Spotlight on: Lions and Tigers the Sri Lanka Conflict

In the wake of the world’s deadliest natural disaster, villagers in rural Sri Lanka are helpless to rebuild their communities amidst a thirty-year-old civil war.  Every day, children are kidnapped in broad daylight and conscripted into paramilitary gangs bent on terrorizing their way to power.  Frequent suicide bombings and province-wide curfews make it impossible for thousands of refugees to find any hope of recovery. With no one to turn to and nowhere to run, countless civilians become lost in this darkness. 

Now, for the first time, their voices will be heard.  Lions and Tigers shares the plight of war-torn Sri Lankans with exclusive access into remote areas of the conflict; documenting an incredibly enduring way of life virtually unknown to the western world. Chronicling the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the collapse of the international ceasefire treaty, and the defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels in Eastern Sri Lanka, Lions and Tigers provides an uprecedented look at one of the world's gravest humanitarian crises.