An internal United Nations report accuses the organisation of a “systematic failure” in the last months of Sri Lanka’s civil war.
A film by an Italian documentary maker based on Channel 4’s award-winning Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields has been made public.
The British government will force up to 60 Sri Lankan Tamils on to an aeroplane on Wednesday and send them back to a a country still recovering from a brutal civil war. Inigo Gilmore reports.
Amid confusion as to the exact direction of British foreign policy towards Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News has learned that the British Prime Minister in fact demanded accountability for alleged war crimes when the two leaders met.
A meeting in the City of London, due to have been addressed on Wednesday morning by the president of Sri Lanka, has been cancelled, owing to concerns over policing amid the threat of large demonstrations by Tamil rights groups.
Colombo sources tells Channel 4 News that an aircraft chartered by the British government to forcibly return failed Sri Lankan asylum-seekers has landed in the city.
Scores of Sri Lankans, due to have been deported from the UK on a government charter flight on Thursday afternoon, have had their removal orders overturned by high court judges.
A Channel 4 News film about the horror in Homs and Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields documentary are recognised at the Amnesty International Media Awards.
Jon Snow
Amid the sweat, the heat, and the romance of this colonial ground, cricket has ensured that a whole world of sport is absorbed in a game, whilst the fate of up to 40,000 civilians slaughtered on fields on the very same island lie unaddressed and largely unmentioned.
The United Nations Human Rights Council has backed a resolution urging the Sri Lankan government to prosecute commanders guilty of misconduct during its civil war against Tamil insurgents.
India’s parliament erupted in uproar today when opposition MPs challenged the government’s reluctance to confront Sri Lanka over allegations of war crimes, brought to light by a Channel 4 film.
As England’s cricket team sets off for Sri Lanka, Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear asks whether the tour should be going ahead given the country’s human rights record?
A plane chartered by the British government is to deport about 100 Tamil asylum seekers to Sri Lanka, according to a human rights charity.
There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.
Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.