Channel 4 News returns to Sri Lanka
Sunday 17 Nov 2013

A team from Channel 4 News has returned to Sri Lanka, having not been allowed in for four years, in order to cover the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm).

Channel 4 News has, since the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, reported on and revealed convincing evidence of war crimes allegedly carried out by the Sri Lankan regime and military. We have been allowed into the country because the British prime minister and foreign secretary insisted that a full complement of British media attend Chogm.

The return of Channel 4 News, as well as Callum Macrae, award-winning director of films on Sri Lanka’s alleged human rights violations such as No Fire Zone and Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields, is being closely monitored by the Sri Lankan media.

On arrival in Sri Lanka, international journalists are being handed a 222-page book entitled Corrupted Journalism: Channel 4 and Sri Lanka – an out-and-out attack on the journalism of Channel 4 News.

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