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  1. Safe Custody (1998 Video)

    Director
    Catherine Masud
    Producer
    Catherine Masud; Tareque Masud
    Subject
    Development studies; Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    A study of ‘safe custody’ detention in prisons in Bangladesh. Thousands of people are held, it is claimed, for their own protection, but they often held there for years before their cases are heard....

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  2. San Soldiers (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The San people of southern Africa are struggling to avoid extinction amid warfare in South Africa, Namibia and Angola. This film examines the persecution of these landless people, whose traditional nomadic...

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  3. Siphiwo Mtimkulu: The Final Chapter (1998 Video)

    Director
    Mark J Kaplan
    Producer
    Mark J Kaplan
    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    Follows the struggle to bring before South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission the case of Siphiwo Mtimkulu, a student leader shot and burned in 1982 by the Security Police.

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  4. Smiles: The Hypocrisy of Thai Politics (1998 Video)

    Director
    Kamron Kunatilaka
    Producer
    Lyndal Barry; Sam Kalayanee
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale - see TRIUMPH OVER TERROR, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., See: TRIUMPH OVER TERROR

    Uses vox pops and satire to explore the many contrasts in Thailand between human dignity and its many abuses. A new constitution was meant to elimate political corruption, but Thailand remains a country...

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  5. Strange Spirit (1998 Video)

    Director
    Rebecca McClen Novick; Ronny Novick
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Tibetan exiles in refugee communities in northern India tell their stories of invasion, occupation, resistance, imprisonment and torture from the first battles in 1950 up to the present.

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  6. Struggle for Free Press and a Democratic Society, The (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. This film shows one journalist’s testimony of the movement by Algerian journalists to keep the spirit of their profession alive, as...

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  7. Sudan: The Secret Story (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Examines the reasons behind civil war and successive famines in south Sudan, revealing evidence of geneocide by the Sudanese regime to eradicate the black, non-Islamic peoples of the region with the aim of...

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  8. Testimony (1998 Video)

    Director
    Ron Orders
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Moved by Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso’s story of 34 years in prison, singer Annie Lennox tells his story in a filmed conversation.

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  9. Thokosa Video Dialogue (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Part of a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. This film shows a six months of a project in South Africa’s Thokosa township, still one of the most violence-ridden areas of the...

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  10. Three Generations of Struggle / Democracy or Disruption: Wangari Maathi and Green Belt (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Two films from a series exploring ways of resolving conflicts across Africa. 1: During Eritrea’s 30-year war with Ethiopia, women fought alongside men as equal partners on the front lines. Today, they...

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