Sri Lanka: Cameron mixes diplomacy and strong-arm politics
15 NOVEMBER 2013
Meagre circumstances
Mr Cameron and the journalists then headed to the newspaper offices of a Tamil newspaper, where he heard about how printing presses were recently destroyed with bullets fired through them.
Mr Cameron told staff at the newspaper of how impressed he was with their bravery.
The journalists then moved onto a refugee village were people are "still living in pretty meagre circumstances."
On the way to the refugee village, the journalists and Mr Cameron came across another pro-government demonstration.
Mr Snow said the prime minister seems "pretty concerned by what he’s seen, but I don't think he was surprised."
Independent investigation
Mr Cameron said he would be telling President Mahindra Rajapaksa - who has himself been accused of war crimes connected to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war, in which the ruthless Tamil Tigers movement was crushed by the military - that he must hold an independent inquiry into allegations of human rights violations.
Mr Cameron said that if no such investigation was forthcoming, he would urge the United Nations to conduct and international, independent investigation.
Channel 4 News has been met by both hostility and praise in Sri Lanka, due to revelations of war crimes allegations since the end of the civil war.
But Jon Snow said in the Tamil-dominated north, he was greeted by pulling who "run forward and grasp you hand and hug you".