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117: Patrick Alley | Blood Diamonds, Kleptocrats, Very Bad People & The Investigations Of Global Witness
Curious Worldview Podcast
How Old Were You When Global Witness Was Birthed?
In the early 1990s, Cambodia was very big news. The United Nations were mounting their biggest ever peacekeeping operation up to that time. And we read these press articles which said the Khmer Rouge were trading timber from Cambodia's rainforests with timber companies in Thailand. We thought, why doesn't somebody look at that? Why doesn't someone go there and get information about it? If it is true, then maybe you could advocate with governments to close that border. That was the idea. But as you said, we were not the obvious candidates to do that because we had no experience of investigating. You know, looking back in hindsight, it's strange to think that such a dysfunctional
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