Posts Tagged ‘Sri Lankan Government’
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,…
Read MoreDorothy Byrne: Why we decided that the footage had to be shown
[Independent UK] The bodies of naked women are thrown and dragged on to the back of a truck. As each woman is pulled aboard, soldiers make crude remarks and laugh. Elsewhere, other soldiers film themselves laughing at the bodies of dead, bound women who appear to have been raped before they were murdered. In other…
Read MoreChannel 4 to show its ‘most horrific footage ever’ of executions and sexual violence secretly filmed during Sri Lankan civil war
[Daily Mirror UK] The programme Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields will be presented by broadcaster Jon Snow. Channel 4 is to show ‘the most horrific footage it has ever broadcast’ in a documentary about atrocities committed during the civil war in Sri Lanka. It investigates the final weeks of the 26 year-long battle between the government and Tamil…
Read MoreSri Lanka: Human Rights Council Should Ensure Accountability
[HRW] Human Rights Watch is concerned about the failure of the Sri Lankan government to investigate well-founded allegations of very serious abuses that took place during the last months of its decades-long internal armed conflict, which ended in May 2009. [Full Story]
Read MoreBritain sold weapons to help Sri Lankan army defeat Tamil Tigers
[The Times] Britain and other EU countries sold military equipment worth millions of pounds to the Sri Lankan Government in the last three years of its bloody civil war with the Tamil Tigers, The Times has learnt. Britain approved commercial sales of more than £13.6 million of equipment including armoured vehicles, machinegun components and semiautomatic…
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