Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC with me Max Pearson

and the team behind the Witness History Strand on the world service. This week with the

abortion ruling Roe v. Wade again under threat in the US we revisit the original

1973 Supreme Court ruling. The court I argued to was all men, and I started with the thing that I thought the group

of men would be less likely to ask me.

And that was about women.

Plus 40 years on, the Falklands conflict, remembered by an Argentine survivor of the Belgrano sinking.

We could see the ship was listing and we knew this was serious and we'd have to abandon ship.

And everything happened so quickly.

And a British serviceman on the doomed Segalahad.

I saw the bomb crash through the side. The bomb detonated the fuel and I just

happened to be, by all accounts accounts the closest to the bomb to survive.

That and more coming up later in the podcast but we're going to begin in Xinjiang province in Western China

where the UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, is preparing to visit later this month.

In particular, she's going to be looking at the plight of the Uyghurs.

In recent years, both the U.S. and Canada have described China's suppression of the Uyghurs as genocide.

Joe McDermott now takes us back to the 1980s when activists from the minority Uyghur community staged some of the earliest demonstrations

against the Chinese Communist Party.

She's been speaking to Aziz Isa Elkan, who took part in a protest as a schoolboy and paid

for it for the rest of his life.

It's 1986 and a group of high school students is about to take an incredible risk.

Under the cover of darkness, they go around the homes and offices of the most powerful people they know in

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