I'll just introduce myself. My name is Callum Macrae. I am the director of a series of films. I've made three films looking at the human rights situation in Sri Lanka, and in particular, the events of the last few months of the war.
The first two films were made for British television in Sri Lanka's Killing Fields series, and then the most recent one is a feature documentary, No Fire Zone, which looks at the last 138 days of the war, and in particular, presents the evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by both sides, although the vast majority of people who died did die as a result of government shelling.
The films have been cited by the UN as having had a significant role in bringing the attention of the world to what happened. Indeed the most recent film, No Fire Zone, was raised in Parliament by David Cameron, our Prime Minister, who saw it and actually raised the issues in it directly with President Rajapaksa. There is a reason I'm telling you all this; it's fair to say that I'm not a particularly popular person with the regime in Sri Lanka.
I understand that you have had a lot of evidence about particular events and statistics, and material about what's been going on in terms of human rights. I thought it might be most useful, rather than repeating that kind of material, if I could actually describe very specifically what I saw and experienced in terms of media freedom and freedom of expression in Sri Lanka the week before last when I was at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, CHOGM.