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22/04/1995

Six years after thousands of people in Sri Lanka were murdered during government purge of suspected revolutionaries, the relatives of the victims are demanding that the killers be brought to justice. During the period of terror, men and boys were taken from their homes to army camps where they were held and then, it is believed, shot. Reporter George Arney visits one such former camp, and joins a group of relatives as they confront police officers with allegations that the bodies of several young men who "disappeared" in the crackdown are buried in the police station grounds. Plus Edward Stourton looks back on the Mitterrand era as the first round of the French presidential elections gets under way. And David Walter presents an engaging profile of Dom Duarte, a descendant of the Portuguese royal family.

English
  • Originally Aired April 22, 1995
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network BBC Two
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