[Swprograms] Amnesty: Radios for Burma

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Amnesty International is sending radios into Burma. This video shows them being 
distributed by activists carrying them on foot through a war zone to 
impoverished rural communities in Eastern Burma. The radios shown on the video 
are Chinese made Tecsun R 808’s covering medium wave, FM and shortwave. The 
organisations distribute different makes of radios to communities to avoid 
possible detection of beneficiaries by the the military. The radios give access 
to information from broadcasts by the BBC, VOA, Radio Free Asia and the 
Democratic Voice of Burma.

On November 13, the day of the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, 
who spent up to six hours a day listening to shortwave during the long years of 
her detention, Amnesty launched a new appeal with a target of 10,000 more 
radios.

http://vimeo.com/16762206



      

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