Scenes of vast areas of the former army camp strewn with uniformed bodies dominated the video, sources in the Sri Lankan capital who saw it said. The video also showed LTTE cadres driving away in military vehicles filled with supplies from the camp.

There were particularly graphic shots of soldiers lying dead in bunker lines as the English commentary in the background said that this was the ``tragic story of over 1,000 soldiers who were the victims of the irrational war unleashed by the Sinhala army''. As the LTTE prepared to hand over the bodies to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the video focussed on the rows of bodies covered in white sheets stretching endlessly into the background with mournful music in playing in thebackground.

However, the music struck a happy note when the video showed LTTE cadres, both men and women, driving out of the devastated camp in tractors, bulldozers and armoured vehicles. In one scene, the cadres are shown loading unopened crates of ammunition. Another showed a tractor overloaded with all kinds of things from the camp, including pots and pans, clothes and trunks, which probably belonged to soldiers.

There were ``action'' scenes as well, with LTTE fighters directing rockets and machine gun fire at the camps from bunker lines captured from the army. One scene had LTTE leader Prabhakaran standing over a huge map of the camp and pointing at it with a laser pointer as his lieutenants listened on.

The video avoided depicting the LTTE's own casualties, or preferred not to say that many of the bodies in the battlefield were their own. The commentary mentioned almost in passing that the LTTE had lost 240 fighters in the operation code-named Unceasing Waves 2.

Sources in Sri Lanka said morecopies of the expertly edited video, which according to the credits was produced in Mullaitivu, would soon be available in cities like London, Toronto, Singapore, and Madras, where the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora has settled in huge concentrations.