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COLLISION COURSEMuch has been made of Burma's transition from a military dictatorship, but Tuesday's Dateline travels to a rural farming village where locals are calling into question the country's new freedoms. Wet Hmay is now home to a huge copper mine owned by a large Chinese weapons manufacturer and a business run by Burma's top Generals. Villagers say the mine is destroying their crops and their traditional way of life, displacing families from their ancestral land with little compensation, and it could ultimately flatten an entire mountain range. Evan Williams meets protest leader Aye Net, who's inspired by democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, but the villagers' anger is quickly met by a violent response from the authorities.With the Generals still seemingly dominating every part of Burmese life, what prospect is there for the country's hope of people power?INNOCENCE FOR SALEIt's estimated that one in seven people work in the sex trade in parts of Madagascar, where prostitution is seen as a way of escaping the poverty of one of the world's poorest countries. But as Nick Lazaredes reports, the country has become a new global hub for the child sex trade, with parents often prostituting their own children. He gives a revealing insight into the lives of Madagascar's child prostitutes - some as young as 11 who sell their bodies to mainly European sex tourists. Using undercover filming to reveal the extent of this sordid trade, Nick looks at the efforts of the authorities who claim to be tackling the problem. On the island of Nosy Be in the country's north, where the problem is critical, Nick reports on the efforts of local residents - mainly children themselves - who are trying to find solutions to this adult scourge.THE GREATEST GATHERINGOn Tuesday's Dateline, Aaron Lewis reports from the heart of the biggest gathering of humanity on the planet... India's Kumbh Mela. The Hindu festival is this year expected to bring 100 million people to Allahabad, where they believe washing in the sacred waters of the River Ganges will cleanse them of their sins. Aaron gets a taste of the 55 day spectacle and being surrounded by so many people, all heading for the same stretch of water. But it also has its dangers... 36 were killed in a stampede at a railway station earlier this month. That day alone saw a record breaking crowd of over 30 million. So what drives people to make the journey from all over the world to bathe in the Ganges? And how can the Indian authorities ever hope to safely control the world's largest crowd? |
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Broadcast 2013-02-26 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Child prostitution.
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Copper mines and mining -- Environmental aspects.
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Kumbha Mela (Hindu festival)
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Crowd control.
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Madagascar.
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India.
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Streaming video
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Rao, Anjali, host
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Williams, Evan, reporter
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Florine, Madame, contributor
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Lazaredes, Nick, contributor
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Net, Aye, contributor
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Randimbiarison, Jeannoda, contributor
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Si, Ma, contributor
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Thwe, Thwe, contributor
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Win, U Thein, contributor
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