Sri Lanka's Killing Fields

This film from Austrailian TV explores the Sri Lankan government's commision of war crimes against Tamil dissidents during the 2009 "wiping out" phase of its war Tamil forces. 

The destruction of the Tamil Tigers is one of the many stories world-wide that illustrates the far-reaching effects of the U.S.'s post-9/11 war on terrorism.  According to the Sri Lankan government, their ruthless military elimination of the Tamil Tigers is an example of how to apply the U.S.'s war-on-terrorism poicy to so-called internal security threats.  If one studies this claim in the context of the recent militarization of India's anti-Maoist policies, and also  in the context of the civil war-like conflicts within Pakistan that have been stirred by the U.S.'s post-9/11 policies there,  one soon recognizes that the White House's lack of concern (no matter who's in office) for its actions' consequences is having a destabilizing effect on this whole region.