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28 Apr 2010

Video: You Are Turkish (2010)

‘You ARE Turkish’ is a multimedia piece that tries to communicate how it felt to be Kurdish in Turkey during the 80s and the 90s. It tells the stories of torture, forced migration and a banned language. It is photographed in south east Turkey, the predominantly Kurdish region, and in northern Iraq where the famous... Read more »
24 Jun 2011

Greece, human rights emergency on border

Every country has its dark places, some darker than others, and in greater contrast to the tourists appreciation of the beauty of the landscape and graciousness of the people. The dark places in Greece, darker than any tourist would know, are revealed in two horrifying reports published in March. One is by Manuel Nowak, the... Read more »
24 Mar 2010

Undermining Rights

‘Undermining Rights’ is a video by Amnesty International highlighting state abuses in Papua New Guinea. State police forces beat and abused local people near the world’s largest gold mines.  
26 Apr 2010

Video: Armenia The Betrayed

‘Armenia The Betrayed’ is a 2003 BBC documentary on the Armenian Genocide “In a special Correspondent to coincide with Holocaust memorial week, Fergal Keane investigates how a terrible slaughter, three quarters of a century ago, has returned to haunt the relationship between Turkey and its western allies. For decades the Armenian people have campaigned to... Read more »
26 Apr 2010

Video: Pol Pot Interviewed by Nate Thayer (1997)

Pol Pot led the Khmer Rouge regime which killed an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians through starvation, disease and deliberate murder. After provoking Vietnam to invade Cambodia in 1979 he continued to lead what remained of the Khmer Rouge in the territory it controlled near the Thai border, until his own organization arrested him for the... Read more »
27 May 2010

Video: The Coconut Revolution (2001)

In November 1988, radical activists associated with the Panguna Landowners Association initiated a campaign of industrial sabotage in an effort to close down a copper and gold mine in Papua New Guineas North Solomons Province. In response, the Papua New Guinean state ordered a series of punitive police raids during March and April 1989. As... Read more »