V/O In a land stark, but strikingly beautiful, the descendants of Mongol invaders forge a living in a hostile environment.The Hazara people have themselves been conquered and conquered again.Their land is littered with the remnants of the Soviet occupation of the 1980s.
V/O And now their cemeteries are filled with hundreds of men and boys massacred when the Taliban swept through here eight years ago.Along with the rest of Afghanistan.. Bamiyan is still under foreign occupation.. by an alliance of nations determined that democracy should prevail.
PTC This is one part of Afghanistan where.. roughly.. things are going right for the western backed administration of President Hamid Karzai.The Taliban have long gone the warlords are at bay.And Bamiyan is under the control of a new governor.. someone so extraordinarily different to any leader these people have ever.. ever had before.
V/O Her name is Habiba Surabi.. and shes Afghanistans first and only woman governor.In a nation where the tribal greybeards have always dominated.. this is rare public respect and recognition for a female leader.
Grab Governor (olay)00 50
Women in Afghanistan have been deprived for a long time, this depression gave me the power to work. We have to have the self confidence because for a long time during history from the gender perspective men killed the self confidence for women.
TC 37 47 Upshot governor in open air classroom
V/O One year into the job ..Governor Surabis mission to educate girls.. has had spectacular results,
TC 35 00 Gov Surabi actuality
This school is without building but we can see how much the children are interested in education
V/O In Taliban times they were banished to the home along with their mothers.. now girls make up just under half of the school population.in a country where fewer than a third of people can read and write their own names.. the education of every young person is the governors priority.
TC 22 55 Wadir Safi, analyst Shes not a warlord, and shes not a fundamentalist or a fanatic, and shes educated and she wants development, and the people there they are united and they follow her what she says, it is not the case with every province.
V/O The Governor tours her Province knowing that its distinguished by something else.This is one of few places in Afghanistan where you wont find crops of opium poppy.As a nation, Afghanistan derives 60 per cent of its income from the illicit drug.But here in Bamiyan poor farmers have been persuaded by their governor to grow wheat and keep sheep and goats instead and maintain a subsistence lifestyle. T3 TC 54 55
Governor Surabi -
The Taliban destroyed everthing in this area and the geographical problem is also a problem here and the weather is very cold.
V/O Many villages here rely on handouts from aid groups for their very existence.The men here take receipt of their new stock with a fingerprint in ink.But although the soil can yield little.. the landscapes here have put Bamiyan on the map.In the cliffs.. the sorry remains of two giant Buddhas.. constructed fifteen hundred years ago.Condemned as icons .. they were destroyed by the Taliban for being un- Islamic.This is how they looked before .. an essential stopover on the Asian overland hippy trail in the 1970s.
TC 7:41 Ali People were very scared, when the Taliban would do something, no one could question itends
T5 TC 7 50
V/O Shopkeeper Ali told me about the day Afghanistans biggest tourist attraction was wiped off the map.
TC 6:39 The moment they Buddas were blasted, even the glass on the windows in our houses were shattered
TC 9:43 Everybody was very upset that the Buddas had been destroyed.
TC 9 46
V/O Archaeologists and restorers are now cataloguing each significant piece of rubble.. but no one seriously thinks the Buddas can ever be rebuilt.Undeterred that Bamiyans most conspicuous asset has been obliterated ..the Governor is still talking up a tourist led recovery.
TC 19 50
Gov Surabi Tourist development can be a good income for the people, not only that Bamiyan is a historical place but because of the landscape because of the beauty , the natural beauty that Bamiyan has.
Upsot shooting T6 from TC 39 30
V/O Afghanistan will probably not grace holiday brochures for some time with instability elsewhere in the country.. but Bamiyan at least is peaceful and reasonably secure.. A new Afghan police force is in training.. tutored by some New Zealanders.
TC 34 29 NZ instructor ..squeeze the trigger.. dont pull it.. just gently squeeze the trigger.
V/O It might not be grown in Bamiyan, but the opium is never the less smuggled through the province.. the recruits will have the job of stemming the drug trade.
TC 56 04 Insp. Simon PerryI mean they re here to learn they listen to us we give them instruction via the Afghan instructors and overall we ve found them very very good.
Upsot football
TC 21 05
V/O The Kiwis are here in force.Theres also a reconstruction team from the New Zealand military.On the football field.. its troops are hardly a match for a nimble Afghan opposition. Bamiyans problem is that its just too peaceful and laid back.While the lawless south of Afghanistan gets most of the money and attention of foreign governments and aid organisations.. this place has been forgotten.
TC 35 22 Capt Ross Smith Where is the peace dividend for Bamiyan?, Bamiyan should be held up as a model for the rest of Afghanistan as to what reconstruction and development could happen if you had a peaceful secure and stable environment.
V/O On the road once more in her sprawling province.. Governor Habiba Surabi has overturned yet another most conservative tradition.The village feast is usually an all male affair to welcome a male leader.This new governor has brought the senior women of the village to the gathering.
TC 16 30 Gov SurabiI think they re encouraged now because I m here they re persuaded to come here to participate in such a gathering, lunch together with us.
V/O The governors influence doesnt stop with the matriarchs of the village.Some of the girls and younger women here have a new ambition in life- they too want to be governor one day.
TC 19 04 Abduallah Barat And now Habiba Surabi the Governor of Bamiyan has become a role model for this area and a role model for all of Afghanistan
TC 15 10 Trevor question:So do they see you as a mother figure as well as a governor?Governor response: Yes most of the time when they come to my office they share this issue that you are like a mother or you are like an elder sister
TC 37 57 Capt Ross SmithShes a very intelligent woman shes got a vision for the province of Bamiyan and she s working hard to get there, I would suggest that perhaps shes not getting the kind of support she requires from the central government to progress the Bamiyan Province.
Map showing Bamiyan.. then highlighting Kabul
Music.. montage of chaos in streets of streets of Kabul.. contrast to Bamiyan.
V/O This is another face of democracy at work in Afghanistan. Im driving with this countrys most recognisable woman but she dares not to be seen on the streets of Kabul.
TC 4 54 Malalai Joya - Right now the situation is getting worse and worse especially security.
V/O Malalai Joya is 28 years old.. and under armed guard because of the constant threat of being murdered.Today shell confront her enemies.
T9 TC 18 38 Malalai JoyaMy life also should be an example And I m not sure after one hour I will be alive or not after one day I will be alive or not.. but because of my people I accept these risks
page 8 V/O The people who want to kill her.. she claims.. are her fellow parliamentarians.Life changed for Malalai Joya when she became a member of the Afghan National Assembly and denounced her colleagues in the house.
TC 35 48
Malalai Joya - Most of them are drug lords and criminals35 54 Criminals like Taliban, criminals like jihadi people that they did lots of crimes under the name of Jihad and Islam.
V/O These are the people shes talking about.. the elected leaders of Afghanistan.A quota means that one third of them are women. Many of the men are former commanders of the Mujahadeen.. warriors who fought against Soviet invaders.. and then turned on each other .. and in doing so tore their country apart.Once supported by the Americans with arms.. now theyve been dignified with a seat in parliament.
TC 37 15 Wadir SafiWhen the government is owned by the warlords, when the parliament is owned by the warlords, it is not easy to talk against them. 27 24 It is dangerous, it is dangerous, anyone of them if they want to terrorise some persons, men or women, they can do it.
V/O Malalai Joya was in trouble from her very first speech in parliament. That was the day she called for colleagues to be tried for war crimes
TC 28 18 Malali Joya - After my speech they cut my voice and stood up against me they threw bottles of water and they threatened me with death even one of them shouted take and rape her even inside the parliament.
TC 7 23 Malalai Joya They have learned how to wear a suit how to wear a tie how to talk about democracy and womens rights but they do not believe
V/O This is one of the men in her sights.Haji Almos fought with the Americans against the Taliban.But in his former life as a Mujahadeen commander.. human rights organisations claim he led fighters who shelled civilians.. abducted them.. and ransacked their villages.
TC 37:04 Haji Almos (Dari)** cut loose to allow for super**No we dont get angry.11:37:06 Because we are not warlords nor are we drug lords11:37:14 A person who isnt a warlord or a drug lord, doesnt get angry11:37:21 We dont get angry11:37:22 The world has the right to suggest this though we need to get rid of drug smugglers
V/O The Taliban have been driven from Kabul.. but life is still a struggle for most people here.They still dont have dependable electricity or water.. and crime is rampant.The Hamid Karzai government might claim to have introduced democracy.. but that hasnt guaranteed prosperity. Many citizens are still living under canvas or in rubble.
TC 42 13 Wadir SafiAnd Mr Karzai when he came he promised in his speeches for the people, I will bring clinics for you, water for you make roads for you, construct your houses for you . I will bring to justice the warlords and the criminals of war, he did do nothing about these things.
V/O In parliament.. Malalai Joya has a rare chance to attack the so called war lords she eyeballs each day... but the opportunity was never going to last.
TC 10:42 Malalai Joya As each day passes, our people lose more and more hope in the parliament
10:10:4510:10:46 And you can see the way the overall sources have contact among the people (microphone cut)
TC from 18 00 Upsot parliamentarians in passageway.
TC 19 48 Malalai and Trevor:Trevor: So they chopped you off again at the microphone?Malalai: Yeah they disturb, they always disturb.And its difficult to give me a chance Music over car driving
TC 29 11 Malalai Joya This is not democracy I want to tell you this is a mockery of democracy.
TC 10 07 Malalai JoyaYou are looking at large buildings here in Kabul. These buildings, long buildings belong to criminals to drug lords ,to war lords.
V/O For Malalai Joya.. its been another frustrating days work in a place touted by some.. as one of the worlds newest democracies.What makes it worse for her is that its too dangerous to visit her electorate in western Afghanistan.Lawlessness outside of Kabul means that dozens of MPs never get to go to the place they represent.
TC 18 46 Malalai (in car but Olay with walkin) Of course I am young and right now I have energy I want to go to university I want to continue my education because I have hope that in the future I serve my people better and more and more, especially women of Afghanistan and daughter of Afghanistan how much they need a woman like me. I know about my role.
Even Kabul itself is getting risky for Malalai Joya.
TC 53 16 Trevor: So you keep changing houses do you?
- Changing houses, yes because of security I am changing houses. for 2 days, 3 days and like this. Then Im going with a bag of my books and a bag of my clothes to another house So different house every few days ?Yes a different house, supporters house53 37 Yes different house, supporters house.(walking into backyard)
TC 1305 Upsot women walking in, greetedV/O Isolated in this new democracy.. Malalais supporters must come to her.In many ways.. Hamid Karzais new Afghanistan is still a mans world.The military strongmen who helped the west defeat the Taliban have now become businessmen and entrepreneurs.And those who stand in their way- as ever- face every kind of peril.
V/O And now their cemeteries are filled with hundreds of men and boys massacred when the Taliban swept through here eight years ago.Along with the rest of Afghanistan.. Bamiyan is still under foreign occupation.. by an alliance of nations determined that democracy should prevail.
PTC This is one part of Afghanistan where.. roughly.. things are going right for the western backed administration of President Hamid Karzai.The Taliban have long gone the warlords are at bay.And Bamiyan is under the control of a new governor.. someone so extraordinarily different to any leader these people have ever.. ever had before.
V/O Her name is Habiba Surabi.. and shes Afghanistans first and only woman governor.In a nation where the tribal greybeards have always dominated.. this is rare public respect and recognition for a female leader.
Grab Governor (olay)00 50
Women in Afghanistan have been deprived for a long time, this depression gave me the power to work. We have to have the self confidence because for a long time during history from the gender perspective men killed the self confidence for women.
TC 37 47 Upshot governor in open air classroom
V/O One year into the job ..Governor Surabis mission to educate girls.. has had spectacular results,
TC 35 00 Gov Surabi actuality
This school is without building but we can see how much the children are interested in education
V/O In Taliban times they were banished to the home along with their mothers.. now girls make up just under half of the school population.in a country where fewer than a third of people can read and write their own names.. the education of every young person is the governors priority.
TC 22 55 Wadir Safi, analyst Shes not a warlord, and shes not a fundamentalist or a fanatic, and shes educated and she wants development, and the people there they are united and they follow her what she says, it is not the case with every province.
V/O The Governor tours her Province knowing that its distinguished by something else.This is one of few places in Afghanistan where you wont find crops of opium poppy.As a nation, Afghanistan derives 60 per cent of its income from the illicit drug.But here in Bamiyan poor farmers have been persuaded by their governor to grow wheat and keep sheep and goats instead and maintain a subsistence lifestyle. T3 TC 54 55
Governor Surabi -
The Taliban destroyed everthing in this area and the geographical problem is also a problem here and the weather is very cold.
V/O Many villages here rely on handouts from aid groups for their very existence.The men here take receipt of their new stock with a fingerprint in ink.But although the soil can yield little.. the landscapes here have put Bamiyan on the map.In the cliffs.. the sorry remains of two giant Buddhas.. constructed fifteen hundred years ago.Condemned as icons .. they were destroyed by the Taliban for being un- Islamic.This is how they looked before .. an essential stopover on the Asian overland hippy trail in the 1970s.
TC 7:41 Ali People were very scared, when the Taliban would do something, no one could question itends
T5 TC 7 50
V/O Shopkeeper Ali told me about the day Afghanistans biggest tourist attraction was wiped off the map.
TC 6:39 The moment they Buddas were blasted, even the glass on the windows in our houses were shattered
TC 9:43 Everybody was very upset that the Buddas had been destroyed.
TC 9 46
V/O Archaeologists and restorers are now cataloguing each significant piece of rubble.. but no one seriously thinks the Buddas can ever be rebuilt.Undeterred that Bamiyans most conspicuous asset has been obliterated ..the Governor is still talking up a tourist led recovery.
TC 19 50
Gov Surabi Tourist development can be a good income for the people, not only that Bamiyan is a historical place but because of the landscape because of the beauty , the natural beauty that Bamiyan has.
Upsot shooting T6 from TC 39 30
V/O Afghanistan will probably not grace holiday brochures for some time with instability elsewhere in the country.. but Bamiyan at least is peaceful and reasonably secure.. A new Afghan police force is in training.. tutored by some New Zealanders.
TC 34 29 NZ instructor ..squeeze the trigger.. dont pull it.. just gently squeeze the trigger.
V/O It might not be grown in Bamiyan, but the opium is never the less smuggled through the province.. the recruits will have the job of stemming the drug trade.
TC 56 04 Insp. Simon PerryI mean they re here to learn they listen to us we give them instruction via the Afghan instructors and overall we ve found them very very good.
Upsot football
TC 21 05
V/O The Kiwis are here in force.Theres also a reconstruction team from the New Zealand military.On the football field.. its troops are hardly a match for a nimble Afghan opposition. Bamiyans problem is that its just too peaceful and laid back.While the lawless south of Afghanistan gets most of the money and attention of foreign governments and aid organisations.. this place has been forgotten.
TC 35 22 Capt Ross Smith Where is the peace dividend for Bamiyan?, Bamiyan should be held up as a model for the rest of Afghanistan as to what reconstruction and development could happen if you had a peaceful secure and stable environment.
V/O On the road once more in her sprawling province.. Governor Habiba Surabi has overturned yet another most conservative tradition.The village feast is usually an all male affair to welcome a male leader.This new governor has brought the senior women of the village to the gathering.
TC 16 30 Gov SurabiI think they re encouraged now because I m here they re persuaded to come here to participate in such a gathering, lunch together with us.
V/O The governors influence doesnt stop with the matriarchs of the village.Some of the girls and younger women here have a new ambition in life- they too want to be governor one day.
TC 19 04 Abduallah Barat And now Habiba Surabi the Governor of Bamiyan has become a role model for this area and a role model for all of Afghanistan
TC 15 10 Trevor question:So do they see you as a mother figure as well as a governor?Governor response: Yes most of the time when they come to my office they share this issue that you are like a mother or you are like an elder sister
TC 37 57 Capt Ross SmithShes a very intelligent woman shes got a vision for the province of Bamiyan and she s working hard to get there, I would suggest that perhaps shes not getting the kind of support she requires from the central government to progress the Bamiyan Province.
Map showing Bamiyan.. then highlighting Kabul
Music.. montage of chaos in streets of streets of Kabul.. contrast to Bamiyan.
V/O This is another face of democracy at work in Afghanistan. Im driving with this countrys most recognisable woman but she dares not to be seen on the streets of Kabul.
TC 4 54 Malalai Joya - Right now the situation is getting worse and worse especially security.
V/O Malalai Joya is 28 years old.. and under armed guard because of the constant threat of being murdered.Today shell confront her enemies.
T9 TC 18 38 Malalai JoyaMy life also should be an example And I m not sure after one hour I will be alive or not after one day I will be alive or not.. but because of my people I accept these risks
page 8 V/O The people who want to kill her.. she claims.. are her fellow parliamentarians.Life changed for Malalai Joya when she became a member of the Afghan National Assembly and denounced her colleagues in the house.
TC 35 48
Malalai Joya - Most of them are drug lords and criminals35 54 Criminals like Taliban, criminals like jihadi people that they did lots of crimes under the name of Jihad and Islam.
V/O These are the people shes talking about.. the elected leaders of Afghanistan.A quota means that one third of them are women. Many of the men are former commanders of the Mujahadeen.. warriors who fought against Soviet invaders.. and then turned on each other .. and in doing so tore their country apart.Once supported by the Americans with arms.. now theyve been dignified with a seat in parliament.
TC 37 15 Wadir SafiWhen the government is owned by the warlords, when the parliament is owned by the warlords, it is not easy to talk against them. 27 24 It is dangerous, it is dangerous, anyone of them if they want to terrorise some persons, men or women, they can do it.
V/O Malalai Joya was in trouble from her very first speech in parliament. That was the day she called for colleagues to be tried for war crimes
TC 28 18 Malali Joya - After my speech they cut my voice and stood up against me they threw bottles of water and they threatened me with death even one of them shouted take and rape her even inside the parliament.
TC 7 23 Malalai Joya They have learned how to wear a suit how to wear a tie how to talk about democracy and womens rights but they do not believe
V/O This is one of the men in her sights.Haji Almos fought with the Americans against the Taliban.But in his former life as a Mujahadeen commander.. human rights organisations claim he led fighters who shelled civilians.. abducted them.. and ransacked their villages.
TC 37:04 Haji Almos (Dari)** cut loose to allow for super**No we dont get angry.11:37:06 Because we are not warlords nor are we drug lords11:37:14 A person who isnt a warlord or a drug lord, doesnt get angry11:37:21 We dont get angry11:37:22 The world has the right to suggest this though we need to get rid of drug smugglers
V/O The Taliban have been driven from Kabul.. but life is still a struggle for most people here.They still dont have dependable electricity or water.. and crime is rampant.The Hamid Karzai government might claim to have introduced democracy.. but that hasnt guaranteed prosperity. Many citizens are still living under canvas or in rubble.
TC 42 13 Wadir SafiAnd Mr Karzai when he came he promised in his speeches for the people, I will bring clinics for you, water for you make roads for you, construct your houses for you . I will bring to justice the warlords and the criminals of war, he did do nothing about these things.
V/O In parliament.. Malalai Joya has a rare chance to attack the so called war lords she eyeballs each day... but the opportunity was never going to last.
TC 10:42 Malalai Joya As each day passes, our people lose more and more hope in the parliament
10:10:4510:10:46 And you can see the way the overall sources have contact among the people (microphone cut)
TC from 18 00 Upsot parliamentarians in passageway.
TC 19 48 Malalai and Trevor:Trevor: So they chopped you off again at the microphone?Malalai: Yeah they disturb, they always disturb.And its difficult to give me a chance Music over car driving
TC 29 11 Malalai Joya This is not democracy I want to tell you this is a mockery of democracy.
TC 10 07 Malalai JoyaYou are looking at large buildings here in Kabul. These buildings, long buildings belong to criminals to drug lords ,to war lords.
V/O For Malalai Joya.. its been another frustrating days work in a place touted by some.. as one of the worlds newest democracies.What makes it worse for her is that its too dangerous to visit her electorate in western Afghanistan.Lawlessness outside of Kabul means that dozens of MPs never get to go to the place they represent.
TC 18 46 Malalai (in car but Olay with walkin) Of course I am young and right now I have energy I want to go to university I want to continue my education because I have hope that in the future I serve my people better and more and more, especially women of Afghanistan and daughter of Afghanistan how much they need a woman like me. I know about my role.
Even Kabul itself is getting risky for Malalai Joya.
TC 53 16 Trevor: So you keep changing houses do you?
- Changing houses, yes because of security I am changing houses. for 2 days, 3 days and like this. Then Im going with a bag of my books and a bag of my clothes to another house So different house every few days ?Yes a different house, supporters house53 37 Yes different house, supporters house.(walking into backyard)
TC 1305 Upsot women walking in, greetedV/O Isolated in this new democracy.. Malalais supporters must come to her.In many ways.. Hamid Karzais new Afghanistan is still a mans world.The military strongmen who helped the west defeat the Taliban have now become businessmen and entrepreneurs.And those who stand in their way- as ever- face every kind of peril.