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.
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?
Channel 4 News uncovers a WikiLeaks cable which appears to show the United States believes responsibility for alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka rests with its leaders, including President Rajapakse.
Sri Lanka’s President Rajapakse Oxford Union visit has been cancelled over “security concerns”. Channel 4 News last night revealed new footage of an alleged massacre of Tamil prisoners in Sri Lanka.
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.
As Sri Lanka’s president is given sweeping new powers, the man behind critical posters which have compared him to Hitler has been arrested as Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports.
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.
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…
These are the big question at the end of the longest of wars. What will happen to the displaced Tamils, herded from the former conflict zone into huge sprawling internment camps? Based around the town of Vavuniya, they are known as Manik Farms. Channel 4 News has been given video by the activist group War…
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…
Eyewitnesses interviewed during a week-long undercover investigation for Channel 4 News told of thousands of civilian deaths as government forces advanced on the Tigers’ final stronghold. The deaths, they said, were the result of government shelling. The Sri Lankan president and senior government ministers have repeatedly denied causing a single civilian death in what the…
Sinhalese Sri Lankans are so relieved their war is over that most appear blinded by patriotism, drunk on victory and deaf to the clamour from outside their island for investigations into possible war crimes. The country’s pliant media speak with one voice, exhorting their loyal compatriots to celebrate this great triumph over terror. But the…
A doctor working with injured and displaced Tamils in northern Sri Lanka tells Channel 4 News that there may be as many as 20,000 amputees among those who fled attacks.
Jon Snow
spent yesterday afternoon in the environs of the House of Commons. An extraordinary experience. Normally, ostentatiously crawling with MPs and peers anxious to be recognised, stopped and interviewed – yesterday the place was completely deserted.
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…