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Hidden Wealth of Azerbaijan President
The President of oil-rich Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has been compared to a Mafia crime boss in US diplomatic cables, and man analysts refer to him as a dictator. OCCRP looked deeper than those labels and found that the Aliyev family has systematically grabbed shares of the most profitable businesses in the country. Investigative reports by OCCRP and Radio Free Europe have revealed and more importantly proven for the first time that the ruling family has secret ownership stakes through offshore companies in the country’s largest businesses, including banks, construction companies, gold mines and phone companies. The government Aliyev runs gave these shares. The family also has secretly amassed high-end property in places like the Czech Republic. The Azeri government responded to the revelations first with silence and now claims that OCCRP is an agent of the rival Armenian government. Aliyev’s administration also failed to investigate the harassment and blackmail of OCCRP and RFE journalist Khadija Ismayilova earlier this year. While Azerbaijan has worked at improving its image worldwide, OCCRP’s reporting makes clear that a petty dictatorship remains in control.
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"Bloody Shame"
Joshua Hammer and Will Bourne go deep into Africa to tell the story of how the Zimbabwean Army has violently taken over diamond fields as a means for illegal cash flow for itself. They go on to explain the failings of the Mugabe dictatorship and how the Kimberley Process has "failed miserably."
Tags: Zimbabwe; Africa; blood diamond; Kimberley Process; Mugabe
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The Woman Who Disappeared Twice
CNN en español investigates the disappearances of political dissidents in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. They follow the case of a woman whose body was thrown from an airplane into a river, where it was found by fishermen. Local officials said the body could not be identified, but that was not the case. CNN tracked down the victims family, one among thousands who disappeared in that bloody time.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Latin America; Cold War; disappearances; missing persons; Operation Condor; Dirty War; Argentina; dictatorship; Uruguay
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Murder or Suicide?
CBS 60 Minutes shadows "the most extensive foreign murder investigation in FBI history" - the death of Father John Kaiser, an American Catholic Priest in Kenya. While the FBI final conclusion was that Kaiser killed himself, several members of Congress believed he was murdered. CBS reported on "a strong potential motive for killing - that the priest was helping several young women sue a powerful Kenyan cabinet minister for rape." The priest also documented severe ethnic clashes in Kenya, and developed evidence that the brutal regime of President Daniel arap Moi was behind the violence. The reporters expose sloppy detective work on the case.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Rift Valley; suicide; politics; police; Nairobi; military; tribes; ethnicity; Senator Paul Wellstone; civil rights; human rights; dictatorship; foreign affairs; international reporting
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Two Indonesias, Two Americas
Indonesia is replaying its year of living dangerously, with the potential again for a more democratic society or another spasm of military repression. How did the United States contribute to the dictatorship?
Tags: Indonesia; counterinsurgency
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Dead Season is an investigation into a series of interrelated murders on the Philippine Island of Negros in a barrio with the unlikely name of Mambagaton, literally "the place of the ghosts." The investigation looks into the massacre of a peasant family, the death of a soldier who participated in the massacre -- and was allegedly murdered two weeks later as part of a cover-up -- the assassination of the town's wealthiest landlord, and the murder of an alleged military informant.
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People of the Opiate: Burma's Dictatorship
The article exposes the workings of Burma's new narco-dictatorship, which has incorporated the booming drug trade into the permanent economy of the country. The relationship between some of the world's biggest kingpins and the Burmese dictatorship - and the use of the drug trade by the rulers to stay in power - is documented. The article brings to light the terrible implications of the junta's marriage to the drug trade for the Burmese people, the American public and the world at large. (Dec. 16, 1996)
Tags: Kean Bernstein People of the opiate: Burma's dictatorship of drugs Contest entry Heroin CIA 9 pgs.
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Village Voice (New York) looks at the decade-long relationship between the U.S. government and Somalia, and how the Somali military dictatorship, the U.S. government and the relief efforts by Western agencies are to blame for Somalia's instability and famine, Jan. 19, 1993.
Tags: NY Maren
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No title (id: 8732)
Spy Magazine (New York) examines the U.S. public relation firms and lobbyist groups that represent Third World dictatorships with terrible human rights records, such as Iraq, Romania, Haiti, Zaire, Liberia, El Salvador, the People's Republic of China and Guatemala; lobbyists rationalize their representation as attempting to reform the countries' leaders by encouraging dramatic changes in the governments; Spy reporter impersonates neo-Nazi leader in Germany wanting an American public relations firm to represent her party; the public relations official agrees to represent the party, February 1992.
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No title (id: 8407)
ABC PrimeTime Live tracks down the internationally known terrorist known as Carlos, who had been thought to be dead; finds him alive and working for dictatorships in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, Jan. 3, 1991.
Tags: TAPE