India on Friday urged Sri Lanka to examine claims made in a British documentary that said it targeted civilians while crushing Tamil Tiger rebels two years ago. The Channel 4 documentary, "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields" aired last month on British television contained footage of what it said were prisoner executions. It also showed the bodies of female Tamil fighters who appeared to have been sexually assaulted by government forces.
Sri Lankan troops defeated the Tamil Tiger guerrillas in May 2009 in a major offensive that attracted widespread allegations that tens of thousands of civilians were killed in the fighting. Sri Lanka has persistently denied that its troops committed war crimes. An Indian foreign ministry spokesman in New Delhi said Colombo must examine the controversy.
"The sequence of events during the last days of the conflict is unclear (and) the government of Sri Lanka would need to go into the matter in greater detail," the foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday. "The concerns that are being expressed in this regard need to be examined," it added.
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