Posted on 27th November
Asia
Down Under
This weeks episode of Asia D Under on Thurs 29th Nov at 11pm
(TVone) is a
30 minute special featuring personal interviews with 4 immigrant
youth;
that is 4 x 13 year olds, including an Afghani boy, a Chinese
girl, an
Indian boy and girl recently arrived in NZ.
This programme will be special - it's shot differently from
any other
programme - no reporter asking questions. The interviews are
straight down
the camera barrel - with the subjects. The Afghani boy talks
candidly about
his experiences in Afghanistan, his father imprisoned by the
Teleban, given
up for dead - the family reuniting, the war, how he misses his
home and
culture and how he feels about being in NZ. All the interviewees
don't pull
punches about their experiences in this country. Next week's
programme will
revisit these children with a short forum run by them - covering
issues
raised by their interviews.
Meantime... the socalled `war on terrorism' is to be extended
to three new
countries, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. Creating no doubt another
wave of
deaths, destruction and refugees while terrorists move fluidly
around the
globe finding ample new recruits to their violent ways and means.
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