New York UN screening for Jon Snow's Sri Lanka film

Tomorrow morning, Jon Snow's film Sri Lanka's Killing Fields will be screened to United Nations diplomats and the US media in New York City. The Sri Lankan ambassador to the UN, Mr Palith T B Kohona, will attend the screening, and will then address those assembled after the film.
The critically-acclaimed investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers, featuring devastating new video evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity has already provoked comment from Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt.   Full Story>>>
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Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (50 mins) [S]

11.06PM Tuesday 14 Jun 2011 Channel 4

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With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians

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The Silence of Sri Lanka

Published: June 20, 2011

By DAVID MILIBAND and BERNARD KOUCHNER
In April 2009, we travelled together as foreign ministers to Sri Lanka, as 25 years of fighting between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers neared its end.
The remaining fighters were trapped in the northern most part of the country — along with large numbers of civilians. U.N. estimates put the numbers of civilians there in the last few months of the war at over 300,000.
Our purpose was simple: to draw attention to the human suffering, to call for humanitarian aid and workers to be allowed in, and to call for the fighting to stop.               Full Story>>>