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LIBYA'S EXODUSMore than 100,000 people have fled the conflict in Libya and crossed the border into Tunisia, but what is life like for the displaced in a country suffering its own turmoil?Yalda Hakim reports from the border refugee camp this Sunday on the human cost of the battle over Muammar Gaddafi's rule.She sees the thousands of tents set up in a makeshift city by the UN and aid groups and finds herself in the middle of angry crowds... fighting over the shortage of food and pleading for help in escaping the crisis.And it's not just Libyans pouring from the troubled country... Yalda also meets Somalians, who've already fled from one chaotic country to be caught up in another, and Bangladeshi migrant workers, who are now refugees looking to Europe for help.ISRAEL'S MABO?Is Nuri el Okbi a Bedouin version of Australia's indigenous land rights campaigner Eddie Mabo?Professor John Sheehan, an Australian authority on native title compensation, certainly thinks he could be. He's currently helping Nuri in his struggle to reclaim land taken from his family by the Israeli authorities 60 years ago.Despite living in the Negev Desert for hundreds of years, long before modern-day Israel was even formed, Bedouin who want to live on their ancestral land are being accused by Israel of 'trespassing'.Video journalist Amos Roberts travels with Nuri to the edge of the disputed land where he was born and which he's not even allowed to set foot on. Nearby, Amos witnesses a village being bulldozed by Israeli authorities, then rebuilt by defiant locals - for the seventh time.The Israeli government says the Bedouin do not qualify as indigenous people, and it's just enforcing laws it inherited from the British and the Ottomans.But Israeli geographer Professor Oren Yiftachel, who learned about the Aboriginal land rights struggle when he lived in Perth, accuses the government of declaring 'terra nullius in reverse'.All previous Bedouin land claims have failed, but Nuri and his legal team hope that this will be their 'Mabo moment'.WOOING EAST TIMORCould Australia's long-standing cooperation with its neighbour East Timor be coming under threat from China?It's the question many are asking, as the Chinese have paid for a new presidential palace, and now more significantly are building a military headquarters and barracks. They've also sold the Timorese two naval patrol gunboats.Video journalist Mark Davis finds diplomatic relations are calm on the surface at the moment, but asks... should Australia be concerned over an increasingly Chinese-backed Timorese military? |
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Broadcast 2011-03-27 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Indigenous peoples -- Land tenure.
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International relations -- Political aspects.
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Land tenure -- Government policy.
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Political refugees -- Social conditions.
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War victims -- Psychology.
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Israel.
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Libya.
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Timor-Leste.
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Tunisia.
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Streaming video
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Aboud, Reem, contributor
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Ahmed, Hami Ben, contributor
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Armitage, Miles, contributor
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Bashir, Ali, contributor
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Chung, Foo Yoo, contributor
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Correa, Raul, contributor
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Davis, Mark, host
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El-Okbi, Nuri, contributor
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El-Turi, Mohammed, contributor
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Ghani, Abdul, contributor
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Gomez, Donacella, contributor
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Gusmao, Xanana, contributor
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Hakim, Yalda, reporter
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Jawad, Samir Abdul, contributor
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Pinto, Julio, contributor
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Ramos-Horta, Jose, contributor
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Roberts, Amos, reporter
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Sfard, Michael, contributor
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Sheehan, John, contributor
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Tzesar, Shlomo, contributor
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Yiftachel, Oren, contributor
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