Kewley filmed alone when Bobbitt left after becoming ill and continued her journey by van into the region 's interior and discovered babies being born with deformities near a nuclear plant with one Chinese doctor admitting to performing enforced abortions and sterilisations . She persuaded a French mountaineer to smuggle the majority of the film footage out of Tibet before leaving on her own flight . The resulting film , '' Tibet : A Case to Answer , '' received much attention after its first broadcast on Channel 4 in 1988 and was repeated twice more in the following months . It was also specially shown to members of the Houses of Parliament , the United States Congress and the European Parliament . The film drew repeated protests from Beijing and Chinese ambassadors declined offers to debate the film live on air with Kewley . She also courted controversy by interviewing her subjects without disguises but she responded that she attempted to persuade the interviewees to hide their identifies but they chose not to . The 14th Dalai Lama became a friend as " she continued to travel once a year to India and Dharamsala – home in exile of the Dalai Lama , who was the subject of her 1975 film , '' The Lama King '' . " In 1990 , Kewley 's only book entitled '' Tibet : Behind the Ice Curtain '' was published . She returned to Tibet in 1991 by smuggling herself into the country across the Himalayas hidden beneath the floorboards of a van to create the follow-up to '' Tibet : A Case to Answer , '' entitled '' Voices from Tibet '' shown on Channel 4 . Kewley revealed martial law was still present in Tibet despite claims from China that it had been ended . She stopped producing documentaries when she was diagnosed with Parkinson 's disease in 1993 . However Kewley returned to Charing Cross Hospital in the early 1990s to undertake a refresher course before travelling to perform work for the Red Cross in Bosnia and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1994 Rwandan genocide . She adopted and sponsored the education of two girls from Tibet and one boy from Rwanda . On 14 October 2000 , Kewley married the soil scientist Michael Lambert and the marriage ended with Lambert 's death from bone cancer four years later . She died of pneumonia and Parkinson 's disease on 17 July 2012 at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital . Her adoptive children survive her
1994 Rwandan genocide
Rwandan genocide
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