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Bitter Harvest
Thursday, August 22, 2002
In the new political landscape of Central Asia, U.S. troops are on the ground and Western military bases are under construction throughout the region. But now, the forces aligned against the Taliban and their terrorist allies find themselves in an uneasy relationship with the drug lords who control the cultivation of much of the world's heroin. With the departure of the Taliban, the current opium crop in Afghanistan is among the largest ever. How will the world's drug control authorities 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?
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Producer Chris Hilton's three-hour series on the opium trade, DEALING WITH THE DEMON, aired on PBS and ABC Australia, and was seen in 11 Asian countries and in Europe. His other films include ADVERTISING MISSIONARIES, YEAR OF THE DOGS, THE IRISH EMPIRE, and SHADOW PLAY, a look at Indonesia's Cold War crisis, which aired on PBS in June 2002.
Photos: AP
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