Beirut to Bosnia: Muslims and the West Tape 3 - To the Ends of the Earth-Parts One, Two and Three

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Box 332, Video-cassette ME145, Box 346, Video-cassette ME145

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NTSC VHS [TRT:0:53:00] (2 copies)

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1. Producer: A Chameleon/Barraclough Carey. Production for Channer Four and Discovery Channel
2. Original Credits: Written and Presented by Robert Fisk. Producer Dennis Walsh. Director Michael Dutfield. Archive: NBC, BBC, INA.
3. A personal journey by Robert Fisk of the Independent.
4. In this part of the series Fisk starts out in Egypt describing the violence perpetrated against tourists there in the early 1990's. Includes footage of the assassination of President Sadat by Islamic fundamentalists as well as interviews with members of the Gama'a Islamiyya about the attempts to create an Islamic state. Discusses the divide between the rich and poor, as well as the police role in torturing Islamic suspects. Also, details the disastrous effects on the tourist trade in Egypt. Part two has Fisk travelling to Bosnia, where the Islamic faith is under siege by Serbian and Croat forces. He discusses the war's effects on the Bosnia Muslim population and the loss of faith that help from the West will come. Film was made when Sarajevo under siege still by Serb forces. Interviews with Bosnian civilians and UN military personnel about the situation of the bombardment. Includes footage from the hospitals in Sarajevo that document the daily carnage caused by the sniper fire. Interviews with Bosnia Muslim fighters in Sarajevo, as well as some background on the history of Islam in Bosnia. A Muslim cleric comments on the feelings of betrayal the Bosnia Muslims have towards the west. Part three begins with a trip to the North of Bosnia where Fisk describes the Serb offensive as ethnic cleansing and a push to steal the Muslim land. He visits a mosque that he had visited a year before that was not destroyed with the Imam gone missing. Fisk excoriates Western governments for ignoring the problems of Muslims in the Middle East. Ends with Bosnian Muslims being sent into exile, powerful symbolic images of people being put on trains and sent away.

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