Kudos to Stallone for his excellent new movie. He has brought attention to one of the greater tragedies of modern times.
The Karen people are accurately portrayed in the movie as being slaughtered by the Burmese army. The footage from the first two minutes is of a real mass killing scene. Stallone contacted Soldier of Fortune magazine and asked them " where on the Earth today is the worst injustice, the worst slaughter. " Robert Brown, the editor told him about the Karen rebels.
Now, in my research for this thread I looked into why the U.S. has not got involved, and it led me back to the C.I.A. story involving drug smuggling.
Bo Gritz is a genuine American legend. His words;
For those going to see the movie ( which is one of the goriest movies ever ), take a minute to reflect that what you are seeing is real, with the exception of anybody doing anything to stop it.
More info:
http://www.kwekalu.net/photojournal1/id … stroy.html
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12 … a14904.htm
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/opi007.htm
clip from movie ( not trailer )
behind the scenes:
The Karen people are accurately portrayed in the movie as being slaughtered by the Burmese army. The footage from the first two minutes is of a real mass killing scene. Stallone contacted Soldier of Fortune magazine and asked them " where on the Earth today is the worst injustice, the worst slaughter. " Robert Brown, the editor told him about the Karen rebels.
Now, in my research for this thread I looked into why the U.S. has not got involved, and it led me back to the C.I.A. story involving drug smuggling.
Bo Gritz is a genuine American legend. His words;
Up until the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan, the majority of heroin coming into the United States was being cultivated in the same region that the Karen people are being butchered.Bo Gritz wrote:
What I want to tell you very quickly is something that I feel is more heinous than the Bataan death march. Certainly it is of more concern to you as Americans than the Watergate.
What I'm talking about is something we found out in Burma (May 1987). We found it out from a man named Khun Sa. He is the recognized overlord of heroin in the world. Last year (1986) he sent 900 tons of opiates and heroin into the free world. This year it will be 1200 tons.
On video tape he said to us something that was most astounding: that US government officials have been and are now his biggest customers, and have been for the last twenty years.
We've been embracing organized crime. Now you've all looked and heard about Ollie North, about the Contras, about nobody knowing anything.
The general offered to stop the flow of opium and heroin into the free world. He was told by White House officials, "Bo, there's no one here that supports that."
For those going to see the movie ( which is one of the goriest movies ever ), take a minute to reflect that what you are seeing is real, with the exception of anybody doing anything to stop it.
More info:
http://www.kwekalu.net/photojournal1/id … stroy.html
http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2006/12 … a14904.htm
http://www.a1b2c3.com/drugs/opi007.htm
clip from movie ( not trailer )
behind the scenes:
Last edited by ATG (2008-01-26 22:58:18)