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From Our Own Correspondent

Even the Dead Can’t Escape Politics

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables on the generals and taken for herself a string of top government jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't working and it's time for a radical change and Neal Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in the canyonlands of eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn huge tracts of them into a national park. So why are the ranchers far from keen?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent,

0:05.7

the best in news and current affairs storytelling.

0:08.8

It's introduced by Kate Aide.

0:11.2

Hello, today the young Pakistani who went to the cinema and signed up for jihad.

0:17.0

Five new jobs for Angh Sansu Kyi in Myanmar, but how did the lady outmanuever the generals? The debate over drugs heads

0:26.2

for the UN, but who's got it right, those who want death for the smugglers or those who say

0:31.5

legislations the way to go. And we're in the American Wild West.

0:36.0

The deer and the antelope might still be at play, but the cowboys are worried.

0:42.0

Paris, Baghdad, Istanbul, Wagadougu, Chasada Pakistan, Mogadishu, Hilah Iraq,

0:49.0

Grand Basam, Ivory Coast, Anbar Iraq, Brussels, Aidan Lahore. Those are some of the places that have had

0:56.1

jihadist attacks this year in which there have been many casualties. Ever since 9-11

1:01.9

there have been questions about why so many young men and women want to go on murderous jihad.

1:08.0

Books have been written and whole university courses devoted to the topic,

1:12.0

but as Owen Bennett Jones has been finding out in Lahore,

1:15.9

for all the theorising, in some cases the decision to go seems almost casual.

1:21.8

The group that carried out the Lahore attack afterwards released a photograph

1:25.8

of the suicide bomber. Predictably enough, he looks young, 21 maybe. It's a heavily posed shot. He's on his haunches with a huge gun behind him,

1:37.0

and his right hand is raised in front of his face with his forefinger extended as if he was emphasizing a point.

1:43.4

Listen, he seems to be saying.

1:46.1

Just listen to me.

1:47.9

And once again the question that demands an answer, what on earth was he thinking? A few months ago I met a young man in Lahore,

1:56.3

Khaled Mahmood, who volunteered for jihad, and started a journey that for some ends up with a

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