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Sorry a day late, but BBC Panorama showed a 30 minute programme on baboon hosting this weekend's Eurovision.
Hopefully it opened some eyes in UK and further afield, interviews with dissidents, footage of secret policemen's violence and harrassment. One activist was beaten/tortured and threatened with even worse for simply voting for Armenia's song in the 2009 contest.
During the 2009 competition the baboon TV showed a blank screen when Armenia's song was playing and the same again for the vote.
The programme also discussed the ruling dynasty and their fortune, amazing stuff, the president's 15 year old son has invested $ 40,000,000 in a hotel in baku! Not bad when the president earns $150,000 per year!
Anyone interested in seeing this show should be able to view it on BBC iPlayer. : www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
"Mr Kenyon went undercover in Azerbaijan to uncover the corruption surrounding the singing contest in the Soviet state.
The programme tells of residents who were held and questioned after last year's show simply for voting for neighbouring country - and bitter rival - Armenia.
Mr Kenyon also found that blocks of flats, knocked down to make room for the impressive 20,000-seat Baku Crystal Hall where the event takes place, still had residents inside when the bulldozers rumbled in.
President Ilham Aliyev is said to run a 'mafia state' in which journalists who go against the regime will be jailed or blackmailed."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1vcdRL7Gx
Hopefully it opened some eyes in UK and further afield, interviews with dissidents, footage of secret policemen's violence and harrassment. One activist was beaten/tortured and threatened with even worse for simply voting for Armenia's song in the 2009 contest.
During the 2009 competition the baboon TV showed a blank screen when Armenia's song was playing and the same again for the vote.
The programme also discussed the ruling dynasty and their fortune, amazing stuff, the president's 15 year old son has invested $ 40,000,000 in a hotel in baku! Not bad when the president earns $150,000 per year!
Anyone interested in seeing this show should be able to view it on BBC iPlayer. : www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/
"Mr Kenyon went undercover in Azerbaijan to uncover the corruption surrounding the singing contest in the Soviet state.
The programme tells of residents who were held and questioned after last year's show simply for voting for neighbouring country - and bitter rival - Armenia.
Mr Kenyon also found that blocks of flats, knocked down to make room for the impressive 20,000-seat Baku Crystal Hall where the event takes place, still had residents inside when the bulldozers rumbled in.
President Ilham Aliyev is said to run a 'mafia state' in which journalists who go against the regime will be jailed or blackmailed."
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1vcdRL7Gx
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