“No Fire Zone” is a new feature-length documentary about the final bloody months of the 26 year-long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who lived through it. The culmination of a three-year investigation, which has included two award-winning TV documentaries broadcast on Channel 4, the film provides powerful evidence of apparent war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Sri Lankan government forces and the LTTE.
The screening will take place to mark the fourth anniversary of the end of the conflict and following the passage of another, EU-supported resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC), asking for an independent and credible investigation into allegations of violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Despite the end of armed conflict, the Sri Lankan government has failed to undertake any credible effort to address these serious allegations, concerning the deaths of up to 40,000 civilians, and promote reconciliation, and has instead stepped up its crackdown on dissenting views in a bid to consolidate power.
In line with its commitment to human rights and democracy, its support for HRC resolutions and its repeated call for “an independent and credible inquiry” into possible violations, we call on the EU to publicly and explicitly restate that it will continue to seek real progress on accountability, governance and human rights and fulfill its commitment in the EU Strategic Framework on Human Rights and Democracy to “fight vigorously against impunity for serious crimes of concern to the international community”.
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