The Sound of Bomblets
Series produced by Jessica Dheere
Interviews with cluster bomb victims in southern Lebanon
Israel dropped 4.5 million cluster munitions on Lebanon last summer. A third of them didn't explode, effectively littering the south with live bombs, most of them smaller than a soda can, hence the ridiculous moniker "bomblet." Since August 14, the day of the ceasefire, more than 200 people have been injured or killed as they inadvertently detonated them, harvesting tobacco, picking olives, collecting scrap metal, cleaning the house, clearing cluster bombs. Jessica Dheere, a writer, and Gabriela Bulisova, a photographer, set out to talk to some of the victims, whose experiences are often represented only by the appearance of their names on hospital admission lists. In a series of field interviews conducted in living rooms and olive groves and at bomb sites and funerals,... Show full description
2 Pieces
- Added: May 24, 2007
- Length: 07:30
- Added: May 22, 2007
- Length: 10:00