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INSIDE WIKILEAKSWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stunned the world this week when he leaked more than 90,000 secret Afghan war files.Dateline's Mark Davis was filming as Assange prepared to release his massive cache of highly classified US documents and as he weathered the media storm that followed.The documents reveal hundreds of civilian casualties, secret hit squads to track and kill Taliban leaders, a steep increase in Taliban attacks, and collusion between Pakistan's intelligence service and the Taliban leadership.Davis first connected with the mysterious whistleblower in Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Australia for a story broadcast in May, called The Whistleblower.This time he has been filming in London where Assange was working with journalists from The Guardian, The New York Times and Germany's Der Spiegel. The release of the documents has rocked the White House and drawn comment from Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Some of the classified reports refer to Australia's military operations in Afghanistan.In a move that will further shake governments and top military brass around the world, WikiLeaks says they have delayed the release of a further 15,000 reports, but these will eventually be released in full.Don't miss this revealing insight into the Australian man behind what's been described as the biggest leak of intelligence material in history.THE LIVING DEADIn the slums of Buenos Aires, poor kids are used to struggling against the odds. But as Dateline video journalist David O'Shea reports, the drug paco (also known as 'poor man's cocaine'), is making life even harder for the slums' youth.Paco, made from impure waste left over from cocaine production, is cheap (sold for less than $1 per packet) and highly addictive. Yet the effect is so short-lived, serious smokers need up to 100 hits a day.And as O'Shea reports, increasing numbers of young addicts are wandering the streets of Argentina's largest city like zombies, always on the look out for their next fix.The mothers of these addicts feel powerless, as it's illegal in Argentina to force an unwilling minor into rehab. So these women have joined forces, forming Mothers Against Paco, an organisation that's becoming a major power in the battle to contain the drug.As organiser Isabel Vazquez tells O'Shea, Mothers Against Paco managed to demolish a notorious drug house:"With the destruction of that house we proved we could unite and organise ourselves," she says. "Many doors opened to us. I think we even made paco part of the political agenda." But the action came at a terrible cost. Isabel's adult son Emmanuel, who'd accompanied the Mothers and gave them a feeling of protection, was murdered months afterwards."It left a great big hole in my heart," Isabel tells O'Shea. "The murderers don't want the kids organised. There's money at stake and it takes away their power because the more the kids are addicted, the more they have them under their control."Mothers Against Paco is full of similarly heartbreaking stories. As O'Shea films, Maria Ines tells how her daughter was shot dead by her paco-using boyfriend and her son robbed at gunpoint by kids craving a fix, while Monica, another mother, tells of her desperation to get her 15-year-old addict into rehab. A newly-released feature film in Argentina is tackling the paco issue, with director Diego Rafecas describing paco as a drug of extermination, introduced by those wanting to subdue the slum population."They are now like this - zombies - so it is more easy to control them," Rafecas tells O'Shea.But Mothers Against Paco is determined that the paco producers and pushers will not win.They show O'Shea a community education centre that's teaching young people the truth about the drug, and then introduces him to Walter, a former addict, now paco-free. THE HINDU HEAVIESIndia's financial capital, Mumbai, is being torn between its role as a cosmopolitan business hub and a stronghold of the Hindu nationalist party, Shiv Sena.It's been described as a group of hardline militants with a reputation for violence against muslims and foreigners... and it's currently the official opposition in the Maharashtra state government.The party was founded in the sixties by a leader who's praised Hitler, and more recently it told Australian cricketers to stay away from Mumbai after attacks on Indian students in Melbourne.A TV station that accused the party of being involved with India's mafia and political murders was even stormed and its journalists attacked.The party says it doesn't turn to violence and extols its 'family values' and huge support, but there's concern that if it returns to power, more violence will follow."Going for a walk is like walking in Hell lately... it's because of the paco problem." - Maria Ines, Mothers Against Paco(An SBS Production) CC WS |
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Broadcast 2010-08-01 at 20:30:00 |
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Afghan Wars.
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Leaks (Disclosure of information)
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Paco (Drug)
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Shiv Sena.
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Youth -- Drug use.
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Argentina.
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India -- Mumbai.
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Streaming video
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Assange, Julian, contributor
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Davis, Mark, reporter
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Desai, Anil, contributor
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Hakim, Yalda, reporter
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Ines, Maria, contributor
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McFadden, Gavin, contributor
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Negus, George, host
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O'Shea, David, reporter
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Rafecas, Diego, contributor
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Romero, Alicia, contributor
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Thackeray, Uddav, contributor
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Vasquez, Isabel, contributor
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Wagle, Nikhil, contributor
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