The Listening Post – ‘The war you don’t see’
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEyOe2_fAE
John Pilger’s The War You Don’t See
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htvIN7G_GVg&feature=player_embedded
relevant article by John Pilger at
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/46384
WikiRebels – The Documentary (4/4)
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imkYy_hJ4E&feature=related
WikiRebels – The Documentary (3/4)
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6TRb40Km6A&feature=related
WikiRebels – The Documentary (2/4)
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRF3gYxz1XQ&feature=related
WikiRebels – The Documentary (1/4)
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhTfOL9_HBE&feature=player_embedded
암흑시대전사들 타이레드셔츠
2010년 3-5월 방콕 중심가에서 의회해산과 총선 실시를 요구하며 시위를 벌이다 유혈진압당한 ‘타이레드셔츠’에 대한 멀티미디어 기록입니다. 같은 해 7월, 제 6회 인천여성영화제에서 상영된 바 있습니다. 일부 이미지는 이전 해에 찍은 것입니다.
The multimedia on Thai Red Shirts and the April-May bloody crackdown on them is primarily for Korean audiences with Korean subtitle as it was screened at the 6th Incheon Women’s Film Festival in South Korea in July 2010. A few images in it were taken previous years. All rights reserved @ Lee Yu Kyung
War Stories – Sri Lanka
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozDzKTsVcCY
Channel 4 : Sri Lanka Tamil killings ‘ordered from the top’
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JMB_ltEjV0&feature=player_embedded
Absurd sequences powered by Emergency Decree
Bangkok, July 25
Yesterday, I’ve come across a story about 16 year old student in Chiang Rai, Northern Thailand, where the teenager and four other students – mostly university students – have publicly carried out banners, among which was “I saw the dead at Rachaprasong” (‘Rachaprasong’ used to be a main protest site of Thai Red Shirts-ed) on July 16. They were reportedly organized the gathering on July 16 through Facebook, the social network which is watched by a ‘vigilant’ authority in Thailand.
Photo by "Chiang Rai power"
Photo by "Chiang Rai power"
Their activity seemed to rub the ‘all (or ill) powerful’ authority, which could not spare even the minor. The 16 year old boy, the student of DramRongRatchaSongKro Chiang Rai – secondary school – and his family have been under enormous pressure, as they were called and interrogated by police in repeat.
Photo by "Chiang Rai power"
According to sources, students who participated this humble gathering reported themselves to Center for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (or CRES) on July 18. They will have to turn in again to CRES on July 30. However, the 16 year old boy was interrogated by uninvited police at his home next day. Police took his notebook and some documents at the time.
This absurdity is, obviously a creation powered by Emergency Decree. Three of those participants were reportedly issued arrest warrants for violation the Decree. The violation against rights to write such as ‘I saw the dead at Rachaprasong…’ and hold the banner in five persons together is one of the sequent episodes in the country. On July 18 one NGO activist named Nathee Sornwaree at Rachaprasong was taken by undercover police as he was shouting something similar to “I saw people shot at..” Thailand, where the Decree has been applied to each and every critical piece, has become a subject of ‘serious gossip’ among rights groups and journalists.
Despite strong recommendations from various parties, including the government appointed-National Reform Committee led by the former PM Anand Panyarachun, there’s little sign that the decree will be lifted sooner than later. There’s a word of ‘gradually’ (lift of the decree) spelled by Prime Minister according to AFP (http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iylC73MOWOw7kZuNfTFRTg71bt8A), while scrutiny as well as censorship on ‘off and online’ have been persistent.
Please read more regarding the issue above mentioned, reported by Matichon in Thai at
http://www.matichon.co.th/news_detail.php?newsid=1279874111&grpid=01&catid
and in english at http://asiancorrespondent.com/bangkok-pundit-blog/what-happens-when-you-say-you-saw-dead-people
which is the only english article as of early morning of July 25. Neither the self-claimed ‘the world’s window to Thailand’ Bangkok Post, nor ‘independent’ or ‘insightful’ The Nation has not reported it ‘yet’.
Nathee Sornwaree’s case at Rachaprasong is also available from Youtube at
or
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/newmandala/2010/07/18/reconciliation-thai-style/#comments
Update of the issue of 16 year old boy might be following coming days.
- Penseur21-
Riz Khan: Sri Lanka’s ethnic divisions
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3HP3Nvigg&feature=channel
101 East – A new Sri Lanka
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGQqwcxA6cg
Thailand in Crisis – 6 – Hongsaton, Busbarat and Akarapongpisak: Thailand’s future
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SbUfYbMdOI&feature=player_embedded
The Rageh Omaar Report – Thailand: A Year of Living Dangerously
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63kIxVYhUYE
Democracy Now : Exclusive interview with Iara Lee
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlkj7gUl0wc
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuODT3cPSGU&feature=related
or http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/10/exclusive_journalist_smuggles_out_video_of
Press Released: Unedited Footage from Mavi Marmara of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
June 11, 2010
MEDIA ALERT:
JUST RELEASED: ONE HOUR OF FOOTAGE FROM MAVI MARMARA Footage taken aboard largest ship in Gaza Freedom Flotilla in hour before and during raid by Israeli military
New York, NY
A full hour of raw footage taken aboard the Mavi Marmara in the hour leading up to and during the Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla has just been made available to view at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsMJmvS0AY
The footage is also available for download at: http://tinyurl.com/flotilla-footage/
Despite the Israeli government’s efforts to confiscate all of the footage taken during the attack, CULTURES OF RESISTANCE filmmaker Iara Lee was able to smuggle one hour of footage back to the United States and is releasing it raw to the public today.
Yesterday at the United Nations, Ms. Lee presented the footage for the first time to the international press corps after the following statement:
“I want first to thank the United Nations Correspondents Association for organizing this event on such short notice.
“My name is Iara Lee. I am a dual U.S.-Brazilian citizen of Korean descent. I am a filmmaker and a human rights activist.
“I decided to join the Freedom Flotilla after going to Gaza a few months ago and seeing first hand the devastation there. After hearing the pleas of the people living in Gaza to have the blockade lifted, I felt I must do something.
“The Gaza Freedom Flotilla was on a humanitarian mission. We expected to be deterred from delivering our aid to Gazans, but we did not expect to be attacked.
“We started filming from the moment we boarded the Mavi Marmara right through the Israeli assault on the ship. Although all of our equipment was confiscated, we managed to smuggle this footage out.
“Mine is high-definition footage of the Flotilla attack and also the only sustained footage of the ship and its passengers preceding the deadly Israeli commando raid. Watching this raw, unedited footage, you will get a sense of the mood on the ship and of the passengers on it.
“Undoubtedly, many of you will be scrutinizing it for clues to resolve the mysteries that still surround what happened that fateful night.
“During this past week the Israeli government has repeatedly alleged that these passengers — or some of them — laid a trap for Israel, duped the Israeli military, and plotted a lynching. Israel has repeatedly alleged that we were anti-Semitic Muslim fanatics connected to terrorist organizations.
“In fact, the passengers on our mission came from many countries and religious and ethnic backgrounds. Our one common denominator was that we wanted to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by highlighting the injustice of Israel’s blockade.
“Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “This wasn’t the ‘love boat,’ this was a flotilla of terror supporters.” Our footage will help you decide whether we were a love boat or a hate boat. You will see secular and devout passengers. You will see people at prayer and people working at their laptops.
“Was this a lynch-mob moved by hatred of Israelis or was it a cross-section of humanity moved by the plight of Gaza? Did we lay a trap for the Israeli commandos or did they unnecessarily attack us? Did we take them by surprise or did they take us by surprise?
“Do you see a premeditated ambush, or do you see some passengers using items at hand to protect themselves from an unprovoked assault by heavily armed commandos?
“You decide.”
CONTACT:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000928581236
source : http://www.culturesofresistance.org/press-release-flotilla-footage
Israeli Attack on the Mavi Marmara // Raw Footage
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsMJmvS0AY&feature=player_embedded
more at http://www.culturesofresistance.org/gaza-freedom-flotilla
Thailand in Crisis – 3 – Hilary Charlesworth, Tyrell Haberkorn on human rights
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL-jWO8di44&feature=player_embedded
Thailand in Crisis – 2 – Crackdown on the Red Shirts and who killed Seh Daeng?
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G94uSuQxSA0&feature=player_embedded
The Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising(final).flv
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd2-9Nracuc
Video from CNN.What really happened in Bangkok. june 1. 2010.
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-tbW5grcdQ
Thai Reds Shirts at BonKai May2010
Bon Kai was one of the heavist fighting zones in latest violence of Bangkok Thailand from May 13 to May 19. Much of what have happened during this period as well as previous days while Red Shirts in a street for more than two months are murky, debated, reputed in this divided country. One of the debates is about whether Red Shirts were ‘armed’ or not, particularly with ‘war weapons’.
To my witness Red Shirts protesters were largely unarmed. Those who involved in fighting army were ‘armed’ with home-made ‘weapons’, notably sling shots and tires, which are no matchable to army’s bullets, including live rounds. Other than seeing those infamous ‘black men with machine gun’ on April 10 (see my photo story of ‘Towards Democracy or Civil War), I haven’t seen any weapons, but was told by one Japanese photographer that he’s seen one Red guard having shot gun. Aljazeera correspondent also reported about it.
In fact, it has been often difficult from which direction gun fires originated. Snipers chipped in chaotic gun fire, I assumed. But I think death toll and casualties, absolute majority were protesters’ side, would tell about this to some extend. And the following clip, which I took at Bon Kai between on 15 – 17 May, would bring a piece of sense to you.
- Penseur21 -
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkzM9Bt09oI
Violence in Thailand BBC Democracy Live 20May 2010
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMlbFwEM7uQ&NR=1
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlt5uvGVmxc&feature=related
Inside Story – Thailand on the edge
source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_91YdFJtIc&feature=related
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