Nigeria: Fire in the Delta

November 10, 2006

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Unreported World - S7 - E15

Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.

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Unreported World: Season 7 - 20 Episode s

7x1 - Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows
April 21, 2006
Sandra Jordan gains access to Tamil Tiger training camps and examines the effects of the long-running war between Tigers and government.
7x2 - Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps
April 28, 2006
Aidan Hartley travels to the Dandora slums near Nairobi where gun crime and abject poverty show the growing divide between rich and poor.
7x3 - Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara
May 5, 2006
Khaled Khazziha, in a refugee camp, meets Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic, a country not officially recognised by Morocco.
7x4 - Philippines: City of Guilt
May 12, 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinay looks at the impact of the government's pro-life policy on women as illegal abortions have left 80,000 seriously injured.
7x5 - Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge
May 19, 2006
Sandra Jordan reports from Kathmandu during the pro-democracy demonstrations of April 2006.
7x6 - Turkey: Europe's Hidden War
May 26, 2006
Matthew McAllester travels to Diyarbakir to find out about the rekindling of a war between Turkish troops and the Kurdish PKK group.
7x7 - Malaysia: Asia's Slaves
June 2, 2006
Ramita Navai examines the plight of those Indonesian workers who, with their passports retained by their employers, are abused and treated as slaves.
7x8 - Chad and Sudan (Dafur)
June 9, 2006
Peter Oborne finds evidence that the Janjawiid have crossed over from the Darfur region of Sudan into Chad to commit atrocities against civilians.
7x9 - Democratic Republic of Congo
June 23, 2006
Aidan Hartley uncovers evidence of UN troops supporting the Congolese government in a war against local militia.
7x10 - Brazil: Slum Warfare
June 30, 2006
Khaled Khazziha films in a favela in Rio de Janeiro, with the permission of the local drug-lords who run it as a state within a state.
7x11 - South Africa: The New Apartheid
October 13, 2006
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy reports on a huge rise in illegal immigration that has led to an increase in racism and xenophobic violence.
7x12 - West Papua: Rainforest Warriors
October 20, 2006
This week’s Unreported World travels to one of the remotest places on earth, where journalists are forbidden to work and usually arrested when they arrive, and where a bloody conflict between government forces and locals is rarely glimpsed by the outside world. Reporter Evan Williams and Director Siobhan Sinnerton spend three weeks undercover in West Papua, an outlying province of Indonesia in the Western Pacific, which is home to the world’s biggest copper and gold mine. Getting in to West Papua is extremely difficult. Obtaining official journalist accreditation is virtually impossible so the team have to film clandestinely” They begin their journey in Wamena in the remote western highlands. Waiting inside a safe house, hiding from the Indonesian authorities, they meet a group of tribal warriors who have travelled for days to be there. They tell Unreported World that at least 12 of their friends have been killed by the security forces, and claim that thousands more have been killed in a campaign which could wipe out their ethnic group. West Papua’s tribes lived in stone-age isolation until they were discovered by Europeans in the 1930s. Indonesia annexed the area in the 1969, after a group of selected West Papuans voted for annexation, but the rest of the population were not allowed a chance to vote. Since then hundreds of thousands of Indonesians have been subsidised to settle in West Papua, and they now control most of the commerce – leading to seething resentment and conflict between the two groups. In the company of guides from the West Papuan underground, the team trek deep into ancient forests to tribal villages affected by the conflict. At one village they find the inhabitants crying and wearing mud as a sign of mourning for their children who have been allegedly killed or “disappeared” by the security forces. Some mothers are so heartbroken that they have mutilated themselves by cutting off their fingers. But while some grieve, others have used their traditional weapons – bows, arrows and poison – against the Indonesians. Papuan students have been at the forefront of protests which have involved the deaths of Indonesian security forces and scores of them are hiding in the mountains. Reaching them involves another long trek through the forests. The students are protesting against Freeport, the big US gold and copper mine in the South of the Province. It’s West Papua’s biggest resource, but the students claim that Freeport does not pay enough of its annual revenues to help the native inhabitants. The team then risk immediate arrest by arranging to meet members of the West Papuan armed resistance – the outlawed Free Papua Movement (OPM). The area is so remote they have to travel by plane, deep into the highlands and close to the Freeport mine. Some OPM members have trekked for a week to meet them, and finally Kelly Kwalik, their leader and one of the most wanted men in the whole of Indonesia arrives. He tells Unreported World that West Papua is rich in natural resources but that Papuans remain poor while Indonesians benefit. There seems little chance of reconciliation and as the OPM members raise their flag, the act is a potent symbol of how an argument over mineral resources has become a battle against the slow suffocation of a people and their way of life.
7x13 - India's Hidden War
October 27, 2006
Sandra Jordan exposes how India's aspirations for a superpower economy are resulting in an increasingly bloody civil war.
7x14 - Guatemala: City of the Dead
November 3, 2006
Ramita Navai exposes how areas of the country’s capital have degenerated into violent lawlessness in a three way battle between gangs, vigilante groups and the security forces.
7x15 - Nigeria: Fire in the Delta
November 10, 2006
Matt McAllester reports from Ogoniland where he witnesses extreme poverty within one of the richest oil fields in the world.
7x16 - Lebanon on the Brink
November 17, 2006
Kate Seelyle reports from Lebanon as it struggles to rebuild following Israeli bombardment.
7x17 - Mexico: The Longest Journey
November 24, 2006
Sandra Jordan reports on the perilous three-month journey taken each year by thousands of migrants desperate to get into the USA.
7x18 - Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban
December 1, 2006
Kate Clark investigates how Western intervention has produced a Mafia-style state in northern Afghanistan.
7x19 - Japan: Red Sun Rising
December 8, 2006
Evan Williams on how an increasingly influential far-right nationalist movement is trying to persuade the Japanese government to rewrite the country's constitution and become a nuclear power.
7x20 - Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War
December 15, 2006
Aidan Hartley takes a look at the militant Union of Islamic Courts, which has effected the most successful Islamic revolution since 9/11.

7x1 - Sri Lanka: Tigers in the Shadows

7x2 - Kenya: Democracy in the Dumps

7x3 - Western Sahara: Storm in the Sahara

7x4 - Philippines: City of Guilt

7x5 - Nepal: Kingdom on the Edge

7x6 - Turkey: Europe's Hidden War

7x7 - Malaysia: Asia's Slaves

7x8 - Chad and Sudan (Dafur)

7x9 - Democratic Republic of Congo

7x10 - Brazil: Slum Warfare

7x11 - South Africa: The New Apartheid

7x12 - West Papua: Rainforest Warriors

7x13 - India's Hidden War

7x14 - Guatemala: City of the Dead

7x15 - Nigeria: Fire in the Delta

7x16 - Lebanon on the Brink

7x17 - Mexico: The Longest Journey

7x18 - Afghanistan: Nevermind the Taliban

7x19 - Japan: Red Sun Rising

7x20 - Somalia: Hearts, Minds and Holy War

S1: Series 1

S2: Series 2

S3: Season 3

S4: 2003

S5: 2004

S6: 2005

S7: Season 7

S8: Season 8

S9: Season 9

S10: Season 10

S11: Season 11

S12: Season 12

S13: Season 13

S14: Season 14

S15: Season 15

S16: Season 16

S17: Season 17

S18: Season 18

S19: Season 19

S20: Season 20

S21: Season 21

S22: Season 22

S23: Season 23

S24: Season 24

S25: Season 25

S43: Series 43

S44: Series 44

S45: Series 45

S46: Series 46

S47: Series 47