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Welcome to Sarajevo Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (1997)

Category: Misc
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Welcome to Sarajevo Directed by Micheal Winterbottom (1997) Nothing that British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom made before Welcome to Sarajevo (including Butterfly Kiss and Jude) suggested the clarifying rage of this 1997 film, which is based on the experiences of British journalist Michael Nicholson while on assignment in Bosnia. Made emotionally numb by the savagery and insanity of Serbian aggression on Sarajevo and surrounding towns and countryside, reporter Michael Henderson (Stephen Dillane in a remarkable performance) awakens to the plight of one orphanage and particularly to that of a girl whom he promises to rescue. Henderson's efforts lead to a harrowing bus journey to (temporary) protection for some of the kids (others, quite shockingly, are carried off en route by Serb marauders), and then a second, even more dangerous good deed to finish what he started. The film's dimensions go well beyond that story line, however, as Winterbottom re-creates the gallows-humor culture of international correspondents in a blighted region, as well as the nightmare of the Sarajevo siege. Most savage of all, however, is the director's use of news clips in a pointed attack on the West's refusal to deal with the slaughter and outrages in Bosnia at their peak. The supporting cast might look like a bunch of famous names (Kerry Fox, Marisa Tomei) used decorously to attract attention to the film, but in fact everyone is very good, especially Woody Harrelson as an American journalist whose entrance in the story is one of the most memorable in recent history.
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Vukovar – The Final Cut (EX-Yugoslavia conflict in croatia)

Category: Documentary
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This film represents an effort to create a truthful story about everything that happened in Vukovar (Croatia) during the spring, summer and fall of 1991, as well as what happened before this time, shortly after the tragic event of 1991, and what the historical, societal and emotional consequences are, after years of pain, suffering and disappointment. We believe that the historical distance of fifteen years is large enough to allow us to make an important, investigative documentary tied to the most painful point of this region. It is also very important to mention that this is the first Serbian-Croatian co-production about this painful topic, whose wounds have yet to heal, even after fifteen years’ time. Reporters and investigators from both sides of the Danube River, located in the middle of Europe, and in whose waters’ corpses had floated for nearly a decade, tried to solve the riddle of the true reasons that le up to the great Balkan tragedy. This is not a film made by outside observers or nonchalant journalists. Nor was it made by war dog reporters who are in the Balkans today, tomorrow in the Near East and in Baghdad the day after; some of us were in the middle of the apocalypse of Vukovar while the city was being torn apart. Some were running from Milosevic’ regime's attempts to make them soldiers of the Yugoslav National Army and mobilizing them to participate in the foolish operations of destroying Vukovar. Others who were independent and crafty were able to, as people and reporters, spend time on both the Serbian and Croatian sides of the front. We are now, once again, on the same mission, to, with the help of the survivors and available archives, try and put together the pieces of this impossible mosaic. We have created an insider’s story about what actually happened in Vukovar. This is the first objective and propaganda-less film, which is neither a Serbian documentary nor a Croatian one. With no intentions of serving any political causes, this film is more interested in serving the purpose of truth. We are all interest in the story of Vukovar, because it is a part of all of our lives. We have tried to comprehend why Vukovar, a rich Slavonian town famous for being a "miniature Yugoslavia," Tito's exemplary town of unity, was the one location to suffer total apocalypse, one comparable to the sacrifice and siege of Stalingrad, and by the extent of destruction, and scenes shown around the world, reminiscent of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Why was a city which had no strategic interest in military and police force formations in the conflict between the Yugoslav National Army and the Croatian military, so systematically destroyed while the Serbian (Milosevic) and Croatian (Tudjman) leaders walked around Tito’s estate all the while, discussing plans for a new division of Yugoslavia? The film about Vukovar will be thematically separated into three, connected parts: • immediately before the war, spring and summer of 1989; • the siege and defence of Vukovar • (a film about the film): • the fall of Vukovar 18.11.1991, • the Ovcara massacre (more than 200 murdered civilians) and the court process for these war crimes which unfolded in front of the Belgrade Special War Crimes Court. The investigation included talks with people who made up the destiny of the people at this time, on both sides of the front, and discussions with many people, mostly civilians, who witnessed war-time activity in Vukovar, and who were not in the forefront at the time, but whose eyewitness accounts are very interesting in describing individual situations and events. The furthest investigations included checking through archives of the most important Croatian media outlets during this period of time: the Vjesnik newspaper documentation (the best in Croatia), HTV’s archive, an archive of local television stations that worked at this time (TV Dunav, TV Baranja, Slavonska television, Vinkovacka television, TV Backa Palanka), and several private archives, amateur video footage taken from Vukovar attics to be used in our film. Similar investigative work was done in Serbia, where there is still much material and archives of a state that is under an embargo because of Hague indictees, who are deeply involved in the story of this film. Archival footage used in this film was taken from a number of sources: Zastava film, Film News, Radio Television Croatia, Radio Television Serbia, AP, ITN, Reuters and private footage. The list of interviewees is also a very long one and includes names such as Marin Vidic Bili, Tomislav Mercep, Dr. Vesna Bosanac, Ferdinad Jukic (Mercep's activities in Vukovar), Zeljka Juric (the little girl in the blue coat from the BBC footage of Vukovar a day after its fall), Branko Borkovic, Croatian volunteer soldier, Martin Spegelj, Ivan Vekic (interior minister in the Government of National Unity), Aleksandar Vasiljevic (a retired Serbian general), Zoran Stankovic (pathologist and current Serbia-Montenegro Defence Minister), Jovan Dulovic and Dejan Anastasijevic and other Vreme magazine journalists, Serbian volunteers and drafted soldiers from the Vukovar battlefield, families of the Ovcara victims and many others. DIRECTORIAL APPROACH This is not a simple television report on Vukovar today and fifteen years ago. This is a film where perpetrators of the crimes brought back to the place where the tragedy occurred, sometimes in the same frame. The camera is an accessory in uncovering this crime, often curious, inquisitive, rude, restless, always in the service of reconstructing the crime, performing its duties as dirtily as the Vukovar war was itself. Archival material serves as a starting point, an illustration of the story, but it is often a crude means consciously manipulated by the director. It looks for protagonists and witnesses from the archival footage or uncovers the role of the media in the presentation of someone's personal tragedy. The editorial cut is a fascinating and unflinching means for achieving maximum emotional effect. The style is a direct and merciless cut, The Final Cut, the title of our film.
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Kosovo - Can you Imagine

Category: Documentary
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Kosovo: Can You Imagine? is a documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Boris Malagurski, about the Serbs that live in Kosovo and the lack of human rights that they have today, in the 21st century. Most of the Kosovo Serbs have been ethnically cleansed by the Albanians who make up the majority of Kosovo. Kosovo has been under UN administration since 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days to halt a crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatism in its province of Kosovo. In the years following the war, thousands of Serbs were expelled from their homes, kidnapped and killed. Their houses, cultural and religious sites were burned and destroyed. Kosovo for the Serbs is what Jerusalem is for the Jewish people. It is the cradle of their statehood, culture and religion. Most of the important Serbian Christian Orthodox monasteries are in Kosovo. Today, Serbs still have a deep spiritual and traditional connection to Kosovo, a land which is being cleansed of everything Serbian. Most of the Kosovo Serbs are internally displaced, some of them live in small containter camps, in ghettos, all this in the heart of Europe in the 21st century. We follow the stories of several Serbs who have fell victim to a nationalist and irredentist ideology that has a goal of creating a pure Albanian state of "Kosova" ("Kosovo" in Albanian) Serbs in Kosovo have no basic human rights. You will be shocked to learn which atrocities they have to face each day. http://www.kosovo-film.com/
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Mafija ne ubija na Uskrs (The Mafia does not Kill on Easter)

Category: Documentary
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Do raspada bivse Jugoslavije kriminal u Srbiji gotovo da nije predstavljao problem. Zbog nacina na koji se policija u doba komunisticke vlasti obracunavala s kriminalom i kriminalcima vecina njih je do 1990.godine prakticno bjezala u zapadnu Europu. S pocetkom rata srpski kriminalci, nepozeljni kao i njihova drzava, protjerani su iz Europe u ono sto je ostalo od nekadasnje Jugoslavije. Po dolasku u zemlju, u ozracju ratne psihoze i nacionalne euforije, pocela je bezocna pljacka Srbije i njenih gradjana. Na javnu scenu stupili su kriminalci. Ocekivanja gradjana da ce s dolaskom nove vlasti zlocini biti rasvjeljeni i otkrivena istina o pljacki naroda i desetogodisnjem pretvaranju zemlje u najkriminalniji europski geto nisu ispunjena. Srbiju je nakon ubojstva premijera Djindjica zapljusnuo val afera u kojima su najvaznije uloge imali gangsteri stvoreni za potrebe prethodne vlasti, pripadnici tajne policije, znani ali i gotovo anonimni predstavnici nove politicke elite. Neimastina, utihnule nade u brzo ozdravljenje zemlje, neprestani sukobi unutar nekad jedinstvenog politickog bloka ucinili su da zrtve politicke represije danas gotovo nitko i ne spominje. Documentary about history of balkan mafia (colaboration of mafia and politics, secret services and mafia, murders....) No subs/SERBIAN audio
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Josip Broz TITO

Category: Documentary
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New russian biography documentary about Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito. Has serbian subtitles.
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The Death of Yugoslavia full

Category: Documentary
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Documentary on Yugoslavia by the Bourgeois Broadcasting Company The Death of Yugoslavia (Serbian, Montenegrin,Bosnian, Croatian and Slovenian: Smrt Jugoslavije, Macedonian: Смртта на Југославија, Smrtta na Jugoslavija) is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, then President of Serbia. This format, pioneered by the programme's production company, Brian Lapping Associates, was very influential and the company produced many others in similar style. The six parts were entitled: 1. Enter Nationalism 2. The Road to War 3. Wars of Independence 4. The Gates of Hell 5. A Safe Area 6. Pax Americana The programme has been re-edited in three parts: 1. Enter Milošević 2. The Croats Strike Back 3. The Struggle for Bosnia And was later broadcast as a feature-length single documentary. All the papers relating to the documentary series, including full transcripts of the many valuable interviews conducted with participants, are lodged at the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King's College, University of London. The catalogue can be examined here During the trial of Milošević before the ICTY Judge Bonomy called the nature of the much of the commentary "tendentious". This was because there were instances in which an interview in the Serbian language was subtitled incorrectly and often in a misleading manner (for example, the subtitling translated an interviewee saying that "Milosevic always won the elections on a nationalistic platform and nothing else", rather than "... on a national platform... ").
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Novi Plamen - brojevi: 1-11 + komunisticki manifest skracena verzija

Category: eBooks, Magazines, Audio Books
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Language: Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian speaking. Srpsko - Hrvatski ili Hrvatsko - Srpski O Novom Plamenu Novi Plamen je mjesečni demokratsko-socijalistički časopis koji okuplja anti-autoritarne demokratske ljevičare iz Hrvatske, Bosne i Hercegovine, Srbije i drugih bivših jugoslovenskih republika. Osnivači časopisa su imali na umu činjenicu da je javnost uskraćena za analize društvenih procesa sa, prvenstveno slobodarsko-marksističkih pozicija, te da nije u prilici doći do informacija o mnogim značajnim događajima kod nas i u svijetu. Novi plamen treba da popuni tu prazninu, da pruži informacije koje su nedostupne, ili se iznose u karikaturalnom obliku, te da pruži takve analize društvene zbilje kakve su kod nas sasvim neuobičajene. Časopis će posvetiti posebnu pažnju interesima i organizovanju onih dijelova društva koji su potlačeni i podvlašćeni, a još uvijek nisu pronašli odgovarajuće forme borbe za poboljšanje i promjenu svog socijalnog statusa. Novi plamen će se posebno baviti sindikalnom problematikom, te organizovanjem i aktivnošću različitih alternativnih pokreta. Osnovni cilj časopisa je da doprinese borbi za jedno bolje i pravednije društvo, u kojoj demokratija, jednakost i solidarnost neće biti puke fraze. Taj doprinos neće biti moguć bez istinitog i argumentovanog informisanja javnosti i bez istog takvog analitičkog i istraživačkog pristupa velikim društvenim problemima. Da bi postigao svoj cilj, časopis će morati da se bavi širokim spektrom tema. Iako će započeti sa analizom aktuelnih političkih i ekonomskih problema, neće se ograničiti na njih, nego će posvetiti pažnju i onim temama koje su kod nas manje zastupljene, a ponekad i proskribirane ili ismijavane (prava seksualnih manjina, ekološke teme, prava životinja, kultura itd.). Izdavač časopisa je preduzeće „Demokratska misao“, koje će se u perspektivi baviti i izdavanjem knjiga ljevičarskog sadržaja, naročito iz savremenog marksizma. Značajan doprinos pokretanju časopisa je dala švedska organizacija Left International Forum, koju je osnovala Lijeva partija Švedske. Redakciju časopisa čine mahom mladi ljudi, koji iza sebe već imaju godine društvenog angažmana: Mladen Jakopović, Filip Erceg, Goran Marković, Jasna Tkalec, Bojan Mirosavljev, Nikola Vukobratović, Petar Pavlović, Mikloš; Olajoš; Nađ, Andrija Jerkov, Tadej Kurepa, Vladimir Unkovski Korica. Njima će u radu pomagati širi krug uglednih intelektualaca, poznatih našoj javnosti po oštroj kritici nacionalizma i neoliberalizma. Oni će činiti Savjet Novog plamena, koji neće imati operativnu ulogu u određivanju uređivačke politike, nego će pomagati u podizanju kvaliteta sadržaja. Članovi Savjeta su: INTERNACIONALNI Noam Chomsky - Prof. Emeritus, lingvist i politički pisac, najistaknutiji živući javni intelektualac prema anketi britanskog časopisa Prospect, slobodarski socijalist Ken Coates - vodeči svjetski stručnjak za samoupravljanje, predsjednik Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 10 godina bio član Evropskog parlamenta, a 5 godina predsjednik Komisije za ljudska prava Evropskog parlamenta David Graeber - profesor na Yaleu, vodeći svjetski antropolog, slobodarski socijalist Michael Albert - vodeći svjetski stručnjak za participativnu demokraciju, urednik ZNeta Chris Ford - britanski humanističko-socijalistički filozof i sindikalni aktivist prof.dr.Bogdan Denitch - Prof.Emeritus sveučilišta u New Yorku, predsjednik udruge Tranzicija u demokraciju i su-predsjednik Demokratskih socijalista Amerike John McDonnell MP - lijevo-laburistički član britanskog parlamenta prof.dr. Dragan Plavšić - profesor prava u Oxfordu Jean Ziegler - bivši švicarski parlamentarac i UN-ov povjerenik za pravo na hranu Catherine Samary - suradnica u francuskom izdanju Le monde diplomatique i vodeća stručnjakinja za područje bivše Jugoslavije SLOVENIJA prof.dr Rastko Močnik, istaknuti sociolog i profesor sociologije kulture, član Foruma za levico dr Sonja Lokar, predsjednica Gender Task Forcea Pakta za stabilnost, bivša članica Predsjedništva CK SK Slovenije Slavoj Žižek, sociolog, filozof i kulturni kriticar BOSNA I HERCEGOVINA mr Salmedin Mesihović, viši asistent na Filozofskom fakultetu u Sarajevu doc. dr Nerzuk Ćurak, docent na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Sarajevu, novinar prof.dr Dragoljub Stojanov - profesor ekonomije, bivši ministar za vanjsku trgovinu BiH Josip Pejaković - glumac, Alternativni visoki predstavnik u BiH prof.dr fra Marko Oršolić, bivši BiH ministar za multireligijska i multinacionalna pitanja prof. dr Miodrag Živanović – profesor na Filozofskom fakultetu u Banja Luci, predsjednik Stalnog međunarodnog komiteta za humanizam i poredak, predsjednik Evropskog pokreta BiH prof. dr Ivan Cvitković, profesor sociologije na Fakultetu političkih nauka u Sarajevu Bratislav Napotnik, predsjednik sindikalne organizacije ROS “Čajavec”, Banja Luka HRVATSKA prof. dr. Svetozar Livada, sociolog dr. Ivan Jakopović, politolog prof.dr. Lino Veljak, profesor filozofije, predsjednik Foruma za slobodu odgoja Dorino Manzin, predsjednik udruge Drugi Korak Slobodan Šnajder, pisac i kazališni redatelj Velimir Visković , predsjednik Društva hrvatskih pisaca, leksikograf, urednik Književne republike i Sarajevskih bilježnica mr. Hrvoje Jurić, asistent na Filozofskom fakultetu u Zagrebu Bozo Rudež, direktor Izdavačke kuće “Prometej” Predrag Matvejević - pisac, profesor na rimskoj Sapienzi prof. dr. Nadezda Čačinović - prof. filozofije na Zagrebačkom sveučilištu Inoslav Bešker - novinar Kasum Cana - predsjednik Centra kulture Roma Hrvatske i član Internacionalnog Roma parlamenta u Beču prof.dr. Milorad Pupovac - saborski zastupnik prof.dr. Slobodan Uzelac - potpredsjednik Vlade RH SRBIJA Dušan Vukadinović - politički pisac, Beograd Ibrahim Huduti Rustemović - ekonomist, predsjednik Muslimanskog kulturnog centra u Subotici prof.dr. Todor Kuljić - profesor sociologije na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu Toma Nikolić - radnički vođa, urednik lista "Oružari" iz Kragujevca Vladimir Marković - politički pisac, Beograd Ratibor Trivunac - aktivist i politički pisac, Beograd Mira Tokanović – aktivistkinja, Beograd Miroslav Samardzic - politolog iz Zrenjanina Biljana Kovačević-Vučo, odvjetnica, osnivač i predsjednica Komiteta pravnika za ljudska prava. Dušan Gojkov, pisac, režiser i urednik Balkanskog književnog glasnika web: noviplamen.org
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Interview with Catherine MacKinnon on "The F Files"

Category: Talks, Debates, Interviews
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Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech. Her scholarly books include Sex Equality (2001), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), and Are Women Human? (2006).She is published in journals, the popular press, and many languages. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic, which first recognized rape as an act of genocide. She works with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women. Professor MacKinnon holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. She is one of the most widely-cited scholars in the English language.
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Democracy Now! Friday, February 22, 2008

Category: News & Current Affairs
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Today's Headlines 10,000 Turkish Troops Invade Northern Iraq Clinton & Obama Debate in Austin, Texas Change to Win Union Coalition Endorses Obama McCain Denies NYT Report on D.C. Lobbyist Report: McCain’s Top Advisors Are D.C.Lobbyists CIA Admits Used UK Territory For Rendition Flights Serbian Protesters Set U.S. Embassy on Fire Al-Sadr Announces New Ceasefire U.S. Jails Journalist from Canadian Television in Afghanistan Larry Davis Stabbed to Death in NY Prison Fmr. MLK Aide, Rev. James Orange, 65, Dies Behind the John McCain Lobbying Scandal: A Look at How McCain Urged the Federal Communications Commission to Act on Behalf of Paxson Communications On Thursday, the New York Times revealed McCain repeatedly wrote letters to government regulators on behalf of Paxson Communications and other clients of the telecommunications lobbyist, Vicki Iseman. We speak to Angela Campbell, the attorney for the Alliance for Progressive Action and QED Accountability Project, the community groups that sought to block Paxson’s takeover of a Pittsburgh public television license. [includes rush transcript] Report From Belgrade: Serbian Protesters Set U.S. Embassy On Fire to Protest Independence of Kosovo In Serbia, some two hundred thousand demonstrators gathered in Belgrade Thursday to rally against Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia and its support from the West. During the demonstration around one thousand protesters attacked the US embassy, smashing their way inside, throwing flares through the window and setting parts of the building on fire. Samantha Power v. Jeremy Scahill: A Debate on U.S. Actions in the Balkans, the Independence of Kosovo, the Iraq Sanctions and Humanitarian Intervention As Kosovo declares its independence, we speak to two people who have closely followed the situation in the Balkans. Samantha Power wrote extensively about Bosnia and Kosovo in her book “A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”, which won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize. Jeremy Scahill is an independent journalist and Democracy Now correspondent. He covered the NATO bombings of Kosovo and Yuglosavia for Democracy Now in 1999. Samantha Power on “Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World" Sergio Vieira de Mello was the top UN official in Iraq when he died in a truck bombing of the UN’s Baghdad headquarters in August 2003. Twenty-one others were killed and dozens wounded in one of the deadliest attacks on the UN in its 58-year history. De Mello had served in the United Nations since 1969 in some of the world’s most sensitive areas including East Timor, Yugoslavia, Cambodia and Bangladesh.
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Iraq - The Doctor the DU and the Dying Children (2004-TVRip-d0x)

Category: Documentary
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_____________________________________________________________Program__ Title........: The Doctor, the Depleted Uranium and the Dying Children Runtime......: 00:53:12 (79,809 fr) Genre........: Documentary Languages....: English, German, Arabic, Polish, Serbian Translations.: English subtitles Info URL.....: http://tinyurl.com/22c3g8 Purchase URL.: n/a _____________________________________________________________Summary__ Uranium munitions were used for the first time by US and British Allied Forces in the 1991 Gulf War. Servicemen who saw them in action were very impressed. When a depleted uranium (DU) shell hits a tank, it penetrates the steel armour as if it were paper at the same time part of the uranium round vaporises and ignites inside the tank, causing the ammunition present to explode and kill the crew. This double action is what makes the weapon so appealing to military strategists. This program follows two men, Professor Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a former colleague of Albert Schweitzer, and Tedd Weyman, deputy director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre in Toronto, Canada. They travel to Iraq to search for evidence that DU ammunition was used by the ton in the recent war as they are convinced that DU is responsible for Gulf War Syndrome that has undermined the health of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. However, the USA and British governments claim there is no evidence that uranium ammunition is to blame for Gulf War Syndrome which has now been diagnosed in more than 150,000 war veterans. This program also interviews two veterans of the first Gulf War, Kenny Duncan and Jenny Moore, who describe their exposure to DU weapons and the congenital abnormalities of their children. ____________________________________________________________Encoding__ File Name....: Iraq - The Doctor the DU and the Dying Children...avi File Size....: 649 MB (or 665,022 KB or 680,982,528 bytes) Frames.......: 640x480 (1.33:1) [=4:3] @ 0.205 bits/pixel Video Codec..: XviD @ 1574 kb/s Audio Codec..: MP3 @ 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR _________________________________________________________________d0x__
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