Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished (w/t)

Tx: January

A follow-up film to Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, Jon Snow's critically-acclaimed investigation into the final weeks of the war between the government and Tamil Tigers.

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields featured devastating new video evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast

Screened at the UN in Geneva and New York and also shown to politicians at the House of Commons, the European Parliament and key figures in the US Senate, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields prompted comment from leading political figures around the world including Prime Minister David Cameron. Yet the Sri Lankan government has so far failed to fully investigate the horrific crimes featured in the film - including videos of extra-judicial executions, the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian camps and evidence of sexual violence including the naked and abused bodies of female Tamil fighters - captured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under attack and government soldiers as ‘war trophies.'

This new film, also presented by Jon Snow, has accumulated powerful new evidence including contemporaneous documents, eye-witness accounts, photographic stills and videos relating to how exactly events unfolded during the final days of the civil war.

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields : War Crimes Unpunished (w/t) explores the reasons behind the apparent international inaction in calling the government of Sri Lanka to account.

Production Company
ITN Productions