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Killing Fields: Long Road to Justice
“An investigation of Khmer Rouge tribunal being held in Cambodia and allegations of corruption”. Further, the investigation began with the hunt for Ta Chan who was the chief interrogator and suspected of living in a remote Cambodian village. Also, torture was a daily experience for many of the prisoners being held and resulted in a number of deaths.
Tags: S-21 prison; camp; trial; charges; jungle; death camp; court; prosecution; horrific; institutions; Vietnamese; crimes
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Plundering the Amazon
In "Plundering the Amazon," the reporters expose illegal land destruction of the Brazilian rain forest by well-known companies such as Alcoa and Cargill. These companies are destroying land without federal permits and in "violation of Brazilian law."
Tags: Alcoa; Cargill; rain forest; rainforest; Brazil; Brazilian; JBS SA; global warming; environmental; jungle
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In Iowa Meat Plant, Kosher 'Jungle' Breeds Fear; Injury, Short Pay
Nathaniel Popper, reporting for the Forward (NY) investigated a Kosher slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, where he uncovered dangerous working conditions, low pay, and anti-unionization pressures that raised questions about the ethics of the Jewish owners of the plant towards their largely immigrant workers.
Tags: Agriprocessors; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; slaughterhouse workers; Latin American immigrants; accidental amputations; Postville, Iowa; union "devils"; animal rights group; health and safety violations; Conservative Jewish synagogue movement; Kosher certification; Orthodox Judaism; immigration authorities; ethics; United Food and Commercial Workers; Father Floyd Paul Ouderkirk; Sholom Rubashkin; Caitlin Didier; Lubavitch Hasidim; Stephen Bloom; "Postville"; PETA; undocumented immigrants; Human Rights Watch; Rabbi Morris Allen; Rabbinical Council of America; Orthodox Union
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Crossroads of Crime
"In a two part series, Trish Regan investigated counterfeiting (Part I) and terrorist fundraising (Part II) in the wild-west jungle town of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay. Although Ciudad del Este is largely unknown to Americans, intelligence officers regard the region as a lawless frontier, which is perhaps the most dangerous place in the Western Hemisphere. Located deep in the heart of South America and known as the tri-border region because it borders Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, Ciudad del Este has become a safe haven for counterfeiters and terrorist organizations."
Tags: terrorism; money; fundraising; counterfeit; South America; Middle East; Hezbollah;
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Jungle Josh
Josh Weinstein, an animal trainer with a lengthy history of animal abuse, arrived in Minnesota shortly before this story ran. In March 2001, a Bengal Tiger owned by Weinstein attacked and killed a trainer in Las Vegas, from where Weinstein originally came. After the incident, the trainer moved to Minnesota, where he hoped to use the same tiger and a chimpanzee named Tarzan to capitalize off the film market. He even started developing a comedy act involving Tarzan. When reporters asked Weinstein to show them his act, he agreed, and his disturbing animal abuse was caught on camera. Two experts, including Dr. Jane Goodall, looked at footage of Tarzan and concluded that Weinstein's actions were clearly abusive, and that the profoundly intimidated animal no longer acted like a chimp.
Tags: Abuse; Tape; Transcript
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Gone
Esquire tells the story of eight Americans who have been kidnapped by guerrillas in Ecuador and kept in the jungles for more than five months. The article reveals that the families of the kidnapped men have been told lies by the negotiators - for example, that hostages would not be harmed. One of the men, Ron Sanders of Missouri, was killed, because the American organizations negotiating with the ninjas failed to achieve a deal on the amount of the ransom to be paid. Kidnapping has become a business in countries like Ecuador, the magazine reports.
Tags: families; Latin America; gringos; Helmerich & Payne; Control Risks Group; Erickson Air-Crane
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High Volume and High Jinks Over Control of Rice's Radio Station
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at controversies surrounding the student-run station of Rice University, KTRU 91.7 FM. The story looks at the station's recent shutdown caused by a conflict in which the university insisted that the KTRU station carry more sports with announcers approved by the athletic department, and students expressed their dissatisfaction with "irreverent announcements." The article follows how the dispute has been resolved, and finds that, in a way, the dispute has strengthened students' positions. "Students talk about artistic vision while university officials talk up responsibility," reports the Chronicle.
Tags: music; techno; jungle; free-format programming; reggae; folk music; colleges; universities; FCC; sports; athletics
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The Jungle
The story finds that with "all the dazzling new-economy rhetoric notwithstanding, it turns out workers sometimes still need protection." The author supports the notion by focusing on recent Amazon layoffs in Seattle, and questions the perception of the company as "a worker's paradise." The investigation sheds light on Amazon's anti-union campaign. One of the main conclusions is that "Amazon's workers could have used a lot of the same protections as old economy workers, because ... they were a lot like old-economy workers." The analyses finds that "many new-economy jobs still revolve around basic service and support work."
Tags: Internet; dot-coms; information age; workforce; jobs; labor laws; Amazon
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In the Jungle
This article investigates "the great musical mysteries of all time." Malan explains how a tune created by a Zulu tribesman, Solomon Linda, has been used in the American music business, in such songs as "Wimoweh" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and even Hollywood, in "The Lion King" and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" without giving credit to the man who created it.
Tags: music; movies; Lion's King; Ace Ventura; Solomon Linda; Wimoweh; The Lion Sleeps Tonight