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PRAWN SLAVES Half a million tonnes of prawns are exported from Thailand every year, feeding the increasing hunger for cheap seafood in Australia and around the world. But a special investigation to be screened on Tuesday's Dateline reveals the high price being paid by slave labour working in the country's lucrative fishing industry. Kate Hodal and Chris Kelly from The Guardian spent six months tracing the complex food chain from Thailand's trawlers to the shelves of major supermarkets around the world. Products marketed by the Thai-based firm at the centre of the investigation, Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, are available in Australia, including from Coles and Woolworths. The program speaks with people who say they have been trafficked from countries like Myanmar and Cambodia in search of a better life, but instead were sold into slavery. They tell of workers spending years on the boats, being abused, tortured and even killed for trying to fight back. Using undercover filming and speaking to escaped slaves who still fear for their safety, the story reveals the shocking secrets behind the prawn trade.FERGUSTANIt was only a matter of time before Ferguson in Missouri exploded in violent racial unrest, according to protesters. And on Tuesday's Dateline, they paint a vivid portrait to video journalist Aaron Lewis of the inequality and hardship they say they've suffered for decades. But it was the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer that finally tipped them over the edge. With police in armoured vehicles firing stun grenades and using tear gas to quell the crowds, the town has even been dubbed Fergustan. Aaron looks at what's fuelling this kind of anger in modern America. And, as Ferguson prepares for Brown's funeral, he asks how it can move forward and strive for peace.BOKO HARAM BACKLASHThe kidnap of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls focused the world's attention on hardline Islamist group Boko Haram and its murderous rampage through the country's north. But Dateline's Evan Williams has uncovered shocking allegations that the Nigerian Government's fightback includes gross human rights abuses. The Nigerian Army has enlisted civilian militia to help flush out the terrorist group, but dozens of graphic videos and eyewitness testimonies appear to show the militia beating and torturing villagers in the campaign to drive out Boko Haram. The videos also appear to show the Nigerian Army involved in summary executions of villagers. Civilians now live in fear of the very people who are supposed to protect them. Nigeria's government has dismissed the videos as fake, but a leading human rights lawyer tells Evan that, on the evidence he's seen, war crimes have been committed |
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Broadcast 2014-08-26 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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African American youth -- Crimes against.
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Civil-military relations.
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Fish trade -- Corrupt practices.
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Funeral service.
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Shrimps -- Feeding and feeds.
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Missouri -- Saint Louis.
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Nigeria.
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Thailand -- Songkhla (Province)
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Streaming video
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Rao, Anjali, host
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Cumberbatch, Benedict, reporter
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Lewis, Aaron, reporter
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Williams, Evan, reporter
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Agnew, Phillip, contributor
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Canamore, Rick, contributor
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Ellis, Mark, contributor
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Ewing, Charles, contributor
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Harvey, Thomas, contributor
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Kamara, Makmid, contributor
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Lagon, Mark, contributor
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Lawler, Steve, contributor
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Owen, Mike, contributor
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Prompoj, Waraporn, contributor
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Quinn, Mae, contributor
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Sani, Shehu, contributor
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Sharpton, Al, contributor
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Trent, Steve, contributor
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