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Subject: A new release video documentary on Burma
"CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE"
A video documentary by IMAGES ASIA/Thailand
Available on VHS PAL and NTSC systems
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Caught in the Crossfire is a stirring short documentary about the
human rights abuses of women in Burma, perpetrated by the Burmese
military. The footage and interviews with Burmese women and Burmese
soldiers, were documented along the Thailand-Burma border between 1994
and 1995. Many of the interviews were conducted after the release of Daw
Aung San Suu Kyi, and show that, as the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
stated: "I have been released. That's all. Nothing else has changed."
Told through the voices of the women themselves, this documentary
emphasises the important experiences of women, their struggle, fear and
courage. These testimonies, inter-cut with sequences from their everyday
lives in the war zones and refugee camps, clearly portray the reality of
their situation. These are contrated with United Nations conventions
concerning women's rights, to further illustrat that women in Burma,
especially in the border areas, are subject to wide-scale human rights
abuses.
Caught in the Crossfire was designed as one in the three-part
documentary video series, with study-guides, to be used as an education
kit about the human rights and environmental situation in Burma. Despite
initial problems with the Chinese authorities, the video was premiered at
the United Nations Women's Conference in Beijing in September 1995.
IMAGES ASIA is a non-governmental organization which is currently in the
process of completing parts one and three of the video series, and the
accompanying study-guides. Your support in purchasing this video as a
lobbying and awareness-raising tool, will enable IMAGES ASIA to conclude
this important work. It will also enable other people to become
interested and active about the human rights and environmental situation
in Burma.
To place and order please choosing your method of delivering, and
send it to IMAGES ASIA.
Images Asia
P.O. Box 2, Phrasingha Post Office
Muang, Chiangmai 50200
Thailand
Fax:(66-53) 406-155 or by E-mail above.
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Price per video includes postage:
By Air: within 2 weeks
North America Europe/Scan Asia/Pacific
US$ 45 Pound 30 (U.K) US$ 40
The payment can be in cashiers cheque to Images Asia, thank you in advance
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