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In a forgotten corner of the world, the Bangladesh/Burma border, militarization, human rights abuses are occurring against Indigenous minorities with impunity.
The Chittagong Hill Tracts on Bangladesh’s south-eastern border are closed to foreigners. Having emerged from a bloody civil war in the 1990’s, the region is a hotbed of ethnic tensions and is controlled by a repressive and partisan military.
International sources spent the last two years living and working in South Asia and recently completed production of this undercover investigative report.
Interviewees include Amnesty International and Survival International, former United Nations staff, Bangladeshi activists and writers, and victims of military persecution.
The name of the reporter/producer is withheld to protect the reporter and others involved in this production.
