r/Documentaries • u/redditfighter323 • Apr 21 '21
War Sri Lanka's Killing Fields (2015) - A hard-hitting investigation into the final weeks of the Sri Lankan civil war, featuring devastating video evidence of horrific war crimes. [00:49:05]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3yPzyM0KMU80
Apr 21 '21
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u/awebig Apr 21 '21
Imagine how the people who lived through it felt...
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
Terrorist were bombing banks, schools, religious places every day .. we lived in absolute fear
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_attacks_attributed_to_the_LTTE
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u/alistahr Apr 21 '21
Those children I saw in this aren't terrorists.
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
How about the children from other communities , its ok to kill them ? this is some terrorist logic.
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u/UlagamOruvannuka Apr 21 '21
The government protected you because you were Sinhalese. It killed its own citizens who were Tamil.
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u/nefariousmonkey Apr 22 '21
The fuck. This will haunt me forever. The fuck. Fuck me. Fuck everything. There is no god. Wtf.
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u/Geodude-Engineer Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21
Don't let it effect you too much. Understand nature and the universe can be brutal and beautiful at the same time. The duality means we can find purpose in this chaos.
EDIT: People are choosing to misinterpret what im saying like I caused this fucking genocide. Fine be angry towards me if that help you sleep at night. Fuck yall.
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u/alistahr Apr 21 '21
Goddamn, these people are fucking disgusting. And when I say these people, I mean the military and the people who command them. All of them.
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
Indian army killed so many Tamils
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u/TheDarkClaw Apr 21 '21
Aren't Tamils closer to Indians (in terms of religion) than they are to Sri Lankans?
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Apr 21 '21
The Tamil are generally hindu, yes
The Sri Lankan government in this scenario are the Sinhalese, who are generally Buddhist
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Apr 22 '21
There’s even a Tamil majority state in India (Tamil Nadu). However, Indians aren’t ethnically or racially homogeneous. Tamils are ethnically related to other Dravidian ethnic groups found in South India, however if you compare them to a North Indian, there are differences both in culture, language, society, ethnicity, interpretations of Hinduism, etc.
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u/UlagamOruvannuka Apr 21 '21
Unfortunately IPKF did commit horrible acts. But they were quickly removed and India did not participate ever since. How is this even a reply to the Sri Lankan establishment commiting a genocide against their own citizens because of their ethnicity?
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffna_hospital_massacre
when Indian army doing it its not genocide ... nice logic.
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u/UlagamOruvannuka Apr 21 '21
Holy. The IPKF attempted genocide in SRI lanka and thank god they were stopped.
Now you go with the Sri Lankan Army ...
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u/chiefexecutiveballer Apr 22 '21
It's genocide no matter who does it. One party was stopped rapidly. The other party was actively encouraged.
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Apr 21 '21
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60–70 patients and staff.[4]
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u/cunningstunt6899 Apr 21 '21
When has the Indian army killed Tamils? Why are you spamming this all over this thread?
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u/throwawayforrealsie Apr 22 '21
They’re a troll. If you know anything about the conflict and look at the username, it all makes sense. They came on this thread to victim-blame an entire ethnic group for a genocide, because that’s easier than accepting that they might have supported something unimaginably evil. Pretty standard stuff, nbd, downvote, ignore, move along
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u/el_horsto Apr 21 '21
I'm not in the right mindset to watch the documentary right now, but if it's about what I think it is about, then:
I'm pretty sure the guy in charge of the operation at the time was elected president in 2019.Fun little story, on my flight back from Sri Lanka around that time, I talked to a guy while waiting for our connecting flight and he said: "yeah, some people don't like him, but it's just because he is tough. Like Hitler".
I did not know how to react to that.
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u/alistahr Apr 21 '21
Holy shit. My way of reacting to that would've been to gtfo as soon as possible, so don't blame you. But yeah I dont think there is a right mindset to have to watch it, you'll feel like shit regardless. So fair warning.
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u/king_lloyd11 Apr 21 '21
In his defense, Rajapaksa doesn't hold a candle to Hitler, but the fact that he is a current world leader and that they can be mentioned in the same conversation easily is telling enough.
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Apr 22 '21
Or Rajapaksha was/is not running a country that could be counted as as powerful as Germany before WW2.
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u/sonofthenation Apr 21 '21
It was the uneducated used to kill the educated and people wearing glasses.
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Apr 21 '21
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Apr 21 '21
Maybe now you understand how the holocaust happened.
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Apr 21 '21
Maybe now? I understood how it happened when I read it in a book during school like 30 years ago.
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Apr 21 '21
But for some reason, we again know this is going on, but we aren't doing anything about it.
This statement makes me think otherwise. If you understood how it happened, you wouldn't be asking why we aren't doing anything about it. It's not like we can do much about it without starting an enormous war.
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Apr 21 '21
I understood the Holocaust.
What is happening in Sri Lanka and China are all different. How can you even try to compare those? Are we even talking about the same thing?
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u/_Mechaloth_ Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21
"This is nothing compared..."
Way to diminutize this deplorable event in Sri Lankan history. There's no "first place" in tragedy.
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Apr 21 '21
Only you would think about awarding prizes (“first place”???) to any of this. Don’t put your idiotic thoughts and pass them off as mine. Way to shit all over what I was saying and twist it.
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u/_Mechaloth_ Apr 21 '21
Fuck off. If you can't see that saying "this is nothing" to a massacre is probably a bad way to draw attention to tragedies happening elsewhere, then you're wasting all of our time.
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u/alistahr Apr 21 '21
You just did that. "This is nothing" is the dumbest thing to say to help your argument.
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u/stizzi2 Apr 21 '21
The most underrated documentary ever. Of course the Sri Lankan government can act with impunity when it has China installing military outposts for global strategic positions in return for $$$$ to commit genocide
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u/Avocadoispronto Apr 21 '21
The news anchor😔😔😞
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Apr 21 '21
She was raped and murdered, right?
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Apr 22 '21
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Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21
I'm not sure about this, idk if that happened to her but I have heard such and worse things were done to other girls. This was why many of the suicide bombers were girls and many youngsters joined ltte
But yes, her video was released as a warning. That's why they did, so others won't fight back.i mean these guys used to throw tires on top of people when they are alive and burn them.
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u/TooBig2Ignore May 08 '21
Apparently it would be her 39th birthday this week according to an article I saw
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u/amador9 Apr 21 '21
The events at the end of Sri Lanka Civil War definitely need to be exposed. Thousands of surrendering combatants as well as fleeing civilians were butchered. This was certainly a war crime but the extent of it has been covered up. This is hardly the first Civil War that has resulted in atrocities.
The Civil War itself was a lot more complex. Sri Lanka was granted independence by the U.K. with a Democratic framework (ie Majority Rule) after years of Colonial “ divide and conquer” Administration. Like so many countries in Africa and Asia after the end of Colonialism or Eastern Block countries after the end of the Soviet Union, there were serious ethnic conflicts that had to be resolved before these countries could function as independent countries. In Sri Lanka, this situation resulted in a Civil War.
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u/RotANobot Apr 21 '21
Thanks for the background info. It would be great if this part of modern history was more commonplace in high school curriculums.
Like so many countries in Africa and Asia after the end of Colonialism or Eastern Block countries after the end of the Soviet Union, there were serious ethnic conflicts that had to be resolved before these countries could function as independent countries. In Sri Lanka, this situation resulted in a Civil War.
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Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21
I remember when it was happening and MIA was doing everything she could to shed light on the atrocities. She went on Bill Maher who accused her of being an ignorant shill for terrorists. Funny how American conservatives always flock to the defense of whatever military is trying to quietly commit genocide in someone else's country. EDIT - I guess Maher is a liberal? Sorry.
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u/mrfudface Apr 21 '21
I wouldn't be suprised. What is his view on US Soldiers? Does he "Thank you for your service" those guys, that also clearly commit War Crimes?
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u/DrewDotson7 Apr 21 '21
Bill Maher is far from a Conservative
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u/yosoyabcd Apr 21 '21
Bill Maher is a liberal.
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u/signherehereandhere Apr 22 '21
'Mericans, please expand your view of the political sphere beyond liberal Vs conservative
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u/WitheredBambi Apr 22 '21
We are here but man it’s hard sometimes; far left/right make it seem like you have to pick a side.
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 21 '21
MIA Funded the terrorist groups and that used to kill babies in other communities.
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Apr 21 '21
Bill Maher is actually a liberal, and also a gigantic asshole
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u/Uncle_Daddy_Kane Apr 21 '21
He's a smarmy cockfaced douchebag first. His liberalism is just what's allowed him to keep doing his shitty show that for some godless reason hasn't been canceled
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u/censorinus Apr 22 '21
I believe he only claims to be a liberal. Look at what they do, not what they claim to be. Without knowing who he is you could put him on Fox News or OAN and he would fit in just fine. And he's good friends with Ann Coulter! I would bet they have a lot of interesting bedtime conversations...
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u/joshuatx Apr 22 '21
He's def a posterchild for r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM - he was pretty anti-Bush and liberal and got backlash but since Obama and Trump he's slipped into a really privileged, out of touch and irrelevant old boomer who happens to lean liberal on social issues.
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u/RajReddy806 Apr 22 '21
Any group that uses child soldiers is a Terrorist group. Bill Maher was correct when he said that LTTE was a terrorist group. One need not be liberal to say so, one just needs to be intelligent to understand that bringing children in to war is a strict no-no.
I think that one cannot understand the whole story just by watching a 50 minute documentary. The documentary which does not talk about the view point from both sides.
Other than China, western countries such as Britain and some Scandinavian countries were also involved in the war.
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u/mikotoqc Apr 21 '21
This was hard to watch. I cant understand how human do this to other human. Its disgusting.
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u/TheToastyWesterosi Apr 21 '21
I'm assuming the depiction of death/torture/etc is pretty bad, but how graphic is it?
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u/alistahr Apr 21 '21
Like, children with blown heads graphic.
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u/TheToastyWesterosi Apr 21 '21
Thanks for saving me the risky click of the day. I’ve gotta be in the right mind space to see that kind of stuff, and I just ain’t there today.
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u/aohige_rd Apr 21 '21
Dead naked bodies clearly violated and tortured as well, while the perpetrators laughed about the rape and took selfies
Thank god the resolution of the camera was crappy or I'd have lost my lunch
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u/nTesla2020 Apr 23 '21
FYI, the women in the post thumbnail in this video is newsreader who is shown raped, naked and killed. So its that graphic.
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u/awebig Apr 21 '21
I keep hearing that the last 20 years have seen less war, than any other time in history... I gotta say, that must have been some kind of nasty hell world.
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u/the_real_MSU_is_us Apr 22 '21
No, not "no doubt" lol
Money. Political power. Resources. land. Ego. Racism All of these have been causes of war.
Religion can cause tensions, and it can be twisted to help drum up support for war among the masses. But it isn't the "creator" of war in the vast majority of cases.
For example, it wasn't why ww1 happened, or ww2, or Korea, or Vietnam, of the Gulf war, or what Russia is doing in Ukraine, or what China keeps doing to its neighbors, but you can say Islam creating extremists caused Iraq/Afghanistan if you want too.
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u/MachiavellianKarp Apr 22 '21
Nope. Originally stoked by colonial meddling and mismanagement that escalated into ethnic tensions, further fuelled by postcolonial elites with megalomaniacal agendas. The only "no doubt" is that innocents and civilians suffered immensely...
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u/buddhist-truth Apr 22 '21
People often forget this is one reaction to crimes committed by terrorists for 30 fucking years
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u/SirGallahadnt Apr 21 '21
This has to be one of the most grotesque things I’ve seen in a while. From what I understand it was more of a genocide and less of a “civil war.” I hope the victims are in a better place now.