I wasn't expecting this question. I think there's a lot that needs investigating and documenting. It's okay for journalists like Channel 4 or me to make films, but you really need lawyers to go in and take witness statements and categorize and look at the patterns of these historical crimes and the ongoing ones in particular. Obviously, with priority on the ongoing ones because one hopes they could be stopped.
I think it has to be that the Sri Lankan government responds more to pressure. It needs obviously a lot more pressure to stop what's going on, a lot more publicity about what's actually happening. The extent of some of the things that are going on is so horrific, and that happened in the war, like the deliberate targeting of hospitals, that it's actually very difficult for people to stretch their imaginations to conceive these things. Because it wasn't reported at the time, because we didn't have the BBC and CNN and what have you there, it sort of disappeared from public consciousness.
I personally think that what happened during the CHOGM meeting, with David Cameron going to Jaffna and sort of stealing the show and talking about the disappeared and the Channel 4 film and so on, certainly in the U.K. it pushed Sri Lanka much more into the mainstream consciousness. People who probably thought I was a little eccentric to be interested in Sri Lanka will come up to me and say, “Oh, great, now I can get why you were so worked up about this”. That's a huge step forward, in a way. More moved in the last week or two than in the last four and a half years in terms of ordinary people being aware. That's something, but that was almost by accident.