No Fire Zone: Media Coverage and Campaign Report

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Dark and disturbing http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/SriLanka/Dark-amp-disturbing/Article1-1020265.aspx

Hindustan Times - March 2, 2013 Looking away from the camera, 12-year-old Balachandran appears grim and confused, munching a snack and staring out at what must have been a terrible scene. In another picture, he's dead, with five shots to his chest.

No person resident in Sri Lanka helped us with No Fire Zone https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/no-person-resident-in-sri-lanka-helped-us-with-no-firezone-no-one-was-paid-for-any-evidence-channel-4/

Colombo Telegraph – March 5, 20 2013 Colombo, March 5 - “No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says Callum Macrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’. Macrae issued a statement this evening responding to a report published in today Sinhala language Divaina newspaper.

No person resident in Sri Lanka helped Channel 4 Lanka Sri News – March 6, 2013 “No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says Callum Macrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka‘.

No person resident in Sri Lanka helped Channel 4 Viva Lanka – March 6, 2013 “No person resident anywhere in Sri Lanka helped us with this film. No-one was paid for any evidence or interviews.” says Callum Macrae, the producer of the Channel 4, ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka‘.

Sri Lanka seeks to ID sources for Channel 4 film http://www.cpj.org/2013/03/sri-lanka-seeks-to-id-sources-for-channel-4-film.php

Committee to Protect Journalists – March 5, 2013 New York, March 5 - The Sri Lankan Defense Ministry says it wants to identify sources who provided information to the UK-based broadcaster Channel 4 for a new documentary alleging that government forces committed war crimes during the country's long civil conflict, The Divaina, a Sinhala-language daily, reported today.

Channel 4 documentary full of half truths says Sri Lanka

http://www.firstpost.com/world/channel-4-documentary-full-of-half-truths-says-sri-lanka-631193.html

First Post – March 6, 2013

Colombo, March 6 - A British channel has come out with a documentary featuring the pictures of the alleged cold-blooded killing of LTTE chief Velupillai Prabhakaran’s 12-year-old son, which was today dismissed by Sri Lanka as “lies, half truths and numerous forms of speculation”.The Channel 4 documentary titled ‘No War Zone – the killing fields of Sri Lanka’ is to be aired in Geneva at the next session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in March.


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