UK presses Sri Lanka over Channel 4's 'war crimes' film

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

The UK Foreign Office has pressed Sri Lanka to investigate alleged atrocities during its civil war after "horrific" footage aired in a TV programme.

Britain's Channel 4 showed what it said was previously unseen footage of what purported to be extrajudicial killings of Tamils by the military.

Sri Lanka's defence ministry dismissed the videos as fabricated, saying they were intended to discredit the army.

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British Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt said he was "shocked by the horrific scenes" in the documentary, which he said contained "convincing evidence of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law".

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13772407

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Full video posted in Political Video Forum : see here too

Sri Lanka's Killing Fields by Channel 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz_eCLcp1Mc

[Arctic Dave]

1. These atrocities were well documented already.

More bullshit from the UK, I'm sure the US will follow, with their feigned shock.

[bread_and_roses]

2. exactly. (n/t)

[notesdev]

3. Yep I did a lot of the documenting myself

The war crimes by the Sri Lankan government against the Tamil minority are legion. The one thing that sticks out in my head for pure cruelty was the practice of air-dropping flaming barrels of petroleum jelly (essentially a poor man's napalm) on villages.

[Maine-ah]

4. KNR

and a jesus fucking christ. How the hell I made it through that video...

[formercia]

5. The problem is:

They're little brown people. Same thing happened in Central America and elsewhere, including the US. It's still happening.

Had enough yet?

[dipsydoodle]

6. Too true

:(