Investigating Nigeria's protest shootings
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Nigeria's EndSARS demonstrations have ground to a halt following the fatal shooting of at least 12 people, although that number is disputed. Investigations into the incident are underway and a panel has been hearing evidence in Lagos. But as Mayeni Jones has found out, the search for the truth in Nigeria, involves a great deal of theatre. In China, ethnic Mongolians appear to have become the latest target for an ever-more repressive Communist Party under Xi Jinping. The central government – which is dominated by China’s majority Han Chinese – decided to reduce Mongolian language teaching, which prompted rare protests in China’s Inner Mongolia. Stephen McDonell went there to find out more. America's deep divisions about its attitudes to past and present injustices towards ethnic minorities manifested themselves in reactions to the tearing down of statues or Confederate flags this year. And as Jo Erickson found out when she walked up Mount Evans in Colorado, even the name of a mountain can be controversial - but because of Native American rather than African American history. Sami Kent is of mixed British and Turkish descent, and when he recently returned to live in the Turkish city of Istanbul after spending the first months of the pandemic in Britain, he found his aunt or "hala" much changed. Fear of the virus meant that now, her daily walk, for which she puts her trainers on, is no more than pacing up and down on the balcony. Malta is battling Covid-19 along with the rest of Europe. Quarantine, though, is nothing new to Malta, and its healthcare, good today, was once the envy of Europe. Juliet Rix takes us back to the days of the Knights of Malta, the Order of St John Hospitaller.
Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:06.1 | Today, the importance of your own language. |
| 0:09.2 | We're in Inner Mongolia and Northern Chinese province where Mongolian has been reduced in schools. |
| 0:16.0 | We ask why. |
| 0:18.3 | Divisions in today's America are deep and widespread. |
| 0:21.3 | We even find a walk-up Mount Evans in the Rocky Mountains |
| 0:24.8 | brings controversy. Evans was responsible for a massacre of Native Americans. |
| 0:30.9 | A walk-to in Istanbul, but our correspondence aren't is donning her trainers for a walk back and forth on her balcony. |
| 0:40.0 | And quarantine, a word in much use in the Middle Ages now familiar to us all |
| 0:45.3 | and with a long history on the island of Malta. |
| 0:48.3 | First to Nigeria where after weeks of unrest, triggered by protests against police brutality, |
| 0:57.1 | there are investigations underway into the fatal shooting of perhaps a dozen people by members of the armed forces. |
| 1:04.0 | A panel is now sitting in the country's largest city, Lagos, to hear evidence about the |
| 1:10.2 | incident. |
| 1:11.2 | And as Myony Jones explains, the search for truth in Nigeria involves a great deal of theatre. |
| 1:18.0 | It's a hot sunny day in Lagos. It's been over 48 hours since the shooting. The lucky door gate where the shot |
| 1:25.8 | were fired is quiet. Or at least it is when we first get there. There's a police truck, |
| 1:31.6 | an armored vehicle and maybe a dozen policemen, but soon were joined by dozens more. |
| 1:37.0 | Because of the tense atmosphere in the previous days, I immediately assume they'll ask us to stop filming and leave. |
| 1:44.0 | But instead they start stopping cars, driving through the tollgate and searching them. |
| 1:48.0 | I think nothing of it. |
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