Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - London - Caravan of Death and A Greek Tragedy

Caravan of Death
Reporter: Isabel Hilton, Producer: Jane Gabriel - UK - 2000 - 45m - video - documentary

Acclaimed BBC journalist Isabel Hilton speaks with Judge Juan Guzman about his attempts to put former Chilean Military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, on trial for crimes he committed 27-years-ago. The basis of the case against Pinochet and the subject of Hilton's film is the retracing of the route of the "Caravan of Death," horrific abuses committed by a military squad in 1974 in the town of Copiago in northern Chile. Hilton returns to Chile in November 2000, much like Judge Guzman did in 1998, to retrace the route of the Caravan and to speak to survivors and their families about the events of 27 years ago.
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A Greek Tragedy
Reporter: Edward Stourton - Producer: David Akerman - UK - 2000 - 45m - video - documentary

A GREEK TRAGEDY investigates why no member of the elusive Greek terrorist group "November 17" has ever been prosecuted in the quarter of a century since it launched its campaign of brutal assassinations. The film follows the dogged work of Nicos Peraticos, an Anglo-Greek shipping tycoon whose older brother Costis was killed by the terrorist, and features an exclusive interview with Heather Saunders, widow of Brigadier Stephen Saunders who was gunned down on a busy Athens street in broad day light in the summer of 2000. The left-wing extremist Greek terrorists stated that they had killed the Brigadier, serving as a military attaché at the British embassy, as a symbol of their disgust at Nato's bombing of Kosovo. The film looks at the history behind Greece's current legislative framework, which makes it almost impossible for the police to conduct satisfactory investigation into a terrorist offence. Some of which my stem from the Greek people's profound distrust of the police following their experiences during the military junta.
Courtesy of BBC Correspondent program and series editor Fiona Murch

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