Anders Østergaardʼs award‐winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Burma through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma. While 100,000 people (including 1,000s of Buddhist monks) took to the streets to protest the country’s repressive regime that has held them hostage for over 40 years, foreign news crews were banned to enter and the Internet was shut down. The Democratic Voice of Burma, a collective of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) recorded these historic and dramatic events on handy cams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite. Risking torture and life imprisonment, the VJs vividly document the brutal clashes with the military and undercover police – even after they themselves become targets of the authorities. This documentary is a living proof of how the Burma’s Junta (illegitimate military government of Burma) brutally cracked down the peaceful protests of Buddhist monks, nuns, and civilians of all ages, all religions, and killed in cold blood. You will witness the vicious act of the government’s men taken on its own (armless) people as they did many times before, once again in September 2007.
*** Free Admission *** When : Sunday, September 27, 2009 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Where : Baldwin Park Performing Arts Center 4640, Maine Ave Baldwin Park, CA 91706
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