Every community in Sri Lanka has been affected by Sri Lanka’s civil war – especially children. I filmed there in 2007. The official end of war came in 2009 – but that doesn’t mean that the scars have healed. Children and War from francismead@airpost.net on Vimeo.

Poisoned Chalice: The UN in Iraq. On 19 August 2003 Francis Mead was working as a freelance journalist in Baghdad, reporting on the humanitarian situation with the help of the UN. He was sitting in the UN’s Baghdad headquarters when a suicide truck bomb smashed into the building. He survived unhurt, but 22 others, including…