(19 Apr 2010)
Laiza, 17 April 2010
1. Wide Kachin Independence Army (KIA) soldiers walking slowly with their wooden rifles, raising them up and pointing ahead when a whistle blows
2. Wide KIA soldiers with wooden rifles crawling on field, a whistle blows and soldiers lie flat on the ground
3. Wide of an KIA officer with whistle in his mouth
4. Soldier crawling flat on the ground, slowly in field with wooden rifle
5. Woman soldier pulling the pin from imaginary grenade before lobbing it, dropping for cover on the ground, yelling out UPSOUND "Boom"
6. Wide of an officer showing a soldier how to move with rifle
7. Shot through net, soldiers marching and singing
8. Wide flag of Kachin Independence Army
9. Pan across KIA soldiers marching
10. Low shot KIA soldiers marching
11. Close a woman soldier singing while marching
Laiza, 16 April 2010
12. Wide exterior of assembly hall building where mass public meeting is held by Kachin Independence Army (KIA), soldiers gathering in front of building
13. A KIA soldier holding gun on guard in front of assembly hall
14. Wide General S. Gun Maw, vice chief of staff for the KIA (camera left) greeting army officers arriving at meeting, citizens arriving at meeting
15. Wide meeting
16. High-ranked army officers sitting at front row
17. Wide General S. Gun Maw, vice chief of staff for the KIA, speaking in the meeting
18. Close of Gun Maw speaking
19. Wide Gun Maw speaking to reporters
20. SOUNDBITE (Kachin) General S. Gun Maw, vice chief of staff for the Kachin Independence Army:
"It''s difficult to predict if they (the junta) want to solve the problem. If they take the military way, it will be a big mistake for them. If they don''t look upon justice and they just want to accomplish what they want, they may use the military way. If they really think about the well-being of the country, they shouldn''t do so."
21. Various formation of KIA soldiers in front of assembly hall
22. Soldiers who attended the meeting gathering in front assembly hall
23. Tilt up gun to a KIA soldier
24. Wide Zing Hang Khawn Hpang in the meeting
25. SOUNDBITE (Kachin) Zing Hang Khawn Hpang, local businesswoman:
"The SPDC (State Peace and Development Council) oppresses a lot of the Kachin people and the Kachin state. It would be better to fight against the SPDC, but because many people live happily in the Kachin state, not only Kachin, but also Chinese, Burmese and Shan, I don''t want the happiness to be destroyed. But if we need to fight, we have to."
Laiza, 17 April 2010
26. A truck crossing checkpoint into Laiza district
27. A KIA soldier with rifle on guard at checkpoint
28. A KIA soldier checking a vehicle at border
29. Top shot of a truck crossing border from Laiza into China
30. Mid of Chinese police on Chinese side of border
Laiza, 18 April 2010
31. Wide exterior of a Laiza Kachin Baptist Church, pilgrims walking pass
32. Wide pilgrims sitting inside church during service
33. Wide a priest speaking
34. Close of woman with thanaka on her face praying
35. Various choir singing
STORYLINE:
Crawling on their bellies, the recruits inch through a field, dragging wooden rifles.
A whistle blows, and they scramble to their knees, pulling the pins from imaginary grenades before lobbing them. Dropping flat, they yell "Boom!"
At a camp alongside a river, the next generation of soldiers in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of Myanmar''s largest armed ethnic groups, is training with a new urgency.
A cease-fire is in peril, and the Kachin do not want to patrol the border for the ruling junta.
regions of government-run Myanmar.
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