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Warning: This content contains disturbing and distressing descriptions and film of executions, atrocities and the shelling of civilians

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished

First Broadcast: Wednesday 14 Mar 2012

In 2011 Channel 4 exposed damning evidence of atrocities committed in the war in Sri Lanka. Jon Snow presents this powerful follow-up film, revealing new video evidence as well as contemporaneous documents, eye-witness accounts, photographic stills and videos relating to how exactly events unfolded during the final days of the civil war.

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Programme available internationally as well as in the UK and Ireland.



Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

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.

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Programme available internationally as well as in the UK and Ireland.

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Sri Lanka: Civil War

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27 Years of Sri Lankan civil war290,000 Displaced men, women & childrenUp to 40,000 civilians killed in the final weeks of warUN estimate of people trapped in conflict area

Figures from UN Panel Report 2011

"Once or twice in a reporting lifetime, a journalist is allowed by events to participate in a project that can affect history"

Jon Snow
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