domingo, fevereiro 18, 2007

al jazeera english rulez

ontem tive um serão iluminado. children of conflict, um documentário sobre as crianças de gaza

One of the World's biggest news stories, in one of the smallest and most claustrophobic strips of land on earth. Gaza is a virtual prison with no way in and hardly any way out.

In an exclusive story, we talk to the grandchildren of Fatima Al Najar – the oldest female Palestinian suicide bomber. Bewildered and grieving for their grandmother, the children say all they want to do is to follow suit and become 'martyrs' themselves.

13 year old Rana
"I want to do the same. And I will recruit the other children of this town for martyrdom," says 14 year old Fatima. When she grows up she wants to study chemistry and engineering at university. "That's if I don't become a martyr first," she says.

Her views are contrasted with another girl, 13 year old Rana, who dreams of being a journalist "so I can tell people how we suffer here. I am a child, I know what death means, I know what war means, I know what blood means. Me and all the children here know what it means".

10 year old Tehal
Or Tehal, just 10 years old – and who wants to be the first female Palestinian president.

Her three wishes? To clean up the mess left behind by Israeli bulldozers, to give children their rights "because they have no rights here" and finally, "to build a new Gaza".


A seguir, num documentário chamado witness, a revolução dos côcos, na ilha de boungainville ao largo da papua nova guiné, uma terra de gente inacreditável, brilhante e lutadora que praticamente sem meios, defende a sua terra com paus e pedras, gera energia apartir de lixo com uma mini-hídrica e poe as suas sucatas velhas a trabalhar (aka carros) com biodiesel a partir do óleo do côco. diz o lider da revolução, francis, "obrigado Papua e Austrália, pelo embargo e pela guerra porque caso contrário, nunca teríamos atingido este nível de evolução e tecnologia que temos agora, só com os nossos meios"

Bougainville: Coconut Revolution
Dir: Dom Rotheroe

Hidden conflict

You'd be forgiven for not knowing much about the insurgency war in the idyllic island of Bougainville in the South Pacific. But this under-reported region has witnessed one of the most remarkable and hidden conflicts in the world. It's a story of a native people's victory over a colonial power. A story which has at its heart one of the world's largest mining companies, and a grass-roots revolution which started with bows and arrows and developed into a modern paramilitary force.



OBRIGADO AL JAZEERA POR ME MOSTRARES TODAS AS MARAVILHAS DO MUNDO. O MUNDO, POR SER INFINITO, É MARAVILHOSO.

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