Sri Lanka's Killing Fields by Channel 4 [Full video]

As screened live on Channel 4 on Tuesday, 14 June 2011 at 23:05pm.

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Time Out (5*): "Tonight's gruelling film, anchored by Jon Snow, displays C4 journalism at its bold, devastating best"

A special investigation by Channel 4 featuring devastating new evidence of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka is screened at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, as pressure mounts for action.

The documentary is an hour-long investigation into the final weeks of the bloody Sri Lankan civil war and features damning new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Titled Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, Jon Snow presents the investigation which was shown to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday.

Disturbing footage in the film includes the apparent extra-judicial massacre of prisoners by government forces, the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian hospitals and the bodies of female Tamil fighters who appear to have been sexually assaulted. Also examined in the film are atrocities carried out by the Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields will be broadcast on Channel 4 on 14 June.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
People defending Govt SL need to remember that:

* The Tigers were formed only after 20+ years of post independence discrimination against Tamils by the SL govt.

* Tigers committed many crimes but they are gone now, whereas Rajapakse and his govt have got away with the murder of 40 000 + people, using the logic that there is no difference between a Tiger and a Tamil civilian and labelling their crimes as a "war on terror". How can directly bombing innocent civilians and hospitals be a war on terror?

* Rajapakse regime is brutal and will simply eliminate anyone Tamil or Sinhalese who goes against the goverment. Look at what happened to Lasantha Wickramatunga who is Sinhalese. How can such a govt be trusted with human rights?

* Both the UN report and this documentary have no reason to be biased and use scientific evidence to back up their claims. Furthermore they criticise both Tigers and the SL govt.

* Sri Lankan govt contiunously prevented any independent witnesses during the war period, obviously because they had to hide their crimes, and any claims made by them has never been backed up with evidence, whereas there is strong evidence of war crimes.

* They have played such a propoganda game, controlling all media that they have brainwashed the population in the non Tamil areas that they are saviours. In fact these people in the non Tamil areas have not even been into north or east or the war zone, so their views on the situation comes directly from what is fed by the govt.

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[TheSinhaputhra]

What a fucking bull shit

[jamba baklam]

OMG LIKE U RNT CRAZY! do u no how many singhalese people posted on this that they were laughing throughout this video?

[jamba baklam]

The international community didnt fund them, Tamils across the globe did. U think a country who brands an organazation as a terrorist group would fund them? and the sri lankan army could only defeat the tigers with foreign weapons and loans. Sri lanka is poor as fuck

[jamba baklam]

Then y is the army still in jaffna? Oh wait I forgot, they don't carry guns.............. fuck off and get a life. BTW earlier u said some shit about North Koreans standing uo for their leader. I hope u know that they dont know anything about the outside world and are fed propaganda through every nook and cranny. But i guess their similar to u, cuz all u believe is propaganda

[TamilKathir1]

say me one ? don't talk without any evidence ? one supporter and don't act like you are one of the goods by saying " i don't want to call u a Tamil coz it's an insult to whole tamil nation." You racist scum bag stop acting all knew now that you are racist terrorist nazis. Nazi Germany sayed also we don't kill jews and they did and you slaughtered it's proofed !!!!

[sisira roshan]

you said black people to Afrikaans i think. don't you know when you are in Europe or any where eles you your self are regarded as black by whites still???????????????? i doubt u lived in ny or any else country!

[sisira roshan]

i will make my own decisions when it comes. our president is not a murderer and if u call him so what do u call Obama?

[sisira roshan]

most of the people live in Canada r supporters of LTTE n whole world knows that! you just don't insult on public websites to people when you don't know who they r for real!

[sisira roshan]

and can't u see still there are LTTE crazy people like Tamilkathir1 commenting! u telling me LTTE is done???????????

[sisira roshan]

alright you r against terrorism and telling LTTE is finished,( but we r not stupids to think so coz we know soooooooooo many LTTE supporters live abroad), so the government protected its'civilians like any other government will do. what justice you want?