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Darfur Diaries: Filmmakers Return From Sudan to Bring Stories of Oppression and Survival
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Friday called for the disarming of government-backed militias in Darfur. We speak with three young filmmakers about their journey into Darfur where they interviewed refugees living in camps in the harshest of conditions and produced the documentary, "Darfur Diaries."
On Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - Louise Arbour - warned that unless the Sudanese Government disarmed militias operating in West Darfur, there would be more attacks like those that occurred last month. Those attacks left over 50 people dead - including 27 children under the age of 12. Thousands more were displaced.
The United Nations said in a report last week that there were indications that Sudan's military participated in the attacks. It said witnesses identified the 300 to 500 attackers as Arabs riding on horseback, wearing green camouflage military uniforms and armed with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
More than 200,000 people have been killed - and 2.5 million displaced - in fighting between rebels and government-backed militias since early 2003. A 7,000-strong African Union contingent is conducting a peacekeeping mission in the region with logistic support from NATO. The U.N. Security Council voted in August to send over 20,000 peacekeepers to Darfur to replace the African Union force -- but Sudan has rejected the decision.
Our guests today traveled to the refugee camps in eastern Chad and the Zaghawa tribal region of northern Darfur in October 2004. They snuck across the border between Chad and Sudan and remained behind rebel lines. They interviewed refugees living in camps in the harshest of conditions and produced the documentary "Darfur Diaries: Message from Home." We plan excerpt and speak with the filmmakers.
* Darfur Diaries - excerpt of documentary.
* Jen Marlowe, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Marlowe also facilitates a youth peace-building project in Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegovina.
* Aisha Bain, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Bain is the Asia Program Associate at Global Rights: Partners for Justice, where she works on women's rights in India and environmental rights in Mongolia.
* Adam Shapiro, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Shapiro is an organizer with the International Solidarity Movement. He has spent extensive time in Palestine. After the US invasion of Iraq began, he traveled to Baghdad to film a documentary called "About Baghdad."
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/1517220
The United Nations said in a report last week that there were indications that Sudan's military participated in the attacks. It said witnesses identified the 300 to 500 attackers as Arabs riding on horseback, wearing green camouflage military uniforms and armed with AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.
More than 200,000 people have been killed - and 2.5 million displaced - in fighting between rebels and government-backed militias since early 2003. A 7,000-strong African Union contingent is conducting a peacekeeping mission in the region with logistic support from NATO. The U.N. Security Council voted in August to send over 20,000 peacekeepers to Darfur to replace the African Union force -- but Sudan has rejected the decision.
Our guests today traveled to the refugee camps in eastern Chad and the Zaghawa tribal region of northern Darfur in October 2004. They snuck across the border between Chad and Sudan and remained behind rebel lines. They interviewed refugees living in camps in the harshest of conditions and produced the documentary "Darfur Diaries: Message from Home." We plan excerpt and speak with the filmmakers.
* Darfur Diaries - excerpt of documentary.
* Jen Marlowe, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Marlowe also facilitates a youth peace-building project in Mostar, Bosnia-Hercegovina.
* Aisha Bain, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Bain is the Asia Program Associate at Global Rights: Partners for Justice, where she works on women's rights in India and environmental rights in Mongolia.
* Adam Shapiro, filmmaker of "Darfur Diaries." Shapiro is an organizer with the International Solidarity Movement. He has spent extensive time in Palestine. After the US invasion of Iraq began, he traveled to Baghdad to film a documentary called "About Baghdad."
LISTEN ONLINE:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/13/1517220
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