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Thousands took to the streets and thousands kill...

Many peaceful protesting monks have been killed, some burnt alive and others drowned..

Foreign journalists have been shot and caned..

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 bitten and forced into the army. Many as young as 12 years old.

Beheadings and mutilations are common.

The Karen people comprising mostly of poor Christian farmers have been singled out for extermination.

The military government wants many of the abundance resources on the Karen land.

The bloody military campaign against the Karen people has been going on for almost 60 years.

The longest radical war in the world.

[Indistinct chatter]

[Chatter continues]

Hey... ready, send them out!

Let's go! Hey...

- Hey, move! - Shoot them all!

Easy, not gonna hurt you.

[Man talking on microphone]

OK.

[Man on microphone continues]

Looks like dangerous work.

I'm Michael Burnett.

Do you have some time to talk?

It won't take long, I promise.

I was told it might be possible to rent your boat. We like to do that.

Is that possible?

We need to get up river.

Where're you going?

Into Burma.

Burma is a war zone.

Look... that's what people call it.

But it's more like genocide than war... anyway,

This will be my fifth trip in, so...

we are aware of all the risk.

I don't go that far north.

Let me explain our situation.

Our church is part of the Pan-Asia ministry..

located in Colorado.

We are all volunteers, who around this time of the year...

bring in medical supplies, medical attention...

prayer books and support for the Karen tribe's people.

People say you know the river better than anyone.

Well, they're lying.

So, what I'm asking is, that we compensate you...

for a few hours of your time..

that will help change people's lives.

You're bringing in any weapons?

Of course not.

You're not changing anything.

Oh, 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 me try. - Sarah...

- It'll be an interesting trip going up there. - But he's...

- What'd we have to lose?. - I've already talked...

- Let me try. - Sarah?

Hello!

I'm Sarah Miller, hope you don't mind me, coming back here.

The man you were talking to...

I wasn't talking to anybody.

Alright... the man that was talking to you...

asked if we could hire your boat to go up the river...

and you said no... why?

Can't help you out.

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

Go home.

[Chattering and screaming]

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 don't.

Really?

If everyone thought like you, nothing would ever change.

Nothing will change.

Of course it does. Nothing stays the same.

Value your life, if you've got a good one.

It's what I'm trying to do!

Oh, no, what you're trying to do is change what is.

And what is?

Go home.

Really. Go home.

Maybe...

Maybe, you've lost your faith in people.

But you must still be thankful for 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.

They can't!

Time alone will tell, but in the meantime, we just have to hold it together.

I mean, just the other day, I got...

Excuse me, Sarah?

Where're you going?

To talk to him.

He'll probably wants’ his privacy.

Michael, you shouldn't worry, he's helping us.

He's being paid.

He didn't take anything.

Thank you again for doing this.

Really from all of us.

You really never told us your name.

John.

Where're you from?

Del Rio, Arizona.

- Why'd you leave? - I got drafted in 'Nam.

And you just stayed?

It's complicated.

You have a family back home?

Father maybe, I don't know.

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

Don't have a reason for that.

Sarah...

Because of you, we're going up the river...

anytime you wanna turn around...

...it's done.

Ok.

What is it? Who are they?

Burmese pirates.

Tell everyone to stay down, don't make a sound.

- Who are they? - It's all right.

Don't talk!

- Any more of them? - Maybe.

What you wanna do?

We should keep going. We've made a commitment.

I ain't talking to you.

- What'd you wanna do? - We're a group here, if they wanna vote. Vote.

Sit down!

If it's money they want, give it...

Nobody talk. Heads down!

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

[continuing in native language]

No...

What did you do?

We came here to help stop the killing. Who are you to kill?

- Who are you? - Let him go!

They would have raped her fifty times, and then cut your fucking heads off!

Who are you?

Who are any of you?

We're going back.

No... no, we shouldn't go back!

Let go.

- What're you doing? - We are so close...

and what happened here, is horrible...

But the people in there, are being killed like this every day.

Michael, this was your idea. We made a commitment.

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

But it's our live.

Our choice.

You're not gonna change anything.

Please...

Please John.

Please.

Go sit down.

[Indistinct chatter]

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.

[Children chattering]

Hey...

Open...

[Indistinct chatter]

So Christ was (?) your heart with faith.

We're gonna signify your faith with this flower, ok?

Hello dear, can I have one of those bandages?

Good. Ok.

Let's get out of here! What about them? Go on, take them!

...calling Raven.

Come in, over...

What am I?

We made you this way. You're a full blooded combat soldier.

You don't just turn it off!

- Talk to me Johnny! - You just don't turn it off!

- It's over! - Nothing is over!

[indistinct voices]

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

You've done enough damage!

You will always be tearing away soldier..

until you come to terms, with what you are.

- So, you're just gonna stay here forever? - John!

John Rambo!

John.

John Rambo.

My name is Arthur Marsh.

Pastor of the Christ Church of Colorado.

I need to talk with you.

It's very important, I wouldn't come here like this, if it wasn't.

The morning of the day the group left,..

Michael Burnet 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?.

Because we've been in contact with the Karen freedom fighters,

who say, they think they know where they were taken.

And I was given the name of an ex-military American local from the embassy...

who put me in touch with men who say they have experience in this part of the world.

Mercenaries?

Yeah.

I don't have any other choices.

You know the exact spot. We need you to take these men...

to where you let our people off.

When're they ready to leave?

When you are.

You know what you are.

And what you're made off.

War is in your blood.

Don't fight it.

Did you kill for your country?

Or, kill for yourself?

God is never gonna make that go away.

But when you're pushed...

Killing is as easy as breathing.

[Man singing]

Look at this fucking place!

Only a fucking ape would live here.

What the fuck am I doing here?

Hey, knock that shit off!

Louis, you don't like the arts?

- And you don't like the shit. - I like your sister, Diaz.

She's got a thing for retards.

Hey boatman!

How much longer in this ancient piece of shit?

So, what'd the reverent say to you?

Some shit, about how his flock got missing.

I said to him: Look mate, that's what you get when you go trespassing into fucking Burma...

that's what you get, when you go sniffing around other people's garbage.

You know those generals in there, making millions, cranking out more...

- than any other person on this fucking planet. - Bullshit!

- Millions, Moron. - How'd you think they pay for that shit all?

Next time try reading the paper, Redneck, instead of sleeping under it.

The fucking general's are the biggest junkies of all of them.

It's noble Louis...

- Do what? - Those people going in there with no weapons.

Just books and meds.

It's noble.

Oh, schoolboy!

You stick your nose in other people's business, you get fucked up...

or you get dead.

The only reason I'm doing this, is for an ex-wife and 3 kids...

and after this shit is over, you can shove that soldering right up your ass.

- Try to think on that, mate! - Fuck off!

And you!... I don't wanna die of old age, before I get there... so move.

You say something?

[Man singing]

[Indistinct chatter]

[Shouting orders in native language]

[Pigs squealing]

[Singing continues]

Is it me?

Or does the air that's coming in, smell like a goddamn dead dog?

For fuck sake, I can swim faster than this.

- Am I right? - You bet.

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

Those dumb Squalors.

They come over here...

start with all that shit...

expecting the whole world to work, like they're fucking neighbors’. Well it doesn't...

So, they send in the devil...

to do god's work, it's Ironic isn't it?

Am I boring you, man?

What is it? Is it the trip? Has it got you nervous?

Because we...

we really appreciate the action. You know what I mean?

God man, look me in the eyes, so you know what I'm saying.

Oh dear...

You really are an uptight bastard, aren't you?

You can drop that act with the eye stare.

I've seen it all before.

I'm not fucking impressed.

He's old school, SAS.

The first rate soldiers, who've been told they're maniacs.

They call me schoolboy.

The name stuck with me, since nitro school...

and the Mates won’t stop calling me, no matter how many people I shoot.

What do you want from us?

One man and a kid, you've got to be fucking joking.

- These sorts of rebels they put up. - I'm not liking it.

You're in a fucking jungle, Cosmo, there's nothing to like.

How you're doing?

My name is Bieth, this is Tha.

This is it?

- Yes. - What's up with the kid, man?

- He's good tracker. - We don't need a tracker, we need a fuckin' guard.

You know the exact location, right?

10 km west.

- 2 north, 6 for walk. - How many soldiers?

- 100 maybe. - 100?

- Hey, what he say? - More new soldiers, come tomorrow.

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

- fuck off, with that 100... - Alright, alright, alright!

Let's get this straight.

We don't engage anybody. If we can extract those people, good.

But it's in, out, clean, or we fuck off.

Somebody wanna tell me what the boatman's doing?

Hey, why don't you wait with the boat.

- My man will stay with the boat. - It's your boat, you stay with the boat.

I won't slow you down.

Well, I know you won't. It's not a fucking nature hunt.

- You can believe that. - He can be with me in the back.

Hey... he stays here, he's the boatman. He stays with the fucking boat.

Only a white man with a fucking dick.

Who's got explosives? Doomsday?

- No. - I have a C4 and fiver.

- I’ve got a claymore. - Alright.

Let's go on with it. Come on, move, move!

- What the fuck is that? - A (?) bomb, they missed drop, in World War 2.

Your people, taken from here.

In my life, I've seen some shit.

- But, I've never seen no shit like this. - Really.

Check it out!

All these commies, kill everything, People are dead here, as warnings.

Mines, everywhere.

Watch where you're walking.

- Alright let's move on. - To what?

- They even kill the fucking dogs, those people are dead. - I'm with Kenji.

At least to go, and have a look, Sir.

- Check it out. - I'm with you, let's check it out.

Check what? They're a 100 strong.

- Hey, we took the man's money. - Hey, hey, hey, just calm down, calm down.

He's got it right, I'm gonna see what's wrong.

If anything is wrong, anything at all, we'll leave. Alright?

Yeah.

Alright.

- Good, which way? - This way.

Army! Go!

[Indistinct chatter]

We're gonna fire on them?

No, if they don't make it back from where the hell they came from, they'll be on to us.

What the fuck are they doing there?

[Shouting orders in native language]

Who are you boatman?

- Let's move. - Move?

They're gonna come hunt our asses down, when these guys don't show up.

- We don't need this shit, we're going back to the boat. - Let's go.

Any of you boys wanna shoot, now is the time.

Any reason one of us, doesn't wanna be surprise us.

But this is what we do.

Who we are.

Live for nothing.

Or die for something.

Your call!

- What's your call? - Let's move.

Once Schoolboy's on the tower, we've got 15 min. Set your watches for 1:45.

And we won't wait for anybody.

We meet at the base of the tower. We don't meet up there, we're fucked.

- All set? - Set!

We're in.

Go!

Go!

Go!

[Indistinctive chatter]

Go!

[Crowd cheering]

[Cheering and chatter continues]

Don't talk, hear me out!

Where's the girl?

- She's over there. - Go untie him, I'll be right back.

[Cheering and chatter continues]

Here!

- There's two of'm in the cage, near the pitch. Get them. - Alright.

[Cheering and chatter continues]

[More cheering and chatter]

- Come on! Come on! - Yes Sir.

Go ahead, come on.

[Woman screaming]

[Man shouting]

Ssshhh.

Let's move!

- Where's the boatman? - And Sarah?

- 15 minutes, that's the deal, we're leaving. - Let's go!

- 5 more minutes. - Bullshit!

- He knew the deal. - If we're getting away, we're fucking leave together!

It's your life, let's go!

No, not without her!

Who do you think saved your life? We did, now fucking get up.

- Get up! - This way.

- You've got a compass? - Yes.

Why'd you come back? Why did you do?

- Witch way we're going? - This way.

[Indistinct shouting by soldiers]

- My leg. - Hold still!

Shut up, shut up, we got you. We're getting you out.

- His leg is broken! - Son of a...

- Where's the guide? - Well, I guess he's gone!

- We're not gonna make it to the river with him. - Will you shut the fuck up.

Come on, untie his lace. Take of his boot.

No...! Leave his boot on.

Let's see the fracture, I need a knife.

- Is he gonna make it? - I don't know, make a stretcher.

- Hurry up. - Spread out!

Take the point.

Hear that? They're tracking us.

- Turn around. - What're you doing?

Turn, turn.

I want you two, make it down to the river. and the boat will be waiting.

When you get there, you can follow the shore line, till the...

- What about you? - I'll be alright.

Give me that claymore.

- Fire of a shot. - What?

Fire off a shot!

Go! Go!

[Indistinct shouting]

[Indistinct shouting continues]

- Let's move. - [Indistinct shouting]

Wait, wait, wait. Wait here.

Son of a bitch!... Look.

Oh God, no!

God damn it!

[Soldiers cursing and shouting]

- You Godless Fuck! - [Cursing and shouting continues]

Come on to me, you lady boy!

- Godless Fuck! - [Cursing and shouting continues]

- What did we do? We did nothing. - [More cursing and shouting]

[Shouting orders in native language]

- What're we gonna do? - Nothing we can do.

The Karen Rebels.

Michael!

- Michael! - [Indistinct chatter]

Michael!

Michael!

Michael!

Michael!

Michael!