These children were stolen from their families as part of the Australian government’s plan to wipe out the entire Aboriginal race, to breed them white. The genocide ended as recently as 1970. The fight for justice has only just begun. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report. The storm drove gullies into the red soil and [...]
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On the trail of Pakistan’s Taliban
The authorities in Pakistan have often seemed in cahoots with home-grown terrorists. Not any more. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark report from Islamabad and the border badlands as a new intelligence unit gets serious about tackling the bombers. As the first reports of explosions at the Taj and Oberoi hotels in Mumbai reached Islamabad just [...]
Poor Kids
‘Some people bully you because your house is not all fancy’ Sam, 11, is living with relatives after his single parent dad had a heart attack. Paige, 10, recently moved off a condemned Gorbals estate. Courtney, eight, and friend Holly, nine, in Bradford: ‘I think my future is going to have loads of bad things in it’ In the UK, 3.8 million children live in poverty. True Vision filmed five [...]
How to defuse a human bomb
In Pakistan, young boys are being recruited as suicide bombers by the Taliban. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy visit a new school that offers these brainwashed children a different future. Photographs by Charla Jones The boy comes into view on the CCTV footage for just a few seconds, long enough to see that he is very young and wearing something bulky under his shalwar kameez. He walks purposefully through a crowd of worshippers gathering at Data [...]
City of Fear. Pakistan Living with Terror
A Pakistani student recalls the day her closest friendship was blown apart Every week is like 7/7 Dispatches: City of Fear Amber Ilyas was a grim statistic waiting to happen. Last year as an introverted but smart 18-year-old she was adjusting to her new life as a first-year student at the Islamic University in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Her best friend was [...]
The Plot to Bring Back Benazir
Ever since the twin towers crumpled, the Pentagon smouldered and Flight 93 ploughed into a field outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, one figure has become a mainstay in the war on terror: General Pervez Musharraf. With his convivial, British public school manner, western suits and blow-dried flick, the President of Pakistan, has since September 11, 2001 circumnavigated [...]
Poaching for Bin Laden
Beaming houseboys bear trays of bed-tea, the politest way of getting someone up at the rudest of hours. It is so far from morning that the cooks in the roadside dhabas along India’s National Highway 37 are asleep in their kitchens and no one has got round to firing up the tandoors. From Goalpara in [...]
Ei8ht – Interview with Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy
Investigative journalists Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark talk to E18HT about Burmese generals, jade, Gestapo archives and the boundaries between work and home EI8HT: You have reported from Burmese jade mines, from Russian archives, from Calcutta’s busiest railway station. What would you say unites the stories you choose to work on? Adrian Levy: Getting beneath [...]
Guardian Weekend – The Amber Fascade
The event was so extraordinary that Pravda anatomized it minute by minute, with an Internet broadcast: ‘May 31, 2003, 15.30 hours: Vladimir Putin and Gerhard Schroder arrive at the Catherine Palace, outside St Petersburg and ascend the Monighetti Staircase.’ Following the Russian President and German Chancellor up the stairs (that according to the Russian authorities [...]
Guardian Weekend – He Won Russia Lost
Cutting through the ice-crystal air, a warning bell tolls and the drillmaster hollers, his body swaddled in wool, fleece and fur to protect him from temperatures that have slumped to minus 40°C. ‘Re-engage,’ he shouts into the dead calm of the frozen Siberian tundra as five members of the oil rig crew, wrestling with grappling [...]