UNICEF holds donation event for war orphans
Createdd 2010-08-25 Hit 2498
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Celebrating the DMZ International Documentary Festival and Gyeonggi Peaceful Unification Marathon Championships, Yuno-yunho, Shinee, and other celebrities join the event
The executive committee of the DMZ International Documentary Festival held a donation event for war orphans at 3 pm prior to the main event on the 31st in Asia Publication Information Center of Paju Book City.
The donation event was prepared not only to convey best wishes for the success of the 2nd DMZ International Documentary Festival and the 2010 Gyeonggi Peaceful Unification Marathon Championships, but also to raise funds for war orphans and starving people around the world while calling public attention to the importance of life.
Gyeonggi Provincial Governor Kim Moon-Soo, Paju City Mayor Yi Yin-Jae, DMZ Documentary Festival Executive Committee Head Jo Jae-Hyun, UNICEF Korea Secretary General Pak Dong-Eun, and Gyeonggi Tourism Organization President Kim Myung-Soo are expected to attend. It is reported that quite a few members of the DMZ Documentary Festival have been involved to enliven the event, while celebrity singers Yuno-yunho and Shinee will also participate.
Starting with the opening reception of Yuno-youho’s and Shinee’s donations, the event unfolds with a series of donation ceremonies which will be followed by a public exhibition of photos depicting the lives of war orphans and an open screening of All My Mothers, a documentary recommended by the DMZ Documentary Festival.
Together with the donation event for war orphans, the 2010 Gyeonggi Peaceful Unification Marathon Championships, designed to raise public awareness regarding the importance of life, will be held with its opening ceremony at 8:30 am on September 12 in Yimjingak Pyonghwa-Nuri (Land of Peace). The Marathon Championships consist of the full course (42.2km), the half course (21.1km), the 10km course, and the 6km healthy running course. Applications for participation can be submitted through the official homepage (www.peacemarathon.org), by telephone, or via email.
Meanwhile, the 2nd DMZ International Documentary Festival will begin with the opening ceremony on September 9 and run until September 13 at Cinus Ichae of Paju Book City and in Yimjingak Pyonghwa-Nuri.
– Documentary for the Donation Event
Synopsis: Under the rule of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, numerous Shia and Kurdish people had been either killed or kidnapped over the last 30 years in Iraq. The number of Kurds who had fallen victim chemical weapons or the so-called Operation Anfal amounts to 182,000, while as many as 4,000 villages were annihilated. The only survivors are women. All My Mothers captures the lives of the families of those who are buried in a huge burial site found in Iraq’s southern desert: the surviving families are the dead people’s mothers, daughters, and wives. In a village from which men have disappeared, the remaining women build houses, plough fields, and cast fishing nets. The mother who spends days watching the road in the hope of seeing her son return, and the widow who insists on pulling out a large stone from the land that she is clearing to build a house… they forlornly hope to see their son and husband return home alive. A memorial service for the dead is held and the women cry inconsolably on the way to the ceremony. The documentary poses the questions: For what reason were these people killed? What did their deaths leave? And how will the survivors live their lives? The land where the dead sons and husbands rode their horses has become a huge burial ground where their dead bodies lay. Numerous coffins fill the screen and the black-and-white photo of a boy soldier tell us that the war is simply a nightmare to the people. In the meantime, the innocent smile of a child playing with a gun is an ominous sign that the tragedy may repeat itself in the future.
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