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Film, Discussion on The War That Was Supposed To Be Secret
Applied Ethics Institute Hosts Film, Discussion on Sri Lanka
Written By Victoris Lamanna '15, PR Intern
Human rights experts to discuss Sri Lankan civil war
Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu
Utica, NY (12/02/2014) - An island nation once known as a paradise of natural beauty, Sri Lanka has been plagued with the most devastating war crimes in modern history through out its 26-year civil war.Utica College’s Applied Ethics Institute will host a screening of the film, “No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka,” followed by a question and answer session with several human rights experts on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 7 p.m.
The film explores the life of the citizens of Sri Lanka in the final months of the country’s 26-year civil war using raw footage to tell its story. The war began in 1983 and concluded in 2009 when the Sri Lanka government took command of the final area controlled by their counterparts, the Tamil Tiger rebels. Over the course of the 26 years, about 80,000 to 100,000 are estimated to have been killed.
The Sri Lankan government fought to keep the war a secret. International media were kept in the dark while the country’s own reporters and journalists were either killed or exiled. For several months while the world remained ignorant about the war, between 40,000 and 70,000 civilians were killed.
Directed by Callum Macrae, “No Fire Zone” was an official selection in six different film festivals held around the world.
Leading the question and answer seminar will be Gerard R. Francis, MD, Theodore S. Orlin, J.D., and Christopher A. Riddle, Ph.D.
Francis is a psychiatrist who services as president of Well-Minded Global Health Services, LLC, and Well-Minded Global Counseling Services, LLC, as well as medical director of the Associates in Child Counseling and Guidance.
Orlin, Utica College’s Harold T. Clark Jr. Professor Emeritus of Human Rights Scholarship and Advocacy (2005 – 2010), serves as the director of the Human Rights Advocacy Program (HRAP) at UC.
Riddle, assistant professor and chair of philosophy at UC, serves as director of the Applied Eithics Institute, which promotes public discussion of contemporary issues within the community.
The film screening will take place in the Donahue Auditorium in the Gordon Science Center. It is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit utica.edu.
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