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ah, the sri lanka is a country still recovering from civil war and it's a country with 2 faces on the one hand exceptional natural p. c. at the island center, a 2000 take 10 of lush vegetation, mainly comprising t plantations. legacy of the british colonial europe. this is where the world are now long t is growing of bigger attraction for tourists. other nature present, which a home to some of the planet rarest creatures. in before the corona virus endemic the island nation. foreign tourists attracted by

the low prices in the 1300 kilometers the 15 beaches. but the reality behind this post paradise list for one. st. lincoln's face discrimination in their own country with a growing number of establishments now reserved florida's only days. not allowed to get inside. we also visit the north of the country. an area traditionally as bounds, the tourists choose the devastation of the civil war, and the hundreds of thousands of land might still have to be cleared. sufficient areas remain elicit with unexploded ordnance. there, i can't go any further into dangerous ensuring the tourists do come back here means securing land adjoining the beaches. tourism has become a vital source of income for the country. and among the parties wanting the peace

of the pi a some you might not expect. id and reservation details in the north with a time on the north, she constitute the majority of the population. the army seems only present. some villages have been requisitioned in order to develop an unconventional business model. sri lanka has around $25.00 hotels and done by the military. it's strange for the army to do this kind of business. stay with autism waiting in community life. we look aside history lang because it get to see this is a high security zone. we made a group of tourists staying in this fishing village. there's no beach bar and certainly no night club. if you want to party, you need to be more resourceful the little bit. yeah,

it's never easy to find out where it is. you got to earn your evening pine at noon . she was off a simply follow to music. today the tourist will be spending the evening at this guest house. it's like a sort of block party where all the visiting sisters in the area have decided to meet the every night. the guest house has been delayed to take turns, setting up an improvised night club with a d. j and a bar pint of beer cost $250.00. facing these kinds of events enabled the owners to boost their income. in a good month, they can make 5000 euros just from party. that's a lot of money here. the average monthly salary and sri lanka is $250.00 euros and

the party host could and a lot more if it weren't for the regular mishap, the ah, the such frequent power outages. this is really no energy profit. everything was going so well until the power cut, spoon has led to regular power outages, which isn't great for business. with every minute the passes, the party moved fades further. the family hosting the venue tried to contact the local electricity company the years, the number 011, but the line is busy. it's 11 pm and the d. j is getting restless. if the outage last too long, so have to cut the evening shore. at me like the

i'm going to yeah, the now in the tonight, these revellers won't be back at their hotel until the early hours, the putting sri lanka, not everyone is in the mood for partying the before the pandemic business was booming, industry land, continuous sector, in 2019, it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holidaymakers. it's one of the country's biggest income and but it's a development that has seen the emergence of some controversial practices. shaggy is 26 years old. it's a surfing instructor. but for the last 2 years, he's been unable to mingle free with tourists after work. because to certain guest

house owners, no calls cannot welcome it, save. not allowed to get inside the book, i'm done here and they can. they have sophia and told him on going straight of a inside. that's right. you know, they did good. and what's perhaps also strange is that the guest house makes no effort to hide what it's doing is open the advertise discriminatory policy. i'm a local and i from here and there for most. oh here they should read because i do a good. i say that through a long, long time, but they don't. they just started now new people you know down the road and not the guest house. also proclaimed locals are not welcome just kind of segregation is less will know face to link up some

establishment found other methods that have barely less conspicuous to stop sri lankan joining the party by targeting they wanted the people on his way to popular club entry appears to be 3 to tourists, at least the 2 bounces on the door with keeping sri lanka, get to a minimum the and those locals who do pay for the privilege of getting in also have to wait a break wristband on like the tourists. how many miles to south and move peace is the equivalent of 12 euros

a sizable firm. given that the average monthly salary and sri lanka is $250.00 us as a result pushes pin. she can make it through the door. it's called the club guest. don't seem to bolted, even the sri lankan who had to pay to get in and does not know how many people in the club owners have introduced the missions in order to reassure foreign tourists. this is a country that has for years struggled to shake off a negative image and associations with finance. the we want to know why sri lanka had taken so long to become such a popular to destination. we now take the road north to the part of the island less frequented by tourists and what's happening there doesn't reflect either

a driver has agreed to take us there on one condition that we don't reveal his identity. after an hour on the road, we pass an army checkpoint martinez sort of internal border where entering a different country, a different sri lanka. the big the population in this area is mainly tamela. most of them hindus currently live under government military control. the ideal landscape is increasingly blemished by houses in ruins. it's the 1st time our driver has been to this area to several years. was to display those days that owning anything, that thing shooting and something that there isn't. nobody's a come displays. this is a one year for decades if not longer communities have been in conflict with each

other. insurance income. $15000000.00 sinner lays who have governed the country since the end of the british colonial rule. and 3000000 hindu tamela. lee, principally in the north of the country, and who have been seeking independence in 2009 after 25 years civil war with the tamil tigers. gorilla creek. the government in columbus made a radical decisions to effectively carpet bomb than most of the country. within just a few weeks, an estimated 40000 civilians lost their lives. the on the ground government troops then committed numerous atrocities. some even filmed themselves performing summary executions. with 840002 begin on account for you and has repeatedly demanded an investigation into

war crimes. today, entire communities have been wiped off. the map goes to villages when no tourist, if a venture is housed during the oil was totally demolished, and i have the gunfire. trim is a journalist from the terminal community. he's been investigating the attack from the people living in the move. the island here. soldiers opened fire on houses and seasons at point blank range. if, if the hordes those are the let you see and we were the very i was in our by the government know fire saw on but then

never kept the problem. me then be bomb than sheldon where the people who live in the very act today the village is oh, but deserted. most of its inhabitants died during the attack. only the most fortunate survived like this man. the prim these witness accounts are essential for proving the army involvement in war crimes and freedom that we tried to shelter in our houses. but the shells kept falling and killed everyone inside. $100.00 and higher families were killed in an instant, and none of any investigation is practically impossible. the area has been sealed off for years. in jasmine, the tennessee cultural capital, governments soldiers a visible on every street corner. this is the sri lanka,

the 2 cities. it until 2010 was close to foreigners in an area cut off from the rest of the country. through little the newspaper frameworks for has never stopped printing. this openly pro 10 publication has however, paid a bloody price for political leanings. and i good morning after incidence on them and now i need to, you know, can be reactive being here. you know, one of the rooms still is evidence of divine reprisals. the prim colleagues subject to a shot each and every the 20067 armed men attacked the office, killing to tamela employees and the nightmare. and they after that,

build 1011 our news radio was i fact, the threats haven't stopped to see the poor prim, blaine, the atmosphere of intimidation of pro. now militia. great. that's so much human rights while ation and human rights abuses are happening in no, by mystery and pulses. and we are bringing out that information. so the people who are in the paula doesn't like us despite the threats. prim has no intention of giving up the case. he is currently investigating as a particularly sensitive on state scandal involving the army camps from these voluntary during the war 300000 times for the kids were forcibly displaced by the army. now refugees in their own country,

they were split up and sent to 57 different camp. $4000.00 of them, including hundreds of children, a still living in this one. in utter destitution. their homes was a made out of corrugated sheet metal, an old, dry sex. these other was forgotten, people now deemed undesirable. pooly into buckets from make shift shower for the 350 families who live in his camp. ah, my little friend approaches an elderly woman. questions i'd be la. the baby girl is a 3rd generation. she doesn't even know in their homeland, and he never go back. and she's the 1st generation and the 25 years leaving him in 99. the display from

you her current way she came. i can't go back. we're not allowed to leave any before being sent to this camp. she lived in the north of the country and you show us on this map where you lived in the lending a, leaving the one building and got money. but it was, it was around here. just there, i remember there was that road to the side this huge green zone on the map does not represent a sprawling green forest. another high that guard is on the land, all lands keeping by me ending up on the

24 square kilometers of coastline and the army control. during the war, the military place troops had stopped camel guerrillas receiving weapons from india . the territory confiscated by the government has never been given back to the terminal population. and government soldiers had even decided to make money from this land that isn't theirs via the somewhat unusual business model. i'll request a film here when i met by the army without official authorization, it's normally impossible to pass the barriers placed around this high security area . but we found a way to enter incognito and me. after a little research from the internet, we discovered a hotel that has been set up in the middle of the army controlled zone. me. from the outside, it was like a classic resort. there's

a swimming pool. the access to the beach decided to try our luck. hello, i go to you to looking to they have rooms available. we book to let them in. okay, thank you very much. by booking a room we now have 24 hours of all tries to access entering this high, secure, she's own means being checked. and indeed, after a 20 minute card journey, we come to a military roadblock. from this point on we have to fill in secret. i'm taking to tour it to the hotel, the idea and reservation details. what name? let me say maybe where are they from? where france to them after checking how papers it is through

me when now on land with a 10 refugees in the camps used to live. the army has put up barracks, the houses bulges, me and in the middle of the complex, facing as into a beach. we reached the hotel book to ruin me as a clock at the entrance tells us in 2010 just after the war ended. the hotel was opened by none other than the armies top commander. and it soon becomes clear why the on the arrival form, we have to fill out. there's a list offering preferential, right, culture for the person that made it very good. and everybody made

this man in civilian clothing, the sergeant major and the sri lankan army. the employees who are with him are also soldiers, including the 2 women. we bring up the subject of the temple refugee camps. before yesterday i met the guy and say me, he lives in the refugee camp before the civil war. he lives here in the north, in the se, actually over there. is there a refugee camps? no, no. yeah, i have never persist that to me before. the wife's family lived there and now he lives in the references campaign he does. it doesn't come back, never liver, ever with an awkward loss. the soldier receptionist categorically deny the

existence of the camps that we visited. only a few days ago, me once the war ended, the military talk brought to find it to exploit the land for their own benefit and built this hotel complex with astounding ocean view. as far as ami personally concerned, it's simple. the soldiers who will mobilize to combat the gorilla spool relocated to the hotel. a new business concept was board military resort. the, the hotel doesn't detract many western tourists which isn't surprising. outside, there's no one in the pool. in fact, the water is dirty and the law for poorly maintained. the whole thing feels like what is essentially is a barracks rather than the hotel for holiday makers. it's mainly used by families visiting soldiers who are still occupying the region. we decided to take

a walk along the beach, but don't get very far. going to the beach. a soldier in uniform coals spangler does this what you what? yeah. okay. i don't know if area. well, this is rudy. i'm again, leaving the hotel without authorization is prohibited. this is the strictly guard environment. nonetheless, military hotels, extremely popular sri lanka. the ministry of defense is in fact the number one, her chilled group in the country and n g o has identified 17 other resorts owned by the army. most of them are in the north, on land belonged to the terminals. the aim to take advantage of the

country's tourism and more importantly, to re deploy some of the 150000 soldiers d mart since the end of the war. these military commercial ventures on time land or controversial issue and re lanka. in 2015, the president himself asked the army to give the land back to the local population . since then, the ministry of defense has returned a poultry to square kilometer of territory. the north sri lanka represents the golden financial opportunity to develop the country's tourism industry. the region boasts endless stretches of desertion, beaches. the problem is that when they do depart, the soldiers leave behind areas that are among the most dangerous in the world. it's 6 am at 100 also terms of rise by truck.

for the last 5 years. this is helping hands has been doing baby to clear the land of and exploded munitions under the management of the bush in g. o. s me a dance. i'm heading up. the team is head. come. a fishing on year old serve as you, everybody know, a lot better. you. you do the job. only yesterday you have found 121 minds in all minds. you enter into like the one of them that i get you in the war. these temples civilians cleared up after army botanists. today they are also the ones reading the homeland of land mines. but remember, safety 1st. the is a very, very dangerous job and we have to keep route and we have to maintain discipline.

otherwise, things get out of control. we don't want to make ready for a little can, has years of experience cleaning form of conflict zones. but the type of work he's doing here in tree lanka is like nothing he's ever seen before. i thought i think us working, convert him iraq to way was a big one group, one of the most my fields in the, in the world. we found here we've cleared here nearly 20000000 square meters since 2002 lives operating on this country. 200000 minds have already been destroyed. there remains a huge number still to be cleared. today he's one of the most important thoughts, a strip of land covering several square kilometers right on the coast. the

precautions are essential for the rest of the team. he toms a protective the ready to go to the my village and a protective plexiglass visor. from here on there's no deviating from the set part . this is unclear, there are so just please do not cross the rest. and just please just follow me. this is, went outside, is learned to fully appreciate the term mine field. the area is cleared by hand, inch by inch. how many my minds of them and as you see the minds laid very, very good. this is a mind all the yellow thinking because of the mind me and there are a yellow markers as far as the i can see the entire field. oh, give you an idea of the intensity. if you're super,

it is still a lot of work to do. next, mine is really far away. some easy to support those another mind just for the fun one there. one, there, 2 slides, just amount of pressure on the designated could take the mind clear is laid off, but most of the devices are buried several centimeters under the surface. and as such, they are invisible to locate them. experts like the show have to exercise extreme caution, keeping their nurse to avoid coming to contact the didn't nation vicious dots from underneath, crunching, digging up to the surface, the mine he on the left is only a few centimeters away from her pickax didn't asia is just visible about this and she now has to remove the mind. it's

a delicate operation. one wrong move could set off an explosion. people can't go any further dangerous. since the beginning of clearing campaign to sri lankan has lost their lives for this high was job vision is paid 160 years or stay back in order to have maximum used to to have supervised. that works without clubs. the only tools she does now is a hook clearing away. the sand requires the utmost concentration. you still have to be careful at this point throughout the entire operation. the team leader has shown immense precision and skill but now it's in the box. the danger is over. these minds were planted by the army in order to stop the

time rebels from advancing during the war. and think of today it's the camel to risking their lives while the sin least soldiers then take the explosives. i. hi, how are you? quite ready for a bank every day the army comes by to destroy any devices that have been found. i think. why do you insist on destroying the minds yourself in a way it forces? i'm trying to only be army as authorized to designate these and no one else. so the army doesn't trust the terminals. you're asking too much. that's exactly the way they, they under it's clearly a sensitive issue. it's out of the question that these minds full of explosives would end up in the camel. why?

why did she strip of land dotted with mines? is the gateway to highly tricia territory, which is also why the tunnels are taking such great risks to clear it. the hope to attract tourists to the area with its unspoiled nature, including lakes again and a little further on a long sandy beach. very good them. very, very clean water is pretty much leather and you may have that potential for thursday. in a few years time, holiday makers may start frequenting these beaches. in the meantime,

it's the south of the country that's completely untouched by the rule that's profiting from to the potential. st lanka is covered in rich vegetation and there are plenty of unique front farm visitors to discover here, such as this statue overlooking the city of candy. but the biggest trough to the animals this group of 6 tourists got up to me this morning. getting ready for a once in a lifetime, 2 week trip through the sri lankan countryside the all inclusive package cost $1500.00 euros 60 year old veronique has saved up all year for her dream holiday. i don't know. we're all on safari and we really hope we'll see all the animals in our guidebook. so my kids don't give

me the 6 friends are about to enter the yadda national park. and they theresa, known to have the biggest lead to population on the planet. ah, there we go. the cheap trip has cost and $25.00 euros per person. it must be one of the cheapest the far is in the world . where is thinking and they'll certainly get their money's worth really mile for the camera. the reserve covers 100000 heck, there's of land to, to get to see buffalo india and also exotic goods that can't be found anywhere else in the home.

but the animal everyone is here to see is a leopard. the guides are on the lookout, while the french tourist getting impatient spot after 6 hours of searching over there. what's that would we be able to be? can emerge the new. oh let very rare. also for all the beautiful they can only be found in 7 countries. around the world, i don't know why millions were so incredibly lucky. nick and her friends chosen to cross the center of the country, accompanied by a french speaking god. it's

a traditional trail. the law will get on here. that's 30 days in sri lanka, taking the train is an experience in itself. the train does a ride to work in a region that's about 2000 meters above sea level. it's main attractions of the t plantations. the legacy of british colonialism today, sri lanka is the world 3rd because te producer off the india and china it's specialty, is the variety named after the british name for the island ceylon a level to begin up with. you learn about the entire process. what is this, what we used to make tea for the young lead?

just that there's no charge to visit the plantations. the french tourist, so happy to go on a walk about. but they guide worried about the picture postcard image. the authorities want to convey then stops the group of french tourists thought on. stop filming. that's not good for tv. let's get the wicker basket. and all of a sudden the picture appears to be a far more centric one. where you pick us on the plantation or all time old women, they work 6 days a week and here the work is done by hand it don't fit i'm so i mean women are paid kilo that might not seem very heavy. with that, i imagine it must be quite difficult in the field with tricky slopes. how much key, like you could do it in a little, the for euros says the god,

if you and that's not for 120 kilos for norfolk, you. thank you for your hard work to pick it and 20 years since akila nearly 50 years a month. it adds up to a cheap workforce into lanka. some 1000000 people work on the plantations. he is 1st and foremost, the business, sri lanka industry is valued at around 1000000000 years a year since the end of the colonial period. the market has been controlled by private companies. a few kilometers further on. one of the companies put that he's on prominent display, guaranteeing the health safety and well being if it's workers. but the truth is rather different. when a company into the tea industry, it buys hector of plantations and also all the people who work on them. the

maloney has been working on this plantation for 10 years. she's also tamela going i became a picker because there is no other work here. i mean i don't have a choice to be it's what i have to do that i'm lazy. bonnie is now 30, like most of the peak as he is. she was born on his plantation the t fields are world apart. in exchange the small salaries, the companies promised to house their employees and a contractually obliged to do sir. but as to what the company has actually given bonnie and the other pickers. slum, hidden away in the middle of the plantation. foreigners and not normally allowed in

to enter. we spoke to this man. hello. he's the kind of workers representative. well, let me show you the conditions we live in here. the around 20 families live here, emerging entry conditions. some don't even have running water. he shows in his house the look, it's full of holes in the land with somebody. yeah, the company says it hand renovate the house because the plantation doesn't make enough money. in this village, everyone works at the tea company. the women pick the leaves and men like pad trump

maintain the plantation. he's $35.00 and in charge of spraying the t plants move aside. the company has given him this container with no label headroom only knows that he needs to mix with 3 parts water from the river. he was no protection when he's working with the highly toxic chemical i have some kilometers about that damaged. so now i don't whether was kind of i just never had room is criminally under a quit. his job is to spray the pesticide

he's been working in constant contact with the chemical for 7 years now. health and have had a crazy, doesn't that were you little but i can't stop walking last month, his headaches wilson and she was unable to work. his absence from work caught him dearly. i only worked a company paid me $1269.00 rupees up with us only for less than 8 euros. for today's work. there's no health insurance. leslie leslie cook, but if you got ill because of this chemical and the company won't pay him that and they always find someone else to do the work. and the videos and cut in durham had little choice. he had to start working again to feed his family. in this village, the t workers seemed to be left to provide for themselves. over

several days, we tried to contact the plantations management to no avail. the office several kilometers away. behind this barbed wire fence. but some cheaper juices in sri lanka had made the well being of they work as a key element. their business. the companies like the motif at each of its plantations. it has built proper housing for speakers that don't earn any more than elsewhere. but ro, hand who is in charge of the plantation, has created an environment that is more comfortable for the workers, the salaries, standardized. but we, we tried to help them by other means. we tried to like the gardens giving them the chickens, giving them what they can do. we want to start another beta so that they can buy their katlyn, keep that so that we will be collecting the milk. and if you have

a healthy workforce, you're definitely going to get a better and to make family life easier school to be that help in for the plantation to ensure the children get an education. here at least salon t, the famous symbol of sri lanka does not leave off the taste the the me pico india, the in new delhi environmental activists are fighting for peach tree in the cities concrete jump. when a man who turned off get burned in the heat, the number of trees in the indian capital has shrunk dramatically. nature, conservationists want to change that. they count and catalogue the tree,

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