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Reporters Against Power, Ep. 4 - Myanmar
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Fidan arrives in Yangon, Myanmar, on the eve before the latest elections. The military regime has promised fair elections, but who can tell what will really happen?
There is one television station that has committed itself to monitoring the election process and uncovering all irregularities that may occur: The Democratic Voice of Burma. Than Win Htut and the staff of DVB have trained hundreds of citizens all over the country to film with their smartphones during the elections. On election day the system functions flawlessly. The Democratic Voice of Burma has helped in enforcing fair elections by literally controlling the powers that be.
But there is a dark side to the success stories in Myanmar. The new democratic forces have not been very attentive to the Muslim minorities that have been discriminated and killed by Buddhist nationalists. It is not a popular subject, and journalists who draw attention to it can get into a lot of trouble. But in Sittwe, in a closed refugee camp for Muslim Rohingya, a lone blogger manages to send his reports into the world with his smartphone.
Series Description:
A daughter of Turkish immigrants in The Netherlands, Fidan Ekiz visits the courageous people that practice journalism under dictatorship or oppression and becomes a part of their adventurous daily life. After being a news correspondent in Turkey for some years, Fidan returns to The Netherlands and starts making documentaries. At age of 38 she tries to redefine the importance of journalism.
Citation
Main credits
Schaap, Kees (film director)
Oostrom, Anja van (film producer)
Ekiz, Fidan (host)
Other credits
Cinematography, Jan Pieter Tuinstra; editing, J.P. Luijsterburg.
Distributor subjects
Journalism and The PressKeywords
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(twinkling music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd chanting in
foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd cheering)
(speaking in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(light upbeat music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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Nice to meet you.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- So if you click
on VJ and CG layer,
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video journalists and
citizen journalists,
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in this view you could see
that how many VJ and CG
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are all in the country, 83.
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But if you look at that
way under our Facebook,
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DVB News Network,
secret group here,
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364 people in the DVB
News Network secret group.
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You can not find it.
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Secret group.
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Most of them are from our
smartphone journalism training.
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Using everything on a smartphone
and taking video footage
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and edit on their
phone and upload
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to the news network right away.
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But we have thousands
and thousands of friends
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want to help DVB.
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(group chattering
in foreign language)
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If you compare to the
other local media,
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we have the biggest
network and whatever happen
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we can show right away.
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You know, something
like a bomb explosion
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or earthquake or
human rights violation
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and corruption and
abusing and then
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people being oppressed, and
we can highlight a little bit.
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(crowd chattering
in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(gun firing)
(ominous music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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If I would ask you is there
freedom of press in Myanmar,
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what would you say?
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- Well, we have a
little bit freer press
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than we had, say, three
years ago, five years ago,
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but taking a look at the,
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we have this kind of like
freedom on information index
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produced by (speaking
in foreign language),
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the author from
France, they come up
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with yearly
indicator, the index.
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So we were in 2012, we were
at the bottom of the list,
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170 out of 170 countries.
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Third lowest in terms
of press freedom.
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Now where are we?
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145, not bad.
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Little bit of improvement,
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but we still have
a long way to go.
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There's a local electronic
transaction act.
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With the new parliament there
was some sort of attempt
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to change the law or amend it.
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Formally it was 15 years
for one single email.
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- How do you mean an email?
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One single email?
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- If they found one of your
email had some contents
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which are detrimental
to the state
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of the
- Content, yeah.
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- interest of the
state, blah blah blah,
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maybe you are in touch
with some unlawful groups.
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And one of my friend he's
a movie actor, director,
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he got 60 years in
prison for four emails.
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With the 2010 elections
and the new parliament
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the law has been amended.
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Now it's much more relaxed,
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just seven years for
one email. (chuckles)
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- Okay.
- Formerly
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it was, like, 15 years.
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- Which journalists in
Myanmar are most fragile?
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- We all are. (chuckles)
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There can be a knock
on the door every,
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because think about, I'm
gonna talk about myself.
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In a couple of months
I got a phone call.
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Hey, Tiha Saw, can you
come and see us and chat?
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Lasted 75 days in the prison.
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But they just wanted to
ask me some questions.
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But then it could
happen to anybody.
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Still now they could simply
come knock at your door
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and take you away and then
there would be a trial
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or a judiciary case, etc.
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So, everybody seemed to
be, all working journalists
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seem to be taking the
same kind of risk.
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(suspenseful music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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So upstairs?
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(shop owner mumbles)
Upstairs.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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You think the content
of your journal,
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the topics you write about,
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was the reason why you were
arrested, you and your husband?
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- I think so because
we are Muslims
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and we also write about
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the minority,
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especially about the
Muslims of Myanmar.
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I am Myanmar Muslim but
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I want to know the world,
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the other ethnic
groups of Myanmar,
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that we also have the right.
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The right because we live here,
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we survive here,
and we belong here.
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- [Fidan] Since you got
arrested, are you more careful?
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- Yes.
- About these topics?
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- Yes, now I don't write.
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That piece--
- Not at all?
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- Not at all.
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Not because I was too afraid,
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but because I must take care
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because I have two little son.
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So I think I must take care.
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And when the government change
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and if there is a true democracy
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and a true freedom of
expression, I'm a writer.
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I'm a writer.
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(singing in foreign language)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(suspenseful music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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We heard the story
about Midday Sun,
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about two journalists
were being arrested
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because they quoted,
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they say a democratic
movement, activist group.
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How can that be a reason
to arrest journalists?
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- No, this is a
story, it's like that,
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that activist group
issued a statement,
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but it said this Midday Journal,
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all the local
journalists are reported
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the day after the event.
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So they reported
that on the same day
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the organization issued
the announcement,
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so that means that something
like the prearrangement
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between the people
and this group
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to incite unrest in the public.
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You know even you have to--
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- But that's no press freedom.
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- Journalists is not--
- Journalists should be
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free to write about
what they want.
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- But you are comparing our
situation with your country
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with a long history of the
democratization process.
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You have to clearly understand
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although we make the
reform to the democracy,
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our country's situation
is very fragile.
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There's a lot of conflict,
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not between the
ethnic minority group,
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a conflict between most
of the, some religions,
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so that we are entering
uncharted water.
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And we are facing
the very complex
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and very sensitive situation.
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So sometime the journalists,
not only the journalists,
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all the people, all the
politician have to understand
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that our main intention is
not to insult other people
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or not to incite unrest.
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(ominous music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Super] Hi.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(ominous music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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You believe there is a
connection between these monks
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and the police and the military?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(soft ambient music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd cheers)
(crowd applauds)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd cheers)
(crowd applauds)
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- Do you know Geert Wilders?
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- [Fidan] No.
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- Anti-Muslim?
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- Who is this person
he's talking about?
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- He is anti-Muslim.
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- Okay.
- Yeah.
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- You mean Mr. Wirathu?
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- He asking to you do
you know him or not?
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- [Fidan] No.
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- He is the leader,
the first leader
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in Netherlands and
against the Muslims.
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- Wilders, you mean?
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Geert Wilders.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- Yes, he is.
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- Ah, okay.
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He's a friend of yours?
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- Please.
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- Yeah, I know.
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I mean him, yes.
(speaking in foreign language)
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- Geert Wilders.
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- Do you like him?
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(speaking in foreign language)
- I like him.
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- He like him.
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- Ah, okay.
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Well that's a good start.
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(Wirathu laughs)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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So you said you like Wilders?
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Geert Wilders.
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What do you like about
his thoughts, his ideas?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Translator]
Because he is brave.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- You feel like the government
is cooperative towards you?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- So the government
listens to you.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(ominous music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- Aung San Suu Kyi got
elected in 2012 May
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and those violence didn't
start until 12 June.
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Can't you imagine that?
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Before that there
were none at all.
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Okay, then maybe some
sort of minor clashes
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and issues and arguments,
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but no major violence at
all before that point.
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And suddenly it
happened one month
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after Aung San Suu
Kyi got elected.
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- What are you saying, that
they're trying to create chaos?
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- Chaos.
- So they could--
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- So that, so that
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the reform process,
- The strong leaders.
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- the reform process
is slowed down.
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And they wanna put our society--
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- But who are they?
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- The ruling guys.
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The ruling party
and the rich guys
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who are associated
with the ruling party.
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- They just want to
create chaos so they can
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slow down the reform.
- So that,
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slow down reform and their
vested interests are protected.
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(ominous music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Reporter] We are the
only media reporting live.
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Across the--
- The only? Really?
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- Yes.
- Why?
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- Other broadcasters,
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they will report only
election results.
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- [Fidan] Ahh, okay.
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- Because they are under
control of the government.
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- They could limit you
to do this live also,
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but they're not.
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- They can not because
we are not subject
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to this government law
because we are broadcasting
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from outside.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- He is just monitoring
information coming out
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from all kind of sources.
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Not just from cities,
also from ordinary people.
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- Can I see what he's doing?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Reporter] She
is the one, voter.
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She has not casted her vote,
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but the officer
said she has voted.
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So she is complaining
about that.
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With video evidence.
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- [Fidan] Yeah, yeah.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(phone rings)
- Okay.
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- [Fidan] Do you believe the
elections are fair until now?
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I didn't have
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the feeling it was fair.
- Relatively.
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Yeah, relatively.
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Relatively.
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Not that bad.
- Yeah.
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- But not error free.
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- [Fidan] No, no.
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- Let me get back to the studio.
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- Yes, sorry.
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Go!
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(ominous ambient music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
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(crowd clapping rhythmically)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:26:14.440 --> 00:26:14.880
(crowd cheers)
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(crowd roars)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:03.599
(crowd cheers)
00:27:13.240 --> 00:27:14.599
- So yesterday was the most
complicated coverage we ever had
00:27:19.640 --> 00:27:21.080
in the history of DVB live
broadcasting experience.
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:25.360
- How did you feel at
the end of the day?
00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:27.575
- So tired.
00:27:27.599 --> 00:27:28.560
- Yeah, tired.
- We worked
00:27:28.599 --> 00:27:29.480
more than 18 hours yesterday.
00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.599
But many of our reporter
got sick, they got tired,
00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:38.240
they got super exhaust.
00:27:42.120 --> 00:27:43.240
People in the street,
now wherever we go,
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:45.480
you see all of those
satellite dish.
00:27:47.840 --> 00:27:49.000
Really appreciate--
- All the satellite.
00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:50.000
- [Than] Yeah, yeah.
00:27:50.160 --> 00:27:51.599
They come and say thank
you, thank you, thank you.
00:27:52.040 --> 00:27:53.240
- Really, yeah?
- Yeah, they appreciate that.
00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:54.520
- [Fidan] Do you know
how many people watched?
00:27:55.120 --> 00:27:56.560
- One satellite dish mean
one person, one viewer,
00:27:58.240 --> 00:27:59.320
that might be eight
million to 10 millions.
00:28:02.599 --> 00:28:02.880
- Okay.
00:28:03.040 --> 00:28:04.480
- But in some remote area
one satellite dish mean
00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:07.360
hundreds of people watching
in a restaurant, empty house.
00:28:09.480 --> 00:28:10.599
- You feel like you
could help yesterday?
00:28:12.760 --> 00:28:13.400
- Um, yeah.
00:28:14.599 --> 00:28:14.880
- Yeah?
00:28:15.240 --> 00:28:15.680
Or any time now.
00:28:15.840 --> 00:28:16.960
- Yeah, I think
we are as a media,
00:28:19.160 --> 00:28:20.160
we are seriously
helping democratization.
00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:22.680
We are seriously helping this
check and balance system,
00:28:26.360 --> 00:28:27.440
the democracy system
newly forming gradually,
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:30.599
slowly forming.
- Controlling the power.
00:28:31.599 --> 00:28:31.880
- Yeah.
00:28:32.040 --> 00:28:33.120
- You think that if
NLD wins this elections
00:28:36.840 --> 00:28:37.600
will there be major changes?
00:28:38.920 --> 00:28:40.400
Or you think everybody is
exaggerating and it will--
00:28:43.760 --> 00:28:44.240
- I,
00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:45.160
yeah, we have our information,
00:28:45.599 --> 00:28:47.000
we receive information NLD
is winning in some township.
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:51.160
But we can't conclude
at all for the moment
00:28:53.840 --> 00:28:54.960
with, okay, how many
different scenarios--
00:28:56.840 --> 00:28:57.600
(speaking in foreign language)
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(bright orchestral music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:29:48.599 --> 00:29:49.280
Were you born here?
00:29:51.280 --> 00:29:52.040
- Mandalay?
- Yeah.
00:29:52.200 --> 00:29:52.960
- When did you come here?
00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:01.480
- Okay.
00:30:05.360 --> 00:30:06.120
(speaking in foreign language)
00:31:32.640 --> 00:31:33.599
Was it okay?
- Yeah.
00:31:40.360 --> 00:31:40.800
- [Fidan] Oh.
00:31:41.600 --> 00:31:42.599
- He lost?
- Yeah.
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:49.520
- They lost, okay.
00:31:51.320 --> 00:31:51.800
(somber music)
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(speaking in foreign language)
00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:13.960
I was wondering now we met you,
00:32:16.520 --> 00:32:17.599
people hold you
responsible for stirring up
00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:21.360
the violence in the
region's ethnic conflict.
00:32:23.599 --> 00:32:24.400
How do you feel about that?
00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:26.160
Do you know this and how
do you think about this?
00:32:29.120 --> 00:32:29.720
- My party and me also
00:32:33.600 --> 00:32:34.240
very worried.
00:32:35.320 --> 00:32:36.080
We are trying to, you know,
00:32:37.680 --> 00:32:38.599
solve this kind of problem.
00:32:39.120 --> 00:32:39.720
- [Fidan] To solve it.
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:40.840
- To solve it.
- But what do you think
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:41.599
about it?
00:32:41.600 --> 00:32:42.400
They say you started it.
00:32:43.880 --> 00:32:44.520
The violence.
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:45.600
- Yes, we have so
many experience.
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:47.360
- [Fidan] But do you
feel responsible?
00:32:48.800 --> 00:32:49.280
- Yes.
00:32:49.760 --> 00:32:50.480
- Yes?
- Yes.
00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:51.599
My party also.
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:52.599
- Yeah, really?
- Responsible
00:32:52.720 --> 00:32:53.599
to solve this kind of problem.
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:55.080
- [Fidan] Not
responsible to make
00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:56.560
this kind of trouble I mean.
00:32:58.160 --> 00:32:58.840
No?
- No, no, no.
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:00.400
- We must try to stop
this kind of violence.
00:33:05.280 --> 00:33:06.120
(speaking in foreign language)
00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:23.200
You are not a Muslim and
your people, Rakhines,
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:27.240
were also killed
in these massacres.
00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:31.280
Isn't it difficult, wasn't
it difficult for you
00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:36.200
to write without emotions?
00:33:37.280 --> 00:33:38.040
Weren't you sad or angry or,
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:43.600
what did you feel?
00:33:58.960 --> 00:33:59.760
- You can't do the Muslim area?
00:34:01.680 --> 00:34:02.720
- Because they
don't want you there
00:34:02.880 --> 00:34:03.640
or because you don't want it.
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:09.640
- They don't wanna talk to you.
00:34:16.120 --> 00:34:16.720
(ominous ambient music)
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:18.360
(speaking in foreign language)
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:10.040
- After the violence,
00:35:10.200 --> 00:35:11.480
when medias and
international communities
00:35:14.200 --> 00:35:15.320
were interested in
the Rohingya issue,
00:35:18.040 --> 00:35:19.480
they all were watching, they
all were keeping in touch,
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:21.880
and we used to keep in
touch with the foreigners,
00:35:24.080 --> 00:35:25.240
with the journalists and
we used to use internet,
00:35:26.800 --> 00:35:27.800
but not good
internet connection.
00:35:29.599 --> 00:35:30.480
Very poor connection and we had,
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:32.960
especially for me, I
have to wait for about
00:35:33.720 --> 00:35:35.120
two or three hours to
complete, how shall I say,
00:35:38.840 --> 00:35:39.960
to upload an information
that happen somewhere.
00:35:43.599 --> 00:35:44.400
- [Fidan] How do you feel?
00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:45.760
How do you,
mentally, physically?
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:48.680
- Yeah, as for me I
feel it is very bad.
00:35:50.440 --> 00:35:51.560
I also feel that
there is no future
00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:54.599
for the Rohingya community
as well as for me
00:35:57.080 --> 00:35:58.200
'cause you know that
current government
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:01.599
is not doing
anything good for us.
00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:04.040
They are just trying
to keep us here.
00:36:05.640 --> 00:36:07.040
They are just, this is kind
of making slow genocide.
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:11.160
They are making genocide,
00:36:11.600 --> 00:36:12.680
like systematically
making genocide.
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:15.320
So I hope if NLD win, if NLD
can form a new government
00:36:20.840 --> 00:36:21.840
so NLD will do a
little bit good for us.
00:36:25.160 --> 00:36:25.760
I just hope on that.
00:36:27.680 --> 00:36:28.720
The party that tortured
the Rohingya lost.
00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:35.040
(speaking in foreign language)
00:36:53.200 --> 00:36:54.320
(ominous music)
(birds squawking)
00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:55.760
(speaking in foreign language)
00:37:12.400 --> 00:37:13.640
So during the massacres
you used the word Bengali
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:17.400
in your reports.
00:37:17.560 --> 00:37:18.599
At DVB they change
it into Rohingyas.
00:37:20.640 --> 00:37:21.760
You said they make
their accounts here
00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:24.560
angry at you.
00:37:32.720 --> 00:37:34.080
- What did they say?
- Because they don't know.
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:53.599
- Because it...
00:38:02.240 --> 00:38:02.840
(ominous ambient music)
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.520
(speaking in foreign language)
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:33.599
(crowd shouting)
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:35.160
(speaking in foreign language)
00:38:42.680 --> 00:38:43.840
(crowd shouting in
foreign language)
00:38:58.240 --> 00:38:59.400
- What I noticed is it's
a very sensitive subject
00:39:03.680 --> 00:39:04.320
here in Myanmar,
00:39:06.480 --> 00:39:06.920
the Rohingyas.
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:08.760
I was thinking,
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:11.440
how will it be?
00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:12.760
Because I talked to Rakhine,
I talked to Rohingyas,
00:39:14.920 --> 00:39:16.040
I talked to Muslims
and I was thinking
00:39:16.640 --> 00:39:18.080
at DVB probably there are
different opinions, too.
00:39:23.080 --> 00:39:24.280
Maybe someone likes to
use the word Rohingyas,
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:27.200
the other one doesn't
like to use the Rohingyas.
00:39:29.040 --> 00:39:29.599
(Than grunts)
00:39:29.640 --> 00:39:30.760
I was thinking maybe
that gives a conflict.
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:31.800
- Yeah, yeah.
00:39:36.800 --> 00:39:37.599
- On the editorial?
00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:38.720
- Yeah.
00:39:53.599 --> 00:39:54.400
- Scared.
- Yeah.
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:42.120
- Do you see your
future in Myanamar?
00:40:46.880 --> 00:40:47.680
- And kids and family and DVB?
00:41:08.200 --> 00:41:09.240
(somber music)
(diners chattering)
00:41:15.200 --> 00:41:15.960
(speaking in foreign language)
00:41:40.720 --> 00:41:41.360
(crowd cheering)
Distributor: First Hand Films
Length: 42 minutes
Date: 2016
Genre: Expository
Language: Turkish; English; Spanish; Burmese; Russian; Dutch / English subtitles
Grade: College, Adults
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Closed Captioning: Available
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