JANUARY 2004
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Wednesday, 28th January,2004
MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY INTERVIEW
News came today that Commodore Bainimarama will be reappointed, but there is still cause for concern, according to Mahendra Chaudery. Mr Chaudhry is visiting Australia and Mark Davis spoke with him a short time ago.
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Wednesday, 28th January,2004
MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY BACKGROUNDER
Over the past two weeks, speculation has been mounting about a possible coup in Fiji after a stand-off between the government and the nation’s most senior military commander. At the heart of the issue is the prosecution, or lack thereof, of key players in the May 2000 coup.
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Wednesday, 28th January,2004
KHMER ROUGE IN COURT
After years of wrangling between the United Nations and the Cambodian Government, a deal has now been struck to put the Khmer Rouge on trial. And Australia has become the first country to donate money for that tribunal. It’s been a quarter of a century since Pol Pot and his followers were ousted from power and till now, no-one has been brought to account for their genocidal rule. Ginny Stein has just secured a rare interview with Khieu Samphan, one of the former regime’s most senior leaders.
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Wednesday, 28th January,2004
ARNIE ARNESEN INTERVIEW
Arnie Arnesen is a political commentator with her own syndicated radio program. She knows New Hampshire and the Democratic Party well, having once stood as their candidate for governor of that state. Mark Davis spoke with her from Manchester, New Hampshire, about today’s results.
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Wednesday, 28th January,2004
THE DEAN MACHINE
Earlier today John Kerry confirmed his status as frontrunner for the Democratic Party, when he won the important New Hampshire primary vote. But there’s still a long way, and a lot of hoopla to go, before the Democrats settle on who will challenge George Bush for the presidency. Early favourite Howard Dean came a convincing second in today’s poll, perhaps back on track after a disastrous Iowa caucus last week. Mark Davis will analyse today’s results shortly. But first this report from Olivia Rousset, who’s just returned from a week on Howard Dean’s "People Powered Express."
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Wednesday, 21st January,2004
MARK WORTH OBITUARY
On a final and very sad note, independent film maker and ’Dateline’ journalist Mark Worth died in West Papua last week. Mark was born in Papua New Guinea and most of his professional life was spent in that region making films and reports across Melanesia. Some of his most important stories covered the plight of West Papuans under Indonesian rule. He is now buried there in his wife’s village outside the capital, Jayapura. We close tonight with some images from Mark’s stories for us, ’Foreign Correspondent’ and from his last film, ’Land of the Morning Star’, which will be screened shortly by the ABC.
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Wednesday, 21st January,2004
SERBIAS PATRIOT GAMES
With former president Slobodan Milosevic on trial for war crimes, the country’s new leaders had hoped to curb the rampant nationalism that fuelled a decade of conflict in the heart of Europe. But nationalism is again on the rise in Serbia. In recent parliamentary elections, four indicted war criminals ran as candidates. Reporter Bronwyn Adcock spent two weeks on the campaign trail with one of them - a general who is a war criminal to some, but a hero to others.
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Wednesday, 21st January,2004
GENERAL RICHARD MYERS US ARMY-INTERVIEW
Mark Davis spoke with General Myers in Sydney after his official meetings about the war and our future involvement with the US military.
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Wednesday, 21st January,2004
US AUSTRALIA ALLIANCE BACKGROUNDER
In his State of the Union Address today, President George Bush warned America the war on terror was far from over and many battles lie ahead. And if deepening ties between Washington and Canberra are anything to go by, our troops may well be with US forces if and when they strike again. Last week, the man who sits atop America’s vast war machine, General Richard Myers, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, travelled to Canberra to confer with one of his country’s closest allies.
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Wednesday, 21st January,2004
SERBIA – PATRIOT GAMES
On DATELINE this Wednesday, January 21 at 8.30pm
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To the dismay of the international community, Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president on trial for war crimes in the Hague, ran for office and received votes in Serbia’s latest elections. So did Vojislav Seselj, head of the Serbian Radical Party, who is awaiting trial in the Hague. His party won 27% of the vote and will be the largest in parliament.
When DATELINE returns to SBS Television for its 2004 season, reporter Brownyn Adcock looks at the continuing popular appeal of Serbian patriots as she follows the electoral campaign of war hero and indicted war criminal General Nebojsa Pavkovic.
During a 30-year military career Pavkovic became one of the most highly decorated army generals in Serbia. When he was accused over the deaths of 10,000 civilians in Kosovo and ordered to appear at the War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, the Serbian government refused to extradite him.
Now the indictment against him claims Pavkovic’s activities during the war also included ordering murders, forced deportations and inhumane acts.
Pavkovic insists that any such crimes committed against Kosovars were done by rogue Serb soldiers, acting alone.
Whether or not the Serb people believe him the indictment against Pavkovic appeared to increase his popularity, perhaps as an antidote to a nation’s wounded pride. The widespread condemnation of Serbia’s role in the wars of the past decade has left many Serbs feeling like they are international pariahs.
That’s DATELINE, this Wednesday January 21 at 8.30pm.
