Britain's Channel 4 to air 'horrific' Sri Lanka footage...

Channel 4 is to air "probably the most horrific" footage it has ever shown in an investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka.

A day after UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon announced he is considering whether to investigate "credible allegations" that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes in the closing weeks of the civil war in 2009, Channel 4 has revealed it will screen what it calls "harrowing and dramatic footage" which appears to document atrocities being carried out.

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Channel 4's head of news and current affairs, Dorothy Byrne, who commissioned the programme, said: "The footage is probably the most horrific the channel has ever shown. The decision to show it at length was made only after serious and careful consideration.

"This dossier of visual evidence of alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by forces of the government of Sri Lanka is of the greatest possible public interest. We believe that screening it is the only way to enable viewers to make their own informed judgments about what happened." Full story...

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