Agis
February 23rd, 2005, 04:26 AM
I ran into a print copy of this documentary. The "violent coast" hence the wogs came:
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Interview: Ben Anderson
BBC Four: This seemed a lot more hairy than your previous programme, Holidays in the Axis of Evil [tm]...
Ben Anderson: In the Axis of Evil [tm] countries the trouble came from the governments. The trouble in these countries was [rampaging groid]s. The training for [rampaging militant]s basically involves how to load the gun and pull the trigger. And that's it. So, yes, it's chaos. You saw in Liberia, the rebel forces that control the country are just k[affir]s - drunk, stoned k[affir]s.
BBC Four: So presumably there was always the danger of random violence.
BA: We were actually very lucky. We were in Monrovia for 10 days and about four or five days after we left there was an anti-disarmament riot and 18 people were shot dead in the street. Similarly, two days after we left northern Liberia, where the fighting is still going, twelve people were killed. So we didn't actually see any of it, but you do get the impression that one little thing can kick off a chain of events that can leave a dozen people dead.
BBC Four: What were your expectations before you went to West Africa?
BA: I was expecting it to be horrible, frightening and hopeless. When I turned up, grim-faced, to see the amputee football team in Sierra Leone, I expected to have really tough, horrible, long conversations about the suffering they've been through. Yet the people there were singing, laughing, joking, loving the football and just getting on with it.[:confused:] I couldn't believe it, I was the most depressed person in the whole group, and what did I have to be depressed about? They weren't just good at football for people with one leg, they were great at football. And the people who were watching weren't just watching to be nice to the poor amputees; they were loving it [tm] because they were great at football. It was genuine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/violent-coast.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/images/violentcoast1_lead.jpg
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Interview: Ben Anderson
BBC Four: This seemed a lot more hairy than your previous programme, Holidays in the Axis of Evil [tm]...
Ben Anderson: In the Axis of Evil [tm] countries the trouble came from the governments. The trouble in these countries was [rampaging groid]s. The training for [rampaging militant]s basically involves how to load the gun and pull the trigger. And that's it. So, yes, it's chaos. You saw in Liberia, the rebel forces that control the country are just k[affir]s - drunk, stoned k[affir]s.
BBC Four: So presumably there was always the danger of random violence.
BA: We were actually very lucky. We were in Monrovia for 10 days and about four or five days after we left there was an anti-disarmament riot and 18 people were shot dead in the street. Similarly, two days after we left northern Liberia, where the fighting is still going, twelve people were killed. So we didn't actually see any of it, but you do get the impression that one little thing can kick off a chain of events that can leave a dozen people dead.
BBC Four: What were your expectations before you went to West Africa?
BA: I was expecting it to be horrible, frightening and hopeless. When I turned up, grim-faced, to see the amputee football team in Sierra Leone, I expected to have really tough, horrible, long conversations about the suffering they've been through. Yet the people there were singing, laughing, joking, loving the football and just getting on with it.[:confused:] I couldn't believe it, I was the most depressed person in the whole group, and what did I have to be depressed about? They weren't just good at football for people with one leg, they were great at football. And the people who were watching weren't just watching to be nice to the poor amputees; they were loving it [tm] because they were great at football. It was genuine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/violent-coast.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/images/violentcoast1_lead.jpg