Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Pinegrove Productions
Closed Captioned: |
Running Time: 48 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 2000
Available in French: No
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Human rights violations have reached epidemic proportions in Columbia. A war, which has been inappropriately dubbed The War on Drugs, is forcing millions of Colombians to flee their homes. Getting Away with Murder documents the stories of many of the displaced and examines the reasons for the continued violence. Murder, death threats, forced exile, are all very difficult for someone from quiet, tranquil Canada to cope with ... The problems .... are tragically dismissed because of drug war propoganda. N. Coghlan, Canadian First Secretary, Bogota, Colombia. People outside of Colombia have a very poor understanding of what's going on here. The paramilitary problem in Colombia is a very serious one. Covering it up is a huge mistake. Senator Piedad Cordoba, Human Rights Commission, Bogota, Colombia. The paras take people off the bus, kill them and throw them in the river. First, though, they cut them open like fish so that they sink. Rosalba, Displaced. The helicopters flew over bombing and shooting into the houses. That's where they were shooting people. They killed my father. Ever since I have been afraid. Ivan (11 years old) Displaced. |
