The film unspools the story of Peter, a Dutch man who arrived in Bangladesh in 1973 to report on revolutionary left move | dG1fbVFPNmNiOWF3MmM
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00:00I think it's quite logical.
00:03I understand the enthusiasm very well.
00:06I'm happy with the enthusiasm of the visitors.
00:18I understand it very well.
00:20I'm very happy to hear that you were involved.
00:24So the confirmation that the archives are still there...
00:30Your signature as well.
00:32Pieces that you have from the ministry are still there.
00:40The press release.
00:42You also talked about something that the ministry had sent.
00:46A letter that they had sent.
00:50I think your story is clear for the moment.
00:58I think I should go back to the film crew now.
01:01I'm going to hand this over.
01:04I'm just going to indicate that it is conceivable that a meeting will take place.
01:10But it must be at the next visit.
01:12That seems clear to me.
01:20Yes.
01:25Yes.
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01:33Yes.
01:34Yes.
01:35I don't know why.
01:42Yeah, yeah.
01:54Yeah.
02:02Ah, okay.
02:04I'm going to explain everything here.
02:06And then you'll hear from me.
02:10Yes?
02:12Yes, of course.
02:14Thank you very much.
02:16And...
02:17Yes, of course.
02:19Bye.
02:35Oh, wow.
02:38Fantastic.
02:52He's older or younger than you?
02:54Okay, okay. So almost the same age, right?
03:04In five minutes my story will be over because I'm not fully back into the story.
03:09It's 40 years back.
03:11So I was responsible for the contacts towards the ministry.
03:16Even towards the parliament.
03:19So I have a full file on all the connections.
03:24And we were well informed by the ministry on the different moments.
03:29Yesterday it became known that more than 1,600 prisoners were released in Bangladesh.
03:34These are mainly political prisoners who have been arrested in the past nine months after the fall of Sheikh Moedibu Rahman.
03:40Dutch journalist Peter Custers, who has been in a Bengal cell since December, has not been released.
03:47He will have to appear in court next Monday.
03:50An official indictment has not yet been filed against him.
03:53A good friend of Peter Custers, Jos van Beurden of the Koppelgemeente Bangladesh Foundation,
03:57has taken more information about the position of Peter Custers yesterday.
04:01And Ben Smit asked him why the Dutch journalist was actually arrested.
04:05He started with the fate of the poor farmers.
04:10He had a lot of information.
04:13And he was also involved in setting up education programs for poor farmers.
04:20You could call those programs a kind of awareness programs.
04:24Which have apparently been quite threatening to the existing powers in Bangladesh.