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- Dmae Lo Roberts
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- "RN Documentary: Keeping the Peace"
- Summary: Interviews with three Dutch soldiers sent to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban and also the musings of a photographer and a film maker who accompanied them.
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Review of RN Documentary: Keeping the Peace
Dmae Lo Roberts
Posted on September 19, 2004 at 10:18 AM
What does it mean to be a peacekeeper? This doc takes on the difficult realities of the role of peacekeepers from the perspective of the Dutch army's presence in Afghanistan in 2002. This is a top-notch doc that gives a wide slice of life look with ample reflection on the realities while questioning the effectiveness of Keeping the Peace. What's refreshing is to hear the concern and sincere mission from the soldiers in re-building the country. Especially now in the time of conflict and violence in Iraq, this doc brings a much-needed prompt for debate and conscienceness raising regarding America's role as a peacekeeper. This half-hour doc would run as an excellent special especially with another Radio Netherlands piece. There are so many to choose from it would only take a quick scan of the titles to put together a great one-hour special.