| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Series |
Foreign correspondent (Television program)
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| Summary |
"Stephen Dupont has been capturing striking images of Afghanistan in war and peace since 1992. The suicide bombing outside the police barracks of the town of Khogyani, outside of Jalalabad, was his closest call. Dupont and fellow journalist Paul Raffaele had been planning to join an Afghan police operation to eradicate opium poppies in the area. Acting on instinct, moments after the explosion Dupont pulled out his stills camera and his video recorder and began capturing the confusion and panic. He found himself sheltering with Afghan police as the bomb scene was sprayed with bullets by Taliban attackers. At one stage he filmed himself, blood running down his face, as he searched for Raffaele, not knowing whether he was dead or alive. Dupont's videotape and photographs reveal the horror of the current weapon of choice of insurgent forces in Afghanistan and Iraq - the indiscriminate killing and maiming of people by suicide bombers. Last year there were 140 attacks like this in Afghanistan alone, killing hundreds. In Iraq, there were many more. Audiences around the world are becoming de-sensitised to the slaughter. After twenty years of highlighting the plight of others, Dupont says the killings at Khogyani are the worst thing he's ever seen. Back in Sydney he says it's not easy to get the dead, including a child, out of his mind. With a partner and young child of his own at home, "I just feel so lucky, so lucky," he says. "--website |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of ABC1 broadcast May 27, 2008. Copied under Part VA of the Copyright Act |
| Performer |
Reporter: Mark Corcoran |
| Notes |
DVD |
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No rating given |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Subject |
Suicide bombings -- Afghanistan
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| SUBJECT |
Afghanistan
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| Author |
Dupont, Stephen
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ABC-TV (Australia)
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