Blog posts tagged "Sri Lanka"

February 24, 2012 3:39 pm 10 Comments

There’s a lot of fuss at the moment about female war correspondents as if we were some kind of recently discovered species. Yet we’ve been around a while. Lyse Doucet of the BBC and I call those of our vintage the “Old Trouts Club”. Most of us are in our 40s and 50s, although Dame Ann Leslie is certainly a member and she’s more than 70.

February 22, 2012 4:17 pm 39 Comments

Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum on the loss of her friend, veteran war reporter, Marie Colvin.

October 9, 2011 12:50 pm 35 Comments

On his last trip to Sri Lanka, Defence Secretary Liam Fox called on the country to properly investigate its actions at the end of the civil war. But what, blogs Channel 4 News Foreign Editor Ben De Pear, was Adam Werritty doing at Mr Fox's meetings with the regime?

June 15, 2011 8:46 pm 29 Comments

Jonathan Miller learns that some of the failed Sri Lankan asylum seekers may not be deported by the UK on Thursday after all.

June 14, 2011 11:30 am 384 Comments

Jon Snow presents a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, including new video evidence of war crimes. Watch Channel 4 at 11.05pm tonight. Add your voice here or via Twitter using the hashtag #killingfields.

April 16, 2011 1:53 pm 36 Comments

A leaked document reveals the United Nations believes there is credible evidence that war crimes were committed in Sri Lanka's civil war. Already the government of Sri Lanka has put up its defences, blogs Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.

December 16, 2010 9:39 pm 9 Comments

Our Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Miller reports on the cancelled personal visit to Sri Lanka by the Defence Secretary, Liam Fox, and looks at what lies behind the decision.

September 8, 2010 7:40 pm 20 Comments

As Sri Lanka's president Mahinda Rajapakse is given sweeping new powers, the man behind critical posters which have compared him to Hitler has been arrested as foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller writes.

January 27, 2010 1:41 pm 30 Comments

General Sarath Fonseka has yet to concede, but it’s pretty clear he’s lost Sri Lanka’s presidential election. The indication is that President Mahinda Rajapaksa won by a substantial margin, although the opposition is crying foul. The general is now holed up in a hotel in Colombo.  He has reasons to be fearful.

January 8, 2010 6:33 pm 61 Comments

As UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon talks about the establishment of a Commission of Experts to advise on alleged violations of human rights in the aftermath of Sri Lanka's civil war, Jonathan Miller notes that there is no statute of limitations when it comes to war crimes and crimes against humanity.