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Warning: This content contains disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians
First Broadcast: Tuesday 14 Jun 2011 Channel 4
Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.
With disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians the programme features devastating new video evidence of war crimes - some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast.
Captured on mobile phones, both by Tamils under attack and government soldiers as war trophies, the disturbing footage shows: the extra-judicial executions of prisoners; the aftermath of targeted shelling of civilian camps; and dead female Tamil fighters who appear to have been raped or sexually assaulted, abused and murdered.
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Report of the Secretary-General's panel of experts on accoutability in Sri Lanka
Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions
List of charities offering help and support to those affected by any of the issues shown in the programme
Background information & weblinks providing context around Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
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Website for the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence
Humans rights in Sri Lanka
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'An action group of journalists, writers, artists and human rights defenders in exile who are campaigning for democracy, human rights and media freedom in Sri Lanka...'
The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation 'committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict'.
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