Army Spokesman Major General Ubaya Madawela told BBC Sandesshaya that they have received a copy of the video which is now being analysed by an army expert panel.

He said that the private television station has obtained the video from a foreign source.

In the latest video men in army uniform speak in Tamil language whereas the footage shown in Channel 4 documentary spoke in Sinhala language.

The footage shows men in army uniform carrying out execution of blind folded men having their hands tied together in the back.

LTTE attrocities

Major General Ubaya Madawela said the footage is evidence to atrocities committed by the LTTE during the thirty years of war.

“Many soldiers and policemen who were missing in action were not accounted for. Now we can conclude they were killed by the LTTE in this way in the territory they were holding during the war” he said.

He said the video will be given to international scrutiny.

Clearer pictures

Government parliamentarian and former secretary to the Ministry of Human Rights, Dr.Rajiv Wijesinghe talking to Sandeshaya from London said that the latest video is clearer than the previous one with shady areas.

“If some one rejects the latest video how can that person says the previous one authentic” he questioned.

The Channel 4documentary investigated alleged war crimes carried out by the Sri Lanka Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009 and was broadcast in the UK.

Named ‘Killing Fields in Sri Lanka, it was shown to the United Nations Human Rights Council at the end of May.