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 _______________________________________________ Swprograms mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/swprograms To unsubscribe: Send an E-mail to [email protected]?subject=unsubscribe, or visit the URL shown above.
