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Something they had never seen,

which liberated a yellow, very pungent and acrid vapor...

The actions of the hard line military regime...

...are the cause of increasing international concern.

The regime crushes all dissent.

Ethnic groups are being oppressed in the east of the country and...

...claim tonight that some form of chemical weapon...

has been used in Burma by military rule...

has lead to the national uprising.

Thousands took the streets...and thousands were killed by the Burmese military.

In Burma, many peaceful, protesting monks have been killed,

some burned alive and others drowned.

Foreign journalists have been shot and...

...thousands of villages have been destroyed

Rape and torture are a daily occurrence.

In Burma, there are more landmines than anywhere in the world...

Young men are beaten and forced into the Army,

many as young as twelve years old

Beheadings and mutilations are commonplace

The Karen people, comprised mostly of poor Christian farmers,

have been singled out for extermination

military government wants the abundant natural resources on Karen land

The Burmese military campaign against the Karen people...

...has been going on for almost sixty years,

the longest running civil war in the world

Hey, hey

Okay, first, you will be seeing a bunch of snakes...

Number 1 in Thailand.

He is very, very dangerous, number 1.

Two snake that you see.

They are Siamese Cobra or common cobra.

It is not King Cobra and the sleeping cobra.

Hey, hey.

Fuck off, okay?

They still have fang, and they still have poison.

He is more dangerous, number 1.

King Cobra number 2.

And he killed a human, bit him.

The victim died in a short time.

One hour.

He is very, very dangerous. Number 1 in Thailand.

Careful, my friend.

Looks like dangerous work.

I'm Michael Burnett. Do you have some time to talk?

It won't take long, I promise.

We'd like to rent your boat. Is that possible?

We need to get upriver.

Where you gem'?

Into Burma.

Burma's a war zone.

Well, that's what people call it...

...but it's more like genocide than war.

Anyway, this will be my 5th trip in...

...so, we are aware of all the risks.

I don't go that far north.

Let me explain.

Our church is part of a Pan-Asian Ministry...

...located in Colorado.

We're volunteers who around this time of year...

...bring in medical supplies, medical attention...

...prayer books, and support for the Karen tribes people.

People say you know the river better than anyone.

They lied.

What I'm asking is that we compensate you for...

A few hours of your time that will help change people's lives.

Are you bringin' any weapons?

Of course not.

You're not changin'anything.

Well.

It's thinking like that that keeps the world the way it is.

Fuck the world.

Let's go.

Why?

He's not interested. Let's go.

Let m e try .

Sarah.

You said it was the only way there.

- I know. - Then what do we have to lose?

Just let me try, please.

Hello?

I'm Sarah Miller.

I hope you don't mind me coming back here.

The man that you were talking to...

... I wasn't talkin' to anybody.

AII right, the man that was taIking to you...

...asked if we could hire you to take us up the river.

You said no.

Why?

Can't help you out.

Well, if you have good reasons, would you mind if I heard them?

Go home.

Why'd you come back?

Waiting for you.

I told you before, I can't help you.

We need to go and help these people.

We're here to make a difference.

We believe all lives are special.

Some lives, some no.

If everyone thought like you, nothing would change.

Nothing does change.

It does. Nothing stays the same.

Live your life.

I'm trying to.

No, you're trying to change whatis.

And what is?

Go home.

Really. Go home.

Maybe, maybe you've lost your faith in people.

But you must still be faithful to something.

You must still care about something.

Maybe we can't change what is.

But trying to save a life isn't wasting your life, is it?

As bad as these people are, they will eventually lose.

They can't keep it up against a united front.

Time will tell,

But meanwhile, we have to help hold it together.

Just the other day, I read...

Excuse me, Sarah.

Where are you going?

To talk to him.

He probably wants his privacy.

You shouldn't ignore him. He's helping us.

He's been paid.

He didn't take anything.

Thank you, again, for doing this, really, from all of us.

You know, you never told us your name.

John.

Where are you from?

Bowie, Arizona.

Why'd you leave?

I got drafted in Nam.

And you just stayed?

It's complicated.

Do you have family back home?

Father maybe, I don't know.

Aren't you curious to see how things might have changed back home?

Got to have a reason for that

Sarah.

Because 'a you we're goin'upriver.

Any time you want to turn around, it's done.

Okay .

What is it? Who are they?

Burmese pirates.

Tell everyone to stay down. Don't make a sound

Don't talk!

Are they warriors?

Maybe. What do you want to do?

Keep going. We made a commitment.

ain't talkin' to you.

What do you wanna do?

If they wanna vote, we'll vote.

Sit down.

If it's money they want...

Nobody talks. Heads down.

Keep your heads down, don't look 'em in the eye or they'll kill you.

No!

What did you do?

We came to help stop the killing!

Who are you to take...

Who are you?

Let him go!

They would'a raped her 50 times...

... and cut your fuckin' heads off.

Who are you?

Who are any of you?

We're goin' back!

No.

No, we shouldn't go back.

Let go.

What are you doing?

We are so close!

What happened here is horrible.

But the people there are killed like this everyday.

Michael. This was your idea.

We made a commitment.

I know you don't believe in what we're doing.

But it's our life.

Our choice.

You're not gonna change anything.

Please.

Please, John. Please.

Go sit down.

We'll be taking the overland route on the way back...

So there's no need to wait around.

I have to report this.

I know you think what you did was right, but taking a life...

is never right.

I don't know what to say.

Maybe you shouldn't say anything, should you?

Good luck.

With power, through his spirit, in your inner being...

So Christ may dwell in your hearts with faith.

Read some more, James.

And I pray...

You may have power together with all of us.

Well, let me see if I can fix this little problem, okay?

Hey you.

Hand me one of those bandages?

Okay.

Good.

Okay.

Get outta here!

What about them?

Go on, I'll take them!

Run!

Run! Run!

Raven. Come on, Raven.

What am I? You made me.

A full-blooded combat soldier.

You just don't turn it off.

Talk to me Johnny

You just don't turn it off!

It's over.

Nothing is over!

When are you gonna come full circle?

I know the reasons you're here.

Aren't you curious to see how things might have changed back home?

You've done enough damage.

You're always gonna be tearing away at yourself...

until you come to terms with what you are and come full-circle.

You'll stay forever?

John!

I wanna go home.

John Rambo!

John?

John Rambo?

My name is Arthur Marsh...

Pastor of the Christchurch in Colorado.

I need to talk with you.

It's very important. I wouldn't have come here if it wasn't.

The morning of the day the group left...

...Michael Burnett notified me...

...that they were traveling from this location.

What happened?

No one knows, exactly.

They were supposed to return 10 days ago, but they never came back.

I requested help from the Embassy, but they can't help.

Not in Burma. And not in time.

How do you know they're alive?

The Karen Freedom Fighters say...

...they think they know where they were taken.

An ex-military American local from the Embassy put me in touch with...

...men who say they have experience in this part of the world.

Mercenaries.

Yes.

I don't have any other choice.

You know the exact spot.

We need you to take these men to where you let our people off.

When are they ready to leave?

When you are.

You know what you are.

What you're made of.

War is in your blood, don't fight it.

You didn't kill for your country. You killed for yourself.

God's never gonna make that go away.

When you're pushed...

killing's as easy as breathing.

MY HEAD WAS MANGLED AND MY WORDS WERE TORN.

COVERED IN BLOOD LIKE A NEWLY BORN.

HEY, THE WISHING WELL.

SING IT SOFT AND LOW.

I STAYED FOR A WHILE IN THE HOLLOW SOUND.

THE ONLY WATER CAME UP FROM THE GROUND.

Look at this fucking place. Only a fucking ape would live here.

What the fuck am I don' here?

Hey! Knock that shit off!

Seems you don't like the arts.

En-Joo don't like shit.

I like your sister, Diaz.

She likes retards.

Hey, boat man.

How much longer on this ancient piece of shit?

So what did the Reverend say to you?

Some shit about going missing.

I said that's what you get for trespassing in Burma...

And sniffing in other people's garbage.

The generals there make millions crankin' out meth.

Bullshit.

Millions, moron.

How do you think they pay for that shit army?

Try readin' the paper, redneck.

Fuckin' generaIs , biggest junkies of all.

- It's noble, Lewis. - What?

Those people goin' in there with no weapons. Just books and meds.

It's noble.

Schoolboy.

You stick your noble nose into other people's business...

You get fucked up, or dead.

I'm only doing this for an ex-wife and 3 kids.

After this, shove soldiering up your ass.

Try decaf.

Fuck off.

You. I don't wanna fuckin' die of old age before I get there.

So move.

You say something?

SING IT TO YOURSELF, SING IT ALL NIGHT.

SPENT A LOTTA TIME IN THE GARBAGE CAN...

FIGHTIN' OVER FOOD WITH THE GARBAGE MAN.

HEY, THE WISHING WELL.

I WAS DIGGIN' A WELL, WITH AN OLD BLOOD STAIN.

POKING AROUND WITH A BLIND MAN'S CANE.

Is it me?

Or does the air this time of year smell like a goddamn wet shop?

HE FELL IN MY WELL LIKE A...

For God's sake, I could swim faster than this.

Am I right?

Heard that.

Come on, chop, chop.

The quicker we get there, the quicker we get back.

AND I HUNKERED LOW. I SAW SOME TINY THINGS I'D NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

They come over here, spoutin' all that shit.

And they expect the whole world to work like their fuckin' neighbor.

Well, it doesn't.

So they send in a devil...

To do God's work.

It's ironic, isn't it?

Am I boring you, mate?

Or is it the trip? Has it got you nervous?

You should appreciate the action.

It's gotta be better than lookin' at the ass end of a snake.

Oh dear. You really are a bastard, aren't you?

You can drop the fancy

I've seen it all before.

And I'm not impressed.

He's old school SAS.

They're good lads but arrogant to the core.

They call me Schoolboy.

The name stuck with me since sniper school.

And me mates won't stop calling me no matter how many people I shoot.

STILL AS PATIENTLY, BUT TIME IS...

What do you want from us?

One man and a kid. You gotta be fuckin' joking.

Is this all the rebels they've got?

I'm not likin' it.

We're in the fuckin' jungle. There's nothing to like.

My name is Bien. This is Tha.

Is this it?

Yes.

What's up with the kid, man?

He good tracker.

We don't need a tracker. We need a guide.

You know the exact location, right?

10 kilometers west, to north.

How many soldiers?

100, maybe.

- 100? - What'd he say?

More new soldiers come tomorrow.

I'm just a white trash grunt, but I can count.

Fuck fuckin' with a 100 strong...

Let's get this straight.

We don't engage anybody.

If we can extract these people, good.

But it's in and out or we fuck off.

Somebody wanna tell me what the boatman's doin'?

Why aren't you waitin' with the boat?

My men are eta yin' with the boat.

You're the boatman. You stay.

I won't slow you down.

It's not a nature hike.

Believe it.

He could hang back with me.

He's the boatman. He stays with the fuckin' boat.

I want a white man on it, not some fucking dink.

Who has explosives?

None.

Round of C4 and primer.

I got a Claymore.

All right. Let's get on with it.

Come on, move.

What the fuck is that?

Called Tallboy Bomb. English dump in World War ll.

Your people.

Taken from here.

Man, I have seen some shit.

Brother, I ain't never seen no shit like this.

Weird.

Check it out.

Armies come.

Kill everything. Leave our dead here as warning.

A sea of mines everywhere.

Watch where you walking.

Let's move on.

To what?

They even killed the dogs. Those people are dead.

I'm with En-Joo.

We'll at least have to go have a looksy.

Let's check it out.

Check what? They're 100 strong!

Hey, we took the man's money!

Hey, just calm down.

Calm down.

We go then. And we see what's what.

If anything's wrong, anything at all...

We leave.

All right?

Yeah.

All right.

Okay.

Which way?

This way.

Army!

Go! Go!

Should we fire on 'em?

No. If they don't make it back to where they came from...

They're onto us.

What the fuck are they doin', man?

Who are you, boatman?

Let's move.

Move? They'll hunt us down when these guys don't show up.

We're going back to the boat.

- Whoa! - Hey, Hey, hey.

Any 'a you boys wanna shoot, now's the time.

And there isn't one of us that doesn't wanna be someplace else.

But this is what we do.

Who we are.

Live for nothin'. Or die for something.

Your call.

What's your call?

Let's move.

When Schoolboy's on the tower, we got 15 minutes.

Set our watches to 1 1 :45.

We'll meet at the tower, no waitin' for nobody.

If he don't get up there, we're fucked.

He will. All set?

We're in.

Go!

Go!

Go!

Go!

Don't talk.

Where's the girl?

She's over there.

You untie him. We'll be back for you.

Here!

Come.

2 men are in the cage near the pigs. Get 'em.

Got it.

Come on, come on!

Where's Sarah?

Shut up, come on.

No.

No.

Let's move!

Where's boatman?

And Sarah.

- 15 minutes passed. - Let's go.

5 more minutes.

- Bullshit. - He knew the deal.

We leave together!

Your life.

Let's go.

Not without her.

God didn't save your life. We did.

Fucking get UP-

Get up.

Move!

This way.

You got a compass?

Why'd you come back?

Why did you

An hour till daylight.

This way.

Go!

My leg, my leg, Jesus, goddamn it.

Shut up, we got you pinned down.

His leg is shredded. Oh shit.

Where's the guide?

That son of a bitch is gone.

Fuck him, I know the coordinates.

We won't reach the river.

- Take off his boot. - No!

Leave his boot on.

Let us in here, we're doctors. I need a knife.

Here, here, here.

Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck.

Will he make it?

I don't know. Make a stretcher.

Take the point.

Done.

Come on.

All right.

Take it, take it.

You hear that?

They're tracking us.

Turn around.

What are you doing?

Just move.

- What? - Turn, turn.

I want you two to head southeast to the river.

The boat'll be waiting.

If it's not there...

Keep following' the shoreline till I find you.

What about you?

I'll be all right.

Give me that Claymore.

Now fire off a shot.

What?

Fire off a shot!

Go!

Go!

Come on!

Come on! Move it! Move it! Let's go.

I got you.

Come on.

Get down, get down, get down.

What, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do?

What is it?

Look.

What is it?

Oh, God.

Oh, God.

You gutless fuck!

You fucking gutless shits.

Gutless fuck!

Have another go at me you lady cunt!

Come on you, fuckin' have a go at me!

Fuck! You fucking fucking Jesus!

Oh God.

What do we do?

Nothing we can do.

No!

The rebels.

Michael.

Michael.

Michael.

Michael?

Michael?

Michael?

Michael.

Michael.

Oh!

Oh my God.

It's okay.

We'll help them. Okay...