The dead calm of Sri Lanka

British Channel 4's expose, Sri Lanka's Killing Fields, coincided with the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The video footage allegedly includes bullet marks on the body of a twelve-year-old boy, who is allegedly slain LTTE leader Prabhakaran’s son. Sri Lanka's civil war ended in 2009 when the government troops crushed the rebelling Tamil Tigers. Both sides have been accused of committing war crimes in the final stages of the decisive conflict. The United States has put a resolution before the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva, urging the Sri Lankan government to investigate those allegations and seek reconciliation. India seemed tentative over which side to go with. After many a lawmaker protest, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa’s letter and the DMK’s protests to the prime minister, the PM told the Lok Sabha on March 19, that the government was “intending” to vote in favour of the US-backed resolution against Sri Lanka. As India finalises its vote, we bring you a photo essay, shot in northern parts of Sri Lanka by Divakar Mani, a freelance cameraperson from Chennai who spent a few weeks in Sri Lanka shooting a documentary for Al Jazeera. The text details a chronology of this human tragedy through an array of UN documents.