Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished (2012)

Directed by

Callum Macrae

Genre

documentary film, documentary television program

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This documentary investigates the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War. It uses amateur video, photographs, and testimony to examine four specific cases and trace responsibility to political and military leaders.

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What happens

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished is an investigatory documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War broadcast by the British TV station Channel 4 on 14 March 2012. It was a sequel to the award-winning Sri Lanka's Killing Fields which was broadcast by Channel 4 in June 2011. Made by film maker Callum Macrae, this documentary focused on four specific cases and investigated who was responsible for them. Using amateur video from the conflict zone filmed by civilians and Sri Lankan soldiers, photographs and statements by civilians, soldiers and United Nations workers, the documentary traced ultimate responsibility for the cases to Sri Lanka's political and military leaders. The documentary was made by ITN Productions and presented by Jon Snow, the main anchor on Channel 4 News. The Sri Lankan government has denied all the allegations in the documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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