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After a
harrowing and dangerous journey through Peru’s “Emergency
Zone” in the most remote and inhospitable part of the
Amazon jungle, we meet the remnants of the Shining Path -
a subversive group responsible for a conflict that claimed
70,000 lives. At their secret base camp, reporter Fernando
Lucena interviews its notorious leaders – men who’ve never
been seen on film before. And the very same men for whose
capture the US government have recently offered a
5-million dollar reward, after branding them assassins and
drug-traffickers...
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As the
African drums beat faster and the dancers work themselves
into a frenzy it is obvious Wube-Enat has no idea of the
implications and repercussions associated with this, her
special day. It is her wedding. She is ten years old.
Although child marriages are illegal in Ethiopia
traditions die hard in the remote northern region of
Amhara. We were given unprecedented access to a story that
is commonplace across some parts of Africa but is usually
kept firmly behind closed doors...
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Three widows
fight for justice across three Asian nations after losing
their husbands to state violence. Despite the rising
economic clout of many countries in the region, state
agents still use torture, enforced disappearances and
extra-judicial killings with impunity. The women's
personal tragedies drive them on their long and dangerous
pursuit of justice, refusing to be silenced by threats to
their lives as they become leading human rights defenders
in Asia...
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