12/03/2012WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES WHICH SOME READERS MAY FIND DISTURBING
The boy is naked from the waist up and lying on the ground. He has five neat little bullet holes in his chest. Beside him lie five men, also all dead, blood spilling from their gunshot wounds.
The camera which is filming this scene drifts unsteadily over the bodies - and then back towards the corpse of the boy.
The boy's name is Balakandran Prabhakaran, and he is the 12-year-old son of the Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. It is May 2009 and we are in the final few hours of the brutal 26-year-old civil war between government forces and the secessionist rebels of the Tamil Tigers, (LTTE).
These few moments of video footage - which we will be revealing for the first time in our new film,Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished, to be broadcast at 10.55 this Wednesday on Channel 4 in the UK - represent more than just a record of a grotesque individual crime. They represent the latest in a mounting catalogue of evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity; evidence which points - ever more firmly - to the highest levels of the Sri Lankan government. Full Story>>>
