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  • Isabella at home in her bedroom which the shares with her mother Ilana and 14 yr old sister Corinna. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Isabella at home in her bedroom which the shares with her mother Ilana and 14 yr old sister Corinna. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Isabella at home in the kitchen with her mother Ilana. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Isabella at home in the kitchen with her mother Ilana and 14 yr old sister Corinna. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Isabella at home in the kitchen with her mother Ilana and 14 yr old sister Corinna. 19 year old Isabella Baboi at her residential home in Alexandria, where she lives with her mother and sister. She was expelled from France on 25th September by the police authorities for stealing chewing gum and face-cream. She declared herself as being homeless and returned to Romania with just the clothes she was wearing at the time of her arrest. She will return to Paris suburbs very soon, where her father and cousins are living. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Catalina works for a Roma NGO and as a schoolteacher. Catalina sits with Nicoleta, Catalina's aunt who brought her up and gave her a good education, and her father Slorin in her aunt's home. Nicoleta works as a road cleaner for the municipality and is worried about losing her job. All the cleaners cleaners and refuse collectors are Roma. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Nicoleta, Catalina's aunt who brought her up and gave her a good education, and her father Slorin in her aunt's home. Nicoleta works as a road cleaner for the municipality and is worried about losing her job. All the cleaners cleaners and refuse collectors are Roma. Alexandria, Romania..Roma Gypsies left India 1000 years ago. Often nomadic. A collection of tribes with their own languages and culture, pushed by the Ottoman empire towards Europe, used and sold as mercenaries, slaves, prostitutes. They endured 500 years of slavery until mid 19th century. A million were killed in the holocaust. Hundreds of thousands exiled and refugees from kosovo. Many Eastern Europe Roma come to the west seeking a better life. They are shunned, marginalized, excluded. Both indigenous and foriegn Roma, whether European citizens or not, lack the opportunities of others, living on the periphery, in the brunt of racism, often deported back to their countries of origin.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
    Chernobyl_exclusionzone_Ukraine_MG_6...JPG
  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Chernobyl, Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. Interiors of unihabited homes. Evacuated villages on the outskirts of the  Chernobyl Reactor, town, plant and environs just before the 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster.
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  • Wolf C Hartwig aged 91, producer of epic films and soft-porn features, with his fourth wife, and actress, Veronique Vendell in their apartment on Avenue de Foch, Paris. Wolf Hartwig was awarded a Bambi Award from German Cinema for his film 'The Iron Cross' which was directed by Sam Peckinpah starring James Coburn with Veronique Vendell. A producer working in exploitation genres, soft porn, sex, lurid, violent and sensational features. Other films he produced include 'Horrors from Spider Island'. 'Lady Hamilton' and 'Virgin of the Seven Seas'.//Veronique Vendell with photo of her in her twenties and a photo of her wedding to Wolf Hartwig
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • BURNT HOME FOREST FIRES, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. A family in the burnt out framework of their home destroyed by forest fire. Macuxi traditional indigenous people. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • Kenyah woman with earrings in her longhouse home. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • PENAN SUNGLASSES, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Penan wearing  sunglasses. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • LOGGING, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Logging camp. Migrant worker with gun, in cabin with bedroll and posters. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK VILLAGE, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak village and farmland. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Kenyah indigenous couple in their longhouse home. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Trend setters, MAISON ET OBJET, the semiannual home furnishings trade fair, which took place outside Paris February 2008, is one of the largest events of its kind in Europe and one of the most influential in terms of what new designs will make it to market. So it is not surprising that editors of design magazines and others whose work involves understanding the vagaries of the home furnishings market flock to the show. Caroline Till, trend analyst with 'the Future Laboratory', this is one of her choices of trends at the Paris Nord exhibition for Maison & Objet.///Caroline Till pictured with coloured sugar lollipops. Cordoleani and Fontana sugar objects which won the Grand Design Prize 2007. Grand prix Design 2007..
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  • Trend setters, MAISON ET OBJET, the semiannual home furnishings trade fair, which took place outside Paris February 2008, is one of the largest events of its kind in Europe and one of the most influential in terms of what new designs will make it to market. So it is not surprising that editors of design magazines and others whose work involves understanding the vagaries of the home furnishings market flock to the show.Michelle Lamb, Trends forecaster with 'The Trendcurve', this is one of her choices of trends at the Paris Nord exhibition for Maison & Objet.///Canape - synthetique polyvinyl tissue printed and used. Left and right, Pierre Dubois and Aime-Cecil Noury from French based company 'Les Heritiers.
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  • DAYAK FAMILY, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak longhouse, camera, fan and soft drink in  baby bottle. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK CHRISTIAN ANIMIST, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Cross with animist paintings/designs, Dayak longhouse. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK CHRISTIANS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Preacher. Priest preaching to Dayak and Penan Christians in church. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK GIRL, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak girl with rattan rucksack. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Twenty three years ago: Seventeen year old Den Along (LHS) daughter of Along Sega the renowned resistance fighter, with her daughter Senorita, 1yr old (child in the middle). They are indigenous Penan native people, living as semi-nomadic hunter gatherers. Long Tegang, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo 1989<br />
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PENAN SULAP, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Penan family in sulap settlement. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK EARRINGS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Dayak woman with earrings. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK SUGAR DRINK, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Family on longhouse verandah. Dayak child drinking sweet sugary drink from baby bottle. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo319.jpg
  • LOGGING, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Logging camp. Migrant workers in cabin with bedroll and posters. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
    sarawak_borneo239.jpg
  • DAYAK VILLAGE, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak village and farmland. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK LONGHOUSE, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak, 'Kelabit', family with longhouse. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • DAYAK CHRISTIANS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak and Penan Christians in church. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK CHRISTIANS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Dayak and Penan Christians in church. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • DAYAK CHRISTIANS, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia. Woman with child and bible. Dayak and Penan Christians in church. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Inside Kelabit native longhouse. Children near doorway with Christian religious and save the rainforest material. Long Napir, Limbang district, Sarawak, Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • PENAN SULAP, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Penan with Mickey Mouse T-shirt in sulap settlement. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • 1989: Penan girls with tricycle in sulap settlement. Belaga district, Sarawak. Borneo<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • LOGGING, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Logging camp. Migrant workers in cabin with bedroll and posters. Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • LOGGING, MALAYSIA. Sarawak, Borneo, South East Asia.  Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Kenyah Dayak indigenous people at night in their homes. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Kenyah Dayak indigenous people at night in their homes. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Kenyah Dayak indigenous people at night in their homes. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Kenyah Dayak indigenous people at night in their homes. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
    ziad_takieddine_006.JPG
  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
    ziad_takieddine_005.JPG
  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Penan indigenous hunter and boat with wild boar hunted in primary rainforest, then share amongst all the families in the settlement as is the age old tradition.. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Primary rainforest destroyed for palm oil plantatons. Malaysia, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Logging destruction of primary rainforest, Daiya Malaysia Japanese multi-national. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Rainbow Star logging boat shipping logs to Japan. Logging destruction of primary rainforest, Daiya Malaysia Japanese multi-national. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Penan man climbing primary rainforest tree hunting for bush meat. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Penan indigenous children with push bikes. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Human Logging blockade of Penan and Kenyah indigenous people. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Logging road in the middle of primary tropical rainforest. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Logging blockade of Penan and Kenyah indigenous people. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Primary rainforest destroyed for palm oil plantatons. Malaysia, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Loggers with machinery in primary rainforest, logging and cutting trees. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Tropical rainforest belonging to Penan and Kenyah indigenous people. Near long Lewan, Belaga distict, Sarawak Borneo 1991<br />
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Tropical rainforest and one of the world's richest, oldest eco-systems, flora and fauna, under threat from development, logging and deforestation. Home to indigenous Dayak native tribal peoples, farming by slash and burn cultivation, fishing and hunting wild boar. Home to the Penan, traditional nomadic hunter-gatherers, of whom only one thousand survive, eating roots, and hunting wild animals with blowpipes. Animists, Christians, they still practice traditional medicine from herbs and plants. Native people have mounted protests and blockades against logging concessions, many have been arrested and imprisoned.
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • Ziad Takieddine at his home in Paris March 2013 photograph © Nigel Dickinson..Ziad Takieddine, a Lebanese-French businessman, an intermediary in the world of international contracts, often in relation to arms sales, which have many political and financial scandals attached. He facilitated arms dealing between France and Middle East countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Libya. He is under investigation for allegedly using some of those funds to finance the unsuccessful presidential campaign of former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur. This has led to the Karachi affair...Ziad Takieddine, né le 14 juin 1950 à Baakline, village druze de la montagne du Liban, est un homme d'affaires, un intermédiaire dans des contrats internationaux, dont le nom a souvent été mêlé à des scandales politico-financiers. Dans l'Affaire Karachi, Ziad Takieddine est accusé d'avoir joué l'entremetteur entre la classe politique française et le Pakistan pour assurer la vente de frégates françaises. Il porte plainte contre l'ex-Premier ministre Édouard Balladur devant la Cour de justice de la République pour complicité et recel d'abus de biens sociaux dans le cadre de cette affaire. Après la levée de l'embargo militaire sur la Libye en 2004, Ziad Takieddine est devenu l'intermédiaire privilégié de la France pour négocier du matériel de guerre avec le régime de Mouammar Kadhafi
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  • PRIMARY RAINFOREST, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Traditional Macuxi tribal hut on the top of a hill. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • YANOMAMI TRADITIONAL LIFESTYLES , Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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