Archive for May, 2009

Danish filmmaker Anders Ostergaard was in Myanmar to do a half-hour portrait on a young member of the Democratic Voice of Burma, an underground group of video journalists determined to document the oppressive conditions in the country, when suddenly, in September 2007, the Buddhist monks’ rebellion broke out. It had been sparked by the military government’s decision to lift fuel subsidies, causing some fuel prices to jump as much as 500% overnight.

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