International Award Winning “Burma VJ” Film Screening

International Award Winning “Burma VJ” Film Screening
and
21 Years Commemoration of the Brutal Crackdown on Burma’s National Uprising (8888)
Saturday August 8, 2009
Beginning 5:45pm in front of the Royal Theatre
608 College Street (College and Clinton), Toronto




Thousands were tortured and killed in peaceful demonstrations in Burma.

May 2009, Burmese democracy icon Noble Peace Prize Winner & Honourary Canadian Citizen Aung San Suu Kyi was charged with breaking conditions of detention after US national breaks into her compound despite the government’s heavy security presence. She has been detained for over 13 of the past 20 years, mostly under house arrest.


Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country
Burma VJ recounts the efforts of a small group of independent video journalists who risked torture and life in jail to ensure the truth behind the country's 2007 political uprising was broadcast to the world. Led by thousands of Buddhist monks, hundreds of thousands of people marched peacefully against the military junta that has held the country in an iron grip for 40 years-and that cracked down mercilessly on the protestors and the monks. Foreign TV crews were suddenly banned from the country, leaving undercover video journalists armed with small handy cams to capture the truth behind the events. An insightful and dramatic document of history as it unfolds.