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A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Friday, June 28, 2013
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka: An utterly convincing doc
LIAM LACEY-Friday, Jun. 28 2013
As
advocacy documentaries go, this chronicle of war crimes conducted by
the Sri Lankan government against Tamil civilians during the 2009
conclusion of the Asian country’s 26-year-long civil war, is utterly
convincing, and a refutation of Sri Lankan government denials.
Composed largely of cellphone and video images culled from Tamil
civilians and trophy videos from government soldiers, the film is
damning both of the largely Sinhalese government’s ethnic assaults
against its Tamil minority population, and the United Nations, which
failed to stop or report the attacks, leading to the deaths of between
40,000 and 70,000 people (according to UN reports) in the final five
months of the campaign.
More than a dozen people including 14 fishermen are killed and 36 others
are missing in Sri Lanka as strong winds hit the island.
Much of the footage is extremely gruesome, with the purpose of getting
the crimes recognized and perpetrators prosecuted, though the TV news
voice-over can seem jarringly artless. Sometimes, it’s important to know
when words fail.
At the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.
