What were they running from? War crimes in Sri Lanka
at Jun 30, 2011
Closed meeting for Newcastle NOWAR Collective and Socialist Alliance members and supporters only-
Not "go back where you came from", but rather looking at the facts as disclosed by the Channel 4 video "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields" (unlikley to be broadcast in Australia).
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.
The film is made and broadcast as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon faces growing criticism for refusing to launch an investigation into 'credible allegations' that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes during the closing weeks of the bloody conflict with the Tamil Tigers.


