I Witnessed Genocide: Inside Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2011)
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- India
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
This documentary follows a journalist who goes undercover to the Vanni region of Sri Lanka. Survivors tell stories of sexual abuse in camps and of civilians killed by bombs and artillery.
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What happens
I Witnessed Genocide: Inside Sri Lanka's Killing Fields is a 2011 investigative documentary film by Priyamvatha Panchapagesan of the Indian news channel Headlines Today. Priyamvatha went undercover to the Vanni to report on the survivors of the Sri Lankan Civil War. The documentary telecasts on-ground interviews with survivors who narrate accounts of sexual abuse in internment camps, the use of chemical and cluster bombs by the Sri Lanka Armed Forces, killing of thousands of civilians in aerial bombardment and artillery attacks and continued denial of their basic rights. Priyamvatha received the prestigious "Best investigative news report" award for the documentary, in the 2012 News Television Award in New Delhi. Findings from the documentary were quoted during debates in both houses of India's Parliament and in the Tamil Nadu Assembly. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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