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Bitter Harvest: The War on Drugs Meets the War on Terror

For many governments in the new political landscape of Central Asia, supporting America’s war on terror translates into a dangerous internal juggling act. This Wide Angle documentary examines the uneasy relationship between forces aligned against the Taliban and the drug lords who control the cultivation of much of the world’s heroin. With militias and tribal factions diluting centralized power, the current opium crop in Afghanistan is among the largest ever. How will the international community deal with this fact of central Asian life? Can agricultural reforms be implemented that will equal the profitability of the opium trade? And how will the United States resolve a dilemma that pits the war on terror against the war on drugs? In addition, UNDP Administrator Mark Malloch Brown talks with anchor Daljit Dhaliwal. (57 minutes)

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Item#: BVL36164
Copyright date: ©2002
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-5282-4
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-5283-1


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