Search results for ‘Tamil Tigers’
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Sri Lanka: ‘We are investigating the war’
As calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka increase, the Sri Lankan Government tells Channel 4 News its domestic inquiry must be allowed to “achieve its objectives”.
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Who are Sri Lanka Army’s 53 Division?
The Sri Lanka Ministry of Defence claims 53 Division troops killed Isaipriya, one of the female bodies shown in the video screened by Channel 4 News. But who are they and who was their commander?
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Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ video: woman’s body identified
Channel 4 News can name a woman journalist as one of the victims in the Sri Lanka execution video along with damning new details of the date and location where the video was filmed.
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Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ video: who are these men?
Channel 4 News reveals images of the men caught on camera apparently taking part in executions in Sri Lanka, actions a top lawyer has branded “war crimes”. Can you help identify the men involved?
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UN: Sri Lanka ‘war crimes’ video needs investigation
The United Nations tells Channel 4 News new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka “deserves more investigation”, as Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse visits London.
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Sri Lanka execution video: new war crimes claims
Channel 4 News reveals new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners which promoted a UN investigation last year, as the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse arrives in London.
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Sri Lanka execution video: new war crimes claims
Channel 4 News reveals new footage of the alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners which promoted a UN investigation last year, as the Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse arrives in London.
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Rajapakse’s UK visit postponed
Sri Lankan officials have dismissed reports that President Mahinda Rajapakse cancelled his planned visit to Britain amid fears he would be arrested for alleged war crimes.
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Sri Lanka footage: behind the UN verdict
In January 2010, the UN released a report into video shown on Channel 4 News apparently of Sri Lanka soldiers executing Tamils. Foreign Editor Ben De Pear describes the events that led to the verdict.
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Will Sri Lanka cooperate with the UN's experts?
As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon talks about the establishment of a Commission of Experts to advise on alleged violations of human rights in the aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war, Jonathan Miller notes that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Sri Lanka execution video ‘appears authentic’
Sri Lankan officials branded as fake the video of alleged executions by Sri Lankan Armed Forces broadcast by Channel 4 News, but a UN investigation said it “appears authentic”.
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Sri Lankan 'execution' video: the view from DC
Sri Lanka has dismissed a US State Department report into alleged war crimes as unsubstantiated. The report does not accept Colombo’s assertion that a video broadcast by Channel 4 News apparently showing the execution of nine Tamil captives was a fake.
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The trouble with reporting on Sri Lanka
There is really very little to actually report when you cover Sri Lanka. That sounds ridiculous, but let me qualify myself: there is no real, first hand information or experience that you can lay your hands on. It’s all potentially tainted somehow. You spend your time explaining that the other side disagrees with the other…
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Investigating claims of Sri Lankan 'war crimes'
On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes…
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Sri Lanka: situation worsens in no-fire zone
For a while it’s been almost impossible to imagine how savage life must be inside the no-fire zone. But now it’s got even worse. The shelling of the 3km square patch of coastal land has been going on at an accelerated pace, most accounts suggest, since the weekend. It’s impossible to know how many have…