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No Fire Zone (2013)

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Original title
No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
Directed by
Callum Macrae
Genre
documentary film, documentary television film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
49 min
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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This documentary investigates the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War. It presents evidence of thousands of Tamil civilians killed by army shelling and executions. The film includes footage that a government-appointed judge later deemed credible evidence of war crimes.

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No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Released by Channel 4, the documentary covers the period from September 2008 until the end of the war in 2009 in which thousands of Tamil people were killed by shelling and extrajudicial executions by the Sri Lankan Army including Balachandran Prabhakaran, the 12-year-old son of the slain Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Chief Velupillai Prabhakaran. The Sri Lankan army has denied the allegations in the documentary. However, on 21 October 2015 the BBC reported that Maxwell Paranagama, a government-appointed Sri Lankan judge, says allegations the army committed war crimes during the long conflict with Tamil Tiger rebels are "credible". He went on to say there was evidence to suggest that footage obtained by the No Fire Zone – showing prisoners naked, blindfolded, with arms tied and shot dead by soldiers – was genuine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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