Sri Lanka: ‘Take Advantage of Bitterly Disappointing UN Deferral’
Callum MacraePulitzer Center grantee Callum Macrae, director of "No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka" discusses the need for justice and accountability in this opinion piece for the...
View ArticleSri Lanka: Tamil Mother Is Refused Bail Despite Pleas to President
Callum MacraeIt should have been a great opportunity for the new Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena—on the eve of his visit to the UK—to show the international community that his government is...
View ArticleCallum Macrae on BBC World Service to discuss 'No Fire Zone'
Callum MacraeAward-winning documentary filmmaker Callum Macrae talks on BBC World Service about his documentary film "No Fire Zone," which tells the story of the final 138 days of the 26-year Sri Lanka...
View ArticleStalling Justice in Sri Lanka
Callum MacraeThe timetable may be slipping, but still Sri Lanka’s new government has been hailed for arresting the country’s rapid descent into the quagmire of corruption, repression and Sinhala ethnic...
View Article'Tortured' UK Asylum Seeker Gets Deportation Reprieve
Callum MacraeA Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker who claims to have suffered extensive torture before escaping to the UK has won a last minute reprieve just hours before he was due to be forcibly deported...
View ArticleSri Lanka’s Challenge: An Interview with the Director of No Fire Zone
Rarely does a film launch take place at Britain’s House of Commons, but there seemed no more appropriate venue for the official release last week of the Sinhala translation of the politically charged...
View ArticleSri Lanka Massacred Tens of Thousands of Tamils While the World Looked Away
Callum MacraeTo the Tamils of northeast Sri Lanka and to much of their global diaspora, Isaipriya was a star: a presenter and actress who came to symbolize the Tamil resistance.She was beautiful, and...
View ArticleFilm Screening of 'Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice'
Join filmmaker Callum Macrae on Friday, Sept. 11, for a New York screening of Sri Lanka: The Search for Justice, his latest documentary on the final bloody days of the Sri Lankan civil war. The...
View ArticleFilmmaker Callum Macrae at Press Briefing on 'Sri Lanka: Search for Justice'
The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) hosts award-winning filmmaker Callum Macrae in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at a press briefing and screening of his latest film Sri Lanka: The Search for...
View ArticleAmerica's Sri Lankan Dilemma
Callum MacraeMangala Samaraweera, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, is a persuasive and very probably sincere man. On Monday, he delivered a keynote speech to the opening session of the UN Human Rights...
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