Last Night’s TV – Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, Channel 4; Luther, BBC1
[Independent UK] This film contains very disturbing images,” warned Jon Snow at the beginning of Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields. It would, he continued, depict “death, injury, execution and evidence of sexual abuse and murder”. He was right too, though when the final credits rolled you couldn’t help but feel that the worst lay somewhere off screen,…
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[Channel 4] The Channel 4 documentary, Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, features devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes committed by both the Sri Lankan Government and the Tamil Tigers in the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war, in 2009. And it did not end there. Channel 4 News recently obtained evidence from within Sri Lanka’s “closed off” corner,…
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