Along with his colleagues in a '' Channel Four News '' team in Sri Lanka during April 2009 , Paton Walsh was deported for their reporting on allegations from the United Nations about sexual abuse in camps of those internally displaced there . The other members of the team , including producers Nevine Mabro and Bessie Du , along with cameraman Matt Jasper , had been one of a handful to report the end of the 25-year war when the military closed in on a tiny strip of land , filled with civilians , in the country 's north east , called the No Fire Zone . After three weeks of coverage , the team ran footage secretly filmed inside the camps , into which Tamil civilians fleeing the fighting had been held . The report so enraged the country 's defence minister , Gotabaya Rajapaksa , that he personally rang Paton Walsh to inform him he and his team would be deported . They were held by police and then taken to the airport , causing the allegations in his report to gain international attention
sexual abuse in camps
Alleged war crimes during the final stages of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Nick Paton Walsh