BURMA DISPLACED
Director Roland Wehap
Countries Austria
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
After the Saffron Revolution 2007 and the hurricane Nargis, the world's attention was focused on Burma. This interest did not last long. The country's military leaders are content with their international isolation. It allows them to do what they please without paying attention to Human Rights. After decades long dictatorship, they old values still prevail in Burma: Whoever is not for it is against it. Critics are dead or living in exile. BURMA DISPLACED is looking for people who were able to flee Burma. They live as illegal workers in neighbouring countries, in refugee camps in Bangladesh, as tourist attraction in thland and lonely in the Swiss mountains. Burma only lives in their memories. BURMA DISPLACED also meets the Rap Group "Myanmar Future Generation" who sings about Burma's horrible history. The film finds destroyed villages and fleeing people. The one thing they all have in common is hope: Hope for a better live, hope for a freed Burma.
After the Saffron Revolution 2007 and the hurricane Nargis, the world's attention was focused on Burma. This interest did not last long. The country's military leaders are content with their international isolation. It allows them to do what they please without paying attention to Human Rights. After decades long dictatorship, they old values still prevail in Burma: Whoever is not for it is against it. Critics are dead or living in exile. BURMA DISPLACED is looking for people who were able to flee Burma. They live as illegal workers in neighbouring countries, in refugee camps in Bangladesh, as tourist attraction in thland and lonely in the Swiss mountains. Burma only lives in their memories. BURMA DISPLACED also meets the Rap Group "Myanmar Future Generation" who sings about Burma's horrible history. The film finds destroyed villages and fleeing people. The one thing they all have in common is hope: Hope for a better live, hope for a freed Burma.