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 leftysurprise
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 It's pretty fucking sad.......
#8420768 - 05/19/08 04:41 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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when you live in a country where you have to go to the black market to get the news....... 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080519/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_tragic_videos
Cyclone videos are best sellers in Myanmar
Mon May 19, 3:26 AM ET
YANGON, Myanmar - A stack of pornographic films at Mg Zaw's street stall hides some even more sought-after contraband: raw footage of the death and destruction caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Images of bloated bodies and flattened villages have been broadcast around the world since the May 2-3 cyclone, but inside Myanmar they are available only on the black market. And copies are selling fast.
Myanmar's military junta, which has come under global criticism for mishandling relief efforts for survivors, does not want its people to see the full devastation caused by the storm. Tightly controlled state media paint a picture of a country quickly recovering, with mostly upbeat images of the country's military leaders handing out aid to survivors.
The unauthorized videos show the more gruesome reality: hungry survivors squatting on roadsides, corpses floating in flooded waters, injured survivors being helped by villagers.
"People buy them because they are interested in seeing what happened out there," said street vendor Mg Zaw, who runs a pirated movie stall in central Yangon that started selling the cyclone videos two days after the storm.
Priced at about 50 cents, some hawkers said they have been selling about 100 copies a day.
Curiosity draws some viewers. Others say they felt that watching the cyclone could help them cope with the tragedy, the worst natural disaster to hit Myanmar in recent history.
The cyclone killed more than 78,000 people, and another 56,000 are missing, the junta says. The Red Cross and the U.N. expect the death toll to soar well above 100,000.
Khin Soe, 28, bought one of the videos Saturday afternoon, shortly after learning that his parents and three siblings died in the disaster.
"I feel very sad, and I want to know what happened, that's why I am buying this," said Khin Soe, who left his hometown in the Irrawaddy delta two years ago for a job at a hotel in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital.
The storm ripped into Yangon but did the most damage in the low-lying Irrawaddy River delta to the southwest. Foreign aid workers and most Myanmar citizens are generally barred from traveling to the area.
The vendors say the videos were shot in various places including Labutta, a rice-growing township that was one of the worst-hit areas.
A similar phenomenon occurred after the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that largely spared Myanmar. In countries such as Thailand and India, videos of the disaster — mostly taken from TV broadcasts — were widely sold.
The cyclone video is the second illicit video to become the talk of the town in Yangon this year. In February, the hottest selling movie was the latest Rambo film, which features Sylvester Stallone's musclebound hero rescuing a group of Christian missionaries from brutal government troops in Myanmar's jungles.
It became a best-seller after being banned by the government.
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 nalyudi
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: leftysurprise]
#8420792 - 05/19/08 04:45 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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yeah i dont understand why their gov is trying to hide how bad things are. why would they turn down disaster aid....makes no sense to me.
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: nalyudi]
#8420798 - 05/19/08 04:46 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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they're hiding something 
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leftysurprise
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: nalyudi]
#8420801 - 05/19/08 04:46 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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because they are totalitarian douchebags that want to control every aspect of everyones life. in their eyes it is the only way to keep peace and order.
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: nalyudi]
#8421050 - 05/19/08 05:55 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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Quote:
nalyudi said:
yeah i dont understand why their gov is trying to hide how bad things are. why would they turn down disaster aid....makes no sense to me.
They are turning it down because they are a military run nation. Therefor they believe that if they take the help from other countries, it shows their weakness and inability to deal with this kind of situation on their own...in other words, they don't want to be seen as a vulnerable country so they would rather let their people die.
I wonder if they know how they are being portrayed all over the world? If so, then yes, i don't know why they would not have taken the aid by now.
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: supra]
#8421365 - 05/19/08 07:12 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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Why is the world focused on Myanmars Junta and not China and Tibet?
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supra said:
I wonder if they know how they are being portrayed all over the world? If so, then yes, i don't know why they would not have taken the aid by now.
peace
Myanmar has received aid from the UN, what are you referring to?
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: Chemy]
#8421393 - 05/19/08 07:19 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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Chemy said:
Why is the world focused on Myanmars Junta and not China and Tibet?
Also: Have you not seen the people protesting China recently in regards to the Olympics. Protesters were arrested in Greece for flying a Tibetan flag.
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: Chemy]
#8421395 - 05/19/08 07:20 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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Chemy said:
Myanmar has received aid from the UN, what are you referring to?
Barely. They weren't giving visas to aid workers, and only disturbing supplies after they had passed through the government, it was only in the last few days that they have been letting more people in, and letting the aid workers help people directly. And they are still restricting what the workers can do.
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Re: It's pretty fucking sad....... [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
#8421398 - 05/19/08 07:20 PM (6 months, 1 day ago) |
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the shroomery put my second post above my first post.
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