No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka

This documentary has done an excellent job defying extreme efforts by the Sri Lanka government to suppress the truth from coming out. I know at times the producers have received death threats from the same Government. But with all this they had the courage to bring this film out.

This film has triggered the international war crimes investigation against Sri Lanka by the UNHRC. Hopefully this film will also serve as evidence in the investigation and help bring the culprits in front of the Law and serve Justice to the victims of this indigestable truth.

Although viewer discretion is advised, everyone who stands up for Human Rights must watch this Documentary.

No Fire Zone presents itself as a documentary, but feels more like a dramatized fantasy rather than a well-researched, balanced account of Sri Lanka's civil conflict. It simplifies a deeply complex situation into a misleading narrative, overlooking the fact that the war was not a Sinhala vs Tamil conflict, but a struggle between the people and the LTTE-a violent, separatist group. Those who lived through the war understand that this wasn't about race or religion. Sadly, this film seems crafted with a different agenda, using sensitive themes like language, identity, and nationality to frame a skewed story for international sympathy. A more honest, inclusive portrayal could have made a real impact.

This is the honest story of what happened in Sri Lanka. It tragic that still perpetrators are at large and no justice delivered.

This is a well created documentary from videos taken during the spring of 2009. The sequencing of videos taken by different witnesses and the narration are excellent. The videos were taken by both the victims as well as Sri Lanka army personnel (trophy videos).

Some have estimated the civilians deaths to be around 40,000. Other estimates are much higher. About 150,000 are unaccounted form, over 99% were civilians.

Sri Lanka has questioned the validity of the videos. Chanel 4 has hence had all the photos and videos analyzed by independent experts, ruled unequivocally authentic. Sri Lanka is also resisting multiple calls for independent investigations.

Some scenes are gory. Viewer discretion recommended.

But it is must see for anyone interested in knowing the cruelty that occurred in a country that prides itself as 'Buddhist'!

No Fire Zone: Sri Lanka Killing Fields truthfully exposes war crimes and crimes against humanity against the civilian population of the divided island. Having endured over 26 years of brutal civil war between the Government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the Northern province has went from war-zone to virtual prison for the victims of the war. Channel 4 conducts a thorough investigation as to who the culprits were, and why they are hiding from an independent, international, investigation as to what exactly happened at the end of the ethnic conflict in 2009. View discretion is strongly advised.