CBC - Our World - Crackdown in Burma

******************************************************************************* CBC - Our World Crackdown in Burma ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: documentary More Information.....: (none) Part Size............: 15,000,000 bytes Number of Parts......: 22 Archive Format.......: RAR Part Recovery Method.: PAR2 PAR2 Blocks Provided.: 86 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source...............: NTSC CABLE AVI Size.............: 323,346,432 bytes Duration.............: 22:07.673 FPS..................: 29.970 Video Codec..........: XviD 1.2 SMP Codec DCT......: H263 QPel...........: No GMC............: No Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR) Video Resolution.....: 640x464 Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379 Audio Format.........: 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92 Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR) Hz...................: 48000 Channels.............: Stereo Captured by..........: festering leper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week, we look at the crackdown in Burma: the tragic end of a protest movement as a brutal regime turns its guns on its own people. And Brian interviews a top diplomat in Afghanistan on surprising signs that the Taliban's power may on the decline. This week, tragedy hangs over Burma, or as it is also known, Myanmar. Gone, the image of one hundred thousand peaceful demonstrators marching on the streets of Rangoon, to protest against the repressive military dictatorship. For a while, it looked like change might really be ahead for a country that has been closed off from the rest of the world. The marches were the biggest pro democracy protests in a generation. But military gunfire ended all that in a violent crackdown. At first there was video footage of the shootings and the brutal beatings. Now, the dictatorship has cut off most information coming out of the country. Diplomats' reports and news items describe mass arrests; knocks on doors in the middle of the night as soldiers round people up, in many cases, brutally murdering the monks who led the protests. Reports are still sketchy and we're still waiting to hear about the full situation in Myanmar. The CBC's Patrick Brown is one of the few reporters who has been able to get into the country in recent years. He has filed stories on the underground democracy movement and on persecuted minorities there. We present two of his reports, which give insight into the character of the military regime. In the first report, Patrick reflects on the significance of the recent mass protests. The second report, produced seven years ago, includes a very rare interview with the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest for eighteen years. Here at home Canadians remain deeply divided over Afghanistan, as they try to balance their willingness to help a devastated country with their growing alarm about casualties and rising violence. Janice Stein, a leading authority on conflict zones heads one of Canada's largest think tanks on foreign affairs, the Munk Centre for International Studies. She recently returned from a research trip to Afghanistan and has co-authored a much-anticipated book on Canada's involvement called, "The Unexpected War" due out later this month. Brian speaks with her about the mission and what might happen when it ends. Last winter, when Brian was in Kabul, he interviewed Chris Alexander, the UN's top diplomatic troubleshooter in Afghanistan. Alexander is a former Canadian ambassador to Afghanistan and knows the country, where he still works, extraordinarily well. He was recently in Canada, and Brian talked to him about the rumors of peace talks in Afghanistan. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by............: festering leper Posted to............: alt.binaries.multimedia alt.binaries.tv alt.binaries.documentaries alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries alt.binaries.tv.canadian Repost Policy........: None, sorry! (Post'n'Delete) --

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Drakkenfyre (2008-03-29)

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