The dire straits of Kurdish life under occupation are revealed as State Department and Turkish government talking heads flicker by with evident duplicity as they stonewall inquiries into their Kurdish policies. They kill and massacre other Kurds on command. With few exceptions, the products of anti-Kurdish vitriol and misinformation have dominated media coverage of Kurdistan. Note that those who attained American independence from George III were thus labeled in His Majesty s Press. We learn of the staggering extent of US taxpayer support for Turkey s war against the Kurds as we see footage of life under perennial martial law in Turkish-occupied Kurdistan.
Kurdish children identify helicopters overhead by their American names.
The film follows the travails of Kani Xulam and his family, who happen to live near McKiernan s California home. He has been and continues to be harassed, jailed and persecuted by the USG as retaliation for his efforts as alobbyist trying to affect deadly US policies towards the Kurds. It took a courageous reporter with a penchant for depicting the underdog struggles of colonized indigenous peoples to show us Kurdistan in an unflinchingly honest manner. Kevin McKiernan has been to Wounded Knee and Chiapas. Kurdish mothers gather in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul to mourn and protest the disappearances of their loved ones.