The winning half-hour documentary, presented by CNN's Bangkok-based correspondent Dan Rivers, highlighted the on-going persecution of the ethnic Rohingya people in their bid to escape terrible persecution and privation in Myanmar, formerly Burma, and in neighboring countries.

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This might suggest that, in terms of immediate privation only, it is delivery of food rather than actual growing of it that is most vital.

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It was as though their privation was somehow genetic, transferred biologically in some sad double helix of DNA from one Zulu generation to the next.

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Extreme privation did not prevent tens of thousands of defiant supporters in Gaza this week from celebrating Hamas's founding.

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