Kill A Chicken To Scare The Monkey
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
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🗓️ 17 June 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Tales from Thailand, Morocco, Myanmar, Kenya and the US-Mexico border. Kate Adie introduces correspondents’ stories.
In a Chang Mai prison, Jonathan Head meets a woman facing more than a decade in jail, convicted of insulting the monarchy and sentenced under Thailand’s lèse majesté laws. Colin Freeman wonders whether change might be coming to Morocco as protests spread across the country – the largest since 2011, the era of the Arab Spring. Jonah Fisher looks back on his three and a half years in Myanmar and wonders how he went from eating cake with Aung San Suu Kyi in her home, to shouting questions at her at public rallies. Harriet Constable joins the roller-blading cool kids of Nairobi and finds a welcome distraction from warnings of violence ahead of Kenya’s upcoming general election. And on the US/Mexico border, Victoria Gill goes in search of the Sonoran Pronghorn as researchers try to assess what impact President Trump's plan for an "impassable barrier" might have on wildlife.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for |
| 0:02.0 | our own correspondent. This is the edition that was broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday June the 17th, 2017. |
| 0:08.0 | Here's Kate A. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello. |
| 0:11.0 | Today, the street protests of the Arab Spring have faded since 2011, but in Morocco |
| 0:18.2 | they're once again demanding change. |
| 0:21.6 | Awkward questions for the Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, now in power, but uncharacteristically reluctant to talk about |
| 0:29.0 | human rights. |
| 0:31.2 | What else to complain about regarding Donald Trump's intentions? |
| 0:35.0 | How about the animals? |
| 0:37.0 | Antelope in particular, faced with the prospect of a beautiful wall. |
| 0:42.0 | And we go hurtling round a Kenyan car park roller skating |
| 0:46.1 | with the cool kids of Nairobi. The United Nations has called on Thailand |
| 0:52.3 | to amend its harsh law against insulting the monarchy. |
| 0:56.0 | The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said it was deeply troubled by the high rate of prosecutions and the disproportionate sentences. |
| 1:05.8 | Since the military coup in 2014 it says, more than twice as many people have been investigated |
| 1:11.6 | for violating the Les Magisade law than in the preceding three |
| 1:15.8 | years. |
| 1:17.6 | Earlier this month a man was given a 35-year sentence for Facebook posts judged to have defamed the monarchy. |
| 1:26.0 | Trials are routinely held in closed session, often in military courts where defendants |
| 1:30.6 | rights are limited. |
| 1:32.4 | Jonathan Head has been looking into one such case. |
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