Life At 50掳C: South Sudan鈥檚 Toxic Oil
麻豆社 Eye investigates the legacy of oil in the northern states of South Sudan.
A historic trial is underway in Sweden: two European executives of a Swedish oil company are standing trial for aiding and abetting war crimes in South Sudan. In this programme, 麻豆社 Eye investigates how oil has transformed South Sudan: from violence to pollution, and now as climate change. George Tai is a South Sudanese human-rights lawyer who lost his family in the country鈥檚 so-called 鈥渙il war,鈥 and who is speaking out on the toxic legacy oil exploration has left. He鈥檚 had to flee the country after receiving death threats, but those who remain speak of other horrors. They say that present-day oil extraction is destroying the environment and causing babies to be born with birth defects.
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- Thu 14 Nov 2024 10:32GMT麻豆社 World Service
- Sun 17 Nov 2024 19:32GMT麻豆社 World Service