Film Analysis: Dealing With A Dictator

Dealing With a Dictator. Directed by Mark Kelley. 2016. Nevsun Resources Ltd, a Canadian mining company, has been accused of modern slavery after partnering up with Eritrea. Their collaboration with an unlikable dictatorship may be rewarding, but allegations about promoting terrorism emerged. This documentary explores the consequences of such partnerships. The documentary starts off with “Sometimes the truth can hide faraway places, that’s why sometimes the truth is hard to find”, Mark Kelley travels to Eutopia to find out more about its neighbor, Eritrea. The Fifth State questions how could the Canadians tap into such a monster mineral deposit Eritrea was. Kelley interviews a 15 year old refugee girl from the hundreds of refugees from Eritrea
Kelly also added Jeremy, an exiled Eritrean human rights activist, into the documentary. Jeremy has talked to former workers who fled the country and says that many were forced into the job. In January 2013, New York based Human Rights released a report called “Hear No Evil” blaming Nevsun for failing to stop the use of force labor at the mine. Romaine claimed that Nevsun didn’t do the hiring process but it was provided by an Eritrean state-run company called Sagan Construction. After all the accusations, the UN released a 484 page report on human rights abuses in Eritrea, including the issue of forced labor to build the Canadian mine. Kelley questions Romaine if he is sure force labor was never used in the development or operation of the mine. Romaine affirms that lots of investigation has been made inside territory at the Bisha mine. After Kelley recalling the allegations being made on the public record from people who say were force labor working in his mine, he questions Romaine if he thinks the people are lying. Romaine reads a report from the UN, regarding the alleged