not available in Any mobile Camera that is available to date.
To me, video editing is so obvious that all it needs is to look into the video end to see more than one video layer, and audio is also not synchronized in with the video as indicated by the previous Channel 4 video.... The technical foot print is identical on both videos indicating it is edited by the same software and by the same idiot.
Also Mr. Jeff S. Spivack is now giving different and conflicting answers but avoiding the main criticism that video is edited using a PC and he uses childish or dishonest analysis saying rudimentary editing possible on a mobile phone cannot do this type of a video... Who is he kidding?
At one part he says the video is edited using Philips software and using a PC and other part he said it cannot be done with the mobile phones editing applications.... How does he answer Mr Grant Frederick’s analysis saying these are high quality video that came from a Video Camera?
What can he say about 17 frames of video that is inconsistent with the original video? This anomaly was created by a new video wrapper that try to create from original video camera to the mobile video format and if you work in this area you know why this happened, except Mr. Grant says he does not know why it happened? It will be cheaper that, UN hire clowns since only clowns speak like that.
To me these are what I call hired guns with an agenda but I would not dignify these people saying they are experts in video. They are experts in downright incompetence or dishonesty that can be bought for 30 pieces of silver....
My technical conclusion that was done with the previous and the present video is almost identical to Mr Grant Frederick’s analysis
Meanwhile the Ministry of Defense commenting on this faked video said that the tiger terrorists possessed uniforms of Sri Lankan Army personnel having overrun Sri Lankan army installations in the past, which they donned to carry out atrocities against their own Tamil people and other ethnicities. It is not surprising to use these uniforms and killing their own innocent Tamil civilians by the tiger terrorists to get a mileage in the propaganda front against the Sri Lankan’s state and the paid agents of the terrorists adopting this kind of propaganda material at the best of the vested interest who make every attempt to revive tiger terrorism in any form or means once again.
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