Mainly using smuggled footage filmed by citizen journalists at the risk of being arrested or sometimes killed this film shows the story of the 1997 protests against Burma’s military Junta.
The next couple of movies are documentaries so there might be a couple of shortish reviews.
This is pretty powerful stuff. The footage is a bit grainy a lot of the time, all over the place as they’re trying to keep the cameras hidden, but they get the shots that are needed. It’s fucking terrible to be honest.
I have a lot of respect for Buddhism. If there’s one protest you know won’t get violent, at least against others, it’s one led by Buddhist monks and nuns. So obviously its not going to end well for them now is it? Not when your up against a bunch of bullying bastards.
The big question this left me with is why haven’t we sent in an SAS squad to do the necessary against the dicks in charge then the UN to help until a government can be set up? They have an elected leader who isn’t in charge and there is mass popular support. We’re not talking about Iraq here this one would ACTUALLY be relatively simple. It’s terrible that the governments of the so called civilized world haven’t done something. Mind you I’d say the same about Mugabe and a bunch of others around the world, but we could fix one at a time and do some good.
I suppose they don’t have any oil though…
Watch this as it’s important as hell. And I salute the folks in Burma that are still managing to get some footage out and still trying to improve their country. There’s no way I can fully understand how hard it is for the people there.
Next up: The Cove
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