No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

As Prince Charles, David Cameron and William Hague prepare to fly to Sri Lanka for the most controversial summit of Commonwealth leaders in recent history, Channel 4 broadcasts a devastating indictment of the government hosting the event. For three years Channel 4 has investigated the war crimes and crimes against humanity that marked the bloody end of Sri Lanka’s civil war. Channel 4’s groundbreaking films on Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields sent shock waves across the world. They were debated in parliament, praised by the UN and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now the team behind those films has made a full-length feature documentary, No Fire Zone, which contains devastating new evidence and chilling eye witness accounts of those terrible events. The men it accuses of war crimes have been trying to stop the public seeing it. They tried to halt a UN screening. They objected to a EU screening, a public screening of the film was banned in Nepal, and a screening in Malaysia was raided by police and censorship officials after pressure from the Sri Lanka government. This special one-hour version of No Fire Zone airs on Channel 4 ahead of the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The film, narrated by Rufus Sewell, tells the story of the 138-day-long final offensive in this the quarter-century-long bloody civil war.