Melbourne Rally against C4 & ABC Fake Video

Sri Lankans living in Melbourne (Australia ) demonstrated their disgust towards unprofessional media conduct by ABC, Australia Broadcasting Corporation which demonstrated their disgust towards unprofessional media conduct.

Sri Lankans showed their opposition and disgust to ABC - Australian Broadcasting Corporation which telecasted on 30 July, the UK based channel 4 bias documentary twice on prime time TV.

It was revealed that there were many attempts by the Sri Lankan diplomats and Technical experts to explain the flaws of this video prior to broadcasting and tarnishing Sri Lanka's good name. Government run media channel neither allowed air time to demonstrate the flaws in the video nor took considerable amount of effort to validate the authenticity of video.

Not only once, ABC dared to tarnish mother Sri Lanka's name by broadcasting it twice within 48 hours time frame. After writing many requests and calling the program to authorities, they failed to provide fair solution for the damage done to Sri Lankans living in Australia. The untimely program did not serve any purpose as shown by many Australian journalists to the reconciliation process or the healing of a war torn country.

Sri Lankans in Australia at the end decided to take the matter to the public initiating wave of actions seeking justice. They decided to hold series of demonstrations across states, submitting a petition to the Federal Parliament in Australia to obtain action through the relevant minister and panel of lawyers researching on the code of media ethics violation conducted by ABC.

Protest held at Melbourne Federation square at the heart of Melbourne city attracted just over one thousand Sri Lankan expats consisting Sinhalese, Tamils, Burghers and Muslims. In one voice under one flag they all requested one thing. “ABC Open Your Eyes!! - STOP Promoting Terrorism ".

The highlight was that even the passing Australian public signed the petition against ABC. It was obvious to even a mere passerby in couple of seconds looking at the technical analysis placards time difference in video and audio streams. It's a shame that ABC did not spend even 5 seconds looking at the technical analysis.

Sri Lankan's are gathering momentum towards the unfair, bias media conduct.

Organizers revealed that "Another Protest will be held in front of ABC headquarters in Sydney on 6th of August (Saturday). More Signatures will be collected and more awareness will be created among the general public before submitting the final petition to the federal parliament."

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- Asian Tribune -