The director of the No Fire Zone documentary into Sri Lanka’s atrocities called on Sri Lankan national television to screen the Emmy-nominated film to support findings from a recently released domestic report in Sri Lanka that found the documentary credibly documented that “ armed forces committed acts during the final phase of the war that amounted to war crimes giving rise to individual criminal responsibility.

In a press release, Callum Macrae said,

“Now that our findings and our evidence have been so clearly vindicated, not just by the recent report released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, but also by this report ordered by the Sri Lankan government itself, there can be no excuse to delay transmission any longer.”

The director added,

“The need to understand the truth about these crimes, find justice and end state impunity is something that will benefit every community of Sri Lanka,” he said. “For too long ordinary people have been denied the truth – yet no-one has anything to fear from that truth except the guilty.I call on the people who run Sri Lanka’s television stations to have the courage to transmit this film as soon as possible. I also call on President Sirisena – in the interests of truth and justice – to encourage Sri Lankan television to show the film in its entirety.”

Full press release can be seen here.