It just didn’t happen!
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The UN says the treatment of the Rohingya in Myanmar was genocidal; women were raped and killed, men were shot and whole villages were razed, but as Nick Beake has discovered many Burmese people dismiss it all as 'fake news' and some even claim there's no such thing as Rohingya.
Kate Adie introduces this and other stories from correspondents around the world:
Tom Bateman was in Egypt as EU and Arab League leaders talked tackling terrorism and boosting trade. There were lots of questions about Brexit, but little mention of the host nation’s human rights record.
Julia Buckley visits a failed fascist utopia in Italy.
Neil Trevithick marvels at 5,000-year-old cave paintings in Somaliland.
And Emma Levine is in Toronto which is increasingly the place to go if you want to film a zombie apocalypse, a Viking invasion or a romcom set in New York.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, today European and Arab leaders have been in Egypt this week talking terrorism, |
| 0:11.2 | organized crime and illegal migration. |
| 0:14.2 | But did anyone dare mention their host's human rights record? |
| 0:18.6 | In Italy we visit a failed fascist utopia. |
| 0:22.4 | It was supposed to be Mussolini's ideal industrial city, but today |
| 0:26.2 | much of it lies eerily empty. We marvel in Somaliland at 5,000 year old cave paintings, largely untouched thanks to nomads and |
| 0:36.7 | their mobile phones. |
| 0:38.9 | And we find out why Toronto is the place to go if you want to film a zombie apocalypse, a Viking invasion or a |
| 0:45.9 | roncom set in New York. |
| 0:49.6 | When the de facto Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi spoke at a financial summit earlier this month. |
| 0:55.6 | Her message was clear. |
| 0:57.1 | Niamar's opened for business and hungry for international investment. |
| 1:01.8 | She did not mention the treatment of Rohingya people, the hundreds |
| 1:05.3 | of thousands of members of this mainly Muslim minority who fled violence in Rakhine's state. |
| 1:11.8 | The event held in Rakhine itself touted untouched opportunities there and was |
| 1:17.4 | designed to show that the conflict affects just a small part of the state. |
| 1:21.1 | While the plight of the Rohingya has led to continued international |
| 1:25.4 | outrage ever since tales of villages being raised and mass killings began to pour out in the |
| 1:31.2 | summer of 2017, it's often seen rather differently in Myanmar, as Nick Beak knows all too well. |
| 1:39.0 | Have you ever had that thing where you head off on holiday to get away from it all, only to run into someone |
| 1:44.7 | from back home. |
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