Remnants of a War
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00:02:16;23 Yankee Bravo 273, this is Yankee Bravo 271, over
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00:02:42;24 July 12, 2006 After the capture and killing of several Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah, Israel invades Lebanon.
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00:02:55;02 August 14, 2006 33 days later, 1,191 Lebanese and 165 Israelis are dead, leaving Lebanon's economy in ruins.
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00:03:05;29 Hundreds of thousands of bombs remain in Lebanon.
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00:03:17;20 Remnants of a War
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00:03:37;29 My name is Jamal Farhat
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00:03:42;15 Jamal Farhat farmer
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00:03:43;24 We have orange groves.
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00:03:46;20 It's been our job since we were born.
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00:03:51;10 There's my father, my brother, and hired help.
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00:04:02;03 The day after the war was over,
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00:04:06;03 I came back with my father.
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00:04:08;25 The summer had past and we had not watered the grove.
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00:04:15;07 He stepped on one.
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00:04:18;10 He thought it was a battery or...
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00:04:21;22 I noticed it and told him take your foot off, that is a cluster bomb.
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00:04:25;19 He was surprised that day,
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00:04:35;29 August 16, 2006
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00:04:37;28 August 16, 2006 two days after cease fire
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00:04:40;20 The most vivid memory is literally driving into these villages,
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00:04:44;03 Nadim Houry
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00:04:45:05 Nadim Houry Lebanon researcher, human rights watch
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00:04:45;00 and just seeing almost fields of clusters everywhere. Many of them had sort of failed to explode.
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00:04:50;09 Cluster bombs on the road you have to be careful.
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00:04:53;21 Cluster bombs
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00:04:55;18 Once when we were in a village the wind a bit, and a handful of them fell on the ground and we just started hearing explosions.
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00:05:01;17 Tyre, South Lebanon
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00:05:07;00 The MACCSL was set up as a result of the occupation of the Israelis up until May 2000. When the Israelis withdrew, they left behind a huge legacy of land mines. And the Untied Nation saw a need to resolve the problem of all these land mines, and therefore the MACCSL was set up back in 2001. It's now a joint structure, a combination of the Lebanese Army and the United Nations.
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00:05:13;24 Tekimiti Gilbert un chief of staff, maccsl
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The day of the ceasefire, hundreds and thousands of people came flooding back into the South, back to their villages, back to their homes
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00:05:36;12 and were confronted with hundreds and hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bombs.
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00:05:43;07 That first day we were fifteen casualties within hours of people arriving back to their villages.
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00:05:50;09 Right after the war on August 14th 2006,
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00:05:51;19 Omar Hleihil captain, Lebanese armed forces
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00:05:54;08 the Lebanese army started cleaning the roads
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00:06:01;27 Our role is to coordinate, manage and conduct quality assurance, and we have working for us nine international organizations.
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00:06:08;17 There's a huge market right now for battle area clearance because there are a lot of countries in the world that are contaminated by unexploded ordnance.
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00:06:10;12 Marc Garlasco weapons analyst, human rights watch
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00:06:16;23 And you've got these companies and NGO's that have basically sprung up that have an expertise to get rid of these weapons.
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00:06:23;17 What they do is they go to these places, they will hire locals.
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00:06:28;26 They were thrown everywhere.
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00:06:30;17 In front of your house, and in the garden, and the valley,
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00:06:33;02 They didn't spare a thing... at mosques, at churches,
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00:06:35;25 They then train the locals how to do the clearance.
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00:06:38;07 When I found the first bomb
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00:06:40;06 I felt as though I saved a person
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00:06:45;22 They'll let the locals basically take ownership because they have a vested interest in clearing their homes.
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00:06:51;13 It's something known in South Lebanon,
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00:06:53;16 all Lebanese are one.
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00:06:54;26 And they're putting themselves at risk every single day when they go out there to clear areas of these weapons.
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00:07:03;16 Times are difficult.
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00:07:06;15 I heard that some guys are applying to a company called DCA.
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00:07:11;02 I thought of it this way...
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00:07:13;00 It was a good opportunity from all sides.
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00:07:16;06 First of all, we couldn't go into our grove.
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00:07:18;19 It had cluster bombs.
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00:07:20;17 The second thing...this is my country.
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00:07:22;17 I like for my country to be beautiful.
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00:07:26;03 The third, which is also important, is we would be better financially.
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00:07:37;29 I also have my personal responsibilities,
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00:07:41;04 my house, my kids.
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00:07:44;14 I want them to be fulfilled, I want them to live beautiful lives.
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00:07:48;18 She is actually watching us, but she's pretending that she doesn't see us...
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00:07:59;10 The cost of living is high...
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00:08:02;06 If I was offered even more work, I would do it, no problem.
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00:08:16;24 Here it is, I'll shoot it.
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00:08:22;08 That's how you do it.
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00:08:24;06 You see how it falls? Film it, film it!! There it is!
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00:08:27;20 Ali and I don't have a house, we want to have a house.
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00:08:29;26 We should in a little while,
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00:08:32;14 because we've been engaged for very long.
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00:08:35;11 3 years of being engaged and no marriage.
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00:08:38;28 Mariam & Ali
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00:08:40;20 Mariam & Ali deminers, DanChurchAid (dca)
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00:08:42;13 Small income...
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00:08:45;20 work...is little.
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00:08:47;13 You're talking like a mute. Talk normally...in Arabic.
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00:08:51;24 I'm talking slowly...
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00:08:57;07 Yes, we're planning on getting married, once we have the money.
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00:09:00;02 The only thing holding us back is having a house.
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00:09:02;15 Once we have a house, we can furnish it, move in, and live.
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00:09:08;15 - It fell! I swear to the Quran! -You didn't hit it.
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00:09:12;08 Ali, come get it, I'm scared.
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00:09:13;17 You get it, I'm not.
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00:09:15;23 If we don't have a house then we can't get married.
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00:09:24;27 I swear you didn't hit it.
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00:09:26;13 When feathers fly, doesn't that mean I got it?
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00:09:28;05 Yes.
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00:09:28;24 I see feathers here...
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00:09:30;17 they're everywhere.
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00:09:32;06 I looked for work several times and there is nothing else.
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00:09:35;09 We found this company.
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00:09:36;20 They needed employees so we applied.
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00:09:40;12 Here it is, you donkey!
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00:09:44;18 We decided to work at the company
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00:09:46;01 and clean our country from bombs for the little kids.
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00:09:49;18 We'll keep working...work work
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00:09:51;08 - I hope not long.
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00:09:52;06 and make money,
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00:09:53;04 and get a house.
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00:09:57;01 Lets keep them separate, away from these thieves.
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00:09:59;23 We did well today with the birds.
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00:10:02;03 Now we'll have Arak and birds.
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00:10:04;28 Arak today, with birds...good!
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00:10:10;23 Follow me my workers.
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00:10:39;15 On the ground, on the tarmac, it's not bigger than this. This is a cluster hole.
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00:10:44;24 - That is a the entry hole of a cluster.
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00:10:47;20 - That's it? - And that's the fragmentation.
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00:10:49;21 - But if anyone's around, they can still get very very injured?
- 20 meters around, everybody gets injured.
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00:10:50;01 Eero Oijala technical adviser, dca
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00:11:01;16 This house was heavily heavily hit. You can see the fragmentation there, and same thing if you go behind the house.
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00:11:08;07 So here you can see this is from the roof. It has gone through the roof. And there you can see the hole on the floor.
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00:11:16;08 And this is a cluster hit.
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00:11:19;17 There has been one. This is all full of fragmentation Very sharp. Small fragments.
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00:11:25;06 This can penetrate one centimeter concrete, so you can image if they come through the human body. They go very deep...deep inside.
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00:11:35;01 A cluster munition is basically a container, and inside the container you have many many small bombs.
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00:11:42;00 And you can have anywhere from dozens up to hundreds of them.
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00:11:45;14 When the canister opens over the target, each one of them is then going to pull out, and they're going to spread out.
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00:11:50;17 There then going to turn to the bottom, because the weight is on one end. And as they fall through the sky this ribbon's going to spin.
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00:11:57;18 And the spinning is what arms the trigger.
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00:11:59;23 You have a copper concave cone inside of the base that will super heat and shoot out like a hot knife through butter. It's going to go through armor.
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00:12:09;19 And that's going to end up killing whatever crew was in there.
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00:12:13;08 The secondary charge is then going to send out the shrapnel, and that's what is going to cause death and injury to people.
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00:12:19;26 Problem is they are not made very well, and a lot of them do not explode.
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00:12:25;03 This is a weapon with an after effect. These weapons always leave unexploded duds at very high rates. So it becomes like a land mine.
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00:12:33;28 We work with thyme.
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00:12:35;27 We pick and sell thyme.
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00:12:37;18 Rasha Zayoun
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00:12:38;24 Rasha Zayoun Injured January 7th, 2007
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00:12:39;27 Rasha Zayoun Injured January 7th, 2007 5 months after cease fire
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00:12:40;22 While we were still destemming the first bunch,
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00:12:42;28 a ribbon was tangled in her hand,
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00:12:44;26 it was part of the bomb.
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00:12:47;17 She threw it to the ground, she threw it.
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00:12:50;21 We were thrown into the air...
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00:12:53;03 her foot was blown off.
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00:12:54;27 Does he want to film it?
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00:13:05;00 We came back to work to find cluster bombs everywhere in our fields.
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00:13:09;01 Saleh Krist Injured September 9th, 2006
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00:13:10;26 Saleh Krist Injured September 9th, 2006 3 weeks after cease fire
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00:13:12;12 We had no choice but to work next to the bombs.
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00:13:17;20 I had a field in the area.
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00:13:21;19 While I was picking fruits, a cluster bomb exploded.
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00:13:25;10 Mohamed Suleiman Injured September 18, 2006
1 month after cease fire
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00:13:27;04 I lost a kidney and a spleen.
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00:13:30;25 The scary thing about cluster bombs is literally how they have managed to find their way into every aspect of life in Southern Lebanon.
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00:13:39;17 From the fields, to people's balconies, to people's backyards, on-top of people's cars, on people's trees.
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00:13:46;29 It really creates this sort of sense of insecurity, that you never know when the next one is going to detonate.
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00:14:12;26 Where's the Nescafe?
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00:14:16;12 Good morning, everybody. We are so so near the strike now.
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00:14:23;03 I think here we must find the bomblet today.
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00:14:30;03 We going on surface. But, every signal, every every signal to stop, to watch very well, and fingers just to check. Any questions?
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00:14:45;12 Have a nice day.
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00:14:50;13 Detector Test Pit
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00:15:08;08 Cluster Bomb Site 599
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00:15:09;23 Cluster Bomb Site 599, DCA team 4
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00:15:13;05 It truly is a dangerous job, so it needs a lot of attention.
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00:15:17;17 If someone is clumsy or doesn't pay attention
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00:15:19;28 he'll for sure lose an arm or a leg or likely die.
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00:15:41;23 concentrate guys...
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00:15:45;05 I heard about a lot of young Lebanese men who were injured
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00:15:50;15 But no, I don't know anyone.
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00:16:11;26 Stop!
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00:16:22;10 Stop the work I said!
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00:16:26;01 You see, for that reason in the morning brief, I told you be careful because it's very dangerous now.
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00:16:34;26 Cluster Bomb Site 72
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00:16:36;14 Cluster Bomb Site 72, DCA team 2
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00:16:45;05 Go and get the tape measure and GPS
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00:16:49;12 Three bombs here. Three bombs. Three M42.
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00:16:50;17 When the clearance teams go in they basically rope off areas and they create zones so they can then figure out where the weapons are that need to be cleared, and then prioritize what's going to be taken out.
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00:16:59;22 We'll break this hill into pieces.
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00:17:03;03 We stop at that bend and then we'll come back the other way.
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00:17:06;19 Cluster Bomb Site 203
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00:17:08;07 Cluster Bomb Site 203, DCA team 5
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00:17:09;25 And they literally move inch by inch, very slowly, and very laboriously in the heat, in a area that is filled with high explosive weapons.
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00:17:19;22 The bomblet is there, you can see it. It's marked.
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00:17:23;15 This is the third one, M42.
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00:17:26;10 And there are environmental things that occur overtime to these weapons.
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00:17:33;28 We'll stop, and continue with the lunch break.
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00:17:36;28 You've got rain. When the rain comes, they start to sink into the earth.
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00:17:41;28 Lot of times, they'll get mixed in with garbage and trash and stuff moving about.
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00:17:47;17 It is a nightmare. It's a nightmare because there is so much metal scrap by the war, by the people, and we have to check everything.
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00:17:56;05 You've got animals moving around that can move them and then all of the sudden, boom!
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00:17:59;23 Same route he uses every day.
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00:18:01;24 He's always walking with his sheep into the uncleared area.
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00:18:07;07 God help him.
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00:18:10;17 go back guys...Ali is on the edge so ask him to bring you the...
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00:18:14:29 Another bomblet!
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00:18:16;25 it's hidden under all of these...look...
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00:18:18;08 Stop the work everybody
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00:18:19;17 In CBU 599, we find third bomblet type M42, over
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00:18:24;10 Good bomblet
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00:18:26;29 Congratulations!
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00:18:27;17 We find another bomblet type M42, over.
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00:18:30;29 Copy, over
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00:18:32;20 And then you also have an issue with the trigger over time.
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00:18:35;27 That trigger starts to degrade with the environment.
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00:18:38;10 You can't expect anymore then you can handle it safely.
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00:18:41;00 Okay, now everything is ready.
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00:18:42;23 And so what they have to do is they actually have to blow it up exactly where they sit.
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00:18:47;09 And you really do have to blow these up one at a time where they're sitting.
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00:18:51;19 Because that's how dangerous it is.
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00:18:59;03 at 1:30 we will clear a cluster bomb, so please keep the doors open
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00:19:01;17 and the kids inside the house.
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00:19:03;04 May God give you strength.
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00:19:04;00 And to you as well.
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00:19:04;26 In-fact right now every day at 1 o'clock in South Lebanon, everyone knows that's when they blow up the cluster munitions.
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00:19:12;25 "people of the area, be ready for a cluster bomb demolition..."
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00:19:16;04 "it will happen at 1:30."
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00:19:18;21 Everybody...
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00:19:19;29 behind the vehicle,
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00:19:21;02 because it's close here.
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00:19:22;04 No
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00:19:22;23 Yes!
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00:19:24;25 Demolition after ten seconds...
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00:19:26;23 Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
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00:20:25;00 I'm Neamat Ali Kasseb, from Saddiqine.
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00:20:28;09 Neamat Ali Kasseb
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00:20:29;15 Neamat Ali Kasseb
deminer, DanChurchAid (dca)
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00:20:30;15 I was 14 years old when I started working with tobacco and olives,
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00:20:33;28 I did that work until joining DCA.
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00:20:36;18 People are surprised that I do this work,
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00:20:38;27 how is a girl clearing cluster bombs?
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00:20:49;00 But I love the job,
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00:20:51;02 and not just the salary...
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00:20:53;08 I love to work outside,
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00:20:55;08 and I'm not afraid, because I follow the rules.
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00:21:02;07 It took me three months to find a cluster bomb!
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00:21:04;19 I thought I was doing something wrong.
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00:21:06;26 I was happy when I found my first one, I wasn't afraid at all.
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00:21:16;28 This job is like an adventure...
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00:21:25;02 I'm Jalal Ainain, a Palestinian, living in Lebanon,
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00:21:28;28 I studied here in Lebanon and have been working as a nurse for a few years.
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00:21:33;03 Jalal Ainain
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00:21:34;21 Jalal Ainain
medic, armor group
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00:21:36;00 After the war, there was another war.
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00:21:38;18 The war of the cluster bombs.
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00:21:40;10 We're still suffering from it.
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00:21:42;23 NGOs came to Lebanon to help get rid of the cluster bombs
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00:21:47;03 I started working for one of these NGOs
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00:21:50;20 It's called DanChurchAid, DCA
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00:21:53;25 I worked with them for 7 or 8 months as a medical team coordinator.
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00:22:01;13 After I left DCA, a friend of mine who works at Armor Group,
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00:22:06;17 which is one of the biggest clearance organizations,
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00:22:10;04 They needed first aid coordinators and asked me to work with them.
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00:22:22;00 During the war, I was here in South Lebanon working as a medic in an ambulance.
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00:22:28;18 It was a difficult period,
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00:22:30;25 It was...
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00:22:32;03 scary.
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00:22:35;15 I was always nervous, the airplanes were above me.
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00:22:38;13 I would hear nothing but the sounds of bombs.
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00:22:40;23 This only heightened my fear.
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00:22:46;18 I was in Aaitit during the war
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00:22:49;08 we heard they captured two soldiers,
00:22:51;22
00:22:51;24 right away the planes started bombing.
00:22:53;16
00:22:53;25 The bridges were bombed and then the towns were getting hit.
00:22:56;17
00:22:57;25 My feelings and thoughts were just to get my wife and child to a safe area.
00:23:03;15
00:23:04;06 You know, how can I feel?
00:23:06;06
00:23:06;09 The feelings of someone whose country is being bombed.
00:23:08;14
00:23:13;22 We lost about ten people who died due to the war.
00:23:16;19
00:23:17;21 A family.
00:23:19;11
00:23:19;26 Israel cut the connections between streets and villages.
00:23:23;17
00:23:23;22 The South was unable to get in contact with Beirut.
00:23:26;16
00:23:26;27 in order for supplies to be replenished.
00:23:28;08
00:23:31;01 So there was a big shortage in the village,
00:23:33;22
00:23:33;25 especially for kids' needs like milk and such.
00:23:36;14
00:23:37;12 There are scenes that I cannot forget, that are in my mind until now,
00:23:40;24
00:23:41;18 and I remember when I had to remove the victims...
00:23:44;08
00:23:44;19 some were small children.
00:23:46;09
00:23:46;12 I removed small children from Qana.
00:23:48;09
00:23:48;29 They were without legs, without arms,
00:23:50;28
00:23:51;09 believe me, there were people without heads,
00:23:53:15
00:23:53;18 I would put them inside bags.
00:23:56;00
00:23:56;03 There was nothing I could've done for them.
00:23:58;04
00:24:01;15 We waited, but it became worse day after day.
00:24:05;01
00:24:05;28 At the end, it became unbearable, especially for the kids.
00:24:09;18
00:24:09;24 The situation was difficult.
00:24:10;26
00:24:11;05 So that's why we took the risk and left under the strikes.
00:24:14;13
00:24:14;15 in order to get to Beirut.
00:24:16;04
00:24:17;24 When we left, it wasn't just us leaving.
00:24:19;28
00:24:20;03 There was a convoy that was leaving.
00:24:21;21
00:24:21;26 We left with the convoy.
00:24:23;16
00:24:23;18 But there were strikes, the planes were hitting areas close by,
00:24:26;15
00:24:27;04 not targeted at us,
00:24:28;01
00:24:28;03 but we could see the strike, that sort of thing.
00:24:31;09
00:24:32;17 We went to Beirut and stayed in Shiyah.
00:24:34;24
00:24:34:27 There were bombings there too, so we left.
00:24:36;28
00:24:37;01 My sister and her two kids were killed.
00:24:39;10
00:24:39;12 So we came back to the mountains.
00:24:40;23
00:24:42;24 A family gone, between night and day...
00:24:44;18
00:24:44;20 as if it were a lie,
00:24:45;29
00:24:46;01 Here one minute, and gone the next.
00:24:47;25
00:24:47;27 Thankfully we still have one of my sister's kids.
00:24:50;24
00:24:50;26 It was a very difficult time.
00:24:52;20
00:24:52;22 It will always affect us...
00:24:54;25
00:24:54;27 it cannot be forgotten.
00:24:56;17
00:24:57;08 That's all.
00:24:58;27
00:25:02;17 I took time off of work to relax and forget what I saw.
00:25:08;03
00:25:08;05 I spent a really nice time with my friends.
00:25:11;18
00:25:11;28 I thought this may help me forget everything.
00:25:16;14
00:25:16;23 But everything I did to help me forget,
00:25:19;23
00:25:19;25 wouldn't work when I went home to sleep.
00:25:23;16
00:25:23;29 I was happy during the day, and sad at night.
00:25:27;16
00:25:51;01 Hold his hand!
00:25:52;22
00:26:01;13 Why did you spoil me, you knew I was married...
00:26:03;25
00:26:03;27 why did you fall in love with me then?
00:26:06;06
00:26:07;26 Our marriage license is on a fig leaf, my divorce gift will be an olive pit.
00:26:12;16
00:26:13;21 The young women appeared as the stars,
00:26:16;18
00:26:16;20 the ones in the sky,
00:26:18;16
00:26:18;19 Men are silly, because we just show them our smile,
00:26:21;15
00:26:21;17 and they fall in love with us!
00:26:23;25
00:26:24;20 Don't think that you are pretty or beautiful,
00:26:27;07
00:26:27;09 the clothes on you are smelly...
00:26:29;24
00:26:31;00 Shut your mouth, your days are over...
00:26:34;01
00:26:34;03 and the Spring is coming.
00:26:37;11
00:27:04;26 During the war, we had money, we had...
00:27:07;05
00:27:09;20 -5,000 -7,000... 7,000 dollars.
00:27:13;23
00:27:14;28 They took advantage of the people.
00:27:16;14
00:27:16;17 It was her family, my family...
they didn't have money.
00:27:18;13
00:27:18;17 I had saved a bit with her...
00:27:20;01
00:27:20;03 with the war it was all gone.
00:27:21;23
00:27:22;28 Home, food, Beirut...
00:27:24;15
00:27:24;19 We didn't know anyone there.
00:27:25;21
00:27:25;25 People took advantage of us, the store owners.
00:27:27;23
00:27:27;25 Everything became expensive there. Sandwich, 5 dollars.
00:27:29;08
00:27:32;17 I'll show you the aluminum store.
00:27:34;14
00:27:34;18 It's right there, down there.
00:27:36;03
00:27:36;13 Before the war, he used to work with aluminum.
00:27:38;12
00:27:38;19 All of it...during the war...
00:27:40;10
00:27:44;24 The tools, everything was gone. There was no more money.
00:27:46;25
00:27:47;28 The Lebanese government didn't compensate anyone.
00:27:49;22
00:27:49;24 It compensated very little.
00:27:51;16
00:27:54;18 I play the lottery.
00:27:56;03
00:27:56;20 But I don't win.
00:27:58;13
00:27:59;08 May God send us the lottery win.
00:28:01;20
00:28:02;04 Winning the lottery would mean an apartment, a house.
00:28:04;19
00:28:04;21 Lottery, a house, and that's it.
00:28:06;06
00:28:09;25 This is a part of Lebanon that was invaded many times,
00:28:13;06
00:28:13;07 starting by the Israelis in 1978, then in 1982, then it was under occupation until 2000.
00:28:17;07
00:28:17;08 many people after 2000 had just rebuilt their homes, when the July '06 war began again
00:28:23;02
00:28:23;03 and I've spoken to many people who've said, I've put all my life savings to rebuild my home in my ancestral village,
00:28:29;13
00:28:29;14 and I'm not sure I'll do it again
00:28:32;00
00:28:33;11 The farmers, many of them have lost one or two seasons of their crops because of these cluster munitions,
00:28:38;00
00:28:38;15 and most farmers in Lebanon don't have the financial cushion to withstand losing two seasons and actually stay and plant the third time around.
00:28:49;10 I mean, clearly many Lebanese have found jobs with these demining teams
00:28:52;26
00:28:54;00 but I also think that the entire Southern economy has been distorted, in the past by occupation, by landmines, and now by these cluster bombs.
00:29:00;26
00:29:02;27 I'd rather work in my own trade in my country,
00:29:05;21
00:29:06;11 instead of searching for mines.
00:29:08;07
00:29:08;10 What do you mean?
00:29:10;06
00:29:10;09 Is this supposed to be my job?
00:29:11;21
00:29:11;24 It's the job of the army.
00:29:13;12
00:29:13;17 -But the army is working.
-Let them work.
00:29:15;15
00:29:15;15 -The army is working.
00:29:16;20
00:29:16;23 I should be employed and secured in my country.
00:29:19;28
00:29:20;06 -That's difficult.
-I should have a normal job.
00:29:22:04
00:29:22;13 You're talking like we're in Europe.
00:29:24;11
00:29:24;14 -We want to be logical.
-You want to be logical but if you want money...
00:29:27;06
00:29:27;09 We should worry about us working, not the army.
00:29:28;29
00:29:29;04 Logic and religion are gone like loose change, everything is gone.
00:29:32;04
00:29:32;06 But that's what it should be, this is why I'm not happy.
00:29:35;01
00:29:35;06 But I'm forced to do this work so my family can live.
00:29:39;07
00:29:40;08 I became a deminer because there is no other work.
00:29:42;10
00:29:42;18 The banana fields were hit, we lost the whole season.
00:29:45;12
00:29:45;18 So, I work here, and it's going well.
00:29:47;28
00:29:52;03 I worked at a restaurant.
00:29:53;16
00:29:55;15 Shawarma
00:29:56;12
00:29:57;16 I used to work for Middle East Airlines...
00:29:59;26
00:30:00;09 I was employed...
00:30:01;22
00:30:02;06 I was comfortable.
00:30:03;14
00:30:03;24 Insurance.
00:30:04;19
00:30:04;23 I used to work in insurance at American Life, and at Fidelity.
00:30:07;16
00:30:08;03 You get the meat...
00:30:09;10
00:30:09;23 you cut it in pieces,
00:30:11;00
00:30:12;12 you put it in a bowl,
00:30:13;25
00:30:14;27 you make the spice mix, you press it all in,
00:30:17;09
00:30:17;11 and you put it on the skewer.
00:30:19;07
00:30:22;16 I used to work at a gas station.
00:30:24;28
00:30:25;16 In electricity.
00:30:26;06
00:30:26;14 Handbags.
00:30:27;04
00:30:27;12 Aluminum.
00:30:28;02
00:30:28;13 I was working in public relations with governments.
00:30:31;09
00:30:31;27 I was secure.
00:30:32;21
00:30:33;14 Wide at the top, and make it thin at the bottom.
00:30:37;14
00:30:38;17 These are people whose lives...
00:30:42;22
00:30:43;12 their lives were put on hold.
00:30:45;04
00:30:45;06 These companies came and gave them work,
00:30:47;17
00:30:47;19 they got used to it and are living, though just barely comfortable.
00:30:50;12
00:30:51;03 I would like to do this job permanently.
00:30:55;10
00:30:55;27 The problem will be when these companies leave Lebanon.
00:30:59;06
00:30:59;11 What will happen to these guys?
00:31:01;01
00:31:01;19 And what do you want to do after demining?
00:31:04;00
00:31:04;19 I don't know, if I still live.
00:31:06;23
00:31:11;14 Who is that?
00:31:12;27
00:31:14;27 Israel...
00:31:15;27
00:31:18;07 It turned, it turned.
00:31:20;01
00:31:20;13 This is the Israeli Air Force...
00:31:23;18
00:31:25;12 Every day?
00:31:26;05
00:31:26;14 Every day....or every 5 days...it depends.
00:31:29;09
00:31:29;28 Are they coming to visit us today or what?
00:31:31;21
00:31:32;24 They keep us entertained.
00:31:34;00
00:31:34;15 We're walking on egg shells.
00:31:35;18
00:31:36;10 They fly here whenever they want, but we're restricted to fly there.
00:31:38;29
00:31:40;11 They don't fly over the beach anymore because they know there are rockets.
00:31:44;16
00:31:44;20 Yeah right, because they're scared of us?
00:31:46;08
00:31:47;10 Today Hezbollah has missiles...
00:31:49;16
00:31:49;19 believe me...from Beirut it can hit Tel Aviv.
00:31:52;02
00:31:52;08 I'm confident with these words.
00:31:54;01
00:31:55;26 - We haven't disagreed yet, but creating a war between a country and itself?
00:32:00;18
00:32:00;22 Who? The Party? Hezbollah has...
00:32:03;12
00:32:03;29 Hezbollah has more weapons than the Lebanese state.
00:32:06;04
00:32:06;22 - We're not disagreeing.
00:32:08;07
00:32:08;10 - But this is what's frightening.
00:32:09;18
00:32:09;21 - A war between a country and itself.
00:32:11;04
00:32:11;10 - There's no such thing as civilian and non-civilian anymore.
00:32:14;09
00:32:15;10 You know...I've started to hate myself...
00:32:17;25
00:32:18;01 because we're only increasing our stupidity.
00:32:21;00
00:32:28;08 Do you see how there's a disease here?
00:32:31;26
00:32:34;09 We use medicine for it, we spray it.
00:32:35;28
00:32:37;11 It takes a bit of time
00:32:39;24
00:32:39;27 but if we don't it could contaminate the smaller trees,
00:32:43;02
00:32:34;07 fall to the ground,
00:32:44;25
00:32:44;28 and won't grow anymore.
00:32:46;12
00:32:49;24 We're 3 brothers, we were 4 before 1985
00:32:53;14
00:32:54;04 I'm the eldest now.
00:32:55;10
00:32:56;04 My elder brother died in 1985
00:32:58;26
00:32:59;12 Israel invaded the country in 1982.
00:33:02;13
00:33:04;01 They came into the villages,
00:33:05;20
00:33:05;23 and we couldn't work in the land anymore, nor operate our businesses.
00:33:08;28
00:33:10;27 My brother had passion for change,
00:33:13;08
00:33:13;10 to rid the people of these problems.
00:33:15;16
00:33:17;10 One day...there's a village near here called Zib'iin.
00:33:21;11
00:33:22;24 Some guys called him asking for help, because they had two injured guys.
00:33:26;25
00:33:26;28 They needed to help them.
00:33:28;19
00:33:28;21 They were in an area occupied by Israel.
00:33:32;27
00:33:34;21 My brother, like me, was trained to deal with land mines.
00:33:38;10
00:33:38;16 They told him that the area had mines, he said ok.
00:33:41;06
00:33:44;21 It was a big explosion.
00:33:46;00
00:33:47;11 Several mines tied together as one...
00:33:49;25
00:33:50;26 We call them "partners."
00:33:52;17
00:33:52;21 When you remove one, they all explode.
00:33:54;24
00:33:55;16 That's what happened to him.
00:33:57;10
00:33:57;16 He removed one mine, but there were 12 more.
00:34:00;20
00:34:01;03 What bothers us the most is...
00:34:03;14
00:34:04;01 we wish he died looking the way he did in life.
00:34:07;07
00:34:12;22 I just remembered, my parents don't know what I actually do.
00:34:16;04
00:34:17;03 I never told them I work as a deminer.
00:34:19;14
00:34:19:27 I told them I work with the guys, a regular job,
00:34: 22;25
00:34:22;27 helping out and that type of thing.
00:34:24;12
00:34:24;15 They're happy but don't know I work as a deminer.
00:34:28;17
00:34:29;20 If they did, they wouldn't approve.
00:34:32;24
00:34:54;24 - Why do you want to go to New York?
00:34:55;24
00:34:55;26 Because there's a war here.
00:34:57;03
00:35:06;20 Tell him, she doesn't like war.
00:35:07;26
00:35:13;18 When it's October in Finland
00:35:15;02
00:35:15;04 and the snow starts falling
00:35:16;22
00:35:16;25 you'll tell him take me back to Lebanon.
00:35:18;04
00:35:22;04 One can live feeling like a human being.
00:35:24;01
00:35:24;09 Not living on nerves as if he'll die.
00:35:25;25
00:35:25;27 I still think that as I'm walking a bomb might go off,
00:35:28;08
00:35:28;10 and I die.
00:35:29;20
Tile:
00:35:35;01 October 3, 2007
00:35:40;14
00:35:36;08 Yesterday, the village of Sultaniyye buried the victim Ali Hussein Kdouh,
00:35:40;06
Tile:
00:35:40;14 Al Manar tv
00:35:43;29
00:35:40;21 another tragedy in the sad story of cluster bombs.
00:35:43;27
00:35:44;09 He left his life, and left his school bag behind.
00:35:47;07
00:35:47;26 Ali, 6 years old, who filled his house with noise,
00:35:51;29
00:35:52;01 death took him from his sisters, who were all planning their futures in school,
00:35:58;14
00:35:58;16 Ali is a victim of the cluster bombs, which the enemy threw in Lebanon
00:36:03;17
00:36:03;19 after the enemy realized he failed in the war.
00:36:07;10
00:36:21;14 Approximately 4:30 yesterday, a small 6 year old boy was killed by an M42 CBU
00:36:26;10
00:36:27;10 It looks probable that he was holding the bomb in his left hand, and may have been banging it against a wall
00:36:38;10
00:36:39;20 The young boy was killed instantly when it detonated, and a full investigation is now under way
00:36:44;00
00:36:44;00 As you can imagine, emotions in Sultaniyeh are very high at the moment,
00:36:48;12
00:36:52;09 but the clearance needs to continue, the job is not finished
00:36:56;12
00:36:56;12 Team 1 will not return to Sultaniyeh, I do not want them to become targets of high emotions.
00:37:01;09
00:37:01;09 Another team will continue that task in a few days, when the emotions have died down a little bit.
00:37:06;01
00:37:06;20 The people from Sultaniyeh are kind.
00:37:08;01
00:37:08;04 We got to know them, they were welcoming.
00:37:10;00
00:37:10;02 They opened their homes to us.
00:37:11;20
00:37:13;18 I had met the kid the day before.
00:37:15;18
00:37:16;02 I told him I was working so he should go.
00:37:18;17
00:37:18;19 He asked if I wanted water, poor boy...
00:37:20;17
00:37:22;12 The villagers of Sultaniyeh said goodbye and they took him to the cemetery,
00:37:29;21
00:37:32;11 You start thinking, "What if?"
00:37:34;19
00:37:37;04 If we had worked faster. If we had...
00:37:40;00
00:37:40;15 this wouldn't have happened.
00:37:41;25
00:37:41;28 But this is God's will.
00:37:43;19
00:37:44;09 He's the only boy in his family,
00:37:45;15
00:37:45;23 and he's playing in his garden enjoying his childhood,
00:37:49;02
00:37:49;13 and everyone in the international community should agree this is an innocent death.
00:37:53;26
00:37:57;09 Don't put it here yet...
00:37:58;21
00:37:58;29 It's beautiful...
00:38:00;11
00:38:01;08 Of course this upset us,
00:38:02;25
00:38:03;04 not as much as his parents, but it upset us.
00:38:06;06
00:38:48;16 A washer...
00:38:49;20
00:38:49;27 full automatic.
00:38:50;20
00:38:52;20 Upstairs are the bedroom and living room sets.
00:38:54;07
00:38:54;25 The thing that's delaying our marriage
00:38:55;29
00:38:56;01 is that we don't have an apartment.
00:38:57;02
00:38:57;19 - But the furniture we can get with payments...
00:38:59;00 - Yes the furniture I'll buy with payments.
00:39:00;27
00:39:01;22 Everyone is always asking, "when are you getting married'?
00:39:04;22
00:39:05;01 People ask me, "did you move?" I tell them no.
00:39:07;00
00:39:07;08 I was engaged before my friends, but they now have babies.
00:39:10;13
00:39:10;18 and I am still here...
00:39:11;25
00:39:12;08 - you start to feel hopeless
- more problems arise
00:39:14;07
00:39:14;19 You know, this is what happens...
00:39:15;26
00:39:16;07 And me, it's impossible. I'd rather die than leave her.
00:39:19;03
00:39:19;12 This is nice, come sit on it.
00:39:21;13
00:39:22;05 This one is nice, Mariam.
00:39:23;01
00:39:23;03 Yeah, that really is nice...
00:39:24;13
00:39:27;00 It's prettier.
00:39:27;25
00:39:28;00 If I was a stable employee somewhere with a salary of $400 a month,..
00:39:31;10
00:39:31;18 Or $500, $600, I can rent the best place and live comfortably.
00:39:35;05
00:39:35;29 Come look at the stuff for kids.
00:39:37;14
00:39:38;04 But like this, I don't know, one day the company could leave,
00:39:41;02
00:39:41;19 my rent would be due and I'd have to pack my bags and go.
00:39:44;09
00:39:45;13 - Look how nice it is. - Wow!
00:39:47;09
00:39:48;03 The pink is so nice, for a girl.
00:39:50;02
00:39:50;04 That's so you can rock her...
00:39:51;17
00:39:51;19 You're going to rock her, not me!
00:39:53;20
00:39:54;06 - You don't want to rock her?
- Come on, let's go.
00:39:56;19
00:39:57;26 - What am I suppose to do...
00:39:58;28 - Marry me!
00:40:00;07
00:40:00:09 What? If I don't have anything now, and the company leaves...
00:40:03;19
00:40:03;28 what do I do, go pick up garbage along the roads?
00:40:06;10
00:40:06;18 - Work for a living...
- There is no work.
00:40:08;14
00:40:08;21 You have to be honest, that's all...
00:40:11;02
00:40:27;16 May God open it up for you.
00:40:29;23
00:40:38;29 They taste good
00:40:40;07
00:40:40;14 bon appetit!
00:40:41;22
00:41:02;22 The risk factor today has gone down after the work of the deminers.
00:41:06;14
00:41:06;16 We're seeing on average 2 injuries a month now, but that's still very very high...
00:41:11;11
00:41:11;12 and that number probably underestimates the impact on people's lives
00:41:14;22
00:41:14;22 because there are still fields where people go and they are never 100% sure that it's safe or not to be in that space,
00:41:20;12
00:41:20;13 and I'm not sure they will ever be 100% sure and they're gonna have to live with that.
00:41:24;00
00:41:51;04 Is the water ok?
00:41:51;22
00:41:51;24 How much pesticide are you using?
00:41:53;17
00:41:54;14 You put 250g for this.
00:41:56;04
00:42:22;13 Look at this, it was left here.
00:42:24;08
00:42:24;11 What?
00:42:24;29
00:42:25;04 The wood...he's leaving all of them on the ground.
00:42:26;27
00:42:26;29 Who, Dad?
00:42:27;24
00:42:27;28 And Mohammad does the same thing.
00:42:29;02
00:42:29;04 Yes
00:42:29;29
00:42:32;17 God forbid you hit a bomb.
00:42:34;10
00:42:35;14 I work and keep looking.
00:42:37;21
00:42:37;23 I walk and look in case there's one I missed,
00:42:40;17
00:42:40;19 better than it going off.
00:42:42;04
00:42:42;16 It'll blow up at us and we'll regret it.
00:42:44;15
00:42:47;19 Would the Israelis and Americans accept this?
00:42:50;04
00:42:50;13 Would they accept working like this?
00:42:51;26
00:42:52;16 Or live and not feel as though they're safe?
00:42:55;06
00:42:56;01 Isn't it a shame?
00:42:57;23
00:42:59;02 Just as they love life, we love life.
00:43:01;04
00:43:01;07 We love to live.
00:43:02;14
00:43:04;23 Just as they like to live with dignity, we also like to live with dignity.
00:43:08;24
00:43:19;29 Last time, we found a bomblet here...
00:43:22;10
00:43:22;14 there was one that came down with the irrigation.
00:43:25;10
00:43:41;14 You find people to be comfortable in Europe, why?
00:43:43;19
00:43:44;14 Because their government is secure.
00:43:46;05
00:43:46;08 It secures them with a home, electricity, water...
00:43:48;22
00:43:57;21 If the man of the house, or a young man is comfortable,
00:43:59;18
00:43:59;20 if he needs a car, he gets a car,
00:44:01;04
00:44:01;11 if he wishes to travel he can do so.
00:44:03;08
00:44:05;14 Look what I found sleeping here...
00:44:07;10
00:44:09;00 You don't want to walk? Do you want to drink?
00:44:11;05
00:44:13;03 When are we going to get there?
00:44:15;01
00:44:17;04 If we can have a government that can take care of it's people.
00:44:20;21
00:44:33;16 I don't think it's anytime soon.
00:44:35;22
00:44:37;19 But I hope for it.
00:44:40;03
Title:
00:44:50;05 Since the end of the war, 245 people were injured and 46 killed by unexploded bomblets.
00:45:02;06
Title:
00:44:56;00 In early 2009, with 12 million square meters of land still uncleared, many clearance teams ceased operations due to lack of funding.
00:45:02;06
Title:
00:45:03;24 As of February 2010, 104 countries have signed and 30 ratified a cluster bomb ban treaty.
00:45:15;20
Title:
00:45:10;00 The United States, Russia, China, India, Pakistan and Israel did not sign the treaty.
00:45:15;20
{END CREDITS}
DIRECTED, PRODUCED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY
Jawad Metni
CO-PRODUCED AND EDITED BY
Michael LaHaie
MUSIC BY
Erik Della Penna and Dean Sharenow
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION SERVICES IN LEBANON
Johnny McAllister
MAIN CHARACTERS
Jamal Farhat Mariam Damergi Ali Daher
Marc Garlasco Nadim Houry Jalal Ainain
Neamat Kasseb Eero Oijala
WITH
Fatmire Uka Muhamet Furra Nexhdet Kuqi
Hanan Khalil Mentor Roka Rachad Siblini
Tekimiti Gilbert Omar Hleihil Dalya Farran
Ahmad Naji Rasha Zayoun Saleh Krist
Mohamad Suleiman Ahmad Lakis Hachem Tabaja
Khalil Saqer Shadi Mousa Afif Abbas
Abbas Issa Chris Fielding Ziad Ezzedine
Hassan Kassem Hachem Hachem Khodor Moghrabi
Haidar Atwi Nicolas Karim Batoul Meligi
Fatima Yehia Ali Charaffeddine Ala' Mortada
Marwan Mansour Helena Abdullah Mohammed Hamdar
Noe Falk Nielsen Amir Musanovic Hisham Delbani
Mahmoud Mokashar Ali Farhat
The following people, companies, organizations
and NGOs greatly assisted in the making of this film:
MINE ACTION COORDINATION CENTER SOUTH LEBANON (MACCSL)
Chris Clark, UN Programme Manager
Omar Diab, UN PM Driver
Catherine Fleming, Transitional Programe Officer
TeKimiti Gilbert , UN Operations Chief of Staff
Kerei Ruru, Chief of Operations
Hadil Kojok, UN Operations Assistant
Mustafa Siklaoui, UN Operations Assistant
LEBANESE ARMED FORCES (LAF) WORKING WITH MACCSL
Lt Col Hassan Fakih, NDO Representative to MACCSL
Capt Omar Hleihil, LAF Ops Officer
Capt Tarek Haffar, LAF QA Officer
Lt Marcel Kahil, LAF Plans Officer
Lt.Patrick Choufani, LAF QA Officer
Lt.Rami Al Khatib, LAF QA Officer
Mohamad Saad, LAF Sampling Supervisor
MACCSL INFORMATION AND MEDIA
Rana Elias Abeer Kablawi Elias Kayyal
Mohamed Fakih Dalya Farran Aline Jiday
LEBANON MINE ACTION CENTER (LMAC)
Lt. Imad Baki
DanChurchAid (DCA) LEBANON
Christina Bennike, Country Director 9.15.06 to 3.21.08
Noe Falk Nielsen, MRE Coordinator 9.15.06 to 1.15.08
Christian Fielding, Operation Manager 4.1.07 to 12.31.07
Francis Ivory, Security and Logistic Manager
Vegim Peja, Paramedic Supervisor
Lene Rasmussen, Programme Manager and
Finance/Adm. Manager since Jan 2007.
DCA TECHNICAL ADVISORS
Mentor Roka Tahir Rudi Fatmire Uka
Nexhdet Kuqi Muhamet Furra Leoparda Zhubi
Eero Oijala
DCA HMA HQ
Eva Veble: Head of HMA Unit Copenhagen
Signe Noermose: Programme Officer HQ
Sam Christensen: Head of Operation HMA unit Copenhagen
DCA DEMINERS
Shadi Mousa Rachad Siblini Mohamed Shour
Ali Kanso Tamer Said Tony Louqa
Hachem Tabaja Ala' Mortada Mahmoud Assi
Ali Dhaini Zainab Atwi Khodor Moghrabi
Mohamad Al Saghir Charbel Dawood Khalil Saqer
Fatima Khalil Hachem Hachem Germanous Younes
Batoul Meligi Tanious Saqer Rabih Zein
Ali Daher Nicolas Karim Ali Zamat
Dori Said Abbas Issa Ibrahim Dhaini
Jihad Hershi Kassem Zamat Haidar Atwi
Sadek Farhat Mohamad Mehdi Rabih Homani
Hussein Chehade Rawad Daher Ahmad Lakis
Mohamed Attallah Mansour Zalzali Hussein Bossi
Ali Habib Awada Afif Abbas Adnan Fawaz
Fayez Hanna Hanan Khalil Neamat Kasseb
Abbas Balhas Hassan Kassem Siham Diab
Mohamed Jundi Mariam Damerji Ihsan Madani
Hussein Deeb Jamal Farhat Hassan Chrara
Mohamad Matar
DCA TRANSLATORS
Mariam Safa Ali Charaffeddine Ziad Ezzeddine
Rabih Bouary Fadia Jardali
DCA MEDICS
Hanan Kallas Hassan Koteish Fatima Yehia
Elias Farah Amira Sayegh Mohamed Fares
Fatima Jaber Mohamad Jundi Hiba Daher
Amin Madani
DCA ADMIN
Vera Moukayed Farah Ghazal Josephine Kayal
Charbel Kassab Ghada Mohammad Nabiha Swedan
Rahim Madani Mohamed AL Hassan Rafea Aidibi
Dawod Hadad Ali Mousselmani Youssef Shalhoub
Sanaa Zeidan Ferial Hakem Labib Bouray
Zakaria Siblini Adnan Jaffal Elias Bwairi
Mohamed Youssef John Bwary Nabil Abou Jreich
Colette Chidiac Elias Zourob Joe Metni
DCA MINE RISK EDUCATORS
Marwan Mansour Helena Abdullah Mohammed Hamdar
Mohamad Maaruf Rana Hammoud Faten Zayat
Hassan Kheirddien Khodor Othman Ahmad Hamid
Hussein Charary Mahmoud Hamdeh May Abed Al-Aziz
NORWEGIAN PEOPLE'S AID (NPA)
Knut Furunes, Operations and Programs Manager
Amir Musanovic, BAC-3 Supervisor
MINES ADVISORY GROUP (MAG)
David Horrocks, Country Program Manager
Andy Gleeson, Deputy Program Manager
David Harbin, 2nd Deputy for P.M
Shamoun Assaf, Logistic Manager
POST SOUND MIX AND EDIT
Matt Rocker
ONLINE EDIT
Cezanne Studios, NYC
ASSISTANT EDITORS
Jessica Chen
Trina Rose Cutugno
POST-PRODUCTION TRANSLATORS
Rita Kabalan Shady Hallab Sherif Sadek
Hanan Tabarra Rania Shehadeh Mark Bechara
Reem Marto Sherihan Khalil
MUSIC - All tunes by Kill Henry Sugar
"Sunrise Over Sidon" "The Evidence Mounts"
"Purpose-Built" "Smells Like Team Clearance"
"Gathering Forces" "Enduring Humanity Suite"
"Get BAC" "Seasons of Loss"
"Valley of Hope" "Eggshell Shuffle"
"Another Life" "Distant Star"
"Good Bomblet" "How Jamal Got His Grove Back"
"This is the Kingdom", from the album Swing Back and Down
Visit www.killhenrysugar.com for more about the band
TRANSLATOR AND FIXER IN LEBANON
Rana Hammoud
MAP ANIMATION
Benjamin Goldman
TRANSCRIPTION
Janine Saunders
ADDITIONAL FOOTAGE PROVIDED BY
Brandon Jourdan Rick Rowley Carol Mansour
Human Rights Watch ITNSource Cluster Munition Coalition
Chris Belcher Future TV Al Manar TV
THANKS IN LEBANON
Jamal Abbeni Hassan Al Sakka Rick Bajornas
Rebecca Murray Carol Mansour Julia Goehsing
Nasser Issmail Mohammad Jundi Nicolas Karim
The Damergi Family The Daher Family The Farhat Family
The Kasseb Family The AinAin Family Siham Diab
Fouad Metni Elise Metni Hoda Metni
Joe Metni Therese Metni Tony Metni
Nazih Metni Dunia Ghayad Jenny Naufal
Ralph Naufal Maurice Haddad Samir Makdisi
Hussein Sharary Joachim Svensen Hilal Kashan
Åsa Wessel Habib Malik Mahmoud Zeidan
THANKS IN THE UNITED STATES
Prerana Reddy Laura Kern Josh Cramer
Chris Eigeman Ed Mullins, JR George Ratliff
Zach Mortensen Scott Alpert Brad Holmes
Doug Stone Arash Hoda John Sinno
Nicolas Rossier Gilad Block Jason DaSilva
Brian Drolet Suzy Salamy Raul Enriquez
Austin Merrill Ahmed Issawi Rita Kabalan
Anjali Kamat Ana Martins Ana Noguiera
Pia Sawney Amita Swadhin Zeina Yazbek
Howard Bernstein Paul Colin Prashant Bhargava