Sri Lanka's dirty war /
In the past 18 months, over 2,000 Sri Lankans have been kidnapped or murdered, allegedly by government death squads. Now Human Rights Watch is calling for aid to Sri Lanka to be withheld. The Tamil homeland of Northern Sri Lanka is once again a war zone. The government is convinced it can crush the...
| Format: | Video |
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Surrey, England :
Journeyman Pictures,
2007.
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| Series: | Human rights cases online (video)
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In the past 18 months, over 2,000 Sri Lankans have been kidnapped or murdered, allegedly by government death squads. Now Human Rights Watch is calling for aid to Sri Lanka to be withheld. The Tamil homeland of Northern Sri Lanka is once again a war zone. The government is convinced it can crush the rebels within three years. 'They only have this area left,' states Brig Prasad. As well as targeting Tamil rebels, the government is accused of thousands of; 'extrajudicial killings, abductions, disappearances.' Most of the disappeared are ethnic Tamils. MP Mano Ganesan believes the abductions are; 'a means of crushing the Tamil national struggle.' The capital, Colombo, teams with police and soldiers but none of the abductors have been caught. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Sept. 15, 2014). Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (13 min.) |
| Playing Time: | 00:12:43 |