[syndicate] \ re: Peace Activists Head To Iraq

[claudia westermann]

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>I also have one similar experience from Romania, 1989.
>The army encircled us, some 200 people on a square,
>and when people shouted that they can shoot if they want,
>those soldiers who shot at all, were shooting in the air.
>Those 20 people who died were shot not face to face by the army,
>but from the back by snipers located in the surrounding buildings.

has it ever been cleared who were these snipers ? securitate ? 
(that's what the woman in the beginning of this documentary by 
Farocki/Ujica says, if I remember correctly )


in this documentary it is also mentioned that possibly the military 
needed an enemy to strengthen their credibility ...

hm, hm ...

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Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

Description: History takes place before your eyes in Harun Farocki 
and Andrei Ujica's fascinating film covering the 1989 fall of the 
Ceaucescu regime in Romania. A radical, media-based chronology that 
condenses 125 hours of footage, Videograms of a Revolution carefully 
mediates perspective as it presents a picture of political turmoil as 
revealing and chilling as Eisenstein's October. A recorded spectacle 
of dramatic, operatic and grotesque character. German with English 
subtitles.

Directed by: Harun Farocki Andrei Ujica

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>
>greetings,
>anna
>

kind regards to you,

claudia