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MUSICAL AURA

 

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GONG

 

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MUSICAL AURA

 

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SHOUTING AND COMMOTION

 

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Tibetans continue to

protest Chinese rule,

 

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and are increasingly willing

to die over the cause...

 

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- The Chinese government

 

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with increasing

aggressiveness is painting

 

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these self immolations

as being instigated

 

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by the Dalai Lama

and his supporters.

 

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Parts of the Tibetan Plateau

 

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have become heavily militarized,

 

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riot police armed with spike

clubs and fire extinguishers

 

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on every street.

 

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It's a sign of just how

sophisticated the apparatus

 

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of control has become.

 

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A British cyber expert

says the Chinese

 

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undermine any attempt by

the Tibetans to seek help

 

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from the international

community.

 

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- A think tank in Canada,

at least the reports saying

 

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that the computers of foreign

governments and critics

 

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of the Chinese Communist

Party have been compromised.

 

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- One computer located

 

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in the Dalai Lama's

private office was infected

 

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with a virus capable

of stealing information

 

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such as email lists

with thousands of names

 

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and other documents, and

then sending it to those

 

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in control of the virus.

 

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A 20 year old Stanford

student is now one

 

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of the victims of a

sophisticated cyber attack

 

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on Google and others.

 

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- Tenzin Seldon doesn't

look like the type

 

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of person to be targeted

for a cyber attack,

 

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but that's exactly what happened

to this Stanford sophomore.

 

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- Google informed the State

Department of this situation,

 

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yesterday.

 

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These allegations

are very serious.

 

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- Endless say the intensity

 

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of China's cyber assault with

the backing of the military

 

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and Communist Party is reaching

a point where it may impact

 

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the relationship between

Washington and Beijing.

 

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- We cannot look back, years

from now, and wonder why

 

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we did nothing in the

face of real threats

 

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to our security and our economy.

 

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- With an estimated 300 billion

dollars in trade secrets

 

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lost last year alone, the

Democratic Chair of the Senate

 

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Intelligence Community said this

 

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is a sobering public report,

and clearly demonstrates

 

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the need to pass cyber

security legislation

 

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as soon as possible.

 

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TENSE BEAT

 

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I was in my dorm one

day, and Martin Lev,

 

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head of security for

Google, called me,

 

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and said that they wanted

to come over to my dorm

 

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to pick up my laptop.

 

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When I met with him in my

dorm, in the next hour,

 

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Martin Lev informed me

that my email account

 

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has been hacked into,

and was being spied on.

 

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- We quickly discovered

that this was

 

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a very sophisticated adversary.

 

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The more troubling thing

to me is that we discovered

 

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the motivation, which we

believed to be to gain access

 

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to Gmail accounts,

in particular,

 

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for human rights activists.

 

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- And, I knew straight

away, that my email

 

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had been hacked into

by people inside China.

 

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Google wanted to know why

I was being hacked into.

 

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- They were under

constant scrutiny...

 

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- This is like a

daily occurrence

 

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for a lot of activists,

 

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especially Tibetan community,

and in our community,

 

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we have a thing, that if

you're not being spied on

 

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by the Chinese government,

you're probably not

 

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doing your job.

 

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We here in America enjoy

the freedom of expression,

 

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freedom of religion,

but over there,

 

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he cannot even film a

documentary about people

 

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inside Tibet talking

about how they feel

 

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about the Dalai

Lama, for example,

 

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or holding up a picture

of His Holiness.

 

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To us, we can't even

fathom a world where we

 

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can't express how we think

about our government,

 

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or about our lives,

but in Tibet,

 

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that's a daily reality.

 

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BIKE ENGINE

 

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BAGPIPES

 

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On March 10th every year,

 

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Tibetan monks mark

a sad anniversary.

 

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They remember the

day, 49 years ago,

 

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that the Dalai Lama was

forced to flee into exile.

 

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- Gunfire, tear

gas, and rock throwing

 

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were all reported today

in the capital of Tibet.

 

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- It is still

extremely difficult

 

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to verify anything.

 

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- On Sunday, a crew from

Hong Kong Cable TV,

 

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hiding in the Tibetan

capital, managed to broadcast

 

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these extraordinary

live pictures.

 

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- The uprising

spread like wildfire

 

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throughout the Tibetan Plateau.

 

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- They are trying to say,

we want our autonomy,

 

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we want our religious

and other freedoms.

 

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- Untold thousands of

heavily armed police

 

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have moved out to quell

any protest activity.

 

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- With the Olympics

coming up in Beijing,

 

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this was a golden

opportunity for Tibetans

 

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to bring the international

community's attention

 

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to their problems, but also,

there were economic factors

 

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involved here.

 

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Inflation in Tibet

is serious now,

 

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and the ethnic Chinese now

control most of the businesses.

 

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- This really is a dilemma

for China right now.

 

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What the world will see in the

lead up to the Olympic games.

 

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- The Chinese

insisted the Dalai Lama's group

 

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instigated the riots,

but offered no proof.

 

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China denies killing anyone,

 

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but Tibet's government in exile

claims over 200 people died.

 

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- In the run up to the Olympics,

you saw the Communist Party

 

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going back to its

old techniques,

 

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which was to control people

through, essentially,

 

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Leninist techniques,

so they clamped down

 

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on all elements in society

that they were concerned about,

 

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and of course, one of the

most important elements

 

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were the Tibetans, and so,

we saw increasing methods

 

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of control in Tibet, and we

saw the absolute prohibition

 

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of bad news.

 

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- Any access to information

that they deem subversive

 

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to what they believe is

the Communist following

 

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is a threat, and those

journalists and documentarians

 

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and filmmakers will pay for it.

 

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I think the Beijing Games

 

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presented a critical

moment for Tibet.

 

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You have a totalitarian

government

 

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put in a media blackout,

 

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a clamp down on

an entire region,

 

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and allowing no foreign

press in, whatsoever,

 

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allowing no media to get out.

 

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Historically, these kind of

things have set the stage

 

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for disaster.

 

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INTENSE MUSIC

 

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I've had experience filming

 

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in war zones before, and

when cameras aren't allowed

 

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into certain places,

bad things can happen.

 

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Sometimes we show up,

 

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and we're the only

cameras there,

 

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and what you're able to

get out of these regions

 

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can really open up people's eyes

 

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as to what's happening.

 

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We wanted to see,

firsthand, what the Tibetans

 

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were facing during

the media blackout,

 

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and was there anything

we could do to help

 

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get information out of the

region, and out to the world.

 

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It's one of the only conflicts

 

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in the world that I've

seen where the bullets

 

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are going in one direction.

 

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As filmmakers, it

was never our plan

 

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to become part of the

story, but as you'll see,

 

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the choice was not

entirely ours to make.

 

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- It's

a strange thing when you go

 

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into a region, and

try to help people,

 

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and document a

conflict, but instead,

 

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end up documenting yourselves.

 

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As foreigners during

a media blackout,

 

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you can't just book a

ticket into Tibet.

 

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It's a complicated thing to do.

 

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First, we would go to

Kathmandu, a hotbed

 

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for Tibetan activism.

 

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It's the place to make

contact with the movement,

 

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meet the leaders, and find

out how to get into Tibet,

 

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to get the information out.

 

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EXOTIC MUSIC

 

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Our hope is to

make contacts here

 

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that will actually help

us get into Tibet.

 

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EXOTIC MUSIC

 

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PLANE ENGINE

 

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TRAFFIC AMBIENCE

 

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SUSPENSEFUL DRUMS

 

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MUSIC

 

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We first arrived in

Kathmandu, the Tibetan activists

 

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were all trying to prepare

for the incoming Olympics,

 

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but the pro Chinese

government was going around

 

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arresting anybody that

they'd suspected to being

 

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an activist, or that

might actually campaign,

 

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so there was kind of

a state of panic,

 

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from the first few minutes we

landed inside of Kathmandu.

 

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MUSIC

 

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We immediately hooked up

 

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with a couple activists

named Happy and Sherab,

 

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and they gave us the lay of

the land, pretty quickly.

 

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The first thing we found out

was there's spies everywhere.

 

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Happy and Sherab took us

 

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to meet a woman named

Gyaltson Sondup.

 

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She's an activist in the area,

 

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very inspirational

to a lot of people.

 

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TEMPERED MUSIC

 

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TEMPERED MUSIC

 

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TEMPERED MUSIC

 

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She told us a story

 

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of how her brother

was killed in Tibet

 

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during a protest by

the Chinese police.

 

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CHILDREN CHATTERING

 

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Gyaltson and Happy told us

 

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that there's a major

protest under way,

 

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and all the organizing's

happening by text messages

 

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and emails.

 

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Does it make you angry

 

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when someone punches you,

when the police punch you?

 

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INTENSE MUSIC

 

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CHANTING AND COMMOTION

 

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SCREAMING AND COMMOTION

 

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GUNSHOT

 

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SCREAMING AND COMMOTION

 

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MUSIC

 

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Just got a text

message from Tenzin

 

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of the TYC.

 

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Looks like 715 were arrested.

 

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TEMPERED MUSIC

 

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TRAFFIC AMBIENCE

 

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We got a phone call

 

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from a Tibet youth congress

 

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that some important

Tibetan activists

 

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were just imprisoned,

and they wanted

 

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to meet with us.

 

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Okay, let's stop here.

 

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We'll put them away.

 

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MUFFLED VOICES

 

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MUFFLED VOICES

 

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We're very nervous in there,

 

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trying to film with

the hidden camera.

 

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The guards are looking at

us, our contacts are afraid

 

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we're gonna get

arrested, and so,

 

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we finally got out of there.

 

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RINGING BELLS

 

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With Nepal being so close

to the China Tibet border,

 

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we thought we might be

able to just enter,

 

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right from Nepal, so we

took the most obvious route,

 

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and went to a travel agency.

 

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Is it possible to do

a travel to Tibet,

 

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or to Lhasa?

 

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It's not possible to

go to Tibet at all?

 

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What's the problem?

 

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TRAFFIC AMBIENCE

 

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It was the eve

of the Olympics,

 

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and as a young Tibetan activist,

 

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it was an extremely

shocking time.

 

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I knew that something

had to be done about it.

 

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I was prompted to

request the Dalai Lama

 

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to help foster and create

a dialog with young people

 

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from China, as well as Tibet.

 

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I am Tenzin Seldon, a

Tibetan student at Stanford,

 

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and one of the organizers

of today's dialog.

 

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It's our profound honour

and privilege to host

 

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this conversation

between His Holiness,

 

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the 14th Dalai Lama, and the

Chinese and Tibetan students

 

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and scholars in this room.

 

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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama,

 

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and the Tibetan

government in exile

 

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has always believed

 

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and stressed in the

importance of dialog,

 

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to continue peaceful

negotiations

 

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between China and Tibet,

 

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and encouraging Tibetan

youth, like myself,

 

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and Chinese youth, to

take part in this method.

 

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APPLAUSE

 

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Goals for Dialog is to dispel

 

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the myths about the

history of Tibet China,

 

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present factual evidence,

instead of just being hearsay.

 

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LAUGHING

 

00:22:04:00 --> 00:22:05:00

Next question.

 

00:22:07:06 --> 00:22:08:22

After this event,

 

00:22:08:22 --> 00:22:12:13

I was more inspired

to let the world know

 

00:22:12:13 --> 00:22:14:20

what is going on inside Tibet,

 

00:22:14:20 --> 00:22:18:03

and take this movement

to a next level.

 

00:22:25:10 --> 00:22:27:06

I learned about Tibetan Buddhism

 

00:22:27:06 --> 00:22:28:10

when I was 11.

 

00:22:28:10 --> 00:22:31:11

I think it helped me get

through a lot of difficult times

 

00:22:31:11 --> 00:22:34:00

throughout my life, and it

was a very powerful thing

 

00:22:34:00 --> 00:22:37:19

for me to realize that

something so beautiful

 

00:22:37:19 --> 00:22:39:19

may end in our lifetime.

 

00:22:40:17 --> 00:22:42:20

I've worked on films that deal

 

00:22:42:20 --> 00:22:45:11

with human rights issues

before, and after learning

 

00:22:45:11 --> 00:22:48:23

of the circumstances in Tibet,

I felt this is something

 

00:22:48:23 --> 00:22:51:18

that I couldn't

turn my eyes from.

 

00:22:53:11 --> 00:22:54:19

Christian and I really hope

 

00:22:54:19 --> 00:22:58:15

that our cameras could document

both sides of the story.

 

00:22:58:19 --> 00:23:02:04

It was important to me to

approach this with an open mind.

 

00:23:06:06 --> 00:23:08:12

We weren't able to get

into Tibet through Nepal.

 

00:23:08:16 --> 00:23:10:05

With the opening

ceremonies looming,

 

00:23:10:05 --> 00:23:11:22

we knew with each

day that went by,

 

00:23:11:22 --> 00:23:14:01

it would only get

more difficult.

 

00:23:14:01 --> 00:23:15:23

We headed to northern

India with hopes of finding

 

00:23:15:23 --> 00:23:17:06

another way in.

 

00:23:18:14 --> 00:23:20:03

Our activist friends in Nepal

 

00:23:20:03 --> 00:23:23:01

had set us up with some

contacts in Dharamsala, India,

 

00:23:23:01 --> 00:23:25:09

who could help us get

into Tibet, and also,

 

00:23:25:09 --> 00:23:27:11

help us with what to

plan and prepare for,

 

00:23:27:11 --> 00:23:29:12

if we do actually get in.

 

00:23:30:21 --> 00:23:33:06

Dharamsala is the

spiritual hub, and the home

 

00:23:33:06 --> 00:23:34:17

of the Dalai Lama, as well as

 

00:23:34:17 --> 00:23:36:21

the Tibetan government in exile.

 

00:23:37:03 --> 00:23:51:03

BELLS

 

00:23:58:22 --> 00:24:01:10

Our first stop was to

visit a Tibetan legend,

 

00:24:01:10 --> 00:24:02:23

a poet activist who

has vowed to wear

 

00:24:02:23 --> 00:24:06:01

his trademark red headband

until Tibet is free.

 

00:24:06:10 --> 00:24:10:10

RAINDROPS

 

00:24:10:18 --> 00:24:12:20

It became clear that the

the Chinese authorities

 

00:24:12:20 --> 00:24:15:09

regarding Tenzin Tsundue

as an enemy of the state.

 

00:24:15:13 --> 00:24:18:11

He seems to have devoted

his life to the cause.

 

00:25:26:11 --> 00:25:27:15

It's amazing to see

 

00:25:27:15 --> 00:25:30:10

this stark imbalance of power.

 

00:25:30:10 --> 00:25:32:02

Technologically,

they're up against one

 

00:25:32:02 --> 00:25:35:17

of the most advanced

countries in the world.

 

00:26:26:15 --> 00:26:29:04

Tenzin is under

constant surveillance.

 

00:26:29:10 --> 00:26:32:05

His phones are bugged,

his emails read.

 

00:26:32:05 --> 00:26:35:14

He's followed everywhere by

the Chinese and Indian police.

 

00:27:17:17 --> 00:27:20:01

Tenzin confided in us

as we were leaving,

 

00:27:20:01 --> 00:27:23:07

that they're planning a secret

march to get into Tibet.

 

00:27:23:07 --> 00:27:25:04

They're hoping to

use satellite video

 

00:27:25:04 --> 00:27:27:10

to broadcast it to

the outside world,

 

00:27:27:10 --> 00:27:30:10

in advance of the opening

ceremonies in Beijing.

 

00:27:32:22 --> 00:27:35:13

We saw, firsthand, the clear

evidence of the violence

 

00:27:35:13 --> 00:27:37:14

inside of Tibet.

 

00:27:37:14 --> 00:27:40:08

Tsewang was shot multiple

times while trying to save

 

00:27:40:08 --> 00:27:43:15

a life of a monk who

died in his arms.

 

00:27:48:12 --> 00:27:56:09

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

00:27:56:17 --> 00:28:01:21

He was shot twice, first

bullet came in from the back,

 

00:28:01:21 --> 00:28:05:16

here, and then it

exited his body here,

 

00:28:05:16 --> 00:28:08:23

and then, the next bullet

hit him in the elbow, here,

 

00:28:08:23 --> 00:28:11:15

and exited through his arm here.

 

00:28:11:15 --> 00:28:14:20

This gentleman saved him,

took him to the mountains,

 

00:28:15:01 --> 00:28:18:01

where they hid out, received

no medical treatment at all

 

00:28:18:01 --> 00:28:22:05

for this, and now, he made

it to exile in Dharamsala.

 

00:28:24:21 --> 00:28:36:19

TEMPERED MUSIC

 

00:28:37:13 --> 00:28:40:12

We met a woman whose

husband went to Tibet

 

00:28:40:12 --> 00:28:43:15

to make a movie about the

human rights situation.

 

00:28:43:15 --> 00:28:46:19

He's been missing since

the March 2008 protest.

 

00:29:42:21 --> 00:29:48:06

SINGING

 

00:30:10:12 --> 00:30:11:23

We visited the Human

Rights Center

 

00:30:11:23 --> 00:30:13:16

in the government in exile

to find out

 

00:30:13:16 --> 00:30:17:00

if and how information is

getting out of the region.

 

00:30:24:07 --> 00:30:26:00

Photos like this from people.

 

00:30:26:00 --> 00:30:28:12

Is it their hope that it

can be widely distributed?

 

00:31:17:17 --> 00:31:19:02

After meeting with people

 

00:31:19:02 --> 00:31:21:23

like Ama Adhe and others,

and hearing their pleas,

 

00:31:21:23 --> 00:31:25:00

it really drove home

just how important it was

 

00:31:25:00 --> 00:31:27:17

for us to get into Tibet

at this crucial time.

 

00:31:28:02 --> 00:31:30:02

There was no information

coming out,

 

00:31:30:02 --> 00:31:33:05

and they really had no

contact with their family

 

00:31:33:05 --> 00:31:35:17

and their loved ones,

especially at the monasteries.

 

00:31:36:11 --> 00:31:39:06

It was their fear that the

opening of the Beijing games

 

00:31:39:06 --> 00:31:40:16

will only intensify

the oppression,

 

00:31:40:16 --> 00:31:42:16

and things would only get worse.

 

00:31:43:14 --> 00:31:45:10

When we were in Nepal, and now,

 

00:31:45:10 --> 00:31:47:12

in India, searching

for ways into Tibet,

 

00:31:47:12 --> 00:31:49:17

has proved extremely

difficult, but now,

 

00:31:49:17 --> 00:31:52:02

we finally found some

contacts that could make sure

 

00:31:52:02 --> 00:31:53:10

we get in.

 

00:31:55:09 --> 00:31:56:17

Where is the main monastery

 

00:31:56:17 --> 00:31:58:07

of which you think we

should try to shoot?

 

00:32:08:19 --> 00:32:10:12

Can you tell me the

name of that province?

 

00:32:16:15 --> 00:32:18:19

Which regions are tourists

currently not allowed

 

00:32:18:19 --> 00:32:19:23

to go in?

 

00:32:34:00 --> 00:32:35:12

When the cameras were off,

 

00:32:35:12 --> 00:32:38:03

they felt it was safe to

tell us just how important

 

00:32:38:03 --> 00:32:40:03

it was to them that

we could actually try

 

00:32:40:03 --> 00:32:41:23

to get inside of

Tibet, and really see

 

00:32:41:23 --> 00:32:43:12

what was going on.

 

00:32:44:10 --> 00:32:46:13

They had pleaded with us

to see if their fellow monks

 

00:32:46:13 --> 00:32:48:14

and brothers at a

monastery called Labrang

 

00:32:48:14 --> 00:32:51:01

in Eastern Tibet were okay.

 

00:32:51:01 --> 00:32:53:01

There had been a huge crackdown

there, with many deaths,

 

00:32:53:01 --> 00:32:55:15

and these monks had

heard no news or updates

 

00:32:55:15 --> 00:32:57:12

since the March uprising.

 

00:32:58:10 --> 00:32:59:18

Darren and I had a few hours

 

00:32:59:18 --> 00:33:03:02

of debate about how we might

actually get into Tibet,

 

00:33:03:02 --> 00:33:06:06

but sitting with these monks

and hearing the stories,

 

00:33:06:06 --> 00:33:08:11

and seeing the tears

in their eyes,

 

00:33:08:11 --> 00:33:11:08

not knowing what's happening

with their family members

 

00:33:11:08 --> 00:33:14:03

and their brothers and sisters

made it even more personal.

 

00:33:14:03 --> 00:33:16:23

Now that they actually

have a connection for us,

 

00:33:16:23 --> 00:33:20:13

we have a way in, and

hopefully, we can bring back

 

00:33:20:13 --> 00:33:22:21

what they want most,

which is for us

 

00:33:22:21 --> 00:33:25:22

to document eye witness

accounts, and collect

 

00:33:25:22 --> 00:33:28:03

the cell phone images that

they want the outside world

 

00:33:28:03 --> 00:33:28:23

to see.

 

00:33:30:21 --> 00:33:32:11

Prior to going into Tibet

 

00:33:32:11 --> 00:33:34:07

as a westerner, you

have to be prepared both

 

00:33:34:07 --> 00:33:36:06

for your safety, and

more importantly,

 

00:33:36:06 --> 00:33:38:09

for the safety of

others around you,

 

00:33:38:09 --> 00:33:40:16

and their families in exile.

 

00:33:41:15 --> 00:33:44:21

You need to be sure not

to incriminate anybody

 

00:33:44:21 --> 00:33:47:20

on the trip in any way,

because you will be followed,

 

00:33:47:20 --> 00:33:49:16

you will be monitored.

 

00:33:51:22 --> 00:33:53:18

It was a lot for us to fathom.

 

00:33:53:18 --> 00:33:56:11

Any camera we turn on

might be a jail sentence

 

00:33:56:11 --> 00:33:58:13

for anyone we interview.

 

00:33:58:18 --> 00:34:00:23

That meant not taking

risks at monasteries,

 

00:34:00:23 --> 00:34:04:13

not putting people on

camera unnecessarily,

 

00:34:04:13 --> 00:34:07:10

because everyone you speak

to is gonna be interrogated.

 

00:34:08:11 --> 00:34:11:03

We approached numerous

experts and professionals,

 

00:34:11:03 --> 00:34:12:22

and had many conversations

about how we

 

00:34:12:22 --> 00:34:17:03

could safely enter Tibet, to

protect not only ourselves,

 

00:34:17:03 --> 00:34:19:23

but more importantly, the

Tibetans we come in contact with

 

00:34:19:23 --> 00:34:21:05

along the way.

 

00:34:21:13 --> 00:34:22:21

What are some issues

 

00:34:22:21 --> 00:34:24:22

that filmmakers should consider,

 

00:34:24:22 --> 00:34:27:13

when entering a region

that's under marshal law,

 

00:34:27:13 --> 00:34:31:15

under a media ban, and

how would one go about

 

00:34:31:15 --> 00:34:34:01

getting this information out?

 

00:34:34:01 --> 00:34:35:21

- That's a really

great question,

 

00:34:35:21 --> 00:34:38:20

and it's a particularly

tricky one.

 

00:34:38:20 --> 00:34:42:02

Different journalists deal

with this at different ways.

 

00:34:42:07 --> 00:34:44:21

There are some people

who would prefer not

 

00:34:44:21 --> 00:34:48:06

to do the interviews

in the first place,

 

00:34:48:06 --> 00:34:50:14

because they feel that the

safety of their sources

 

00:34:50:14 --> 00:34:52:06

is paramount.

 

00:34:52:06 --> 00:34:56:01

There are others who feel

that by giving these people

 

00:34:56:01 --> 00:34:58:07

the opportunity to make

their voice heard,

 

00:34:58:07 --> 00:35:00:03

and leaving the choice to them,

 

00:35:00:03 --> 00:35:02:23

that's the most ethical

way to navigate

 

00:35:02:23 --> 00:35:05:08

this very complex situation.

 

00:35:06:16 --> 00:35:08:08

Other question we assumed was,

 

00:35:08:08 --> 00:35:10:02

are we on an

intelligence mission,

 

00:35:10:02 --> 00:35:11:23

even if we're documentarians?

 

00:35:11:23 --> 00:35:15:06

Documentary filmmaker,

spy for the United States,

 

00:35:15:06 --> 00:35:16:23

all the same for them,

 

00:35:16:23 --> 00:35:20:21

if you're trying to encroach

on the power that they have.

 

00:35:20:21 --> 00:35:23:07

We've got two

individuals coming in

 

00:35:23:07 --> 00:35:26:21

whose whole job it is

to gather information,

 

00:35:26:21 --> 00:35:30:04

and not share the same

message they have,

 

00:35:30:04 --> 00:35:31:17

you're an enemy of the state.

 

00:35:31:17 --> 00:35:35:02

As long as you are not

deceiving the people

 

00:35:35:02 --> 00:35:38:11

that you talk to, and you

let them talk to you openly,

 

00:35:38:11 --> 00:35:40:20

and share that this is

what you're trying to do,

 

00:35:40:20 --> 00:35:44:12

and you give them that choice,

you give them that freedom,

 

00:35:44:12 --> 00:35:47:14

to share their story,

then it has to be done.

 

00:35:47:14 --> 00:35:49:16

They understand

that making a film

 

00:35:49:16 --> 00:35:52:00

about what's going on

there is honestly going

 

00:35:52:00 --> 00:35:54:09

to try to do something

to make it better.

 

00:35:54:09 --> 00:35:56:06

This is how things change.

 

00:35:56:06 --> 00:35:58:23

In my opinion, it

has to be done.

 

00:36:02:10 --> 00:36:04:00

The Chinese invited journalists

 

00:36:04:00 --> 00:36:06:02

from around the world to

visit Tibet this week,,

 

00:36:06:02 --> 00:36:07:18

authorities thinking

they could control

 

00:36:07:18 --> 00:36:09:10

what the reporters

would see and hear.

 

00:36:09:10 --> 00:36:11:12

- Journalists walked

into the Jokhang Temple,

 

00:36:11:12 --> 00:36:14:00

they had only heard one

side of the story,

 

00:36:14:00 --> 00:36:15:09

and then this.

 

00:36:15:12 --> 00:36:16:18

SHOUTING

 

00:36:16:23 --> 00:36:20:00

Roughly 30 Tibetan monks

clearly not invited.

 

00:36:20:03 --> 00:36:22:10

It is the first time

since the crisis began

 

00:36:22:10 --> 00:36:24:20

that the world has heard

from the Tibetan monks

 

00:36:24:20 --> 00:36:26:08

in Lhasa.

 

00:36:26:08 --> 00:36:29:02

They treat us unjustly,

cries this man,

 

00:36:29:02 --> 00:36:30:22

referring to Chinese

security guards.

 

00:36:30:22 --> 00:36:33:15

They lock us up, don't

allow us to go out.

 

00:36:33:15 --> 00:36:36:03

Another monk says, "We

don't have freedom.

 

00:36:36:03 --> 00:36:37:22

We just want freedom."

 

00:36:37:22 --> 00:36:39:19

The monks had just enough

time to accuse the Chinese

 

00:36:39:19 --> 00:36:43:13

of dressing up Communist

Party officials in monks robes

 

00:36:43:13 --> 00:36:46:07

to fool journalists, before

they and the reporters

 

00:36:46:07 --> 00:36:48:13

were dragged away

from each other.

 

00:36:48:13 --> 00:36:50:01

- Look what happened

in Paris today,

 

00:36:50:01 --> 00:36:52:11

where human rights

activists cut the run short.

 

00:36:52:11 --> 00:36:54:22

- In London, protesters

attacked the flame, itself,

 

00:36:54:22 --> 00:36:57:06

as it was paraded

through the city.

 

00:37:01:09 --> 00:37:03:12

- And in San Francisco,

three demonstrators

 

00:37:03:12 --> 00:37:05:22

managed to climb on

the Golden Gate Bridge,

 

00:37:05:22 --> 00:37:07:11

where they unfurled a banner,

 

00:37:07:11 --> 00:37:09:16

calling for a free Tibet.

 

00:37:09:16 --> 00:37:11:23

- This is what we'd come to see,

 

00:37:11:23 --> 00:37:15:10

a brief moment of

protest, soon snuffed out.

 

00:37:15:10 --> 00:37:18:05

The Tibet banner is

illegal, but our presence,

 

00:37:18:05 --> 00:37:21:17

as journalists is

permitted by promises made

 

00:37:21:17 --> 00:37:23:23

in Beijing in return

for the games.

 

00:37:23:23 --> 00:37:27:09

No one seems to have

told the Chinese police.

 

00:37:29:00 --> 00:37:32:06

On the left, CNN's

regular broadcast.

 

00:37:32:06 --> 00:37:34:11

On the right, the

blacked out screen

 

00:37:34:11 --> 00:37:37:04

seen by viewers in

mainland China.

 

00:37:37:04 --> 00:37:40:06

- Repeated requests to travel

to Tibet for this report

 

00:37:40:06 --> 00:37:42:00

have been denied.

 

00:37:42:00 --> 00:37:46:02

- I've been arrested by the

Chinese police for doing,

 

00:37:46:02 --> 00:37:48:04

just trying to cover

the protest here.

 

00:37:48:04 --> 00:37:49:15

- I'm a journalist.

 

00:37:49:15 --> 00:37:52:14

Little good does it do me.

 

00:37:56:10 --> 00:37:58:05

There is an

ethical imperative

 

00:37:58:05 --> 00:38:00:07

for that information

to get out that I think

 

00:38:00:07 --> 00:38:02:23

as a journalist

supersedes Chinese laws.

 

00:38:02:23 --> 00:38:05:12

Now, that doesn't mean

that if one is apprehended,

 

00:38:05:12 --> 00:38:08:10

going into the country, there

couldn't be repercussions,

 

00:38:08:10 --> 00:38:10:04

including being

imprisoned, tortured,

 

00:38:10:04 --> 00:38:12:20

or possibly being

executed, but certainly,

 

00:38:12:20 --> 00:38:15:04

there's an ethical

imperative to get information

 

00:38:15:04 --> 00:38:17:04

out of a place that's closed.

 

00:38:17:09 --> 00:38:19:15

Now, if journalists are

there independently,

 

00:38:19:15 --> 00:38:21:06

then I think the

trick is to keep

 

00:38:21:06 --> 00:38:24:02

from having Chinese

authorities realize

 

00:38:24:02 --> 00:38:25:07

that you are there.

 

00:38:25:07 --> 00:38:27:01

It's very difficult,

of course, for anyone

 

00:38:27:01 --> 00:38:28:19

who's outside of the region,

 

00:38:28:19 --> 00:38:30:16

who doesn't look or

speak the language,

 

00:38:30:16 --> 00:38:32:03

to be able to move

in that environment,

 

00:38:32:03 --> 00:38:33:09

without being detected.

 

00:38:57:13 --> 00:38:58:22

Accredited journalists

 

00:38:58:22 --> 00:39:02:14

were being arrested and

denied access to most all

 

00:39:02:14 --> 00:39:04:17

of Tibet, so there was

really not gonna be

 

00:39:04:17 --> 00:39:06:10

a formal way that

we could do this,

 

00:39:06:10 --> 00:39:07:19

as much as we wanted to.

 

00:39:07:19 --> 00:39:09:15

A government guided tour

wasn't even possible.

 

00:39:09:15 --> 00:39:11:09

The experts kept

telling us we need

 

00:39:11:09 --> 00:39:14:01

to develop a sophisticated ruse.

 

00:39:14:22 --> 00:39:16:11

The Tibetans gave us the idea

 

00:39:16:11 --> 00:39:18:20

to try to get in on a

tourist visa, with the intent

 

00:39:18:20 --> 00:39:22:02

being to explore the mini

carpet factories in the region.

 

00:39:22:02 --> 00:39:23:12

What better area than Tibet,

 

00:39:23:12 --> 00:39:25:10

famous for its carpets.

 

00:39:26:07 --> 00:39:28:02

With this carpet

factory itinerary,

 

00:39:28:02 --> 00:39:29:21

the hope was we could

evade the suspicion

 

00:39:29:21 --> 00:39:32:05

of Chinese authorities

long enough to gain access

 

00:39:32:05 --> 00:39:34:03

to these sensitive regions.

 

00:39:35:09 --> 00:39:39:08

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:39:54:12 --> 00:40:06:23

EXOTIC MUSIC

 

00:40:14:15 --> 00:40:24:09

EXOTIC MUSIC

 

00:40:25:12 --> 00:40:26:20

With all of the preparation

 

00:40:26:20 --> 00:40:29:02

we had done, it's a

whole different thing,

 

00:40:29:02 --> 00:40:31:06

we actually land in China.

 

00:40:32:05 --> 00:40:33:12

It's a Communist country.

 

00:40:33:12 --> 00:40:35:01

They can imprison you, jail you,

 

00:40:35:01 --> 00:40:37:09

question you, no

matter who you are.

 

00:40:37:19 --> 00:40:42:05

INTENSE MUSIC

 

00:40:54:00 --> 00:40:56:13

We're flying just

to go sightseeing.

 

00:40:56:13 --> 00:40:57:19

- We're going all

over the place.

 

00:40:57:19 --> 00:40:58:20

We're gonna go to Chengdu.

 

00:41:12:06 --> 00:41:13:12

Our hearts were pounding

 

00:41:13:12 --> 00:41:14:18

after the police search.

 

00:41:14:18 --> 00:41:17:13

We realize at any second,

anything can go wrong.

 

00:41:17:21 --> 00:41:19:21

I thought that the whole

trip was going to be over

 

00:41:19:21 --> 00:41:21:17

before it even got started.

 

00:41:22:23 --> 00:41:24:08

We knew if we tried to travel

 

00:41:24:08 --> 00:41:26:06

with professional cameras

and hard drives,

 

00:41:26:06 --> 00:41:28:01

we'd have probably

only gotten as far

 

00:41:28:01 --> 00:41:30:01

as the Beijing airport,

so we worked closely

 

00:41:30:01 --> 00:41:31:22

with friends of ours

in the tech sector

 

00:41:31:22 --> 00:41:34:11

to create hidden file

folders in our iPods.

 

00:41:34:14 --> 00:41:36:14

This way, in case the

authorities got a hold

 

00:41:36:14 --> 00:41:38:10

of our equipment, they'd

never be able to view

 

00:41:38:10 --> 00:41:40:07

the video footage.

 

00:41:40:07 --> 00:41:43:06

We also worked with very

small consumer grade cameras

 

00:41:43:06 --> 00:41:46:05

that we could carry with us

at all times as tourists.

 

00:41:47:13 --> 00:41:49:16

This would provide

safety for ourselves,

 

00:41:49:16 --> 00:41:52:03

and any Tibetans we

planned to interview.

 

00:41:52:18 --> 00:41:59:08

INTENSE MUSIC

 

00:41:59:16 --> 00:42:01:22

CHATTERING

 

00:42:04:15 --> 00:42:08:21

Had a minor debacle

at Lang'er Airport.

 

00:42:09:05 --> 00:42:11:20

Unable to locate our

hotel or the person

 

00:42:11:20 --> 00:42:13:15

who's supposed to meet us.

 

00:42:13:15 --> 00:42:16:12

Definitely meet up

with him later.

 

00:42:17:13 --> 00:42:19:05

After arriving, we

finally made it

 

00:42:19:05 --> 00:42:22:03

to the hotel around 4 AM,

and we met up with our guide.

 

00:42:23:00 --> 00:42:26:05

Tomorrow, we

would probably, if we go

 

00:42:26:05 --> 00:42:27:23

to the big monastery.

 

00:42:28:16 --> 00:42:30:01

- Tomorrow afternoon.

 

00:42:30:01 --> 00:42:31:07

Tomorrow afternoon?

- Yeah.

 

00:42:31:07 --> 00:42:32:17

We will go to which place there?

 

00:42:32:17 --> 00:42:34:01

Tongren.

 

00:42:34:01 --> 00:42:35:13

Find out what's going on there.

 

00:42:35:13 --> 00:42:36:10

- Yeah.

 

00:42:36:10 --> 00:42:37:22

There's some people

that might talk,

 

00:42:37:22 --> 00:42:39:03

on camera, maybe.

 

00:42:39:03 --> 00:42:40:10

Yeah.

 

00:42:42:07 --> 00:42:44:06

Our guides were well informed

 

00:42:44:06 --> 00:42:46:10

as to our intentions,

and to get into

 

00:42:46:10 --> 00:42:49:03

the most conflicted regions

of Tibet, and ultimately,

 

00:42:49:03 --> 00:42:50:21

in Labrang Monastery.

 

00:42:53:12 --> 00:42:54:13

Impossible?

 

00:42:55:22 --> 00:42:58:07

It's impossible for him and

I to go, but you could go?

 

00:42:58:07 --> 00:42:59:07

Yeah.

 

00:42:59:07 --> 00:43:00:23

- And we can't get

in there, you said.

 

00:43:01:04 --> 00:43:03:06

Can we try?

 

00:43:03:19 --> 00:43:09:03

SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC

 

00:43:19:13 --> 00:43:26:01

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:43:26:01 --> 00:43:27:02

What's going on?

 

00:43:27:02 --> 00:43:28:02

Where are we?

 

00:43:28:02 --> 00:43:29:04

- We're in...

 

00:43:29:04 --> 00:43:30:15

- Xining.

 

00:43:31:16 --> 00:43:36:14

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:43:36:21 --> 00:43:38:13

Xining is 20

kilometres from where

 

00:43:38:13 --> 00:43:40:23

the current Dalai Lama was born.

 

00:43:40:23 --> 00:43:43:04

It's an ancient capital

of Tibet that now

 

00:43:43:04 --> 00:43:46:04

has been absorbed

into modern China.

 

00:43:49:17 --> 00:43:51:12

You have these ideas of what

 

00:43:51:12 --> 00:43:53:22

this Chinese city called

Xining on the Tibetan border

 

00:43:53:22 --> 00:43:56:08

is gonna look like,

and then you get there,

 

00:43:56:08 --> 00:43:59:17

and it's a massive,

sprawling metropolis.

 

00:44:02:12 --> 00:44:10:12

DANCE BEAT

 

00:44:11:19 --> 00:44:13:20

Immediately, it became

obvious that we

 

00:44:13:20 --> 00:44:15:18

were being followed

and photographed.

 

00:44:16:07 --> 00:44:18:15

Long lens camera,

cell phone cameras,

 

00:44:18:15 --> 00:44:21:13

surreptitiously taking

our photographs.

 

00:44:21:13 --> 00:44:24:16

Everywhere we went, we

realized we were being watched.

 

00:44:32:17 --> 00:44:33:23

5 0 everywhere?

 

00:44:33:23 --> 00:44:35:04

- Yeah, definitely.

 

00:44:35:04 --> 00:44:37:06

It' definitely time for

us to get out of here.

 

00:44:38:01 --> 00:44:39:22

This was only a few days in

 

00:44:39:22 --> 00:44:41:21

to us being there

that we realized this

 

00:44:41:21 --> 00:44:44:01

is gonna be a very

formidable battle to get any

 

00:44:44:01 --> 00:44:47:20

of this information back

to India, Kathmandu,

 

00:44:47:20 --> 00:44:50:00

and the rest of the world.

 

00:44:55:07 --> 00:44:58:05

You know, when you checked

out and took the bags,

 

00:44:58:05 --> 00:44:59:23

and I went back inside

my room for a minute,

 

00:44:59:23 --> 00:45:03:12

I opened the door, and there

was a very well dressed guy,

 

00:45:03:12 --> 00:45:07:12

about 45, with a card,

putting it into my door,

 

00:45:07:12 --> 00:45:10:03

and he opened my door

on me, and he goes,

 

00:45:10:03 --> 00:45:12:12

"Oh," and he kinda walked

back down the hall,

 

00:45:12:12 --> 00:45:14:12

and went into 1811.

 

00:45:15:00 --> 00:45:16:08

DOOR CLOSING

 

00:45:18:12 --> 00:45:20:11

It's our first day, and already,

 

00:45:20:11 --> 00:45:22:04

we're having a small

taste of what it's like,

 

00:45:22:04 --> 00:45:24:19

being followed and photographed,

 

00:45:24:19 --> 00:45:27:04

having our rooms

illegally searched.

 

00:45:27:04 --> 00:45:29:01

All of this makes us wanna

just pick up the phone,

 

00:45:29:01 --> 00:45:31:02

and call the police,

but most likely,

 

00:45:31:02 --> 00:45:32:19

they're the ones

actually doing it.

 

00:45:33:18 --> 00:45:36:05

It's one thing to prepare

for all of this,

 

00:45:36:05 --> 00:45:39:01

and it's another thing

to actually live it.

 

00:45:39:01 --> 00:45:40:19

Our stress levels are

running really high,

 

00:45:40:19 --> 00:45:42:13

and we just got here.

 

00:45:45:17 --> 00:45:48:12

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:45:55:04 --> 00:46:10:17

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:46:13:11 --> 00:46:15:04

CATTLE MOOING

 

00:46:16:11 --> 00:46:20:06

BIRD SQUAWKING

 

00:46:22:12 --> 00:46:31:06

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:46:31:20 --> 00:46:33:19

It was an amazing feeling

to finally leave

 

00:46:33:19 --> 00:46:36:05

the chaos of the city of Xining,

 

00:46:36:05 --> 00:46:38:00

and get to the

Tibetan countryside.

 

00:46:39:22 --> 00:46:41:21

We came upon a

Buddhist monastery

 

00:46:41:21 --> 00:46:43:13

that had been there

for centuries.

 

00:46:44:15 --> 00:46:47:05

It was difficult to

learn that, in 1959,

 

00:46:47:05 --> 00:46:49:22

the People's Liberation

Army invaded the region,

 

00:46:49:22 --> 00:46:53:16

and destroyed over 6200

of these monasteries.

 

00:46:56:02 --> 00:46:58:12

By 1976, only eight remained.

 

00:47:02:10 --> 00:47:04:11

But the ones that do remain

are incredible places.

 

00:47:04:11 --> 00:47:07:09

They seem to be the guardian

of the Tibetan people,

 

00:47:07:09 --> 00:47:08:23

and their heritage.

 

00:47:09:15 --> 00:47:11:19

GONG

 

00:47:12:01 --> 00:47:15:00

Our guides told us the name

of the monastery is Rebkong.

 

00:47:15:03 --> 00:47:17:21

During the March protest

only a few months ago,

 

00:47:17:21 --> 00:47:19:17

armed police moved in.

 

00:47:22:01 --> 00:47:23:19

It was a little frustrating,

because we had come

 

00:47:23:19 --> 00:47:25:09

all this way, and it

was so important for us

 

00:47:25:09 --> 00:47:28:03

to get interviews, and to

speak with these monks,

 

00:47:28:03 --> 00:47:30:12

but it was far too dangerous

for us to talk to them,

 

00:47:30:12 --> 00:47:32:01

or interview them.

 

00:47:46:03 --> 00:47:48:02

Even way out here

in the countryside,

 

00:47:48:02 --> 00:47:50:05

the police were following

us everywhere.

 

00:47:53:20 --> 00:47:55:13

What's going on right now?

 

00:47:55:13 --> 00:47:58:03

We're walking through

the monastery.

 

00:47:58:09 --> 00:47:59:19

Being tailed?

 

00:47:59:19 --> 00:48:00:15

- Yeah.

 

00:48:01:23 --> 00:48:04:13

That car, it's been

tailing us for a while,

 

00:48:04:13 --> 00:48:06:12

and we can't seem to lose

them at these monasteries.

 

00:48:06:12 --> 00:48:08:03

They follow us here.

 

00:48:09:02 --> 00:48:13:07

TENSE MUSIC

 

00:48:20:02 --> 00:48:21:04

BRAKES SCREECH

 

00:48:25:06 --> 00:48:27:00

They are like

flashing headlights.

 

00:48:27:00 --> 00:48:28:15

- Are they

flashing lights?

 

00:48:28:15 --> 00:48:30:19

Good, let's stay here,

until they get back.

 

00:48:31:17 --> 00:48:33:07

I hear something.

 

00:48:36:02 --> 00:48:37:17

That same silver car

that's been following us

 

00:48:37:17 --> 00:48:40:04

just stopped on the hill,

and now it's backing up.

 

00:48:48:07 --> 00:48:50:04

HORN HONKING

 

00:48:56:21 --> 00:48:59:06

What's our plan of attack?

 

00:48:59:21 --> 00:49:01:12

We don't have one.

 

00:49:03:20 --> 00:49:05:17

With the constant

police pressure on us,

 

00:49:05:17 --> 00:49:07:18

we were finding it

extremely difficult

 

00:49:07:18 --> 00:49:10:20

to safely interview these

people that wanted to speak out.

 

00:49:10:20 --> 00:49:12:21

It would be too dangerous

for anyone involved,

 

00:49:12:21 --> 00:49:15:06

unless we could

guarantee their safety,

 

00:49:15:06 --> 00:49:17:12

and even that would

be uncertain.

 

00:49:22:17 --> 00:49:23:21

Why did they follow us?

 

00:49:29:10 --> 00:49:31:02

Do you guys feel safe with us?

 

00:49:34:18 --> 00:49:37:01

Yeah, we're gonna have to

separate from you guys, right?

 

00:49:37:01 --> 00:49:38:18

Travelling through here?

- Yep.

 

00:49:46:10 --> 00:49:47:15

The guides wanted us

 

00:49:47:15 --> 00:49:49:11

to leave the

restaurant separately.

 

00:49:49:11 --> 00:49:52:08

After we did, we lost

the police tail.

 

00:49:52:08 --> 00:49:54:02

We really wanted to

honour what the monks

 

00:49:54:02 --> 00:49:56:20

wanted us to do in

Dharamsala, and talk directly

 

00:49:56:20 --> 00:49:59:16

to their brothers about

the March uprising.

 

00:50:03:08 --> 00:50:06:07

We managed to get into a

monastery, which we can't name,

 

00:50:06:07 --> 00:50:08:11

and we were able to

speak to a senior monk

 

00:50:08:11 --> 00:50:10:01

in a secluded area.

 

00:51:14:13 --> 00:51:19:07

ENGINE SPLUTTERING

 

00:51:22:08 --> 00:51:25:07

It's very emotionally

powerful to hear somebody

 

00:51:25:07 --> 00:51:28:09

tell stories like this,

the complications

 

00:51:28:09 --> 00:51:30:14

of just getting someone

to be able to speak to us

 

00:51:30:14 --> 00:51:33:11

in confidence, and to not

have police watching us,

 

00:51:33:11 --> 00:51:35:14

is almost impossible to do.

 

00:51:35:14 --> 00:51:37:02

There's thousands

of these stories,

 

00:51:37:02 --> 00:51:40:19

and people that want to

share them, and they can't.

 

00:51:42:20 --> 00:51:46:00

CHANTING AND DRUMS

 

00:51:46:05 --> 00:51:48:15

Our next stop was to head

to Labrang Monastery,

 

00:51:48:15 --> 00:51:50:17

where we had contact

that was gonna give us

 

00:51:50:17 --> 00:51:53:01

some user generated footage

from the March uprising.

 

00:51:55:11 --> 00:51:57:06

Almost 100 monks were

reported killed there

 

00:51:57:06 --> 00:51:58:16

during that time.

 

00:51:59:18 --> 00:52:01:04

Our guides tell us it's one

 

00:52:01:04 --> 00:52:03:19

of the most tightly controlled

regions in Tibet.

 

00:52:05:05 --> 00:52:07:13

We're riding to

Gansu to try to get

 

00:52:07:13 --> 00:52:11:14

into Labrang Monastery, but

we got three cars tailing us.

 

00:52:11:20 --> 00:52:18:22

POLICE SIRENS

 

00:52:19:05 --> 00:52:20:12

Hey, turn that off, please.

 

00:52:20:12 --> 00:52:22:20

Can you turn the

music off, please?

 

00:52:22:20 --> 00:52:24:23

Can you turn the

music off, please?

 

00:52:24:23 --> 00:52:27:15

Can you turn the

music off, please?

 

00:52:27:15 --> 00:52:29:03

Turn the music off, please?

 

00:52:29:03 --> 00:52:31:12

Can you turn the

music off, please?

 

00:52:57:19 --> 00:52:59:12

You're going to come back here

and bring us our passports?

 

00:52:59:12 --> 00:53:00:18

Yes.

- I hope so!

 

00:53:13:12 --> 00:53:14:23

We got our passports back,

 

00:53:14:23 --> 00:53:16:20

but it came with a warning.

 

00:53:16:20 --> 00:53:19:04

The guides were told that

if they travel any further

 

00:53:19:04 --> 00:53:21:04

with us, then they'll

be arrested.

 

00:53:21:19 --> 00:53:23:14

The police told us

we're not allowed

 

00:53:23:14 --> 00:53:25:07

to travel south to

our destination

 

00:53:25:07 --> 00:53:26:21

of Labrang Monastery.

 

00:53:34:09 --> 00:53:36:01

The police forced us to go back

 

00:53:36:01 --> 00:53:37:02

the other direction.

 

00:53:37:06 --> 00:53:38:06

CAR HORN

 

00:53:38:11 --> 00:53:40:16

We went to Linxia, so

we could try to regroup,

 

00:53:40:16 --> 00:53:42:23

and figure out what

our next plan is.

 

00:53:53:06 --> 00:53:55:12

You guys check our

passports a lot,

 

00:53:55:12 --> 00:53:56:15

everywhere we go.

 

00:53:56:15 --> 00:53:57:15

Why is that?

 

00:54:03:23 --> 00:54:05:04

I know you have the right to.

 

00:54:05:04 --> 00:54:06:09

I'm just wondering why?

 

00:54:09:22 --> 00:54:11:11

Oh, yeah, we're touring.

 

00:54:11:11 --> 00:54:12:17

We're just, we're touring,

 

00:54:12:17 --> 00:54:15:06

but he was translating for us.

 

00:54:21:02 --> 00:54:22:13

Do you guys feel safe?

 

00:54:27:15 --> 00:54:28:20

They'll find a reason?

 

00:54:36:00 --> 00:54:37:08

Our concern for the safety

 

00:54:37:08 --> 00:54:39:14

of our guides is now

more serious than ever.

 

00:54:41:15 --> 00:54:42:23

We've been kicked out

 

00:54:42:23 --> 00:54:45:03

of the Tibet autonomous

region, and denied access

 

00:54:45:03 --> 00:54:47:11

in any way to Labrang Monastery.

 

00:54:47:14 --> 00:54:49:04

The opening ceremonies

are tomorrow,

 

00:54:49:04 --> 00:54:52:18

and we definitely can feel

the noose is being tightened.

 

00:54:55:05 --> 00:54:57:05

Less than 24 hours before

 

00:54:57:05 --> 00:54:59:21

the 2008 Summer Olympic

Games, and the city of Beijing

 

00:54:59:21 --> 00:55:02:22

is brimming with anticipation,

as crowds of people

 

00:55:02:22 --> 00:55:05:18

from all over the world

pour into the city.

 

00:55:05:23 --> 00:55:07:15

- At the hotel, the

guides told us

 

00:55:07:15 --> 00:55:09:21

that the police had

checked into the rooms

 

00:55:09:21 --> 00:55:12:10

on either side of us,

they'd sandwiched us in.

 

00:55:12:10 --> 00:55:13:19

- We were also

told that they may

 

00:55:13:19 --> 00:55:15:23

have been using listening

devices, planted in our rooms.

 

00:55:15:23 --> 00:55:18:13

If any tiny piece of

information slips,

 

00:55:18:13 --> 00:55:20:12

everything else is for naught.

 

00:55:27:19 --> 00:55:29:11

We need

to call the police.

 

00:55:29:13 --> 00:55:31:10

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

00:55:31:15 --> 00:55:32:21

They were here yesterday.

 

00:55:32:21 --> 00:55:34:09

- They questioned us yesterday.

 

00:55:34:09 --> 00:55:36:12

We need to talk to them

about our situation.

 

00:56:27:03 --> 00:56:39:12

INTENSE MUSIC

 

00:56:40:11 --> 00:56:44:03

The police have somehow

accessed my computer,

 

00:56:44:03 --> 00:56:47:15

and my entire

desktop was erased.

 

00:56:48:03 --> 00:56:50:10

Anything we plug into the

computer at this point

 

00:56:50:10 --> 00:56:52:10

becomes bug ridden.

 

00:56:52:20 --> 00:56:54:20

- As of about two hours ago,

 

00:56:54:20 --> 00:56:59:06

my website and all

of its components,

 

00:56:59:06 --> 00:57:02:12

and my email is completely

wiped out, and doesn't exist,

 

00:57:02:12 --> 00:57:04:01

on the web.

 

00:57:18:00 --> 00:57:19:12

Inside this stadium

 

00:57:19:12 --> 00:57:21:08

is absolutely electrifying.

 

00:57:22:04 --> 00:57:40:20

CROWD CHEERING

 

00:57:48:10 --> 00:57:53:03

CROWD CHEERING

 

00:57:53:11 --> 00:57:58:15

FIREWORKS

 

00:58:08:04 --> 00:58:11:21

Tenzin Tsundue was the

first to be arrested.

 

00:58:12:04 --> 00:58:18:15

SHOUTING

 

00:58:19:08 --> 00:58:22:12

Every one of the hundred

marchers was taken away

 

00:58:22:12 --> 00:58:24:12

by the Indian police.

 

00:58:24:16 --> 00:58:27:15

COMMOTION

 

00:58:27:19 --> 00:58:29:04

After hearing the news

 

00:58:29:04 --> 00:58:31:01

of the breakup of

Tsundue's march,

 

00:58:31:01 --> 00:58:34:01

and their arrest at the

border, was a big blow

 

00:58:34:01 --> 00:58:35:16

for everybody in the

Tibetan community.

 

00:58:36:05 --> 00:58:37:16

Hello, Z.

 

00:58:37:16 --> 00:58:39:01

Hey, it's Darren.

 

00:58:39:04 --> 00:58:40:07

RADIO

 

00:58:40:07 --> 00:58:42:09

Turn that down.

 

00:58:42:12 --> 00:58:43:13

Everyone had hoped

 

00:58:43:13 --> 00:58:46:04

that Lhamo Tso's husband,

Dhondup Wangchen,

 

00:58:46:04 --> 00:58:48:11

had just been in hiding,

but the official word

 

00:58:48:11 --> 00:58:50:17

about his arrest gave

the Tibetan community

 

00:58:50:17 --> 00:58:53:20

reason for serious concern

about his well being.

 

00:58:57:14 --> 00:59:00:11

Documentary filmmaker,

Dhondup Wangchen,

 

00:59:00:11 --> 00:59:03:08

was arrested by the

Chinese Communist regime,

 

00:59:03:08 --> 00:59:06:04

for allegedly incited

separatist activities.

 

00:59:06:12 --> 00:59:09:07

The self taught filmmaker

co produced the documentary

 

00:59:09:07 --> 00:59:11:08

Leaving Fear Behind.

 

00:59:11:08 --> 00:59:13:23

It features interviews

of more than 100 Tibetans

 

00:59:13:23 --> 00:59:15:14

living in China.

 

00:59:15:14 --> 00:59:18:21

They speak about life under

the Chinese regime's rule,

 

00:59:18:21 --> 00:59:22:21

the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and

the Tibetan spiritual leader,

 

00:59:22:21 --> 00:59:24:13

the Dalai Lama.

 

00:59:24:13 --> 00:59:27:08

Wangchen's wife and four

children escaped China

 

00:59:27:08 --> 00:59:32:01

in 2006, and are currently

living in India as refugees.

 

00:59:34:05 --> 00:59:35:22

The news hit us really hard

 

00:59:35:22 --> 00:59:37:21

about what happened

to Dhondup Wangchen,

 

00:59:37:21 --> 00:59:40:04

and what his family

must be going through.

 

00:59:40:23 --> 00:59:43:13

The Chinese secret police

were following us more closely

 

00:59:43:13 --> 00:59:45:19

and blatantly than ever.

 

00:59:45:19 --> 00:59:47:23

Just because we have US

passports doesn't mean

 

00:59:47:23 --> 00:59:50:19

that something bad may

not happen to us,

 

00:59:50:19 --> 00:59:53:06

but I think it reinstilled

in us the importance

 

00:59:53:06 --> 00:59:55:01

of what we were there to do,

 

00:59:55:01 --> 00:59:57:06

to get through to

Labrang Monastery,

 

00:59:57:06 --> 01:00:00:11

and a contact there that

had user generated footage,

 

01:00:01:04 --> 01:00:03:11

Labrang being one of

the most closely watched

 

01:00:03:11 --> 01:00:06:10

and fiercely guarded

monasteries inside Tibet.

 

01:00:07:15 --> 01:00:13:10

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:00:14:06 --> 01:00:16:01

We were only 15 miles

 

01:00:16:01 --> 01:00:17:15

from the monastery.

 

01:00:19:03 --> 01:00:21:16

We decided with our guides

gone there's nothing to lose.

 

01:00:21:16 --> 01:00:23:19

Let's rent a car,

let's get a driver,

 

01:00:23:19 --> 01:00:25:14

and let's make a run

for Labrang Monastery,

 

01:00:25:14 --> 01:00:27:12

and that's what we did.

 

01:00:30:13 --> 01:00:32:09

Riot police are blocking roads

 

01:00:32:09 --> 01:00:35:05

leading to the monastery

town of Tongren.

 

01:00:35:05 --> 01:00:38:09

Foreigners and reporters

are being refused entry.

 

01:00:40:12 --> 01:00:42:06

Gotta show my passports.

 

01:00:42:22 --> 01:00:53:06

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:00:56:20 --> 01:00:58:02

COUGHING

 

01:01:00:12 --> 01:01:03:09

SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

01:01:03:18 --> 01:01:05:05

Foreign passport?

 

01:01:06:13 --> 01:01:09:03

SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE

 

01:01:10:11 --> 01:01:12:18

She says we have to

go back to Linxia.

 

01:01:14:09 --> 01:01:15:18

Yeah, okay.

 

01:01:16:21 --> 01:01:18:08

Okay, we'll call Stephen.

 

01:01:18:08 --> 01:01:19:15

Thank you.

 

01:01:19:15 --> 01:01:21:12

Okay, bye bye.

 

01:01:21:12 --> 01:01:23:03

Can we make a phone call?

 

01:01:26:18 --> 01:01:28:11

We just came from Linxia.

 

01:01:29:13 --> 01:01:34:12

We, our airline tickets

from Xuan Airport.

 

01:01:34:12 --> 01:01:36:01

- We need to go

fly out of there.

 

01:01:36:01 --> 01:01:37:15

We have no more money.

 

01:01:37:23 --> 01:01:40:14

Call the US embassy, he said.

 

01:01:43:09 --> 01:01:44:16

Pretty much end of the road.

 

01:01:44:16 --> 01:01:48:02

They surrounded us, and

said, "Get the hell out,"

 

01:01:48:02 --> 01:01:50:10

and I made a phone call

to an interpreter,

 

01:01:50:10 --> 01:01:52:11

and he said, "They don't

want to listen to me."

 

01:01:52:11 --> 01:01:54:05

They said, "Get out."

 

01:01:56:16 --> 01:01:58:19

Clearly, the police had

the directive to force us

 

01:01:58:19 --> 01:02:01:07

out of the country,

but instead of taking

 

01:02:01:07 --> 01:02:03:17

an international

flight to the states,

 

01:02:03:17 --> 01:02:05:16

we took a domestic flight

to the southern city

 

01:02:05:16 --> 01:02:07:06

of Chengdu.

 

01:02:07:06 --> 01:02:10:10

This would be our last shot

to get into Labrang Monastery,

 

01:02:10:10 --> 01:02:12:22

coming in from the

southern part of Tibet.

 

01:02:15:11 --> 01:02:17:09

Is someone tailing us?

 

01:02:17:09 --> 01:02:18:13

- Oh, yeah.

 

01:02:18:13 --> 01:02:21:14

Three guys over here just

booked a flight to Chengdu.

 

01:02:21:14 --> 01:02:23:06

They followed us from the hotel,

 

01:02:23:06 --> 01:02:25:14

and they all three

booked a flight.

 

01:02:25:22 --> 01:02:28:22

PLANE ENGINE

 

01:02:33:12 --> 01:02:35:15

What's going on right now?

 

01:02:35:15 --> 01:02:37:14

Heading to a hotel in Chengdu.

 

01:02:37:14 --> 01:02:39:11

We got tails already?

 

01:02:39:11 --> 01:02:41:02

- Yeah, we do.

 

01:02:41:02 --> 01:02:42:16

By the time we checked

into the hotel,

 

01:02:42:16 --> 01:02:45:12

they were right on us,

and for whatever reason,

 

01:02:45:12 --> 01:02:48:16

they're just non stop,

everywhere we go.

 

01:02:48:16 --> 01:02:50:05

It's a bit disturbing.

 

01:02:50:05 --> 01:02:52:12

- The hotel staff was very

nice when we got there,

 

01:02:52:12 --> 01:02:54:01

and then we come

down from our room,

 

01:02:54:01 --> 01:02:55:11

and the police were

talking to them,

 

01:02:55:11 --> 01:02:56:15

and now, they won't

even talk to us.

 

01:02:56:15 --> 01:02:58:01

They're too afraid

to talk to us.

 

01:02:58:01 --> 01:02:59:16

- How long we been here?

 

01:02:59:16 --> 01:03:01:19

We've been here

for 45 minutes.

 

01:03:02:07 --> 01:03:07:12

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:03:09:15 --> 01:03:11:23

It's been confirmed that we

have audio video surveillance

 

01:03:11:23 --> 01:03:13:08

in our rooms.

 

01:03:13:08 --> 01:03:15:05

They've been going through

our iPods, and our stuff,

 

01:03:15:05 --> 01:03:18:04

so we're planting a audio

recorder under the TV today,

 

01:03:18:04 --> 01:03:21:06

to hopefully capture them

going through our stuff.

 

01:03:23:04 --> 01:03:24:22

These same two guys

on the motorcycle

 

01:03:24:22 --> 01:03:26:12

have been following

us around all day,

 

01:03:26:12 --> 01:03:28:16

and it started to become

pretty nerve wrecking.

 

01:03:29:09 --> 01:03:32:06

The intimidation factor

started to go through the roof,

 

01:03:32:06 --> 01:03:33:23

24 hours a day.

 

01:03:33:23 --> 01:03:36:02

It really became frustrating,

because we couldn't help

 

01:03:36:02 --> 01:03:38:06

these people the

way we wanted to,

 

01:03:38:06 --> 01:03:40:12

and guarantee their safety.

 

01:03:41:23 --> 01:03:43:21

Can we just

hang out for a second?

 

01:03:54:08 --> 01:04:09:03

TENSE DRUMS

 

01:05:32:01 --> 01:05:34:23

They broke into our

room, and they found

 

01:05:34:23 --> 01:05:38:23

a recorder that we

had planted to find

 

01:05:38:23 --> 01:05:40:14

who was breaking into our room,

 

01:05:40:14 --> 01:05:42:12

and they ripped it off

the back of the television

 

01:05:42:12 --> 01:05:44:22

set where it was stashed,

and they took it.

 

01:05:44:22 --> 01:05:46:06

It's pretty serious.

 

01:05:46:06 --> 01:05:48:08

- It's disturbing, because

they're going through

 

01:05:48:08 --> 01:05:49:19

our rooms and going

through our stuff.

 

01:05:49:19 --> 01:05:51:15

They're hacking the phones,

hacking the computers,

 

01:05:51:15 --> 01:05:52:19

hacking everything.

 

01:05:52:19 --> 01:05:55:09

- It's not really a cat

and mouse game anymore.

 

01:05:55:09 --> 01:05:59:03

There are deep concerns that

we have for other individuals

 

01:05:59:03 --> 01:06:02:12

that have been with us,

and we want to make it

 

01:06:02:12 --> 01:06:04:16

our first priority.

 

01:06:05:01 --> 01:06:07:21

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:06:08:20 --> 01:06:11:03

They know that we're

watching them.

 

01:06:11:03 --> 01:06:13:04

They might assume

that we're spies.

 

01:06:13:04 --> 01:06:15:12

All those things that we

talked about with people

 

01:06:15:12 --> 01:06:17:09

before we came here.

 

01:06:17:09 --> 01:06:19:10

If they catch you with

any of this stuff,

 

01:06:19:10 --> 01:06:20:23

we're in deep shit.

 

01:06:22:00 --> 01:06:39:07

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:06:46:08 --> 01:06:51:23

HEAVY BREATHING RETCHING

 

01:06:54:13 --> 01:06:58:08

PHONE RINGING

 

01:06:58:15 --> 01:07:00:09

Yo, buddy, what's going on?

 

01:07:00:09 --> 01:07:01:20

I've been knocking on your door.

 

01:07:01:20 --> 01:07:02:22

Where you at?

 

01:07:02:22 --> 01:07:04:13

I'm gonna go back downstairs,

and see if I can find you,

 

01:07:04:13 --> 01:07:07:05

but I need to get your

iPod, so call me back.

 

01:07:07:05 --> 01:07:08:16

Hey, where you at?

 

01:07:08:16 --> 01:07:09:17

Didn't see you downstairs.

 

01:07:09:17 --> 01:07:10:15

I gotta get your iPod back.

 

01:07:10:15 --> 01:07:12:08

Are you all right?

 

01:07:12:08 --> 01:07:14:22

Fourth message, it's 2.30,

I'm kind freaking out here.

 

01:07:14:22 --> 01:07:16:10

We gotta get on the road.

 

01:07:16:10 --> 01:07:18:00

Gonna get to the

airport, I guess.

 

01:07:18:00 --> 01:07:19:04

Just take whatever

flight we can.

 

01:07:19:04 --> 01:07:20:12

I'm just gonna call

Kaplan right now.

 

01:07:20:12 --> 01:07:22:14

Figure out how to arrange it.

 

01:07:22:14 --> 01:07:23:21

Call me back.

 

01:07:24:04 --> 01:07:25:22

Steve, it's CJ.

 

01:07:25:22 --> 01:07:28:00

It's about 4.30 in

the morning here.

 

01:07:28:00 --> 01:07:29:12

I haven't been able to

get ahold of Darren.

 

01:07:29:12 --> 01:07:30:17

It's very strange.

 

01:07:30:17 --> 01:07:33:15

We had kind of a weird few

moments this afternoon.

 

01:07:33:15 --> 01:07:35:10

They broke into our

room, they're not leaving

 

01:07:35:10 --> 01:07:37:06

a police report, so we're

gonna pull the plug,

 

01:07:37:06 --> 01:07:38:22

and try to get out of here.

 

01:07:46:04 --> 01:08:03:13

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:08:12:18 --> 01:08:17:23

MUSIC

 

01:08:18:10 --> 01:08:20:15

Three days before

the Olympics,

 

01:08:20:15 --> 01:08:23:17

we were on a secret mission.

 

01:08:23:17 --> 01:08:29:05

Our plan was to plant

ourselves in Tibet,

 

01:08:29:05 --> 01:08:31:11

and send the video images

 

01:08:31:11 --> 01:08:33:23

to the international community,

 

01:08:33:23 --> 01:08:38:09

but little before that,

on the 4th of August,

 

01:08:38:09 --> 01:08:40:08

we got arrested.

 

01:08:41:14 --> 01:08:43:03

All 60 of us.

 

01:08:43:17 --> 01:08:46:18

I really felt bad that

I couldn't do much,

 

01:08:48:23 --> 01:08:52:19

and again, in the

bigger picture,

 

01:08:52:19 --> 01:08:54:18

in this struggle, I

think we are still

 

01:08:54:18 --> 01:08:57:05

not really ready.

 

01:08:58:13 --> 01:09:02:17

We need lot more strength,

planning, and strategizing.

 

01:10:17:09 --> 01:10:23:00

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:10:23:16 --> 01:10:25:12

Darren and I were lucky.

 

01:10:25:12 --> 01:10:28:10

Unlike the Tibetans, we could

actually leave the country.

 

01:10:32:03 --> 01:10:33:12

Breaking into our rooms,

 

01:10:33:12 --> 01:10:34:13

stealing our gear.

 

01:10:34:13 --> 01:10:35:18

That sort of stuff

I anticipated,

 

01:10:35:18 --> 01:10:37:03

but I didn't think

they would go so far

 

01:10:37:03 --> 01:10:39:20

as to poison me with a

low dose of strychnine.

 

01:10:39:20 --> 01:10:41:21

If they were willing to

do something like that,

 

01:10:41:21 --> 01:10:43:18

who knows how far

they'll take it.

 

01:10:45:13 --> 01:10:47:00

Our failure to achieve

 

01:10:47:00 --> 01:10:49:17

what we had hoped

for inside of Tibet

 

01:10:49:17 --> 01:10:53:02

actually led us to

uncover a different story,

 

01:10:53:02 --> 01:10:56:09

a story I think that affects

all of us in the West,

 

01:10:56:09 --> 01:10:58:20

and maybe, in the same

tactics that China's using

 

01:10:58:20 --> 01:11:02:04

to control Tibet are spilling

outside of their borders.

 

01:11:03:03 --> 01:11:10:11

TENSE MUSIC

 

01:11:10:20 --> 01:11:16:14

PLANE ENGINE

 

01:11:42:04 --> 01:11:44:14

I spoke to my service

provider, 123eHost,

 

01:11:44:14 --> 01:11:47:14

and they told me that

there had been thousands

 

01:11:47:14 --> 01:11:49:17

and thousands of

pings on my website,

 

01:11:49:17 --> 01:11:51:03

and that's what shut it down,

 

01:11:51:03 --> 01:11:53:23

and they would not tell

me the root of any of it,

 

01:11:53:23 --> 01:11:55:12

or where it came from.

 

01:11:55:12 --> 01:11:57:22

This has never happened

before, and it occurred

 

01:11:57:22 --> 01:12:00:05

during the time that I

was actually in Tibet.

 

01:12:02:12 --> 01:12:03:22

The production team

 

01:12:03:22 --> 01:12:05:12

is in the middle of

editing, and one

 

01:12:05:12 --> 01:12:07:11

of our brand new

production coordinators

 

01:12:07:11 --> 01:12:08:20

just got hacked.

 

01:12:08:20 --> 01:12:10:11

Her Google account

notified her it was from

 

01:12:10:11 --> 01:12:12:09

an IP address inside China.

 

01:12:22:16 --> 01:12:24:09

So, what happened here?

 

01:12:24:09 --> 01:12:27:12

All six accounts

belonging to the six staff

 

01:12:27:12 --> 01:12:30:02

at the Office of

Tibet were hacked.

 

01:12:30:06 --> 01:12:32:06

Can you show me on your

computer what happened?

 

01:12:32:06 --> 01:12:34:22

My colleague, Tola,

he just give me a call,

 

01:12:34:22 --> 01:12:37:04

and he was like, "Hey,

I want you guys

 

01:12:37:04 --> 01:12:40:01

to go into the web

mail preferences,

 

01:12:40:01 --> 01:12:42:22

to see if your mail is

being forwarded elsewhere."

 

01:12:42:22 --> 01:12:49:21

So, mine were being forwarded to

servers.info.dept at gmail.com

 

01:12:50:15 --> 01:12:52:18

and then, of course,

the representative,

 

01:12:52:18 --> 01:12:55:15

Mr. Lipsang Yendoz, his

emails were being forwarded

 

01:12:55:15 --> 01:12:57:10

to these three separate emails.

 

01:12:57:10 --> 01:13:00:13

Basically, all our emails

were being forwarded.

 

01:13:00:13 --> 01:13:02:23

That made me very, very worried.

 

01:13:03:17 --> 01:13:06:08

One of our production

coordinators that warned us

 

01:13:06:08 --> 01:13:08:16

about all of this had

enough technical knowledge

 

01:13:08:16 --> 01:13:11:01

in order to capture all

the router traffic

 

01:13:11:01 --> 01:13:14:12

that happened before her

computer and hard drive crashed.

 

01:13:16:11 --> 01:13:17:23

After getting all

this information

 

01:13:17:23 --> 01:13:19:13

from our production coordinator,

 

01:13:19:13 --> 01:13:21:17

we finally found a

top security expert,

 

01:13:21:17 --> 01:13:23:18

who's willing to go

through all of it for us.

 

01:13:23:18 --> 01:13:26:20

She supposedly pulled all

of this off of her router,

 

01:13:26:20 --> 01:13:29:00

and right when the

hard drive crashed,

 

01:13:29:00 --> 01:13:31:09

so this was all within

about an hour or so

 

01:13:31:09 --> 01:13:32:21

of her capturing the data.

 

01:13:33:08 --> 01:13:34:15

- Definitely

had a lot of connections

 

01:13:34:15 --> 01:13:35:20

through this router.

 

01:13:35:20 --> 01:13:39:22

Inbound, outbound, lots of

Chinese IP addresses here,

 

01:13:39:22 --> 01:13:42:21

so what we're gonna do is we'll

analyse this data for you,

 

01:13:42:21 --> 01:13:44:13

and we'll look at

the timing involved

 

01:13:44:13 --> 01:13:46:08

with these connections,

when they took place,

 

01:13:46:08 --> 01:13:49:01

and correlate that back

to the hacking attempts,

 

01:13:49:01 --> 01:13:51:13

and confirm a connection

between the two.

 

01:13:53:05 --> 01:13:54:12

While our router traffic

 

01:13:54:12 --> 01:13:56:20

was being analysed, we

were able to get in contact

 

01:13:56:20 --> 01:14:00:01

with an FBI agent with

cyber security experience.

 

01:14:00:01 --> 01:14:02:12

- While we were inside of

Tibet, slowly but surely,

 

01:14:02:12 --> 01:14:04:15

everybody's

communications went down.

 

01:14:04:15 --> 01:14:08:00

Hard drives, Skype

accounts, text message,

 

01:14:08:00 --> 01:14:09:12

phone, PAs...

 

01:14:10:04 --> 01:14:11:18

- Personal websites.

 

01:14:12:00 --> 01:14:13:09

- To the best of your knowledge,

 

01:14:13:09 --> 01:14:15:14

did they ever have

access, unfettered access

 

01:14:15:14 --> 01:14:17:11

to your computers,

where they took them in?

 

01:14:17:11 --> 01:14:18:09

Oh yeah.

 

01:14:18:09 --> 01:14:20:01

- Approximately how long?

 

01:14:20:20 --> 01:14:22:02

Six hours.

 

01:14:22:02 --> 01:14:23:16

- Your hard drive was

completely copied.

 

01:14:24:20 --> 01:14:26:23

In fact, if they really

thought something bad

 

01:14:26:23 --> 01:14:29:04

was going on, the hard

drive in this computer

 

01:14:29:04 --> 01:14:30:17

is probably not your

original hard drive.

 

01:14:30:17 --> 01:14:32:13

They don't care what

the rest of us think.

 

01:14:32:13 --> 01:14:34:17

You guys didn't sign

onto the same rules.

 

01:14:35:02 --> 01:14:36:23

- Could you tell us what

may have happened to us

 

01:14:36:23 --> 01:14:39:13

from a cyber angle,

when we got into China,

 

01:14:39:13 --> 01:14:40:16

during that time period?

 

01:14:40:19 --> 01:14:43:16

Clearly the Chinese government

was highly interested

 

01:14:43:16 --> 01:14:45:12

in this, so, if I were to guess,

 

01:14:45:12 --> 01:14:47:19

I would say that your phones

were completely bugged,

 

01:14:47:19 --> 01:14:50:08

so they were monitoring

not just your voice calls,

 

01:14:50:08 --> 01:14:52:11

but your data

transmissions as well.

 

01:14:52:11 --> 01:14:54:04

One of the things

they could have done

 

01:14:54:04 --> 01:14:56:08

is inject malicious

code into those emails,

 

01:14:56:08 --> 01:14:59:11

and try to infect your

contacts, and ultimately,

 

01:14:59:11 --> 01:15:02:03

gain access to the machines

of the team back home.

 

01:15:02:03 --> 01:15:05:01

What they would do is understand

who your relationships are,

 

01:15:05:01 --> 01:15:07:17

go through the contact

list in your phone,

 

01:15:07:17 --> 01:15:09:14

and then, try to

compromise those people,

 

01:15:09:14 --> 01:15:12:01

and in this case, their interest

is to identify dissidents

 

01:15:12:01 --> 01:15:14:00

in the country that

may be helping you,

 

01:15:14:00 --> 01:15:16:09

identify people that

they can arrest.

 

01:15:17:04 --> 01:15:18:18

I think that there's

no question,

 

01:15:18:18 --> 01:15:21:03

they were trying to stop

the production of the film,

 

01:15:21:03 --> 01:15:23:04

and perhaps, intimidate you.

 

01:15:23:04 --> 01:15:27:01

I think Americans that think

that we have a lot of freedom

 

01:15:27:01 --> 01:15:28:23

and prosperity here to

do anything we like,

 

01:15:28:23 --> 01:15:32:12

they may be surprised to find

out about your experiences,

 

01:15:32:12 --> 01:15:35:03

and what China has been

able to do to try to stop

 

01:15:35:03 --> 01:15:37:15

this movie project from

coming to fruition.

 

01:15:40:04 --> 01:15:42:06

The very Internet

that we thought would be

 

01:15:42:06 --> 01:15:46:02

our leverage for a mass audience

served as our adversary,

 

01:15:46:02 --> 01:15:48:02

because the Chinese

government used it

 

01:15:48:02 --> 01:15:50:08

to infiltrate our system.

 

01:15:50:08 --> 01:15:52:15

- This is the first time

I'm dealing with any

 

01:15:52:15 --> 01:15:54:19

of this kind of

technology, with hacking,

 

01:15:54:19 --> 01:15:57:01

and I think we're finding

out that just trying

 

01:15:57:01 --> 01:16:01:01

to get general information

from our service providers

 

01:16:01:01 --> 01:16:02:17

tends to end up in a

bit of a dead end.

 

01:16:10:21 --> 01:16:12:11

Tenzin Seldon doesn't look

 

01:16:12:11 --> 01:16:15:05

like the type of person to be

targeted for a cyber attack.

 

01:16:15:05 --> 01:16:17:23

However, Seldon is also

a human rights activist.

 

01:16:17:23 --> 01:16:19:21

- It kind of speaks

volumes about China,

 

01:16:19:21 --> 01:16:20:23

to be quite honest.

 

01:16:20:23 --> 01:16:22:13

The fact that they're

able to invest,

 

01:16:22:13 --> 01:16:24:21

and are willing to invest

so much of their resources

 

01:16:24:21 --> 01:16:28:10

into monitoring my

emails, a 20 year old girl

 

01:16:28:10 --> 01:16:29:12

from Stanford.

 

01:16:29:12 --> 01:16:31:04

- China based

hackers broke

 

01:16:31:04 --> 01:16:33:23

into Google's computers, and

looked at the email accounts

 

01:16:33:23 --> 01:16:35:15

of human rights activists.

 

01:16:35:15 --> 01:16:38:10

In the same operation, 29

other companies were hit,

 

01:16:38:10 --> 01:16:41:18

including Dow Chemical,

Yahoo, and Morgan Stanley.

 

01:16:41:18 --> 01:16:43:22

- What China's doing

is really focusing

 

01:16:43:22 --> 01:16:47:10

on the economic espionage,

stealing intellectual property,

 

01:16:47:10 --> 01:16:50:01

stealing trade secrets,

and negotiation strategy,

 

01:16:50:01 --> 01:16:52:16

that they're then passing

off to their companies

 

01:16:52:16 --> 01:16:56:19

to leverage in competition

globally with US companies

 

01:16:56:19 --> 01:16:57:22

and other Western companies.

 

01:16:57:22 --> 01:16:59:14

- The Chinese government

doesn't have to put in

 

01:16:59:14 --> 01:17:02:15

the money and the time,

and the billions of dollars

 

01:17:02:15 --> 01:17:04:14

for research and development.

 

01:17:04:14 --> 01:17:06:17

That gives them a complete

unfair playing field.

 

01:17:06:17 --> 01:17:10:05

- And it also does great damage

to our country's incentives,

 

01:17:10:05 --> 01:17:12:12

for our people to try

and develop good ideas.

 

01:17:12:12 --> 01:17:14:19

- Congressional

leaders say China is engaged

 

01:17:14:19 --> 01:17:18:10

in economic espionage on

a scale never seen before.

 

01:17:18:15 --> 01:17:20:13

- This may be the greatest

transfer of wealth

 

01:17:20:13 --> 01:17:23:17

through theft and piracy in

the history of the world,

 

01:17:23:17 --> 01:17:25:16

and we are in the

losing end of it.

 

01:17:25:16 --> 01:17:26:23

- How much wealth?

 

01:17:26:23 --> 01:17:29:05

Intelligence sources say, the US

 

01:17:29:05 --> 01:17:32:01

is haemorrhaging 250

billion dollars in losses

 

01:17:32:01 --> 01:17:34:13

to economic espionage annually.

 

01:17:34:13 --> 01:17:38:05

- The report estimates

that 2.1 million US jobs

 

01:17:38:05 --> 01:17:40:15

have been lost as a result

of China's organized

 

01:17:40:15 --> 01:17:42:05

and state sponsored theft.

 

01:17:42:05 --> 01:17:44:02

- Chairman of the

House Intelligence Committee

 

01:17:44:02 --> 01:17:46:20

Mike Rogers has launched

an investigation

 

01:17:46:20 --> 01:17:48:09

into the Chinese threat.

 

01:17:48:17 --> 01:17:51:10

He says the Chinese have

targeted every sector

 

01:17:51:10 --> 01:17:52:16

of the US economy.

 

01:17:52:16 --> 01:17:54:08

- We've seen instances

where they tried

 

01:17:54:08 --> 01:17:57:07

to steal pharmaceutical

formula information

 

01:17:57:07 --> 01:18:00:00

to artificially compete

against US companies.

 

01:18:00:00 --> 01:18:01:18

- Any company can be attacked.

 

01:18:01:18 --> 01:18:03:10

This is stealing

American wealth,

 

01:18:03:10 --> 01:18:05:03

it's stealing American jobs.

 

01:18:05:03 --> 01:18:07:11

It's stealing American

competitive advantage.

 

01:18:07:11 --> 01:18:08:14

- Is the threat growing?

 

01:18:08:14 --> 01:18:09:11

- Yes.

 

01:18:09:11 --> 01:18:12:15

- Chinese cyber spies

gained access to the designs

 

01:18:12:15 --> 01:18:16:03

for dozens of major

US weapons systems.

 

01:18:16:03 --> 01:18:18:04

- These are

not just any weapons.

 

01:18:18:04 --> 01:18:21:11

These are weapons which all

have a very specific role

 

01:18:21:11 --> 01:18:24:14

in the Pacific pivot, and

would be a particular interest

 

01:18:24:14 --> 01:18:27:06

to China in coming up

with ways to counter them.

 

01:18:27:06 --> 01:18:28:13

- The New York Times

 

01:18:28:13 --> 01:18:30:04

says its Internet

security experts

 

01:18:30:04 --> 01:18:32:19

traced the origins of the

attacks back to China.

 

01:18:32:19 --> 01:18:34:18

- We have been told by China

 

01:18:34:18 --> 01:18:37:00

that there would be

consequences if we went ahead

 

01:18:37:00 --> 01:18:38:10

and published this story.

 

01:18:38:10 --> 01:18:39:21

- The New York Times now links

 

01:18:39:21 --> 01:18:42:08

China's People's

Liberation Army to dozens

 

01:18:42:08 --> 01:18:45:07

of cyber attacks against

the United States.

 

01:18:45:07 --> 01:18:47:20

The Chinese government

hotly denies this report.

 

01:18:47:23 --> 01:18:50:20

"Making baseless

accusations based

 

01:18:50:20 --> 01:18:53:12

on premature analysis

is irresponsible

 

01:18:53:12 --> 01:18:54:17

and unprofessional."

 

01:18:56:05 --> 01:18:59:07

- Never before has the US

government publicly accused

 

01:18:59:07 --> 01:19:02:20

another country of a cyber

crime, but that's essentially

 

01:19:02:20 --> 01:19:04:18

what happened today with China.

 

01:19:04:18 --> 01:19:06:14

- Today, we are

announcing an indictment.

 

01:19:06:14 --> 01:19:07:23

- The military

men are all charged

 

01:19:07:23 --> 01:19:10:11

with hacking into

private US companies,

 

01:19:10:11 --> 01:19:12:19

with the intent

to spy and steal.

 

01:19:12:19 --> 01:19:14:09

- We don't ask grand

juries to indict

 

01:19:14:09 --> 01:19:16:14

if we don't have the

evidence, so we would welcome

 

01:19:16:14 --> 01:19:17:22

the opportunity to offer

 

01:19:17:22 --> 01:19:20:22

these five Chinese military

hackers their day in court.

 

01:19:20:22 --> 01:19:23:21

- The five men

hacked into American companies

 

01:19:23:21 --> 01:19:28:01

for information on nuclear

plant design, and other secrets.

 

01:19:28:01 --> 01:19:30:13

- Key to the action,

a report issued

 

01:19:30:13 --> 01:19:32:10

by a division of Fire Eye.

 

01:19:32:13 --> 01:19:35:23

The Bay Area company monitors

sophisticated cyber attacks

 

01:19:35:23 --> 01:19:38:05

that occur daily

around the world.

 

01:19:39:03 --> 01:19:41:15

- This case should serve

as a wake up call

 

01:19:41:15 --> 01:19:44:10

to the seriousness of

the ongoing cyber threat.

 

01:19:44:10 --> 01:19:46:23

- What are we gonna need to

keep the American people safe?

 

01:19:46:23 --> 01:19:50:18

- They are targeting the

computer control systems.

 

01:19:50:18 --> 01:19:52:12

- We need to be thinking

about cyber security.

 

01:19:52:12 --> 01:19:56:08

- That operate

chemical, electricity,

 

01:19:56:08 --> 01:19:57:19

and water plants.

 

01:19:57:19 --> 01:20:00:01

- These allegations

are very serious.

 

01:20:00:01 --> 01:20:02:11

- We cannot look

back years from now,

 

01:20:02:11 --> 01:20:04:15

and wonder why we did

nothing in the face

 

01:20:04:15 --> 01:20:07:10

of real threats to our

security, and our economy.

 

01:20:07:10 --> 01:20:09:12

- They are

ramping it up in a way

 

01:20:09:12 --> 01:20:12:15

that is breathtakingly

bad for the United States

 

01:20:12:15 --> 01:20:13:18

of America.

 

01:20:13:18 --> 01:20:16:23

- What is it gonna take

to get America engaged

 

01:20:16:23 --> 01:20:19:17

in the stealing of our

computer information?

 

01:20:19:17 --> 01:20:21:19

- Sony is a corporation.

 

01:20:22:06 --> 01:20:24:09

It suffered significant damage.

 

01:20:24:09 --> 01:20:26:16

There were threats

against its employees.

 

01:20:26:16 --> 01:20:32:13

We cannot have a society

in which some dictator

 

01:20:32:13 --> 01:20:36:08

some place can start

imposing censorship

 

01:20:36:08 --> 01:20:39:14

here in the United States,

because if somebody

 

01:20:39:14 --> 01:20:42:22

is able to intimidate

folks out of releasing

 

01:20:42:22 --> 01:20:45:11

a satirical movie, imagine

what they start doing

 

01:20:45:11 --> 01:20:47:20

when they see a documentary

that they don't like.

 

01:20:48:08 --> 01:20:51:04

- It's gonna take the equivalent

 

01:20:51:04 --> 01:20:53:17

of an electronic plane

flying into a building

 

01:20:53:17 --> 01:20:55:12

before people take

this seriously.

 

01:21:02:08 --> 01:21:04:11

All that the Party

does try to do,

 

01:21:04:11 --> 01:21:07:04

in terms of building what's

called The Great Firewall,

 

01:21:07:04 --> 01:21:10:06

for all of their

monitoring of websites,

 

01:21:10:06 --> 01:21:13:06

and for all their

censorship, they are not able

 

01:21:13:06 --> 01:21:16:09

to stop the Chinese people

from talking to each other.

 

01:21:16:09 --> 01:21:19:21

For the first time since the

Tiananmen Massacre in 1989,

 

01:21:19:21 --> 01:21:22:19

the Chinese people are

having national conversations

 

01:21:22:19 --> 01:21:24:21

with each other, and

they're able to do that

 

01:21:24:21 --> 01:21:28:11

because of the Internet,

because of telecommunications.

 

01:21:28:19 --> 01:21:31:05

The operative concept

is velocity.

 

01:21:31:05 --> 01:21:35:09

China is moving so fast,

that even the Communist Party

 

01:21:35:09 --> 01:21:37:12

cannot hang on.

 

01:21:39:14 --> 01:21:42:22

Technology can control

and manipulate,

 

01:21:43:21 --> 01:21:46:10

but technology can

also be liberating,

 

01:21:46:10 --> 01:21:50:12

and can emancipate

people from oppression.

 

01:21:57:12 --> 01:22:00:11

Something like Facebook,

something like that,

 

01:22:00:11 --> 01:22:02:16

could be used to

empower any individual

 

01:22:02:16 --> 01:22:06:16

who's behind a laptop, and

that's a power of Internet.

 

01:22:06:16 --> 01:22:10:05

That a single individual

can still make a difference.

 

01:22:10:05 --> 01:22:11:10

- Dhundop Wangchen.

 

01:22:11:10 --> 01:22:14:04

We hear that his health

condition is deteriorating,

 

01:22:14:04 --> 01:22:15:19

and it's a huge concern for us.

 

01:22:15:22 --> 01:22:17:16

Asian media, they

don't take interest,

 

01:22:17:16 --> 01:22:20:21

but once it hits New York

Times, then it comes back,

 

01:22:20:21 --> 01:22:23:14

and then, it really becomes big.

 

01:22:23:14 --> 01:22:28:06

- What we need is a

multi national campaign.

 

01:22:30:08 --> 01:22:34:21

We understand the importance

of Dhundop Wangchen's case.

 

01:22:34:21 --> 01:22:39:03

Not just to his wife,

and his family,

 

01:22:39:03 --> 01:22:42:06

but the importance it has

to six million Tibetans

 

01:22:42:06 --> 01:22:43:13

inside Tibet.

 

01:22:44:23 --> 01:22:46:17

Dhundop Wangchen's case

 

01:22:46:17 --> 01:22:47:20

is important.

 

01:22:47:20 --> 01:22:49:18

I think as a documentary

filmmaker he was silenced

 

01:22:49:18 --> 01:22:51:22

by China and sent to prison.

 

01:22:52:17 --> 01:22:55:02

If people don't stand up

for activists like Dhundop,

 

01:22:55:02 --> 01:22:57:14

then where do we draw the line?

 

01:22:57:14 --> 01:23:00:16

Darren and I felt like we

could easily be in jail

 

01:23:00:16 --> 01:23:04:01

like him if it wasn't for

our American passports.

 

01:23:06:11 --> 01:23:08:02

Christian and I

received a phone call

 

01:23:08:02 --> 01:23:09:21

from Tenzin Seldon

and Tenzin Tsundo.

 

01:23:09:21 --> 01:23:11:22

They had hatched a plan

to help raise awareness

 

01:23:11:22 --> 01:23:14:18

for the plight of

Dhundop Wangchen.

 

01:23:14:18 --> 01:23:16:12

It was his greatest

hope that his film

 

01:23:16:12 --> 01:23:18:14

would reach the outside world.

 

01:23:30:06 --> 01:23:37:17

DANCE BEAT AND SINGING

 

01:23:38:04 --> 01:23:40:22

The goal was to get a

voice on the world stage

 

01:23:40:22 --> 01:23:44:23

through technology to

voice her husband's plight.

 

01:23:44:23 --> 01:23:47:14

- Everyone from all

parts of the world

 

01:23:47:14 --> 01:23:52:00

are coming together for

this event in New York.

 

01:23:52:00 --> 01:23:55:20

We have Tenzin Tsundo

coming from Dharamsala.

 

01:23:56:14 --> 01:24:00:10

We have Lhamo Tso coming to

the US for the first time,

 

01:24:00:10 --> 01:24:03:06

implementing her

husband's vision.

 

01:24:04:22 --> 01:24:06:02

I'm so excited.

 

01:24:06:02 --> 01:24:09:15

I cannot believe that this

is actually happening.

 

01:24:10:01 --> 01:24:13:06

We will be right under

the Xinhua News Agency,

 

01:24:13:06 --> 01:24:17:10

broadcasting Dhundop's

movie, Leaving Fear Behind.

 

01:24:18:15 --> 01:24:21:18

We hope to leverage

this opportunity

 

01:24:21:18 --> 01:24:25:20

to bring together

technology and activism.

 

01:24:26:11 --> 01:24:30:12

I am here today to raise

awareness about the case

 

01:24:30:12 --> 01:24:33:06

of Dhundop Wangchen, who

has been in prison now

 

01:24:33:06 --> 01:24:35:00

for six years.

 

01:24:35:00 --> 01:24:39:06

We're standing for solidarity

with the Tibetan people,

 

01:24:39:06 --> 01:24:41:14

and their plight.

 

01:24:43:09 --> 01:24:46:23

It is our belief that

our practice of love

 

01:24:46:23 --> 01:24:49:17

and compassion

will change China.

 

01:24:50:11 --> 01:24:53:04

Real love and

compassion has seed.

 

01:24:53:04 --> 01:24:56:08

Let it grow. Let it grow.

 

01:24:56:22 --> 01:25:07:16

MUSIC

 

01:25:08:08 --> 01:25:11:01

Ladies and gentlemen,

it's a great privilege,

 

01:25:11:01 --> 01:25:13:16

to welcome Lhamo Tso.

 

01:25:37:12 --> 01:25:52:12

MUSIC

 

01:26:00:03 --> 01:26:15:16

MUSIC

 

01:26:24:12 --> 01:26:28:15

MUSIC

 

01:27:50:07 --> 01:27:52:07

We're the young

generation of Tibet.

 

01:27:52:07 --> 01:27:54:16

We'll never give up.

 

01:30:33:09 --> 01:30:34:11

Hello.

 

01:30:34:13 --> 01:30:35:16

Hey, is this Darren?

 

01:30:35:16 --> 01:30:36:23

Yes, it is.

 

01:30:36:23 --> 01:30:38:04

There must been a problem

 

01:30:38:04 --> 01:30:39:06

with your visa.

 

01:30:39:06 --> 01:30:43:20

The China consulate, they

did not issue a visa.

 

01:30:43:20 --> 01:30:45:17

They did not return this.

 

01:30:45:17 --> 01:30:50:17

It's only yours and another

gentleman was with you,

 

01:30:50:17 --> 01:30:53:22

and they said that these

two are together.

 

01:30:53:22 --> 01:30:55:19

I don't know how

they could tell,

 

01:30:55:19 --> 01:30:57:15

and they are not allowed to go.

 

01:30:57:15 --> 01:30:59:15

I don't know what happened,

 

01:30:59:15 --> 01:31:02:16

and when we asked why,

they say they know it.

 

01:31:03:22 --> 01:31:05:12

- Hmm, interesting.