northern Sri Lanka, battling the Tamil Tigers as the end of a 26 year long war was drawing to a close. Using footage captured inside of the war zone, covering a 138 day period, viewers witness first hand the truly horrifying war crimes perpetrated by the Sri Lankan government, and the incredible amount of lies created to keep the international community from interfering with the war.
No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka http://dorkshelf.com/tag/no-fire-zone-the-killing-fields-of-sri-lanka/#sthash.LPRozuSt.dpuf Dork Shelf - June 28, 2013 No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka charts the final weeks of perhaps the most misunderstood and least mainstream covered conflicts of our time, the Sri Lankan Civil War. This war was conducted in secret with the Sri Lankan government booting the UN and foreign press reporters from the combat zone. More than 70,000 civilians lost their lives during this 26-year long war, but most of these deaths occurred during illegal government shelling that took place in its final months. Director Callum Macrae chronicles the final months of the battle with footage and interviews from both sides of the war.
'Matter for humanity that justice is done'- Interview with Callum Macrae http://www.salem-‐news.com/articles/july172013/callum-‐mcrae.php Salem-News.com – 17 July 2013 This is about human rights, and this is about the rule of international law. And I know that whenever I've shown this film to people who didn't know about the situation - it changes minds. Tamil Guardian's correspondent based in Toronto, Canada, caught up with the director of the documentaries 'Sri Lanka's Killing Fields' and 'No Fire Zone - the killing fields of Sri Lanka', Callum Macrae, at the sidelines of FETNA 2013, to find out how he viewed Sri Lanka's reaction to the documentaries, himself and others who are speaking out against the massacre of tens of thousands of Tamils.
Malaysian Police Raid Screening of “No Fire Zone” http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/malaysia-‐police-‐raid-‐sri-‐lanka-‐callum-‐macrae-‐director-‐no-‐fire-‐zone-‐ human-‐rights-‐genocide-‐tamil-‐tigers-‐violence-‐commonwealth-‐UN Pulitzer Center - July 6, 2013 The global tour of Pulitzer grantee Callum Macrae’s film on Sri Lanka continues to generate controversy, with screenings for parliamentary audiences in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia and a public screening in Kuala Lumpur that was disrupted by a police raid and the arrest of local organizers. “No Fire Zone” documents the final weeks of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, the deaths of as many as 70,000 civilians during that period and the government’s resistance since to accusations of war crimes and demands that those responsible be held to account.