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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SLBlackKnight" data-source="post: 8687528" data-attributes="member: 308134">Porn stars hunted by police in Sri LankaPolice hope to identify 83 actors in initiative launched because of concerns about children watching filmsAs well as the porn stars intiative, police in Sri Lanka have also cracked down on 'moral crimes' in the country. Photograph: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Reuters Sri Lankan police have launched a campaign to trace more than 80 local people who have appeared in pornographic films by printing their pictures in newspapers.Earlier this week more than three dozen porn actors were pictured in a full-page advertisement in one local newspaper. Police plan to publish images, taken from the films, of around 50 more in the coming days. The mug shots have been obtained by a special police squad viewing films "round the clock", officers said.Of the 83 actors police hope to identify, three are men, said Superintendent Prishantha Jayakody, a police spokesman. He said police had requested permission from a magistrate for the new initiative because they had become increasingly concerned by the phenomenon of schoolchildren downloading and exchanging clips of locally made pornographic films on their mobile phones."These [film] actors are breaking the law and we will identify them with the help of the public and bring them to justice," Jayakody said. "We will keep going until we have got them all."The actors risk six months' imprisonment and a fine.Other initiatives have also seen Sri Lankan police cracking down on so-called "moral crimes". In June police in Colombo, the biggest city, launched a campaign against "indecent" advertising on film billboards and posters in Colombo. The initiative was the idea of the Police's Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and Women.Officers from the bureau told the BBC at the time that the move had been prompted by the sense that the younger generation of Sri Lankans were disrespectful to women whom modern culture treated as commodities.This year has also seen hundreds of young couples arrested in Sri Lanka for alleged indecent behaviour.Colombo-based analyst Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu said such crackdowns were "periodic events". "This is not at all a part of a fundamentalist trend. Sri Lanka is a very tolerant place. There is no religious basis for that in our religious traditions," he said.A majority of Sri Lankans follow Buddhist teachings, though there are substantial Hindu and smaller Muslim and Christian minorities. However Savaranamuttu said that with the end of the 25-year civil war 18 months ago there was a "certain relaxation" in the island nation as tight security was dismantled, the threat of violence diminished and the economy took off."There is more openness and consumerism and it is about balancing these things with a Buddhist culture so it does not get out of hand. If you aspire to bring in a million tourists in the country however there are going to be changes," Savaranamuttu said.The adverts featuring the porn actors, many of whom appear to be teenagers according to police, have been controversial. Several newspapers have refused to print them despite court orders to do so arguing that they breached the right to privacy of those pictured. Anti-prostitution campaigners and human rights lawyers have also objected, raising the possibility that many of those featured in the posters might be coerced, under-age or both."There are huge problems with pornography, child prostitution, trafficking but you have to respond to them in a sensible, measured and sober way. This is a kneejerk reaction to the problem," said civil rights lawyer Rohan Edrisinha.Recent crackdowns by police, critics note, have been focused on the burgeoning local pornography business and have left the international porn websites almost untouched. Some 300 local websites were shut down earlier in the year. Many featured very cheap films produced on mobile phones. Some footage was believed to have been shot without the knowledge of the subjects. However police respond that those who starred in the local films "acted completely against our laws and are therefore subject to punishment accordingly".</blockquote>

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