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Dateline invites you to be a fly on the wall, as those
hell-bent on disrupting the Olympic Torch Relay plan – and execute –
their protests.
Video Journalist David Brill was in New Delhi the day before and the day of the protests. His was the only camera allowed to film with the protestors.
Demonstrators
lead Brill through a series of twisting alleyways on the outskirts of
the capital before he is allowed into a dark and murky apartment – the
war room. Here, the protestors pour over maps of the city, plan their
strategy, find out where the police plan to be and build up their
numbers.
The heart of New Delhi was almost totally sealed off
for the relay which took place over a scaled-back distance of 2.3
kilometres.
While the number of protestors was estimated at
around 600, over 16,000 police, soldiers and commandos stood between
the public and the torch. Only specially-selected onlookers were
allowed to watch.
As the group Brill is with makes their way
towards the relay they are stopped and questioned by police. Undaunted,
the protestors make a break for it, and surge towards the barrier, with
Brill close behind…
With the torch due to arrive in Australia on
Thursday, Dateline takes you to where no other media has been: inside
the minds of the protestors.
On air: 23rd April 2008
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