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BURMA PROJECT VIDEOS
Beyond Rangoon
Produced by NBC Dateline, 10 minutes.
An introduction to the political conflict in Burma, including
an interview with Aung San Suu Kyi.
Beyond
Rangoon
Feature Film, 1995. 100 minutes.
Political uprising, democracy movement, human rights abuses
Burma
Diary
Documentary, 1992. 55 minutes.
Democracy/Resistance Movement, Civil War, ChildrenÍs Rights
Abuses
The
Field Afar
Episode of a television series. 26 minutes.
Ethnic Cleansing, Refugees, Religion. Produced by Maryknolls
fathers.
The
Heroin Wars, Parts 1-3
Documentary by Bullfrog Films.
This 3-part series was filmed by Adrian Cowell and Chris Menges
who went to the mountainous Shan region of eastern Burma.
They filmed the Shan revolutionary forces in their bloody
civil war against the military dictatorship of Burma. They
show that the Shan had one choice in order to fund their liberation:
opium.
Road
to Nowhere
Documentary film by Images Asia. 1999. 35 minutes.
Documentary Forced labor in Burma, in the context of the ILO
Commission of Inquiry findings. Examines the impacts of tourism
and foreign investment as well.
Sacrifice
Documentary by Ellen Bruno. 50 minutes
The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years
as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human
rights abuses, war and ethnic clensing have displaced thousands
of families; an offer of employment in Thailand is a rare
chance for many families to escape extreme poverty. Sacrifice
examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work
in the trafficking of Burmese girls into prostitution in Thailand.
Unocal
in Burma
Produced by ABC Nightline, 3/28/2000, 22 min.
The story UNOCAL, the U.S. oil company that is the lead investor
in an oil pipeline in Burmas southeast region. Human rights
activists accuse UNOCAL of complicity with the Burmese military
in the displacement of thousands of villagers, environmental
destruction of the region, and forced labor.
Compiled
by Katrina Anderson, Global Source Education, 2001
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