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BREAKING THE SILENCE
Inside Burma's Resistance |
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A film by Hélène Magny and Pierre Mignault
Canada | 2010 | 75' | 52' |
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The Burmese Junta in power since 1962, has promised elections in 2010. This new documentary clandestinely shot in regions where few foreigners have dared to venture, looks at one of Burma's most dangerous zones ( the Karen region) and meets people hiding in the jungle in order to resist forced relocation by the military regime, disclosing the secret networks of militants fighting along the Thai border, inside and outside of Burma.
For over 20 years, an extreme humanitarian crisis has reigned in Burma. Protected by an army of 400,000 men - huge for a nation with no external enemies - Burma's military government has been waging war on its own people for decades. This film reveals the extent to which the Burmese people are prepared to fight to regain their freedom and institute democracy. We travel to the country's interior to meet peasants, as well as clandestine networks of armed resistance living in exile in Thailand, where determined political and human rights activists are working to combat one of the world's most bloody military dictatorships.
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