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Media Activism for System Change
Chapter 2
1997 - Bangkok, Thailand.
Brangan in traditional Thai garb and Heddle videotape at a Focus on the Global South conference on 'Alternative Security for the Asia Pacific Region.' A trip to a Burmese refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border resulted in a five-month stay in Thailand to document their plight for the international community. The result was Bordering on Tyranny: Thailand's Dilemma, released the next year.
Brangan in traditional Thai garb and Heddle videotape at a Focus on the Global South conference on 'Alternative Security for the Asia Pacific Region.' A trip to a Burmese refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border resulted in a five-month stay in Thailand to document their plight for the international community. The result was Bordering on Tyranny: Thailand's Dilemma, released the next year.
Bordering on Tyranny tells the still relevant story of ethnic refugees driven out of Burma by the ruling military junta into camps just across the Thai border where they are targeted with death squad raids and exploitation. The cruel situation of the peoples of Burma told in our film still exists. Democratically elected leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung Sun Suu Kyi has remained under house arrest at the hands of the military junta for 14 of the last 20 years. As of August 2009 she has just been sentenced to another 18 months.
Heddle at work on Thailand's border with Burma (now renamed Myanmar by the junta).
Aung San Suu Kyi - Prime Minister-elect of the National League for Democracy.
Democracy Denied in Burma