Sri Lanka Documentary

Sri Lanka's president announced an investigation Sunday into allegations made by a British television documentary that his current spy chief was complicit in the country's worst attack against civilians.

Ranatunga, who is now Sri Lanka's petroleum minister, said Wednesday that he believed 2011 final when India beat Sri Lanka was tainted though he did not give details.

Sri Lanka's sports minister Faiszer Musthapa has asked the country's cricket board to hand over the inquiry into 'pitch-fixing allegations' to the law enforcement authorities.

Qatari news channel Al Jazeera was urged to hand over evidence of alleged match-fixing on Monday after a TV documentary claimed to uncover corruption at the highest levels of world cricket.

A documentary purporting to show the execution of civilians and other war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan army had its first public screening on Friday but was swiftly rejected by the government as part of an "orchestrated campaign" against it.

Hackers have attacked Sri Lanka's media ministry by placing a documentary about alleged war crimes during the island's ethnic conflict on its website, an official said.

Saving Face, the acclaimed Pakistani movie on victims of acid attacks, has won the best documentary prize at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.

Sri Lanka on Thursday rejected a new video aired on Britain's Channel 4 which levelled fresh allegations of war crimes against the country's leadership and military. In response to the video "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished", the defence ministry re-released several videos and documents to counter the claims, reported Xinhua.

A documentary on Sri Lankan war crimes, which shows the dead body of a young boy with five bullet wounds in his chest - who is allegedly the son of LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran - has claimed that the boy was interrogated about his father's whereabouts before being shot dead. The documentary, to be aired on Channel 4 in UK this week, says ther...

The DMK, a senior partner in the UPA, has said that India must vote against Sri Lanka next week in Geneva at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The resolution has been moved by the US and India had hinted that it would support its neighbour.

A new documentary to air on Channel 4 this week has created an international human rights controversy - the film purportedly shows the 12-year-old son of LTTE leader Prabhkaran lying dead with five bullets in his chest. Sri Lanka has said the allegations in the film about war crime are malicious.

A documentary shot in Sri Lanka, to be aired on Channel 4 this week, shows a 12-year-old lying dead with five bullet holes in his chest. "The boy's name is Balachandran Prabhakaran; he is the son of the LTTE leader, Vellupillai Prabakaran.

The Sri Lankan commission looking into the civil strife with the LTTE will examine the documentary aired by Britain's Channel 4 that showed gruesome pictures of alleged war crimes during the last weeks of the war.The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) said it has already been examining documentary evidence related to the war period...

The British government said on Wednesday it is shocked by a documentary that purportedly shows Sri Lankan troops committing war crimes, and warned that it will back international action unless the island nation shows progress with an investigation this year.Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said he was "shocked by the horrific scenes" in the do...

Sri Lanka's president announced an investigation Sunday into allegations made by a British television documentary that his current spy chief was complicit in the country's worst attack against civilians.

Ranatunga, who is now Sri Lanka's petroleum minister, said Wednesday that he believed 2011 final when India beat Sri Lanka was tainted though he did not give details.

Sri Lanka's sports minister Faiszer Musthapa has asked the country's cricket board to hand over the inquiry into 'pitch-fixing allegations' to the law enforcement authorities.

Qatari news channel Al Jazeera was urged to hand over evidence of alleged match-fixing on Monday after a TV documentary claimed to uncover corruption at the highest levels of world cricket.

A documentary purporting to show the execution of civilians and other war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan army had its first public screening on Friday but was swiftly rejected by the government as part of an "orchestrated campaign" against it.

Hackers have attacked Sri Lanka's media ministry by placing a documentary about alleged war crimes during the island's ethnic conflict on its website, an official said.

Saving Face, the acclaimed Pakistani movie on victims of acid attacks, has won the best documentary prize at the 2012 SAARC Film Awards.

Sri Lanka on Thursday rejected a new video aired on Britain's Channel 4 which levelled fresh allegations of war crimes against the country's leadership and military. In response to the video "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished", the defence ministry re-released several videos and documents to counter the claims, reported Xinhua.

A documentary on Sri Lankan war crimes, which shows the dead body of a young boy with five bullet wounds in his chest - who is allegedly the son of LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran - has claimed that the boy was interrogated about his father's whereabouts before being shot dead. The documentary, to be aired on Channel 4 in UK this week, says ther...

The DMK, a senior partner in the UPA, has said that India must vote against Sri Lanka next week in Geneva at a session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The resolution has been moved by the US and India had hinted that it would support its neighbour.

A new documentary to air on Channel 4 this week has created an international human rights controversy - the film purportedly shows the 12-year-old son of LTTE leader Prabhkaran lying dead with five bullets in his chest. Sri Lanka has said the allegations in the film about war crime are malicious.

A documentary shot in Sri Lanka, to be aired on Channel 4 this week, shows a 12-year-old lying dead with five bullet holes in his chest. "The boy's name is Balachandran Prabhakaran; he is the son of the LTTE leader, Vellupillai Prabakaran.

The Sri Lankan commission looking into the civil strife with the LTTE will examine the documentary aired by Britain's Channel 4 that showed gruesome pictures of alleged war crimes during the last weeks of the war.The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) said it has already been examining documentary evidence related to the war period...

The British government said on Wednesday it is shocked by a documentary that purportedly shows Sri Lankan troops committing war crimes, and warned that it will back international action unless the island nation shows progress with an investigation this year.Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt said he was "shocked by the horrific scenes" in the do...