Indian Parliament rocked by new evidence in Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

Indian media is reporting that both Houses of Parliament were ‘in uproar' today and the upper house's session had to be adjourned (see footage here) after politicians from the south of the country, which has a large Tamil population, criticised the government's failure to pressure Sri Lanka to investigate war crimes as part of a reconciliation process.

They demanded to know the government's stand on the forthcoming resolution brought by the US at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva -  calling for Sri Lanka to properly investigate accusations of war crimes committed at the end of the civil war in 2009 -  and requesting that this investigation be available for the UN. These demands follow extensive Indian media coverage of brand new evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity featured in Channel 4's Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished.

This powerful follow-up film to last year's Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, both presented by Jon Snow, presents damning new evidence of war crimes including contemporaneous documents, eye-witness accounts, photographic stills and videos relating to how exactly events unfolded during the final days of the civil war.

The film features this new chilling video footage of five men and a child who have been executed (please be aware the clip contains distressing footage).

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