Journey To Afghanistan: Voices Of Hope - CBC - Our World

******************************************************************************* CBC - Our World Journey To Afghanistan: Voices Of Hope ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Type.................: documentary More Information.....: (none) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Information ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source...............: NTSC CABLE AVI Size.............: 360,728,576 bytes Duration.............: 00:22:33 FPS..................: 29.97 Video Codec..........: XviD Codec DCT......: H263 QPel...........: No GMC............: No Video Bitrate........: 2000 (ABR) Video Resolution.....: 640x464 Video Aspect Ratio...: 1.379 Audio Format.........: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3 Audio Encoder........: LAME 3.92 Bitrate..............: 128kbits/sec (CBR) Hz...................: 48000 Channels.............: Stereo Captured by..........: festering leper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week Brian continues his special broadcast out of a war torn country. For two weeks he travelled from the exotic and booming capital, Kabul to the hinterland, Kandahar, where the Taliban roam the hills. We present in this special series his conversations with remarkable people who are making a difference. This week, we meet a Scottish adventurer, Rory Stewart, who's protecting the treasures of an ancient land, and a former Afghani assassin working to save youth from following his bloody example. These are voices of hope in a land at the crossroads of history. Brian writes: "Preserving Afghanistan's heritage has become the overwhelming passion of a truly remarkable Scottish adventurer and writer Rory Stewart. Stewart (no relation) has just published a book on Afghanistan, "The Places In Between", hailed as a "modern masterpiece à almost too good to be true" by the New York Times. A former soldier and diplomat, Stewart set out in 2002 to walk alone across Afghanistan just as the Taliban were forced from power. This was a wildly dangerous exercise, staggering in its daring, but one which brought him almost uniquely close to the Afghan people and culture. Rory Stewart has now founded The Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul to help this nation conserve what it has every right to feel proud of à I met this most unusual man who is dapper, yet tough as steel, at his foundation headquarters outside Kabul." Another remarkable person that Brian interviews is Neamat Arghand, an ex- Mujahideen-turned-youth worker. Brian writes" It still comes as a shock to me to meet people here, now well into their 30's, who really cannot remember a time of peace and whose youth was forever blighted by war. But Neamat Arghand is not someone who seeks or even expects our sympathy. Arghand grew up fighting the Soviet invasion over 20 years ago. As a Mujahideen guerrilla he became an assassin and a bomber. He killed many people, without much regret at the time. This was so typical of youth drawn into insurgencies. Today, however, he's come to reject violence --- and now seeks to prevent local youth in Kandahar Province from joining the Taliban. He's established an Islamic volunteer group which seeks to find work for impoverished and rootless youth repairing the local irrigation canals crumbling through neglect. He's helped in this by Canadian troops." What is riveting about this interview is the frankness and direct way that Arghand describes the process by which he was recruited for guerrilla fighting and how poverty plays an essential role in recruitment today. --

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