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From Our Own Correspondent

‘Everything that is good has been taken’

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie presents stories from Ukraine, Iran, Niger, Bhutan and Lithuania.

Russian troops captured Irpin, north-west of Kyiv, early on in the invasion. When the satellite town was liberated, the atrocities of Russian soldiers were laid bare. Nick Redmayne spoke to the residents who returned home about how they are trying to rebuild their lives.

Following the protests which began in mid-September, after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, news of the first public execution of a protestor in Iran drew international condemnation this week - though protests show no sign of abating. Azadeh Moaveni was in Tehran when the protests began and found the desire for change runs deep in Iranian society.

Michela Wrong visits a safe house in Niamey, Niger, where eight elderly Rwandan men are being detained, having been prosecuted for their role in the Rwandan genocide. Four have now been acquitted, and four have served their prison sentences. She hears what happened to them since their trial- and the challenges posed by their rehabilitation.

Last year, Bhutan decriminalised homosexuality. Michelle Jana Chan speaks to gay activists, including Miss Universe Bhutan, about how far the population in the Himalayan Kingdom, is keeping step with political change.

Lithuania was once the heart of a large empire in the Middle Ages, stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hundreds of years ago, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania invited members of the Karaim community from Crimea to serve as guards and soldiers of an empire. Simon Broughton attended a festival celebrating their culture in Trakai.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

Today we're in Tehran, where we visit the home of two sisters who believe in a different

0:10.6

future for Iran, so why aren't they taking to the streets?

0:16.3

What's to be done with war criminals after they've served their sentence?

0:20.7

We visit a villa in Niger, where Ben found guilty of their role in the Rwandan genocide

0:26.4

and now living in limbo.

0:29.2

In Bhutan, we hear about the country's progressive Prime Minister, but is the rural population

0:35.1

keeping pace when it comes to same-sex relationships?

0:39.4

And finally we're in Lithuania, at the festival of the Karayim people, a small Turkic-speaking

0:45.8

minority from Crimea, who long ago were invited to serve as guards and soldiers of an empire.

0:54.2

Next after Russian occupation, how do Ukrainians returning to abandoned towns and cities rebuild

1:00.4

their lives?

1:02.1

We're in Irpin, northwest of Ukraine's capital Kiev, where the atrocities of Russian soldiers

1:08.0

were laid bare earlier this year, when the satellite town was liberated.

1:13.0

Dead bodies lined the streets, some with the hands tied behind their backs.

1:18.6

Groceries were strewn on the ground from shopping trips that were never completed.

1:23.6

Soldiers were left severely damaged by shelling.

1:26.5

What does it feel like for those who, having been evacuated early in the invasion, are now

1:31.9

returning home?

1:33.7

Not only do they have to contend with water shortages and electricity outages that have become

1:39.4

commonplace across Ukraine, but they must now learn how to continue their life, often in

1:46.2

solitude, after friends and neighbours were killed, says Nick Redmayne.

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