[OccupyCU] MINERS SHOT DOWN

[David Johnson]

MINERS SHOT DOWN

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Part 1 - Sunday May 25th
Part 2 - Sunday June 1st

Renowned director Rehad Desai returned to the events of August 2012, 
when the Marikana mine in South Africa experienced the worst episode of 
bloodshed since the end of apartheid. For seven days, thousands of 
miners protested for a living wage. The non-violent demonstration was 
brought down through an intervention by state police forces, in which 
more than 30 miners were shot dead and many others injured. In this 
political thriller, the director reconstructs the sequence of events 
through testimonies and footage of the massacre, drawing a disturbing 
picture of the mechanism of power in South Africa, where corporations 
make profits by exploiting the poorest. - See more at: 
http://www.oneworld.cz/2014/films-a-z/26594-miners-shot-down#sthash.Mp9E5udH.dpuf


  Miners Shot Down

What happened to the new South Africa?

Directed by Rehad Desai

On August 16, 2012, South African police opened fire on a group of 
Lonmin mine workers on a wildcat strike at the Marikana Mine, killing 34 
and injuring 78...

/Miners Shot Down/ charts the seven days leading up to bloodshed, much 
of it in real-time. The film uncovers disturbing new footage showing a 
line of police, with armoured vehicles in the background, firing live 
ammunition on a crowd of miners who are moving in a huddle towards the 
police line --- challenging the police narrative that they acted in 
self-defence.

The documentary utilises compelling previously unseen police, security 
and TV footage, some of which was submitted to the inquiry into the 
massacre, which is now underway.

Renowned director Rehad Desai returned to the events of August 2012, 
when the Marikana mine in South Africa experienced the worst episode of 
bloodshed since the end of apartheid. For seven days, thousands of 
miners protested for a living wage. The non-violent demonstration was 
brought down through an intervention by state police forces, in which 
more than 30 miners were shot dead and many others injured. In this 
political thriller, the director reconstructs the sequence of events 
through testimonies and footage of the massacre, drawing a disturbing 
picture of the mechanism of power in South Africa, where corporations 
make profits by exploiting the poorest. - See more at: 
http://www.oneworld.cz/2014/films-a-z/26594-miners-shot-down#sthash.Mp9E5udH.dpuf

Renowned director Rehad Desai returned to the events of August 2012, 
when the Marikana mine in South Africa experienced the worst episode of 
bloodshed since the end of apartheid. For seven days, thousands of 
miners protested for a living wage. The non-violent demonstration was 
brought down through an intervention by state police forces, in which 
more than 30 miners were shot dead and many others injured. In this 
political thriller, the director reconstructs the sequence of events 
through testimonies and footage of the massacre, drawing a disturbing 
picture of the mechanism of power in South Africa, where corporations 
make profits by exploiting the poorest. - See more at: 
http://www.oneworld.cz/2014/films-a-z/26594-miners-shot-down#sthash.Mp9E5udH.dpuf


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