Dec 4, 2010
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2010
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The great silence that is the legacy of genocide -- Neil Trevithick considers the legacy of brutality in Cambodia; Andrew Harding manages to relax on the beach in war-weary Mogadishu and finds some Somalians optimistic about the future; Paul Adams eats oysters for breakfast and talks to some of those living with the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico's oil spill disaster. With much of the opposition boycotting the second round of general election voting, Jon Leyne considers the nature of politics Egyptian-style and Pascale Harter's learning how to endure endless thirst in one of the hottest places on the planet.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Alan Johnston. We make two editions of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:06.0 | If you'd like to hear the version I introduce on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:10.5 | you can find it by going to the BBC Eye Player. But here's the one broadcast on BBC |
| 0:16.7 | Radio 4. It's presented by Kate Adi. A land of secrets, the Cambodians who live amongst their parents' killers and don't even know it. |
| 0:26.0 | After 20 years of anarchy, hope for a new start in Somalia, there are even plans to introduce cricket. |
| 0:32.0 | Also today, the soaring price of tomatoes in Egypt, |
| 0:36.0 | is it exercising the voters ahead of tomorrow's election? And as the deep freeze continues here, |
| 0:41.6 | we're off to the shores of Lake Assal in Djibouti. |
| 0:45.2 | It's one of the hottest places on earth. |
| 0:48.4 | Few countries live with a darker past than Cambodia. |
| 0:52.0 | More than a million Cambodians died from starvation, disease or |
| 0:55.4 | execution during the killing fields years of the late 70s. Only now are those |
| 1:00.8 | responsible being brought to justice. |
| 1:03.0 | One, a prison warder was found guilty in the summer. |
| 1:05.9 | Other leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime are expected to go on trial next year. |
| 1:11.0 | Neil Trevithic's been making a program in Cambodia and trying to discover if its people are |
| 1:16.2 | finally coming to terms with their history. He's finding that many are reluctant even to talk |
| 1:21.6 | about it. |
| 1:23.2 | The psychologist had agreed to be interviewed before I arrived in Thompen. |
| 1:27.4 | But when we get to his clean air-conditioned office beside a main road on the way out of the |
| 1:31.6 | city where the greening fields begin, there seems |
| 1:34.8 | to be a problem. A long urgent discussion in Khmer ensues with our translator, Gunti. |
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