1 00:01:12,542 --> 00:01:15,542 -[traffic ambiance] -[unsettling music] 2 00:01:25,291 --> 00:01:27,166 -[zipper] -[rustling] 3 00:01:31,375 --> 00:01:32,667 [camera beeps] 4 00:01:34,375 --> 00:01:36,125 [narrator] When I pick up the camera 5 00:01:36,917 --> 00:01:38,375 maybe my hands are shaking. 6 00:01:39,583 --> 00:01:41,333 I may have a heavy heartbeat. 7 00:01:45,875 --> 00:01:49,625 But after shooting for a little while, it is okay. 8 00:01:52,333 --> 00:01:56,792 I have nothing in my mind. I have only my subject 9 00:01:57,166 --> 00:01:59,667 in my mind, you know. I just shoot. 10 00:02:00,875 --> 00:02:03,792 [unsettling music continues] 11 00:02:13,959 --> 00:02:16,000 [music fades] 12 00:02:18,667 --> 00:02:20,041 [man on megaphone] 13 00:02:20,125 --> 00:02:21,917 [motorbike engines roaring] 14 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:49,250 [narrator] This is my country. 15 00:02:51,417 --> 00:02:54,625 And this is the way it has been for more than 40 years. 16 00:02:55,083 --> 00:02:56,542 [man on megaphone] 17 00:03:01,208 --> 00:03:02,291 [camera beeps] 18 00:03:03,875 --> 00:03:06,875 [electronic humming] 19 00:03:09,625 --> 00:03:13,458 I only remember a few weeks when things were any different. 20 00:03:15,417 --> 00:03:18,458 -[reflective music] -[birds cawing] 21 00:03:21,001 --> 00:03:23,625 [mouse clicking] 22 00:03:25,458 --> 00:03:28,625 [crowd chanting] 23 00:03:30,375 --> 00:03:34,125 [narrator] In 1988 I was just a little boy. 24 00:03:36,250 --> 00:03:40,083 But that's when everybody in Burma got into the streets. 25 00:03:40,875 --> 00:03:43,208 They'd had enough of military rulers. 26 00:03:44,667 --> 00:03:46,500 They wanted change. 27 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,583 It was the students who led the demonstrations. 28 00:03:51,083 --> 00:03:53,001 They became more and more outspoken 29 00:03:53,917 --> 00:03:57,625 and they demanded that the generals give up power. 30 00:03:57,709 --> 00:04:00,583 -[chanting continues] -[music continues] 31 00:04:00,917 --> 00:04:02,166 There was so much hope. 32 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:06,083 We even had Aung San Suu Kyi 33 00:04:06,166 --> 00:04:08,625 who came back from Europe to lead the people. 34 00:04:15,208 --> 00:04:16,333 [engine rumbling] 35 00:04:17,125 --> 00:04:19,333 But the generals wanted it differently. 36 00:04:20,083 --> 00:04:21,792 [announcement on megaphone] 37 00:04:24,458 --> 00:04:25,917 [gunshots] 38 00:04:27,959 --> 00:04:29,041 At the end of the day 39 00:04:29,458 --> 00:04:32,083 3,000 people were killed in the streets, and 40 00:04:33,083 --> 00:04:34,166 it was all over. 41 00:04:35,291 --> 00:04:38,333 [music continues] 42 00:04:39,834 --> 00:04:42,750 I feel I want to fight for democracy. 43 00:04:45,125 --> 00:04:50,709 But I think we had better make a longer plan. 44 00:04:54,500 --> 00:04:59,917 We cannot go out to the streets again, and get shot 45 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:02,834 because we have no more people to die. 46 00:05:09,250 --> 00:05:10,875 These people were so brave 47 00:05:11,542 --> 00:05:15,500 but sometimes I feel they died for nothing. 48 00:05:16,709 --> 00:05:19,709 -[music fades] -[rain pattering] 49 00:05:20,250 --> 00:05:22,667 There is nothing left from '88. 50 00:05:23,333 --> 00:05:26,208 It's like everything has been forgotten. 51 00:05:27,542 --> 00:05:30,125 [unsettling music] 52 00:05:30,208 --> 00:05:32,875 Aung San Suu Kyi is sitting in house arrest 53 00:05:33,583 --> 00:05:35,000 in the middle of Rangoon. 54 00:05:36,125 --> 00:05:37,208 She is in the house 55 00:05:38,083 --> 00:05:39,959 but you cannot go and talk to her. 56 00:05:41,291 --> 00:05:44,166 There is just... you know 57 00:05:44,750 --> 00:05:45,625 darkness. 58 00:05:46,458 --> 00:05:49,125 [rustling] 59 00:05:50,750 --> 00:05:53,375 I feel the world is forgetting about us. 60 00:05:54,625 --> 00:05:58,041 That's why I decided to become a video reporter. 61 00:05:59,875 --> 00:06:03,166 At least I can try to show that Burma is still here. 62 00:06:03,250 --> 00:06:04,208 [rustle] 63 00:06:04,625 --> 00:06:05,667 [dog barks] 64 00:06:08,375 --> 00:06:09,709 [man on megaphone] 65 00:06:10,959 --> 00:06:13,291 -[zipper] -[rustle] 66 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:15,959 We have to hide our camera in a bag. 67 00:06:16,750 --> 00:06:18,750 We can only shoot for a little while. 68 00:06:19,458 --> 00:06:20,291 And after that 69 00:06:20,667 --> 00:06:23,834 we have to smuggle our footage out of the country. 70 00:06:25,333 --> 00:06:27,166 It is a very difficult job. 71 00:06:29,083 --> 00:06:30,000 But we try. 72 00:06:32,583 --> 00:06:35,625 [reflective theme music] 73 00:06:41,417 --> 00:06:42,458 [train rumbling] 74 00:06:42,917 --> 00:06:44,917 [narrator] If they catch me with a camera 75 00:06:45,417 --> 00:06:47,083 I know I will go to prison. 76 00:06:48,625 --> 00:06:52,750 And, if people talk to us and tell us what they think 77 00:06:53,417 --> 00:06:54,500 they will go away, too. 78 00:06:55,625 --> 00:06:56,875 So they keep silent. 79 00:06:57,917 --> 00:06:59,458 Our stories are silent. 80 00:07:04,041 --> 00:07:06,250 [music continues] 81 00:07:07,709 --> 00:07:10,625 In the night times, I always think about 82 00:07:11,291 --> 00:07:12,750 what I did during the day. 83 00:07:13,625 --> 00:07:15,083 A little worried 84 00:07:15,667 --> 00:07:17,917 "Oh, who could have been watching?" 85 00:07:18,041 --> 00:07:19,500 Or something like that. 86 00:07:21,542 --> 00:07:22,875 [electronic humming] 87 00:07:25,125 --> 00:07:30,208 What if someone knows me and noticed I am shooting pictures? 88 00:07:31,333 --> 00:07:34,291 [music continues] 89 00:07:39,709 --> 00:07:42,000 Yeah, I think about this. 90 00:07:44,041 --> 00:07:47,125 [street ambiance] 91 00:07:49,333 --> 00:07:52,709 Fear is so deep in everybody. Also in me. 92 00:07:56,792 --> 00:08:00,625 Sometimes when I feel like this, I go and see Ko Maung. 93 00:08:02,875 --> 00:08:06,208 [whistling] 94 00:08:15,166 --> 00:08:17,667 [narrator] There is a whole group of us in Rangoon. 95 00:08:18,166 --> 00:08:20,250 We are all facing the same problems 96 00:08:21,375 --> 00:08:24,333 but Ko Maung looks at it differently 97 00:08:25,333 --> 00:08:28,500 even though he's already spent 12 years in prison. 98 00:08:31,166 --> 00:08:34,333 He is a special guy. He doesn't seem to mind. 99 00:08:53,125 --> 00:08:54,750 [soft clattering] 100 00:08:54,834 --> 00:08:56,500 Oh, shit! 101 00:08:58,333 --> 00:09:01,375 [unsettling music] 102 00:09:04,959 --> 00:09:05,834 [lighter flicks] 103 00:09:09,667 --> 00:09:11,792 [narrator] Ko Maung is a persistent person. 104 00:09:12,291 --> 00:09:14,959 He is rarely upset or depressed. 105 00:09:15,709 --> 00:09:16,542 He is strong. 106 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:48,750 [reflective music] 107 00:09:51,417 --> 00:09:52,875 [rain pattering] 108 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:27,542 [music continues] 109 00:10:37,917 --> 00:10:39,500 [crowd chanting] 110 00:10:43,625 --> 00:10:46,667 [man on megaphone] 111 00:10:46,750 --> 00:10:49,917 [crowd chanting] 112 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:01,166 The information, pictures and photos 113 00:11:01,250 --> 00:11:03,709 from Internet reporters was crucial 114 00:11:03,792 --> 00:11:06,041 because it's telling the world what is going on. 115 00:11:06,125 --> 00:11:09,458 They are the world's eyes and ears in this situation 116 00:11:09,542 --> 00:11:13,834 because we, as journalists, can't fulfill our role properly 117 00:11:13,917 --> 00:11:15,750 because we are banned by the authorities 118 00:11:15,834 --> 00:11:16,709 from going in. 119 00:11:17,417 --> 00:11:20,458 -[dramatic music] -[footsteps] 120 00:11:59,250 --> 00:12:02,500 [bus engine rumbling] 121 00:12:23,750 --> 00:12:26,458 [narrator] I remember August 15 quite well. 122 00:12:27,250 --> 00:12:29,750 I was on a bus going to Rangoon. 123 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:32,250 I decided to make a story 124 00:12:32,709 --> 00:12:35,792 because the mood was quite strange on the bus. 125 00:12:37,834 --> 00:12:39,041 Not like usual. 126 00:12:47,333 --> 00:12:48,166 [rustling] 127 00:13:20,625 --> 00:13:22,583 [narrator] On that day, the government raised 128 00:13:22,667 --> 00:13:24,375 fuel prices to double rate. 129 00:13:26,792 --> 00:13:28,875 Everything got much more expensive. 130 00:13:29,375 --> 00:13:31,709 To normal people, that was a huge problem. 131 00:13:48,041 --> 00:13:49,667 [narrator] They are still scared. 132 00:13:50,001 --> 00:13:53,041 Who is an informer? Who is military intelligence? 133 00:13:53,750 --> 00:13:55,667 You cannot know who is who on the bus. 134 00:13:55,750 --> 00:13:57,500 But, although they are not talking 135 00:13:58,333 --> 00:14:00,834 I know, something'll happen soon. 136 00:14:00,917 --> 00:14:02,875 [reflective music] 137 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:04,625 I can feel it. 138 00:14:05,208 --> 00:14:08,500 [city ambiance] 139 00:14:12,917 --> 00:14:14,500 When I arrived in Rangoon, 140 00:14:14,834 --> 00:14:18,458 I heard the news that a prominent demonstrator will 141 00:14:18,875 --> 00:14:22,125 make a solo strike at the crowded market 142 00:14:23,500 --> 00:14:24,375 in downtown. 143 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:27,583 The security is very tight in Rangoon. 144 00:14:27,667 --> 00:14:31,458 So many government people are there without uniforms. 145 00:14:32,125 --> 00:14:34,917 He may not last more than two or three minutes. 146 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,083 He will be arrested, we're sure. 147 00:14:38,250 --> 00:14:42,125 For our team, it is the time to use all our energies, and 148 00:14:42,208 --> 00:14:44,417 we decide that everyone will go there. 149 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:45,625 [tense music] 150 00:14:45,709 --> 00:14:50,625 So... we went there and spread around 151 00:14:50,709 --> 00:14:54,959 and these things happened just in front of me. 152 00:14:55,041 --> 00:14:56,083 [rustling] 153 00:15:15,625 --> 00:15:17,834 [narrator] It was Kyaw Kyaw who got this footage. 154 00:15:17,917 --> 00:15:18,834 My tape is lost. 155 00:15:19,500 --> 00:15:20,750 I got too greedy at the time. 156 00:15:22,041 --> 00:15:23,458 Because I followed them. 157 00:15:24,917 --> 00:15:27,166 [distorted shouting] 158 00:15:29,875 --> 00:15:32,583 That's me in the white shirt with the black bag. 159 00:15:33,625 --> 00:15:35,709 I followed very close and I saw them 160 00:15:35,792 --> 00:15:37,166 throwing the demonstrator on a truck. 161 00:15:37,250 --> 00:15:39,625 [shouting] 162 00:15:39,709 --> 00:15:41,083 I ran towards the truck. 163 00:15:41,542 --> 00:15:43,250 I had to get a picture of this. 164 00:15:44,917 --> 00:15:46,667 Then I hear somebody shouting 165 00:15:52,166 --> 00:15:54,625 [narrator] It was me. They caught me. 166 00:15:58,125 --> 00:15:59,500 [tense music] 167 00:15:59,583 --> 00:16:02,417 [narrator] They took me to an office of the secret police 168 00:16:02,500 --> 00:16:03,375 to question me. 169 00:16:04,917 --> 00:16:07,583 How did I get the camera? Why was I shooting this? 170 00:16:07,667 --> 00:16:08,667 So many questions. 171 00:16:09,208 --> 00:16:12,417 I explained that I borrowed the camera from a friend 172 00:16:12,875 --> 00:16:15,750 and that I was just there by accident. 173 00:16:16,750 --> 00:16:18,959 They said, "We don't believe you." 174 00:16:19,834 --> 00:16:23,291 "But we keep the camera and the tape, and you can go." 175 00:16:25,917 --> 00:16:29,083 [bus ambiance] 176 00:16:30,417 --> 00:16:31,375 I was relieved. 177 00:16:31,750 --> 00:16:34,750 But also I knew that I should not be fooled. 178 00:16:35,959 --> 00:16:37,208 Why did they release me? 179 00:16:37,792 --> 00:16:41,917 I think, just to follow me and see what I'm doing next. 180 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,250 [tense music continues] 181 00:16:44,625 --> 00:16:46,125 Do I work with somebody else? 182 00:16:47,875 --> 00:16:49,125 How do we operate? 183 00:16:50,583 --> 00:16:52,166 All those kinds of things. 184 00:16:56,875 --> 00:17:01,458 When I informed all this to my organization's headquarters 185 00:17:02,208 --> 00:17:05,583 they told me, "You are not secure enough in Burma." 186 00:17:06,917 --> 00:17:08,667 "We want you to come to Thailand." 187 00:17:10,041 --> 00:17:11,041 But... 188 00:17:11,458 --> 00:17:13,166 I didn't reply to their e-mail. 189 00:17:14,667 --> 00:17:16,041 I ignored their order. 190 00:17:16,125 --> 00:17:17,875 [rain pattering] 191 00:17:17,959 --> 00:17:19,875 I know something will happen. 192 00:17:21,333 --> 00:17:25,208 If I miss the chance to shoot now 193 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,291 I'll have to wait another 20 years. 194 00:17:29,792 --> 00:17:31,750 It is once in a blue moon, you know? 195 00:17:32,458 --> 00:17:33,583 So I decided 196 00:17:35,542 --> 00:17:38,041 "Whatever happens to me, I'll do it!" 197 00:17:38,125 --> 00:17:39,000 [tense music] 198 00:17:39,083 --> 00:17:40,166 [rustling] 199 00:17:41,375 --> 00:17:42,875 [cell phone rings] 200 00:17:49,959 --> 00:17:51,875 [rustling] 201 00:18:06,417 --> 00:18:07,250 [rustle] 202 00:18:15,750 --> 00:18:19,166 [narrator] After a few days, I got the news that Su Su Nway 203 00:18:19,250 --> 00:18:21,083 who is very famous for her courage 204 00:18:21,166 --> 00:18:22,750 would make a demonstration. 205 00:18:22,834 --> 00:18:25,917 [applause] 206 00:18:26,625 --> 00:18:29,083 It can lead to a bigger demonstration 207 00:18:29,166 --> 00:18:31,333 if she can do something very well. 208 00:18:31,417 --> 00:18:32,750 So we need to promote. 209 00:18:33,375 --> 00:18:35,458 As usual, we spread around. 210 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:56,709 [shouting] 211 00:19:03,500 --> 00:19:06,625 [engine rumbling loudly] 212 00:19:07,041 --> 00:19:10,125 [shouting] 213 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:15,625 [narrator] They're trying really hard to get her 214 00:19:15,709 --> 00:19:17,959 but the people cover and protect her. 215 00:19:19,166 --> 00:19:22,875 It was a big movement for us and a big mistake for them. 216 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:27,709 Because they did so many brutal things in front of people 217 00:19:27,792 --> 00:19:29,417 and we could document that. 218 00:19:29,500 --> 00:19:30,375 [shouting] 219 00:19:44,166 --> 00:19:47,208 [shouting continues] 220 00:19:49,792 --> 00:19:52,959 [narrator] We are shooting this, and the police are shooting us. 221 00:19:53,709 --> 00:19:56,125 They record me, and I record them. 222 00:19:56,959 --> 00:20:02,458 So we can also define who was who at the time. 223 00:20:02,542 --> 00:20:05,917 [shouting continues] 224 00:20:14,083 --> 00:20:18,458 [narrator] We shoot everything. Get it in the camera, you know! 225 00:20:18,542 --> 00:20:20,250 [engine roaring] 226 00:20:22,041 --> 00:20:23,959 [narrator] The taxi driver is saying that 227 00:20:24,542 --> 00:20:27,959 "Yeah, they are very brave! I'm glad to see this! 228 00:20:28,291 --> 00:20:32,750 I am very excited! I am saving money for my family 229 00:20:32,834 --> 00:20:36,250 and if something happens, I will join the demonstration!" 230 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:38,792 This is not normal. 231 00:20:38,875 --> 00:20:41,458 Saying political things to a stranger 232 00:20:42,083 --> 00:20:43,959 has never happened before. 233 00:20:44,625 --> 00:20:49,375 But, at the time, we knew what would happen next. 234 00:20:50,542 --> 00:20:51,583 [anticipatory music] 235 00:20:51,667 --> 00:20:54,417 Yeah, the movement is bigger and bigger. 236 00:20:56,291 --> 00:21:00,834 And now we edit the pieces and we send it to Oslo. 237 00:21:02,250 --> 00:21:05,875 A few hours later, my friend called me, that 238 00:21:07,542 --> 00:21:10,417 the pictures were shown on CNN and the BBC. 239 00:21:12,250 --> 00:21:14,709 They were shown repeatedly again and again. 240 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,041 [reporter] Such public displays of dissent 241 00:21:20,125 --> 00:21:23,250 are exceedingly rare in Burma these days 242 00:21:23,333 --> 00:21:24,417 and a clear challenge 243 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:27,375 to the country's hard-line military rulers. 244 00:21:27,458 --> 00:21:31,333 Some say, the most serious challenge in more than a decade. 245 00:21:31,917 --> 00:21:35,291 [reporter] The Democratic Voice of Burma, or DVB 246 00:21:35,375 --> 00:21:38,417 uses satellite TV and shortwave radio 247 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:41,458 to send news of the protests around the world 248 00:21:41,542 --> 00:21:44,875 and, for the first time, back into Burma. 249 00:21:44,959 --> 00:21:48,959 About 30 reporters are on the ground working undercover. 250 00:21:49,291 --> 00:21:52,333 They film material, then smuggle it out of the country 251 00:21:52,750 --> 00:21:55,166 doing so at great personal risk. 252 00:21:55,792 --> 00:21:58,375 -[engines rumbling] -[music continues] 253 00:22:00,125 --> 00:22:01,250 [narrator] It was so amazing 254 00:22:01,333 --> 00:22:03,417 to see our footage going around the world. 255 00:22:04,959 --> 00:22:07,792 For the first time I feel we can really do something. 256 00:22:09,875 --> 00:22:11,375 But I also know for sure 257 00:22:11,875 --> 00:22:14,041 I cannot stay in Burma a day longer. 258 00:22:15,750 --> 00:22:18,750 So finally, I agreed to go to Thailand for a while. 259 00:22:20,417 --> 00:22:21,875 [music fades] 260 00:22:24,583 --> 00:22:27,625 [birdsong] 261 00:22:29,250 --> 00:22:32,709 [narrator] We all think there will be more demonstrations, and 262 00:22:32,792 --> 00:22:35,458 people are heading for the movement. 263 00:22:35,834 --> 00:22:36,834 So... 264 00:22:37,417 --> 00:22:40,291 I will be the center 265 00:22:40,375 --> 00:22:42,875 for spreading the news around the world. 266 00:22:48,041 --> 00:22:50,125 I was very unhappy at the time 267 00:22:50,208 --> 00:22:53,041 to be in the office, to answer the phones 268 00:22:53,125 --> 00:22:57,333 and to call and send e-mails into Burma and manage people. 269 00:22:57,417 --> 00:22:58,542 [telephone rings] 270 00:22:58,625 --> 00:23:00,333 I just wanted to be in the field. 271 00:23:16,500 --> 00:23:19,667 -[mouse clicks] -[reflective music] 272 00:23:22,375 --> 00:23:24,291 But I needed to be there 273 00:23:24,792 --> 00:23:31,125 and I began preparation for our cameramen in Burma. 274 00:23:33,041 --> 00:23:34,375 [typing on keyboard] 275 00:24:56,001 --> 00:24:57,917 [tense music] 276 00:25:09,500 --> 00:25:12,375 -[music continues] -[electronic humming] 277 00:25:22,041 --> 00:25:25,001 [narrator] Suddenly the monks were beginning to move 278 00:25:25,583 --> 00:25:27,375 so I tried to get information 279 00:25:27,875 --> 00:25:31,458 and I called to a leader of the monks I had met before. 280 00:26:02,750 --> 00:26:03,750 [bell gongs] 281 00:26:04,291 --> 00:26:05,417 [street ambiance] 282 00:26:15,709 --> 00:26:18,750 [vehicle ambiance] 283 00:26:34,667 --> 00:26:37,709 [street ambiance] 284 00:26:38,875 --> 00:26:41,750 [distant footsteps] 285 00:27:21,208 --> 00:27:24,417 [narrator] Ko Maung and Tun Tun are trying to talk to the monks. 286 00:27:25,083 --> 00:27:26,250 But on that day 287 00:27:26,375 --> 00:27:28,834 monks didn't allow people to film them. 288 00:27:29,834 --> 00:27:31,834 They think they're intelligence agents 289 00:27:31,917 --> 00:27:32,959 from the government. 290 00:27:36,875 --> 00:27:38,542 -[shouting] -[scuffling] 291 00:27:39,083 --> 00:27:39,959 But actually 292 00:27:40,041 --> 00:27:42,333 there were some real intelligence people 293 00:27:42,417 --> 00:27:45,208 in the street, and they tried to grab our reporters. 294 00:27:45,291 --> 00:27:48,250 [shouting] 295 00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:52,417 The monks protected the reporters 296 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,625 and took them into their lines. 297 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:59,125 From now on, our guys could walk freely with the monks. 298 00:28:00,041 --> 00:28:02,125 We could really work together. 299 00:28:03,041 --> 00:28:06,125 [uplifting reflective music] 300 00:28:11,917 --> 00:28:14,583 One protester in the street cannot do much 301 00:28:16,001 --> 00:28:17,291 but there are thousands. 302 00:28:17,750 --> 00:28:20,500 Maybe there are 400,000 monks in Burma. 303 00:28:21,625 --> 00:28:23,750 Really, it is the only force in Burma 304 00:28:24,250 --> 00:28:25,500 who can scare the military. 305 00:28:29,417 --> 00:28:32,208 And the government made a very big mistake. 306 00:28:33,583 --> 00:28:37,500 In a town near Mandalay, they beat up some monks. 307 00:28:38,583 --> 00:28:42,667 In Buddhist thinking, we are never, never allowed to do that. 308 00:28:43,333 --> 00:28:45,750 So everybody was very upset 309 00:28:46,291 --> 00:28:49,750 and the monks demanded an apology from the government. 310 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:53,917 -[monks chanting] -[rain pattering] 311 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:57,001 Monks are not supposed to do political things. 312 00:28:59,291 --> 00:29:02,417 But when the people are suffering and starving 313 00:29:03,001 --> 00:29:05,375 sometimes they rise to give their support. 314 00:29:06,542 --> 00:29:10,625 This has happened before, even a thousand years back. 315 00:29:12,125 --> 00:29:14,542 They turn their alms bowls upside down. 316 00:29:16,083 --> 00:29:19,083 They will no longer take alms from the generals. 317 00:29:19,667 --> 00:29:22,709 [music continues] 318 00:29:27,041 --> 00:29:30,375 Only a few civilians were following them. 319 00:29:31,625 --> 00:29:35,583 People are under fear of the guns. 320 00:29:44,709 --> 00:29:47,792 -[water running] -[music continues] 321 00:30:54,375 --> 00:30:56,709 [narrator] People are very eager to see our footage. 322 00:30:57,291 --> 00:30:59,542 They just switch on Democratic Voice of Burma. 323 00:31:00,083 --> 00:31:02,792 They are waiting to see what we are going to show them. 324 00:31:03,834 --> 00:31:08,083 My people inside Burma was working very enthusiastically. 325 00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:10,083 So I was full of energy. 326 00:31:10,166 --> 00:31:13,208 [music continues] 327 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:16,291 And at the same time 328 00:31:16,834 --> 00:31:19,542 the journalists from every prominent media organization 329 00:31:19,625 --> 00:31:22,542 were waiting to see our footage coming out from Rangoon. 330 00:31:26,500 --> 00:31:27,875 [fast-paced music] 331 00:31:27,959 --> 00:31:29,583 [reporter] In Burma, hundreds of monks 332 00:31:29,667 --> 00:31:31,458 have been protesting for a third day 333 00:31:31,542 --> 00:31:34,083 after a significant rise in fuel prices 334 00:31:34,166 --> 00:31:36,625 prompted a wave of public discontent 335 00:31:36,667 --> 00:31:38,291 which is seldom seen in Burma. 336 00:31:38,709 --> 00:31:40,875 The BBC has obtained exclusive images. 337 00:31:41,375 --> 00:31:44,458 [reporter] To protest here is to risk jail and torture. 338 00:31:45,125 --> 00:31:47,750 But today and for the past month, people across Burma 339 00:31:47,834 --> 00:31:49,250 have dared to challenge 340 00:31:49,333 --> 00:31:51,208 one of the world's most oppressive regimes. 341 00:31:52,083 --> 00:31:55,375 The demonstrations are being led by Buddhist monks 342 00:31:55,458 --> 00:31:57,959 a powerful force in a devout nation. 343 00:33:02,166 --> 00:33:05,250 [chanting] 344 00:34:24,458 --> 00:34:26,583 [narrator] One of our reporters was always 345 00:34:26,667 --> 00:34:28,792 at the forefront of the demonstrations 346 00:34:29,291 --> 00:34:31,834 working together with the leaders of the monks. 347 00:34:41,542 --> 00:34:42,834 [narrator] So he makes suggestions 348 00:34:42,917 --> 00:34:44,542 to the monks which way to go. 349 00:34:44,959 --> 00:34:47,750 He tells them where they'll get the most support 350 00:34:48,125 --> 00:34:50,208 and people will join the demonstrations. 351 00:39:22,583 --> 00:39:24,417 [reporter] Today, up to 100,000 people 352 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:25,667 took to the streets of Rangoon 353 00:39:25,750 --> 00:39:28,458 a protest that has grown in size and confidence 354 00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:30,709 over the last six successive days. 355 00:39:39,625 --> 00:39:42,166 [reporter] The monks have come to symbolize dissent 356 00:39:42,250 --> 00:39:46,291 a quiet, patient, peaceful rebuke to military brutality 357 00:39:46,709 --> 00:39:48,834 and the chance of an alternative Burma. 358 00:39:50,125 --> 00:39:52,834 [narrator] Millions of people are watching our footage. 359 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,375 Our network is really small. 360 00:39:57,417 --> 00:39:58,834 We don't have manpower. 361 00:39:58,917 --> 00:40:01,709 We have to do alone with little handicams. 362 00:40:04,667 --> 00:40:07,375 [narrator] But the things we did with these things 363 00:40:07,959 --> 00:40:09,792 could shake the people in Burma 364 00:40:09,875 --> 00:40:12,750 as well as the people around the world. 365 00:40:12,834 --> 00:40:14,375 [cheering and clapping] 366 00:40:14,834 --> 00:40:16,083 That really happened. 367 00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,000 It is our dream, which is coming true. 368 00:40:23,625 --> 00:40:26,667 [cheering and clapping] 369 00:41:02,458 --> 00:41:05,208 [Bush] Americans are outraged by the situation in Burma 370 00:41:06,583 --> 00:41:11,750 where a military junta has imposed a 19-year reign of fear. 371 00:41:12,667 --> 00:41:15,834 The regime is holding more than 1,000 political prisoners 372 00:41:16,917 --> 00:41:18,542 including Aung San Suu Kyi 373 00:41:19,333 --> 00:41:22,208 yet the people's desire for freedom is unmistakable. 374 00:41:22,291 --> 00:41:23,709 [reporter] ...vowing to bring down 375 00:41:23,792 --> 00:41:25,542 a repressive military government. 376 00:41:26,208 --> 00:41:29,041 The last time anyone defied the generals like this 377 00:41:29,417 --> 00:41:34,041 the army killed 3,000 people. So what will they do this time? 378 00:42:21,333 --> 00:42:24,166 -[music continues] -[rain pattering] 379 00:42:27,083 --> 00:42:29,125 [reporter] The detained opposition leader in Burma 380 00:42:29,208 --> 00:42:30,792 Aung San Suu Kyi 381 00:42:30,875 --> 00:42:34,083 has been seen in public for the first time in several years. 382 00:42:34,166 --> 00:42:35,959 Thousands of Buddhist monks 383 00:42:36,041 --> 00:42:38,583 were allowed to walk past police barricades 384 00:42:38,667 --> 00:42:41,208 to the home of the detained opposition leader. 385 00:42:41,291 --> 00:42:44,375 [music continues] 386 00:42:48,417 --> 00:42:49,333 [narrator] I was crying 387 00:42:49,417 --> 00:42:52,208 when I hear that monks are going to Aung San Suu Kyi's home. 388 00:43:00,750 --> 00:43:02,250 And she came out to the gate. 389 00:43:02,333 --> 00:43:05,375 And she gave respect to the monks with tears. 390 00:43:08,291 --> 00:43:11,083 Everybody who saw this was crying at the time. 391 00:43:11,500 --> 00:43:12,417 And me, too. 392 00:43:12,792 --> 00:43:14,250 In front of the computer. 393 00:43:14,625 --> 00:43:17,667 [music continues] 394 00:43:23,667 --> 00:43:29,875 It is not a good photo. You can see only a small lady 395 00:43:29,959 --> 00:43:32,750 but we couldn't see her for a long time. 396 00:43:35,166 --> 00:43:39,375 She is still under custody, you know, house arrest. 397 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:43,875 They have tried to make the people forget her. 398 00:43:44,875 --> 00:43:48,667 But, she is still in our hearts. 399 00:43:50,834 --> 00:43:51,917 At the same time 400 00:43:52,542 --> 00:43:55,750 I realize that it is very dangerous for the monks 401 00:43:56,250 --> 00:43:57,333 to go and see her. 402 00:43:59,583 --> 00:44:03,500 In the 1990s, the generals made a big mistake. 403 00:44:04,709 --> 00:44:08,667 They made an election, and almost everybody voted for her. 404 00:44:12,166 --> 00:44:15,208 [applause and cheering] 405 00:44:18,709 --> 00:44:20,166 [narrator] It was like she made 406 00:44:20,250 --> 00:44:22,291 the whole people forget their fear. 407 00:44:28,166 --> 00:44:31,208 -[music continues] -[indistinct chatter] 408 00:44:35,125 --> 00:44:37,208 I'm sure that the generals were very scared 409 00:44:37,291 --> 00:44:38,959 of this to happen again. 410 00:44:42,625 --> 00:44:45,667 They will begin to do something after that. 411 00:44:50,208 --> 00:44:51,041 My... 412 00:44:51,875 --> 00:44:53,458 My thought was true. 413 00:45:55,041 --> 00:45:56,792 [narrator] I think the decisive time 414 00:45:57,250 --> 00:45:59,542 was when the government announced 415 00:45:59,959 --> 00:46:02,792 not to gather more than five people in the streets. 416 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,083 [unsettling music] 417 00:46:05,166 --> 00:46:06,792 So I was confused and... 418 00:46:08,083 --> 00:46:10,875 that day I couldn't sleep. 419 00:46:12,333 --> 00:46:13,625 You know, "Is it over?" 420 00:46:41,792 --> 00:46:43,875 [music continues] 421 00:46:43,959 --> 00:46:45,834 [rustling] 422 00:46:48,041 --> 00:46:50,250 [rustling continues] 423 00:46:54,417 --> 00:46:57,417 [car ambiance] 424 00:47:03,667 --> 00:47:04,500 [rustle] 425 00:48:10,250 --> 00:48:11,959 [narrator] When I see monks and people 426 00:48:12,041 --> 00:48:13,166 come out that day 427 00:48:14,083 --> 00:48:16,792 I just feel that it's the time for our victory. 428 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,417 They just came out, without fear. 429 00:48:22,500 --> 00:48:25,500 [cheering and clapping continue] 430 00:48:26,625 --> 00:48:28,625 But, we are still waiting for the army 431 00:48:30,333 --> 00:48:31,583 to join the people. 432 00:48:33,001 --> 00:48:35,333 There are so many soldiers who are suffering. 433 00:48:35,792 --> 00:48:38,125 The lower ranks and privates. 434 00:48:38,208 --> 00:48:39,917 But for an army man 435 00:48:40,625 --> 00:48:44,875 disobeying an order is the most difficult decision for them. 436 00:48:46,125 --> 00:48:49,709 They know their generals are really cruel, really brutal. 437 00:48:51,917 --> 00:48:53,166 They know more than us. 438 00:48:56,583 --> 00:48:59,709 [engines roaring] 439 00:53:04,792 --> 00:53:06,125 [reporter] Good afternoon. Troops have fired 440 00:53:06,208 --> 00:53:07,667 tear gas and warning shots 441 00:53:07,750 --> 00:53:09,709 at demonstrators in Burma today. 442 00:53:09,792 --> 00:53:10,792 According to reports 443 00:53:10,875 --> 00:53:12,959 at least one Buddhist monk has been killed 444 00:53:13,041 --> 00:53:14,417 and several others injured. 445 00:53:15,001 --> 00:53:17,959 [reporter] Some of those monks were really very badly beaten 446 00:53:18,041 --> 00:53:21,041 and yet the crowds were about as large 447 00:53:21,125 --> 00:53:22,500 as they've been in previous days. 448 00:53:22,583 --> 00:53:24,208 It took time for them to build up. 449 00:53:24,291 --> 00:53:27,125 -[cheering and clapping] -[music continues] 450 00:53:27,208 --> 00:53:29,834 And the anger is palpable on the streets. 451 00:53:29,917 --> 00:53:31,625 This is a very dangerous moment 452 00:53:31,709 --> 00:53:35,375 because, if the security forces can't control these protests 453 00:53:35,458 --> 00:53:37,375 with what they used today 454 00:53:37,458 --> 00:53:39,208 there is of course a very real risk 455 00:53:39,291 --> 00:53:42,166 that they will use lethal force in the days ahead. 456 00:53:47,083 --> 00:53:49,834 [reporter] We've seen amazing scenes of defiance 457 00:53:49,917 --> 00:53:51,625 on the streets of Rangoon today. 458 00:55:27,834 --> 00:55:30,875 -[tense music continues] -[night ambiance] 459 00:55:36,792 --> 00:55:39,875 [bells clanging] 460 00:55:54,625 --> 00:55:57,458 [clatter] 461 00:57:43,458 --> 00:57:45,333 [narrator] I sent Kyaw Kyaw to the place. 462 00:57:45,417 --> 00:57:47,625 He went and filmed the occasion there. 463 00:57:48,250 --> 00:57:50,834 And when he got out of the monastery 464 00:57:50,917 --> 00:57:54,792 he saw soldiers and thugs were coming to raid again. 465 00:57:56,834 --> 00:57:58,792 The government troops are coming back 466 00:57:58,875 --> 00:58:01,001 to take all the rest of the monks. 467 00:58:16,041 --> 00:58:19,125 [unsettling music] 468 00:58:29,792 --> 00:58:31,542 [narrator] Later we found out that 469 00:58:32,041 --> 00:58:35,834 all the rest of the monks were taken away. 470 00:58:36,667 --> 00:58:39,709 And we don't really know where they are now. 471 01:11:58,291 --> 01:12:00,250 [narrator] In the late days of September 472 01:12:00,333 --> 01:12:01,333 I began to think 473 01:12:02,250 --> 01:12:04,959 "This is something we have all seen before." 474 01:12:06,625 --> 01:12:08,083 The monks were gone. 475 01:12:08,834 --> 01:12:11,291 Only the students were left in the street 476 01:12:11,917 --> 01:12:13,542 just like 1988. 477 01:12:14,917 --> 01:12:18,041 And military trucks are going around the city 478 01:12:18,125 --> 01:12:19,542 to chase them down. 479 01:14:39,458 --> 01:14:41,208 [narrator] The uprising was dying. 480 01:14:41,792 --> 01:14:43,834 There are only a few demonstrators left 481 01:14:43,917 --> 01:14:45,417 in the streets of Rangoon. 482 01:14:46,375 --> 01:14:49,083 During these days of guerrilla demonstrations 483 01:14:49,792 --> 01:14:51,500 Ko Maung worked very well. 484 01:14:52,166 --> 01:14:55,208 He is one of the old fighters from 1988. 485 01:14:55,750 --> 01:14:58,375 So he knew the way the demonstrators moved. 486 01:16:43,208 --> 01:16:45,250 [reporter] That is how you stop the truth 487 01:16:45,333 --> 01:16:46,917 coming out about a massacre. 488 01:16:47,542 --> 01:16:50,166 A Japanese journalist shot dead yesterday. 489 01:16:50,250 --> 01:16:52,583 Today, the internet switched off 490 01:16:52,667 --> 01:16:55,001 and troops beating those with cameras 491 01:16:55,083 --> 01:16:57,709 yelling, "Is it you who is sending pictures out?" 492 01:16:58,291 --> 01:17:00,041 But the pictures have come out. 493 01:18:29,041 --> 01:18:31,041 [narrator] In the later days of September 494 01:18:31,542 --> 01:18:33,625 Rangoon is like a war zone. 495 01:18:35,333 --> 01:18:38,000 Nobody is on the streets after eight p.m. 496 01:18:39,542 --> 01:18:44,083 It is the city. But it's like, you know, a desert. 497 01:18:47,083 --> 01:18:49,041 But our people are still working. 498 01:18:50,750 --> 01:18:51,875 [reporter] The situation's gotten worse 499 01:18:51,959 --> 01:18:53,375 since the crackdown began last week 500 01:18:53,458 --> 01:18:55,792 as the country's internet servers have been cut. 501 01:18:56,417 --> 01:18:57,917 Despite that information blackout 502 01:18:58,001 --> 01:18:59,625 some images are still managing 503 01:18:59,709 --> 01:19:00,667 to get out of the country. 504 01:19:02,875 --> 01:19:06,166 [reporter] We received images from Democratic Voice of Burma 505 01:19:06,250 --> 01:19:10,041 which is the last media to be able to leak information 506 01:19:10,125 --> 01:19:11,917 from Burma to the outside world. 507 01:19:12,542 --> 01:19:14,709 They're using satellite connections 508 01:19:14,792 --> 01:19:17,417 to send this information out of Burma 509 01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:20,291 which is very important, because otherwise we don't know 510 01:19:20,375 --> 01:19:22,417 what's happening in Rangoon at the moment. 511 01:19:32,959 --> 01:19:36,959 [reporter] We know that this video was taken yesterday 512 01:19:37,041 --> 01:19:38,583 and we know it's in Rangoon. 513 01:19:38,667 --> 01:19:40,375 We don't know more about that 514 01:19:40,458 --> 01:19:41,625 but it shows that the repression 515 01:19:41,709 --> 01:19:43,166 is still going on. 516 01:19:43,250 --> 01:19:47,208 And that the Burmese authorities are trying to calm things down 517 01:19:47,291 --> 01:19:48,875 saying that the protests are over. 518 01:19:48,959 --> 01:19:50,208 This is not true. 519 01:19:50,291 --> 01:19:53,542 We see here that it is still very violent in Rangoon. 520 01:19:59,208 --> 01:20:04,417 [announcer] RFA, VOA and BBC airing skyful of lies. 521 01:20:05,834 --> 01:20:07,500 The public be warned of 522 01:20:07,917 --> 01:20:09,917 killers in the air waves 523 01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,959 RFA, VOA and BBC. 524 01:20:14,709 --> 01:20:20,125 RFA, VOA and BBC saboteurs, watch your step! 525 01:20:20,208 --> 01:20:23,041 [tense music continues] 526 01:20:24,333 --> 01:20:26,291 [narrator] In the late days of September 527 01:20:26,875 --> 01:20:29,250 generals were back in control. 528 01:20:32,792 --> 01:20:36,333 Military people are hunting any person with a camera. 529 01:20:37,500 --> 01:20:38,917 We have to be very careful. 530 01:21:05,458 --> 01:21:10,001 The Burmese military government realize that DVB is the one 531 01:21:10,375 --> 01:21:12,166 filming and smuggling 532 01:21:12,250 --> 01:21:15,000 all this footage to international agencies. 533 01:21:15,083 --> 01:21:20,000 So they systematically target DVB reporters on the ground. 534 01:21:20,792 --> 01:21:23,208 [music continues] 535 01:21:23,583 --> 01:21:26,083 [narrator] Everybody in our network has spread out. 536 01:21:26,709 --> 01:21:29,917 They are feeling that they can be arrested at any time. 537 01:21:31,834 --> 01:21:34,000 But we arranged some hiding places. 538 01:25:15,417 --> 01:25:17,001 [narrator] It is just too much. 539 01:25:17,750 --> 01:25:20,625 I feel "hna myaw tal." 540 01:25:23,750 --> 01:25:26,083 It's like something has been broken 541 01:25:27,625 --> 01:25:29,250 and cannot be repaired. 542 01:25:33,417 --> 01:25:35,375 But I'll just go on with my job. 543 01:25:37,500 --> 01:25:38,959 Because we need to do it. 544 01:25:40,834 --> 01:25:42,166 [reflective music] 545 01:25:42,250 --> 01:25:44,625 [soft splashing] 546 01:25:47,917 --> 01:25:50,750 -[boat engine rumbles] -[reflective music] 547 01:25:53,667 --> 01:25:55,001 I'll go back to Burma. 548 01:25:56,125 --> 01:25:57,709 I'll go through the mountains 549 01:25:59,041 --> 01:26:00,709 and see what I can do. 550 01:26:11,709 --> 01:26:14,750 [dramatic music] 551 01:26:28,250 --> 01:26:31,333 -[wind howling] -[music continues] 552 01:26:40,917 --> 01:26:42,709 [reporter] A massive cyclone has hit 553 01:26:43,208 --> 01:26:45,083 the military-ruled country of Burma. 554 01:26:45,166 --> 01:26:47,500 We're getting reports of 50 percent of the buildings 555 01:26:47,583 --> 01:26:49,250 are damaged or collapsed 556 01:26:49,667 --> 01:26:52,792 in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta towns.