Hidden behind locked doors, tortured and abused by their employers, child servants in Myanmar face many dangers. “Adopted into Slavery” investigates the murky trade of children sent away or sold into bondage by their parents, exposing the suffering faced by Myanmar’s most invisible and vulnerable.
Myanmar’s vast and illicit drugs trade is devastating local communities in the country’s war-torn border regions. ‘Drug Vigilantes’ follows a fast growing movement of militant Christian vigilantes trying to fight back against this deadly trade, into a chaotic world of addiction, fear and violence.
Jade mining in Myanmar is a multibillion-dollar industry shrouded in secrecy and corruption and controlled by some of the most notorious figures from the military past. Blood Jade digs deep into the world of desperation and death that surrounds the race for one of world’s most valuable gems.
The Myanmar government insists that a nationwide ceasefire is imminent but war continues to rage in Shan state and other parts of the country. This latest fighting is not just about ethnic identity or autonomy which have been behind the conflict for decades, but a battle for a voice in the transition process.
The remote Wa region of Shan state in Myanmar's northeast is a place few outsiders have ever visited. This closed-off, unofficial state governs itself and functions as an effectively autonomous area. Once known as the Wild Wa because of their practice of headhunting, more recently they have become notorious for drugs, money and wildlife trade. Outside Myanmar’s jurisdiction, the Wa people continue to play to their own rules.
In the underdeveloped region of Demawso in Kayah state, Myanmar, live a handful of women still constrained by a tradition that is fast dying out. The Kayan are an ethnic subgroup distinguished by the long brass coils many of the women wear around their necks, arms and legs. Folklore says that they are descended from dragons and the brass coils are worn to emulate their ancestors and protect them from tiger bites. The Kayan villagers in this area have gone mostly undisturbed by the outside world for most of their lives. But now roads, and with them development, have reached their previously isolated villages. We follow one family as they encounter new experiences and come to terms with the fast paced changes in their community. And we hear how there is no remorse for the loss of the tradition that has constricted them for most of their lives.
