Appalling Journalism

Jon Snow and Channel 4 on Sri Lanka

In June 2011, Britain’s Channel 4 News broadcast a programme entitled “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”, which made a number of allegations about the last few months of the war in Sri Lanka.1 Jon Snow, the Channel’s senior news presenter, claimed the programme was “a forensic investigation into the final weeks of the quarter-century-long civil war between the government of Sri Lanka and the secessionist rebels, the Tamil Tigers.”2 Channel 4 claimed that the government was responsible for the targeted shelling of civilians, extrajudicial executions of prisoners and the apparent rape, sexual assault and murder of female Tamil fighters, allegations said to be supported by “devastating new video evidence of war crimes – some of the most horrific footage Channel 4 has ever broadcast”.3 Channel 4 also claimed that the government was responsible all told for the deaths of as many as 40,000 civilians towards the end of the war

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