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This National Geographic documentary from 2006 had me sobbing like nothing I'd ever seen before, and I'm actually getting upset right now recalling it: https:/
by gooseus 9y ago
This National Geographic documentary from 2006 had me sobbing like nothing I'd ever seen before, and I'm actually getting upset right now recalling it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8
Lisa Ling went undercover with an eye surgeon from Nepal on a mission to do 1000 cataract surgeries in 10 days. Cataract surgery in any modern country is an outpatient procedure, but in NK you are doomed to be blind forever.
This man, Dr. Sanduk Ruit[0], had to persuade the NK government to come to the country to do the surgeries and after he restored the sight of each of the thousands, who had been effectively blinded for years by their backwards government, they walked right past him and fell to their knees in tears of adulation to a picture of their Dear Leader. I've never felt a hatred as strong as I did then for Kim Jong Il.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanduk_Ruit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanduk_Ruit
- dropit_sphere 9y agoI couldn't handle that section either. Those people have been mentally raped. EDIT: Also the old (old!) man who, yelling, pledged to use his newfound eyesight to kill the American imperialists.
- bambax 9y ago> This National Geographic documentary... "This video contains content from National Geographic, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." Ah, liberty!
- Red_Tarsius 9y agoTry this link: https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8 https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=AlJUGZPanB8