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Columbia:
Colombia's Dying Tribes
America:
Down and Out in America
El Salvador:
The Child Assassins
Bolivia:
Bolivia’s Child Miners
Iraq:
Iraq’s Next Battlefield
Burma
Burma’s Secret State
Tobacco:
Tobacco's Child Workers
Pakistan:
Pakistan’s Terror Central
Nigeria:
Nigeria’s Killing Fields
Elephants:
End of the Elephant
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Colombia's Dying Tribes;
Channel 4, Friday 2 July 2010, 7:30pm
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Katherine Churcher travel to Colombia to investigate how the country's native inhabitants have become caught in the crossfire of a 46-year-long civil war. In the Cauca region they meet the Nasa people, who are suffering a campaign of murders, death threats and intimidation because international mining companies want to drive them off their land in order to extract vast reserves of gold. Their struggle to keep their land underlines how, despite the government's claim that it is destroying the rebel threat, the war is driving the country's indigenous tribes to the brink of extinction.
'Ongoing journalistic excellence from C4's designated "thought slot" '
Guardian
Down and Out in America;
Channel 4, Friday 4 June 2010, 7:30pm
One in five Americans are now jobless, yet two-thirds of the unemployed aren't receiving benefits, owing to an edict that temporary, part-time, or self-employed workers don't qualify for government help. As Reporter Ramita Navai and director Clancy Chassay discover, this has resulted in food queues full of people who do have jobs and apartments ("the working poor"), but still can't make ends meet. Elsewhere, in Skid Row, a square mile of LA, 2,000 people sleep rough nightly.
'A poignant portrait of a contemporary crisis’
Observer
'The penultimate film in this superb strand’ '
Daily Telegraph
The Child Assassins;
Channel 4, Friday 11 June 2010, 7:30pm
El Salvador's civil war ended 13 years ago, but the Central American country's capital still looks like a war zone. Soaring gang violence has created a new breed of child killers, many of whom weren't even born when peace broke out. Reporter Ramita Navai and director Alex Nott enter San Salvador's brutal underworld, where the deployment of thousands of soldiers on the streets can't prevent 50 murders a day
'As ever with this current affairs strand, this is compelling and brave film-making'
Daily Telegraph
'Excellent'
Independent
Bolivia’s Child Miners;
Channel 4, Friday 4 May 2010, 7:30pm
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Matt Haan travel to Bolivia's Cerro Rico silver mines. Opened nearly 500 years ago by ore-hungry conquistadors, the mines are now run by workers' co-operatives which employ boys as young as 13 to work in nightmarishly unsafe conditions under the ground.
'deeply distressing’ '
Guardian
Iraq’s Next Battlefield;
Channel 4, Friday 28 May 2010, 7:30pm
As the US finally prepares to withdraw from Iraq, a new era is dawning. However, it's unlikely to be a peaceful one. The northern oil rich region threatens to spill into full-blown civil war once the troops leave. Reporter Evan Williams and director Matt Haan begin their dangerous journey in Mosul, right on the Arab-Kurd divide and always a hotbed of resistance to Western forces. It remains Iraq's most dangerous city, with 50-plus murders per month, and is trying in vain to move over to civil self policing. Sectarian murders are rife – including killings of Christians. Security forces are occupied fighting Sunni insurgents who want to destabilise the Shia Muslim ruling majority, and then there’s the militia called the Church Guardians, which has taken up arms to protect Christians.
'Shocking…it looks as if it will be a long time until Iraq will be at'
Daily Telegraph
Inside Burma’s Secret State ;
Channel 4, Friday 21 May 2010, 7:35pm
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Simon Phillips spend two weeks inside Burma with the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), a guerrilla force that has been fighting for an independent state for the Karen people for the past 60 years. In response, the Burmese military has been operating a policy of ethnic cleansing - burning down Karen villages and laying landmines. The KNLA are outnumbered and poorly equipped, and the most they can hope to do is to disrupt Burmese military operations and force the junta into some sort of dialogue, which is unlikely to happen. Now the Thai government, anxious to benefit from Burma's rich natural resources, has begun cooperating with the military junta to stop the movement of soldiers and weapons across the border, worsening the plight of the Karen people
'A shocking film… horrific evidence of massacres and displacement by the Burmese soldiers, with villages burnt to the ground, villagers murdered and tortured, and thousands of people driven from their homes and living in temporary shelters in the jungle'
Sunday Telegraph
'powerful and distressing insight into the genocidal war being waged by the Burmese military against the Karen people.'
Independent
'...moving and depressing...'
Guardian
Tobacco’s Child Workers
Channel 4, Friday 14th May 2010, 7:35pm
Reporter Jenny Kleeman and director Julie Noon travel to Malawi to investigate claims that children as young as three are being illegally employed to produce tobacco. The country's children suffer symptoms associated with nicotine poisoning and the pair find many trapped in bonded labour arrangements: a modern form of slavery. When they try to arrange an interview with the Minister of Labour to discuss their findings, he fails to turn up. All the evidence they gather points to poor, vulnerable and exposed Malawian children bearing the costs of the tobacco industry's vast profits.
'Thank heaven...for Kleeman, ferreting about the place, being a proper journalist, exposing the bad guys…’
Guardian
'Another reason, if any more be needed, not to smoke...’
The Telegraph
'Jenny Kleeman’s powerful report ...connecting child and bonded labour to cigarettes sold in Britain’
Sunday Times
'‘...a shocking but necessary indictment’
Observer
Pakistan’s Terror Central ;
Channel 4, Friday 09 April 2009, 7:35pm
When is a charity not a charity? Lashkar-e-Taiba, the so-called army of the righteous was responsible for the November 2008 attack on Mumbai and has been banned by the Pakistani Government as a terrorist organisation. Yet the charitable organisation Jamaat ul-Dawa, which the UN and US both say is a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, continues to flourish. It denies any link with terrorism, and gives reporter Evan Williams and director Will West a rare tour of its Headquarters complex. The minister of law in Punjab agrees that Jamaat ul-Dawa is not just a charity, but says popular support and its sympathisers in the military make it untouchable.
Throughout the film is a growing visceral sense that something far more sinister is going on and that Williams is in danger, a stark reminder of another possible threat emerging from this corner of the world
Guardian
.chilling
Sunday Telegraph
Nigeria’s Killing Fields;
Channel 4, Friday 2 April 2010, 7:35pm
The recent sectarian violence in Nigeria has been put down to clashes between Muslims and Christians. But as this harrowing report suggests, the reality involves a complex battle for land and power. Reporter Peter Oborne and director Andy Wells gained exclusive entry to the town of Jos. After a massacre that left hundreds dead, they find violence still erupting despite a military-enforced curfew.
'In village after village, we witness the aftermath of the massacres, including bodies thrown down wells and blackened patches where human beings have been burned alive...'.
Guardian
'alarming timeliness...'
The Times
End of the Elephant ;
Channel 4, Friday 26 March 2010. 7:30pm
Reporter Aidan Hartley and Director Alex Nott reports on the upsurge of ivory smuggling in Kenya and Tanzania that feeds the black market in Asia. Posing as a potential client, Hartley secretly films an ivory trader in Dar es Salaam, who offers to sell him a ton of ivory worth more than $1 million. The trader claims to know a corrupt security official at the airport. "If you have enough money," he says, "anything is possible." In an extraordinary allegation, the trader also says that when President Hu Jintao of China came to Tanzania in 2009 on a state visit, his officials left with 200kg of smuggled ivory. Since 2006, scientists estimate that 56,000 elephants have been shot in Tanzania.
'Channel 4's excellent foreign-affairs strand returns with Aidan Hartley's report on how the Chinese presence in east Africa has led to a huge increase in elephant poaching.'
Independent
‘The sight of tuskless elephant carcasses, swarming with flies, or underground store-rooms housing mountains of torn-out tusks won't be easily forgotten.’
The Guardian
‘‘The bullet-riddled carcasses of elephants, among them babies and pregnant mothers…are shocking evidence of the rise of ivory poaching in Africa’
The Observer
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