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What do you think? Human rights violation videos
March 28, 2007 - 02:22 PM
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Hi everyone!
I am so glad to be back in TIG!
There's this video posted on YouTube of an Egyptian male who was seen being raped by police officers in Egypt. It created quite a stir and the Egypt government ordered an investigation of the matter.
Although I am very happy that justice is being served, I did not like the fact that there was no effort to conceal the man's identity and I feel that his dignity was trampled upon further because more than 100,000 people viewed the video.
Do you think it's right for people to post videos of human rights violation without concealing victims' identities?
Looking at the video, it would still clearly show how the crime was committed even if the victim's identity was concealed.
What do you think?
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Re: What do you think? Human rights violation videos
March 28, 2007 - 08:05 PM
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Hi Gerald! Thanks for the insight.
I believe there is one very important question in this issue:
By concealing the identity (face) of the victim in the video, would it make the crime less heinous?
If you have seen the complete video, it shows the actual rape of the victim in its full length and it wouldn't need one to see his face to comprehend the brutality of the perpetrators.
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Re: What do you think? Human rights violation videos
March 29, 2007 - 05:34 AM
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I think another important question is- if somebody is recording a whole vedio of the event, then what is his/her responsibility in intervening so that the act does not happen?
In India, at times, we see stories where a media channel is covering some or the other act of violence/neglect/risk that could be stopped. But the only role that TV seems to be performaing at those times- is of taking the news to citizens watching thier channels.
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Re: What do you think? Human rights violation videos
March 29, 2007 - 07:47 AM
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That is a very, very good point indeed. I have wondered about that scenario myself many, many times. That is, until I read the conference papers about the Rwanda genocide. The accounts of photojournalist Nick Hughes. The video he took of the massacre in progress in the capital Kigali was one of very few images of the genocide.
At that point, I think he couldn't do anything amid the mass hysteria and all he could do was tape the event. Could he have intervened? I think not. If you know you're up against a multitude who want to kill then all you can do is document the acts and let the world know about it.
In the case of the Egypt torture video, the one who taped it was one of the perpetrators and he sent the clip to many people to further humiliate the victim.
Most of the time, I'm sure that mainstream journalists document a crime in action in a clandestine manner; not that they didn't want to stop it but that most of the time, they just couldn't do anything.
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