Police in Colombo have arrested 8 people for producing a documentary 'defamatory' of the army, the Daily Mirror reported.
The individuals, five of whom hail from Jaffna in the Tamil North-East, were taken into custody at a house in Narahenpita, a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital.
Police said the documentary contained scenes portraying the Sri Lanka Army as "immoral, inhumane and atrocious", adding that the documentary was shot in India and then brought to Sri Lanka for dubbing.
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