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Burma with Simon Reeve

Episode 2

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News North America

Simon journeys up the vast Irrawaddy river to the old royal capital of Mandalay, home to an exotic market for precious jade. In Burma's mountainous highlands, he visits an elephant sanctuary and finds out how a growing tourism industry is helping them survive after working for decades in the logging industry. Burma is a melting pot of different ethnic groups and having seen first-hand the suffering of the Rohingya people on the first leg of his journey, Simon now travels secretly into one of Burma's many other conflict zones to meet a huge rebel army who've been fighting the Burmese military for decades. Simon goes on combat patrol into the jungle with the rebels and learns why they have been fighting the longest-running civil war in the world. Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Simon Reeve
Executive Producer:
Sam Bagnall
Executive Producer:
Sarah Waldron
Producer:
Ruth Mayer
Director:
Ruth Mayer

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