A History of Hate - Bosnia: The Weaponisation of History
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2019
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Hate seems to be everywhere - whether it’s white supremacists marching on the streets of America, jihadists slaughtering Christians in Sri Lanka or the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand. In this five part series, BBC journalist Allan Little unpicks the mechanics of hatred and reveals how this dangerous emotion has been whipped up and disseminated throughout history. Allan Little begins with the hatred he witnessed on the killing fields of the Bosnian War, deconstructing how Serbian leaders like Slobodan Milosevic and Radovan Karadzic manipulated and weaponised history to inculcate a violent loathing that would lead to the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica. It's a hatred and an ideology that continues to inspire today's extreme far-right.
Presenter: Allan Little Producer: Xavier Zapata Editor: Helen Grady
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hate seems to be everywhere. |
| 0:42.0 | Whether it's the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand or jihadist slaughtering Christians in Sri Lanka. |
| 0:47.0 | In this seriously podcast, we hear the first episode of A History of Hate, Alan Little's five-part series, which looks at |
| 0:55.4 | historical moments to deconstruct the machinery of hatred that lies inside each of us. |
| 1:00.6 | In this program Alan examines the hatred he witnessed on the killing |
| 1:05.1 | fields of the Bosnian War, a hatred that inspires today's anti-Islamic |
| 1:09.8 | far-right. You can hear the rest of the series on BBC Sounds now. Just search for a history of hate. The song is an expression of triumph and celebration |
| 1:27.0 | but it glorifies one of the most shocking episodes in recent European history, a war waged in the name of ethnic purity, in which thousands were murdered for the crime of belonging to the wrong ethnic group. |
| 1:43.0 | At Srebrenica in the summer of 1995, thousands of men and boys were rounded up and murdered by |
| 1:56.4 | Bosnian Serbs. It was the greatest single atrocity on European soil since the defeat of Nazi Germany. |
| 2:04.0 | The killing had been going on for three years as Bosnian Serbs fought to carve out an ethnically |
| 2:10.5 | pure territory by killing or expelling their non-serve neighbors. |
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