INTELSAT BREAKS ITS WORD AND STILL BROADCASTING LTTE PROGRAMS

The Sri Lanka Embassy in Washington DC complained to the Justice Department and the State Department that the Washington based Intelsat Corporation is breaking US law by continuing to broadcast the propaganda television and radio services of the foreign terrorist organization Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by a satellite they own despite public assurances given weeks ago to the contrary.

Embassy spokesperson Rajika Jayatilaka said in a telephone interview that she contacted David Synkfield, Senior Vice President in charge of customer operations and Engineering of the Corporation and he admitted that the South Asian beams are still working for the terrorist group.

Although Intelsat claimed that the terrorist group was pirating their satellite this correspondent could not find any evidence that it could be possible with Intelsat 12 satellite and the LTTE in a statement denied that they were pirates.

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