Sri Lanka: trouble in paradise
Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa has had his day in the sun after hosting the meeting of Commonwealth leaders. But whether the after-glow will not remain for long.
Sri Lanka’s President Rajapaksa has had his day in the sun after hosting the meeting of Commonwealth leaders. But whether the after-glow will not remain for long.
David Cameron makes a statement on Sri Lanka in the Commons, having last week insisted that President Mahinda Rajapaksa hold an independent inquiry into allegations of war crimes in the country.
All the latest from the Channel 4 News team – allowed back into Sri Lanka for the first time in four years to cover the Commonwealth summit.
Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller writes an open letter to journalists in Sri Lanka as he returns from Chogm.
As the controversial CHOGM in Sri Lanka comes to an end, Channel 4 News Editor Ben de Pear reveals why he is pulling his team out of the country in the face of intimidation.
David Cameron threatens to push for an independent international inquiry into allegations of war crimes at the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war if the island nation does not conduct its own probe by 2014.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa tells Jonathan Miller that he is ready to investigate allegations of war crimes – declaring: “We have nothing to hide. It’s a free country”.
Jon Snow asks Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma to explain why only 28 of the 53 states have attended the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).
In Sri Lanka’s Tamil north on day one of the Commonwealth conference, David Cameron tells Channel 4 News he wants to focus on the human rights issues that have dogged the run-up to the summit.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made much of the development of Sri Lanka’s north following the carnage of war – but has life really improved for the Tamil community living there?
David Cameron tells Jon Snow Sri Lanka’s leadership has a chance to bring the country together – but he pledges to shine a light on what happened after the civil war and on what is happening now.
Jonathan Miller asks why the Sri Lankan president missed the press conference on day one of CHOGM and why Sri Lanka has been slow in bringing justice to families whose loved ones have disappeared.
Prince Charles opens the heads of government meeting in Sri Lanka, saying the Commonwealth organisation can “bring that touch of healing” to its member countries.
Sri Lanka’s civil war is officially over, but people are still being “disappeared” – vanishing without a trace, often, allegedly, in the state’s unmarked white vans.
The making of White Van Stories was not a scripted journey. It was rather mystical. Maybe my constant urge to tell stories that otherwise had been forgotten pointed me towards that direction.