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Title Why democracy? : taxi to the dark side
Published 2007

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  321.8 Wde/Moc  2008/05/06  AVAILABLE
Description 1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 12 cm
Summary "Over one hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the war on terror. An Afghan taxi driver called Dilawar was considered an honest and kind man by the people of his rustic village. So when he was detained by the U.S military one afternoon, after picking up three passengers, denizens wondered why this man was randomly chosen to be held in prison, and, especially, without trial? Five days after his arrest Dilawar died in his Bagram prison cell. His death came within a week of another death of a detainee at Bagram. The documentary, by award-winning producer Alex Gibney, carefully develops the last weeks of Dilawar's life and shows how decisions taken at the pinnacle of power in the Bush Administration led directly to Dilawar's brutal death. (From Denmark, in English and Pashto) " -- website
Notes Off-air recording of SBS-TV broadcast October 16, 2007; May 6, 2008. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act
Credits Written, narrated and directed by Alex Gibney
Notes DVD
Rated: M
Available for Deakin University staff and students only
Subject Military interrogation -- Afghanistan
Afghan War, 2001- -- Prisoners and prisons, American
Author Gibney, Alex
SBS-TV
Other Titles Taxi to the dark side