Biography

Michel Collon started his career in the Belgian weekly Solidaire. He continued his work independently by writing books, making films and an Internet newsletter broadcast to 40 000 subscribers. He's close to
the Workers Party of Belgium

Workers Party of Belgium

The Workers' Party of Belgium is a Marxist political party in Belgium. It is one of the few parties that operates as a single Belgian party...

, and has organised a network of civil observers in Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

 and in Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

. He's a member of the "anti-imperialist" conference Axis for Peace

Axis for Peace

Axis for Peace was a conference organised by Voltaire Network to"gather political and intellectual personalities... already committed against the war logic and who wish to install a permanent structure that could make the voice of peace be heard."...

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Michel Collon denounced what he believed was misuse of a photograph to imply that Chinese soldiers had dressed up as Buddhist monks

Bhikkhu

A Bhikkhu or Bhikṣu is an ordained male Buddhist monastic. A female monastic is called a Bhikkhuni Nepali: ). The life of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis is governed by a set of rules called the patimokkha within the vinaya's framework of monastic discipline...

 and provoked the 2008 Tibetan unrest

2008 Tibetan unrest

The 2008 Tibetan unrest, also known from its Chinese name as the 3•14 Riots, was a series of riots, protests, and demonstrations that started in Tibetan regional capital of Lhasa and spread to other Tibetan areas and a number of monasteries including outside the Tibet Autonomous Region...

. According to the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

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, this photograph was taken from the Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh

Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng is a Hong Kong-based Malaysian Chinese actress, well known for performing her own stunts in the action films that brought her to fame in the early 1990s....

 film The Touch

The Touch (2002 film)

The Touch is a 2002 Hong Kong action/adventure martial arts film directed by Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon cinematographer Peter Pau and starring Michelle Yeoh, Ben Chaplin and Richard Roxburgh...

, which was filmed in Lhassa between 2001 & 2002.

Filmography

• Report with Carlos Fittoria : Sous les bombes de l'Otan, 45', Brussels, 1999
• Documentary with Vanessa Stojilkovic : Les Damnés du Kosovo, 78', Brussels, 2002
• Speech at the Islamic and Cultural Centre of Liege, Le rôle des média et de l'union européenne, Liege, 2009

External links

Official site of Michel Collon