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what i the sri lanka is a country still with suffering from civil war. and it's a country with 2 faces. on the one hand, exceptional natural beauty at the island center, a 2000 take pace of lush vegetation, mainly comprising t plantations, the legacy of the push colonial era. this is where the world renounced on t is ground of speaker attraction for tourists. of the nature of research which a home to some of the planet rarest creatures ah, the in before the corona virus pandemic, the island nation. a foreign tourists attracted by the low prices in the 1300

kilometers the 15 beaches. but the reality behind is post comp, paradise list for one st. lincoln's face discrimination in their own country with a growing number of establishments now reserved for ford is only allowed to get insight. we also visit the north of the country, an area traditionally out of town for tourists choose the devastation of the civil war and the hundreds of thousands of landlords. the still have to be cleared. fish and areas remain listed with unexploded ordnance. there, i can't go any further into dangerous ensuring the tourists do come back here means to curing land adjoining the beaches. tourism has become a vital force of income to 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 the time minority 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 going for the military. isn't it strange for the army to do this kind of business, say with autism making and community life. we look aside a sri lanka, the fuse 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 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 tourists will be spending the evening at this gift. it's like a sort of block party or all the visiting sisters in the area have decided to meet the every night. the guest houses in the village take to setting up an improvised night club with a d. j and a pint of beer cost $250.00 placed in these kinds of events enabled the owners to boost their incomes 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 hi could an a lot more if it weren't for the regular mishap, the ah, the frequent power outages. this is really no energy conducted. 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 passage, the party made 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 on me like i'm

going to. yeah, the now me, the tonight, these revellers won't be back at their hotel until the early hours. but in sri lanka, not everyone is in the mood for partying. ah, the thought the panoramic business was booming, industry lincoln terrace sector in 20. 19. it was the chosen destination of 2000000 holiday makers. it's one of the country's biggest income in it. but it's a development that has seen the emergence system, controversial practices. chunky is 26 years old. he's asserting instructor. but for the last 2 years, he's been unable to mingle free with tourists after work. because the certain guest

house owners, locals, are not welcome. it's dave not allowed to get inside the book and done here and they're going, they have sophia and built in congo instead of a inside. that's strange enough. they did good. and what's perhaps also strange is that the guest house makes no effort to hide what it's doing. it openly advertised that discriminatory policy. i'm a local and i from here. and therefore most oh here, there's a rest because i do enjoy it. i say the 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 this kind of segregation. it's a little no face to lancaster,

some establishment. so found other methods that barely less conspicuous. stop sri lankan joining the party by targeting the woman. the few kilometers, way to popular club entry appears to be free for tourists. the few bounces on the door attached with keeping sri lanka guessed to minimum the and those locals who do pay for the privilege of getting in also have to wait a reg wristband on like the tourists. knowing the smile piece is the equivalent of 12 heroes. a sizable firm given that the average monthly

salary and length is 250 years. as a result pushes p and she can make it through the doors. inside the club, i guess, don't seem to bolted. even the sri lankan who had to pay to get in and does not know todd, in many, many months in the club owners, have introduced the missions in order to reassure foreign tourists. this is the 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 tourist 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 to like 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, port of internal border where entering a different country, a different sri lanka. the population in this area is mainly campbell. most of them hindus currently live under government military control. the ideal landscape is increasingly blemish by houses in ruins. it's the 1st time our driver has been to this area for several years. was that these play those days that owning any time, the shooting and something that there isn't nobody to come. this place is vanya. for decades,

if not longer to communities have been in conflict with each other. each lanka, 15000000 buddhist dinner, lays who have governed the country since the end of british colonial rule. and 3000000 hindu terminals who live 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 group. the government in columbus made a radical decision to effectively carpet on the north of the country. in 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 140000 civilians being on the counter for the un 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 the journalist from the time will community. he's been investigating the army attack from the people living in the mall of the island. here, soldiers open fire on houses and to the point blank range. if, if the hall goes out a bullet, you see everywhere me there hours and hours by the government. no fire song but

then never kept the problem me then the bomb than sheldon where the people who are living today the village is deserted. most of its inhabitants died during the attack. only the most fortunate survived, like this man. for present these witness accounts are essential for proving the armies involvement in war crimes and freedom when we tried to shelter in our houses. but the shells kept falling and killed everyone inside one and higher families were killed in an instant. another thought to any investigation is practically impossible. since the area has been sealed off for years. in jeff nasa, tennessee cultural capital governments soldiers of visible on every street corner.

this is the sri lanka, the 2 don't a cities it until 2010 was close to foreigners in an area cut off from the rest of the country. through to the newspaper, print work for has never stopped printing. this openly pro 10 publication has however, paid a bloody price for its political leanings and learning after incidence. all of them. and now me do, you know, can be so that we actually been here in a one of the rooms still base evidence of divine reprisals. the prim colleagues with subject to a shot each and every minute in 2006, 7 armed men attacked the office, killing 2 campbell employees, and the night made different. and they after that,

build $1011.00. our news was, i fac, haven't stopped to see end of the pool time blades, the fear of intimidation of pro militia, so much human rights, while ation and human rights abuse of happening in know, 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 is a particularly sensitive on state scandal involving the army camp from these boeing during the war 300000 times for the agents were forcibly displaced by the army. now refugees in their own country,

they were split up and sent 7 different tabs, 4000 of them, including hundreds. the children are still living in this one. in a destitution, their homes was a made out of corrugated sheet metal, an old, dry sex. these are the was forgotten, people now deemed undesirable. pooly and buckets said make shift shower for the 350 families who live in his camp. ah, my lady, friend approaches, an elderly woman in question. bella, 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 for 25 years. leaving him in 99. the big display from

could you have your 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 did you show us on this map where you lived in lending a live in one many, many, many years. but it was, it was around here. just there, i remember there was that road to the side this huge green side on the map does not represent a sprawling green forest. another high that guard is on the land, all lands keeping by me make and i'm entering the

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

a swimming pool and access to the beach. we decided to try our luck. hello, i go to looking for they have rooms available. we book to with them. okay, thank you very much. by booking a room, we now have 24 hours of authorized access entering the high, secure she's own means being checked, an id after a 20 minute card journey. we come to a military roadblock. me from this point on we have to fill in secret. i'm taking to tourists to the hotel id and reservation details. what name pay me? where are they from? when france to them. so after checking her papers, they let us through me when now on land with

a 10 more refugees in the camps used to live. the army has put up barracks to house and soldiers. mm. and in the middle of the complex, facing out on to a beach, we reached the hotel, will be the book to ruin me at the park 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 of free press prevention, right to soldiers for the best and then your military. yes. everybody military.

this man civilian closing, 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 tam refugee camps. before yesterday i met the guy in law and say me, he lives in the refugee scamp. before the civil war, he lives here in the north, in the se, actually reserve his records have never persist. let me before the wise family lived there. and now he lived in the refrigerator campaign. he does, it doesn't come back. never, never, 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 brought decided to exploit the land for their own benefit and built this hotel complex with a stunning ocean view. as far as army personally concerned, it's simple. the soldiers who were mobilized to combat the grill as poor relocated to the hotel. a new business concept was board military resorts. ah, the hotel doesn't detract many western tourists which isn't surprising. outside, there's no one in the pool. in fact, the waters does he and the law for poorly maintained. the whole thing feels like what is essentially is a barracks rather than a hotel for holiday makers. it's mainly used by families visiting soldiers who were still occupying the region. we decided to take a walk along the beach,

but don't get very far. going to the beach run off a soldier in uniform coals. spangler, does this do? yeah. okay. i don't know if area know i'm leaving the hotel without authorization is prohibited. this is a strictly guarded environment. nonetheless, military hotels, extremely popular sri lanka. the ministry of defense is in fact the number one her till group in the country. and n g o has defined 17 other resorts owned by the army. most of them are in the north, on land belonged to the camel's. the aim to take advantage of the

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

for the last 5 years. this is helping hands has been doing baby to clear the land of unexploded munitions under the management of a bush in g o. s. and then i'm heading up. the team is head con official 9 year old said. as you everybody know, a letter going back to you. you do the job all the yesterday. you have found 121 minus in all minds you into like during the war. these temp civilians cleared up after the botanists today. they're also the ones reading the homeland of land mine. but remember, safety 1st is a very, very dangerous job. and we have to keep roads and we have to maintain discipline.

otherwise things we don't want to make ready for a little can, has years of experience cleaning form or conflict zones. but the type of work he's doing here in tree lanka is like nothing. he's ever seen before. i started working, convert him. iraq to way was a big one, goes one of the most. my fields in the, in the world. we found here, we've cleared nearly 20000000 square meters since 2002, 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 science, a strip of land covering civil square kilometers right on the coast. the

precautions are essential, like the rest of the t. a protective fist. ready to go to the my village and a protective plexiglass visor from here on there's no deviating from the set part of this is unclear. there are so just please do not cause the rest. and just please just follow me. this is where outside is learn to full share the term mind field. the area is cleared by hand, inch by inch. i'm into my minds and as you see the minds all a very, very good. this is a mind like all the yellow thinking, became mindful 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 it is still a lot of work to do next, mine is really far away. some easy to suppose. there's another mind just for the sun to one day, one there to the slightest amount of pressure on the dish. and they could take the mind clear lake off the most of the devices, a better example sent me just under the surface. and as such, they are invisible to locate them. experts lavetia have to exercise extreme caution . keeping the nerve to avoid coming into contact with the nascent view should start from underneath, gradually digging up to the surface. the mind he on the left is only a few centimeters away from her pickax didn't asia is just visible about the sand. we should now has to renew the mind. it's

a delicate operation. one wrong move could set off an explanation. see, i can't go any further dangerous. since the beginning of the mind period campaign to sri lankan have lost their lives for this high risk job vision is paid 160 years. stay back in order to have maximum used to her hand. supervisor worked without gloves. the only tool she does now is a hook clearing away. the sand requires utmost concentration. you still have to be careful at this point throughout the entire operation. the team leader has shown immense precision and skill. now it's in the box. the danger is over these minds were planted by the army in order to stop the

tumble rebels from advancing during the war. how many more folk of today it's to camels who risking their lives while the sin least soldiers then taking the explosives? hi, hi. how are you ready for 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 destiny? no one else. so the army doesn't trust the terminals. you're asking too much. that's exactly the 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?

this huge strip of land dotted with mines is the gateway to highly tricia territory, which is also why the titles are taking such great risk to clear it say, hope to attract tourists to the area with its unsupported nature, including lakes again and a little further on a long, sandy beach, very good them very, very clean water and 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,

south of the country that's completely untouched by the war. that's profiting from tourism. the central sri lanka is covered in rich vegetation. and there are plenty of unique fonts for visitors to discover here, such as this put a statue overlooking the city of candy. but the biggest room for the animals this group of 6 to is called up to me this morning. getting ready for a once in a lifetime. 2 week trip through the sri lankan country side the all inclusive package cost $1500.00 euros. 60 year old veronique has saved up all year for her dream holiday. hello. don't cuz we're off on safari, and we really hope we'll see all the animals in our guidebook. so can you give

me the 6 friends are about to enter the yard. national park and nature is known to have the biggest let population on the planet. we go g trip has cost and $25.00 euros per person. it must be one of the cheapest the far is in the world. we're thinking and they'll certainly get their money's with truly mile for the camera. the reserve covers 800000 heck. there's a plant 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 lifted. the guides are on the lookout, while the french tourists getting impatient. 5 after 6 hours of searching over there. what's that we need to be can emerge. nelson bo leopards. very rare. also for all the beautiful they can only be found in 7 countries around the world. why millions were so incredibly lucky. you can have friends chosen to cross the center of the country, accompanied by a french speaking god. it's a traditional trail

we'll get on here. that 3rd entry lanka taking the train is an experience in itself . the the train to survive was in the region that's about 2000 meters above sea level. it's main attractions of the t plantations. 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 fell on a level to begin up with. you learn about the entire process, what it is, what we used to make tea quality. the young lead just said there's no charge to

visit the plantations. the french tourist, so happy to go on a walk about. but the guide worried about the picture postcard image the authorities want to convey, then stops the group of french tourists hang on, stop filming. that's not good for tv that get the wicker basket. and all of a sudden the picture appears to be a far more authentic one just from the pictures on the plantation or all time old women. they work 6 days a week and here the work is done by hand. they 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 field. trickier slopes come arch keela, but you can do it in the capital

a little over 4 years since the guys and that's not the 120 kilos for no fuck you. thank you for your hard work to pick his own 20 years since akila barely 50 years a month. it adds up to a cheap workforce, ensure lanka, some 1000000 people work on the plantations. he is 1st and foremost of 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 permanent display, guaranteeing the health safety and well being if it's workers. but the truth is rather different. when a company into the industry it buys hector has a plantations and also all the people who work on them.

bonnie has been working on this plantation for 10 years. she's also tamela during did i became a picker because there is no other work here? my name i don't have a choice. i'd be glad to see what i have to do that i'm lazy. bonnie is now 30 like most of the peak as he, as 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 for 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 him to enter. we spoke to this man. hello.

he's the kind of workers representative, but let me show you the conditions we live in here. the around 20 families live here in region entry conditions. some don't even have running water. he shows his house the look, it's full of holes in the land with some one. yeah, the company says it's a hand renovate the house because the plantation doesn't make enough money in this village. everyone works with the 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 bedroom, only notice 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 let's go to i have some gloves about the damaged. so no, i don't like what i felt as kind of thing nobody had drawn 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. and i often have had a crazy and doesn't that were you little but i can't stop walking last month, his headaches weren't. and she was unable to work. his absence from work cotton dearly. it didn't work. i only worked. the company paid me $1269.00 rupees up with us only for 2 that's less than 8 euros for today's work. there's no health insurance, this is definitely good. but if you got ill because of this chemical and the company won't pay him, and they always find someone else to do the work at the videos and cut in durham has 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. several

days we tried to contact the plantations management to no avail. the office several kilometers away. behind this barbed wire fence. but some t produces in sri lanka had made the will being if they work as a key element their business, the companies like vilma take at each of its plantations. it is 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 felonies standardized. but we, we tried to help them by other means we tried to like these gardens, giving them the chickens, giving them what would be, can do. i'll be want to start another baby farms so that they can buy deck at len. 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 set up inside the plantation to ensure the children getting education. here at least salon t, the famous symbol of sri lanka does not leave a bitter aftertaste. the ah, the, as the corona season comes to an end of the brand of lord site certificate. coming, meeting out, but it was really the last day of

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