Sri Lanka Report, Human Rights Violations Against Tamils in Sri lanka Exclusive: a senior Sri Lankan army commander and frontline soldier tell Channel 4 News that point-blank executions of Tamils at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war were carried out under orders. It was a decisive end to a brutal 30-year war in which both sides stand accused of war crimes. The final showdown in Sri Lanka's war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was as bloody as the campaign the Tigers had waged for a Tamil homeland. A year ago, they were finally cornered, along with 100000 civilians in their ever-shrinking coastal enclave, ironically called the "No-Fire Zone". Despite allegations of war crimes, one year on Sri Lanka's government had managed to avoid an independent inquiry. But the evidence continues to mount. "Yes, our commander ordered us to kill everyone. We killed everyone."Sri Lankan soldier In August 2009 Channel 4 News obtained video evidence, later authenticated by the United Nations, purporting to show point-blank executions of Tamils by uniformed Sri Lankan soldiers. Now a senior army commander and a frontline soldier have told Channel 4 News that such killings were indeed ordered from the top. One frontline soldier said: "Yes, our commander ordered us to kill everyone. We killed everyone." And a senior Sri Lankan army commander said: "Definitely, the order would have been to kill everybody and finish them off. "I don't think we wanted to keep any hardcore ...