Total denial
Bulgaria, Italy, 2006, 74 min., color, documentary

Director: Milena Kuneva

Burma – a country under military dictatorship, in which genocide is a daily routine. Banished from their birthplaces, victims of violence, arsons and murders committed by the military forces, a group of native people initiated unique legal proceedings in an American court.

The screening of the film about Burma and the debate on the Bulgarian analogies on the theme happened in the week, when the Supreme Council of Ecology Experts of the Ministry of Ecology approved the use of cyanides again – the poisonous aggregations used in the extraction of gold. This is green light for the Bulgarian filial firm of the Canadian company “Dundy Precious Metals” to increase the manufacture of gold-copper ore in the mine up to 3 million tonnes per year, in spite of the protests of the ecological organization “Bulgaria without Cyanides” and under the approving exclamations of an initiative committee of citizens in the region of Chelopech, supporting the project.

Four representatives of Coalition “Bulgaria without Cyanides” were arrested during the course of the protest. By the end of the month the minister of ecology will take a final decision.




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