Azad Maulana, a “whistleblower” who made serious allegations about the complicity of state officials, was the subject of a documentary on the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka produced by the British television network Channel 4. The documentary’s producers have since acknowledged that they lack credible evidence to support those allegations.
The documentary’s director and executive producer, Thom Walker and Ben de Pear, learned of this at a recent event in Geneva.
On September 6, Channel 4 aired a contentious programme that made shocking claims about the Easter Sunday 2019 bombings in Sri Lanka that targeted a number of Catholic churches and opulent hotels. More than 260 individuals lost their lives in the bloodshed, and hundreds more were injured.
The most recent ‘Dispatches’ investigation from Channel 4 is named ‘Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings,’ and it is almost 50 minutes long with plain but serious claims concerning the attacks. It was based on high-ranking whistleblowers’ testimony, which claimed that key government figures were implicated in this horrible deed.
The primary informant, Hanzeer Azad Maulana, served as a spokesperson for the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP), a faction of the LTTE that is currently led by Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, state minister for rural road development.
Thom Walker, the creator of the UK-based documentary production business Basement Films, has said that he does not have any proof that Suresh Sallay and Zahran Hashim had previously met.
Walker continued by saying he was unsure if Maulana had spoken with Zahran directly. He claimed he had no proof of any earlier encounters between Sallay and Zahran. Walker added that he was unsure if Sallay had actually attended the aforementioned meeting.
