This compilation of 8 documentaries shot between 2002 and 2006 by a videographers collective, aims at laying bare the brutal military dictatorship of Than Shwe and the SPDC which oppresses over forty million Burmese people, and their struggle for freedom and democracy in one of the most repressive regimes in the world. The videos titles are: Shoot on Sight: The Ongoing Military Junta Offensive Against Civilians in Eastern Burma (2006), Season of Fear: Internally Displaced People in Burma Call for International Action (2006), Always on the Run: Internally Displaced People in Karen State (2005), No Place to Go: Internally Displaced Persons in Burma (2002), Entrenched Abuse: Forced Labor in Burma (2004), Dammed Lives (2006), Voices from the Salween Valley: The Real Story Behind the Dam (2004), From Prison to Frontline: Portering for SPDC Troops (2005).

Produzione / Production Burma Issues, WITNESS
Anno di produzione / Year of production 2002-2006
Durata / Running time
Formato / Format DVD

Burma Issues is a project that functions as part of the Peaceway Foundation. It works to help grassroots movements organize and document their struggles. The project works directly with the grassroots communities, the most oppressed and marginalized ones in Burma, and focuses specifically on the tasks of movement building, education and community organizing. It also acts as an information center and campaign for peace.

Witnesswas founded in 1992 by musician and activist Peter Gabriel. Struck by the stories he heard from survivors of human rights abuses while on tour with Amnesty Int.’s tour “Human Rights Now!” and the lack of attention these stories received, he decided to use the potential of video as a tool against abuse. Today, WITNESS is an independent nonprofit organization with offices in Brooklyn, New York and human rights partners based around