Blake Kerr

Wiliam Blakeley Kerr was born in Ithaca, New York in 1958, attended public schools, Dartmouth College, and SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. Dr. Kerr is the author of Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China's Brutal Crackdown in Tibet, Tibetans Under the Knife, The Suppression of a People: Accounts of Torture and Imprisonment in Tibet (with John Ackerly), and The Angry Skies: A Physician's Journey Into Cambodia's Heart of Darkness. He has also been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Tibetan Review, Utne Reader, and Cultural Survival.

Dr. Kerr's first award-winning documentary film, The Angry Skies: A Cambodian Journey, 117 minutes, won Best Political Documentary in Los Angeles, and Audience Choice for Best Feature Documentaryin New York at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival in 2006, and pressured the Cambodian government to arrest Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan in 2007 for trial in an international tribunal with Cambodian and UN judges.

In 2011, when Dr. Kerr testified at the Spanish National Court against China's past president and prime minister for committing crimes against humanity in Tibet, Judge Ismael Moreno accepted 20 kilos of Dr. Kerr's and John Ackerly's written, audio and video documentation of China's prisons and torture of Tibetan political prisoners in Tibet, and coerced abortions, sterilizations and infanticide at People's Hospitals in Lhasa and remote regions throughout Tibet. Judge Moreno also authorized money for their translation.

In 2014, Judge Moreno found Jiang Zemin, Li Peng, and five other Chinese officials guilty of genocide in Tibet and submitted arrest warrants to Interpol. Five months later, when China pressured Spain to reverse its National Court's decision, Dr. Kerr made the documentary film, Eye of the Lammergeier, 41 minutes, for the court of world opinion, that won Science and Education award in Madrid in 2017, and was nominated for Best Short Documentary, and Best Director of a Short Documentary in Berlin at the Berlin International Filmmaker Festival.