Dateline

Dateline ‘Who's Afraid of Wei Jingsheng? / Afghanistan's Suicide Boys’

SBS

Wed, 9 Jul 2008, 60 minutes, Current Affairs, News, WS, CC

This week Dateline meets one of China's most famous democracy activists, Wei Jingsheng. Mr Wei was actually one of the key case studies in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's thesis in 1980 on human rights in China. / This week Dateline's John Martinkus returns to Afghanistan where he meets a would-be suicide bomber. At the age of 14, Shakrillah was singled out by his teachers in north-west Pakistan to be groomed for a suicide mission by the Taliban. He was told that if he carried out the attack, he would not actually be killed.

Dateline ‘Who's Afraid of Wei Jingsheng? / Afghanistan's Suicide Boys’

SBS

Thu, 10 Jul 2008, 60 minutes, Current Affairs, News, WS, CC, Repeat

This week Dateline meets one of China's most famous democracy activists, Wei Jingsheng. Mr Wei was actually one of the key case studies in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's thesis in 1980 on human rights in China. / This week Dateline's John Martinkus returns to Afghanistan where he meets a would-be suicide bomber. At the age of 14, Shakrillah was singled out by his teachers in north-west Pakistan to be groomed for a suicide mission by the Taliban. He was told that if he carried out the attack, he would not actually be killed.

Dateline ‘Who's Afraid of Wei Jingsheng? / Afghanistan's Suicide Boys’

SBS

Mon, 14 Jul 2008, 60 minutes, Current Affairs, News, WS, CC, Repeat

This week Dateline meets one of China's most famous democracy activists, Wei Jingsheng. Mr Wei was actually one of the key case studies in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's thesis in 1980 on human rights in China. / This week Dateline's John Martinkus returns to Afghanistan where he meets a would-be suicide bomber. At the age of 14, Shakrillah was singled out by his teachers in north-west Pakistan to be groomed for a suicide mission by the Taliban. He was told that if he carried out the attack, he would not actually be killed.