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From Our Own Correspondent

Leading The Change

From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Rohingya village elder reduced to rags and the flash youngster who’s become kingpin. Kate Adie introduces stories, insight and analysis from correspondents around the world: Helen Nianias meets two men trying to bring peace to the chaos of Bangladesh’s refugee camps which are home to almost a million Rohingya people many of whom fled a violent crackdown by the Burmese military in neighbouring Myanmar. Guy De Launey reflects on a tale of identity that’s veered from absurd comedy to physical violence as Macedonians prepare to vote on plans to rename their country North Macedonia. Martin Plaut was one of the thousand or so students who staged a ‘sit-in’ at the University of Cape Town, angry at its decision to withdraw the appointment of a black lecturer. Fifty years on, he’s reunited with some of his fellow protestors. Mark Stratton learns about the scarification ceremonies in Papua New Guinea in which boys have their torsos, backs, and shoulders cut with razor blades so their skin will resemble a crocodile's – a mark of their progression to manhood. And Jenny Hill meets a man who’s been trying for decades to rekindle Britain’s taste for Hock – the German wine favoured by Queen Victoria.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the BBC.

0:03.0

Hello, what's in a name?

0:05.0

A political hot potato for the Macedonians

0:08.0

who next month are voting on whether to start calling their country North Macedonia in order to placate their Greek

0:15.1

neighbours. In South Africa we attend an unusual at university reunion as

0:20.6

students who staged a sit-in against apartheid meet up 50 years on.

0:26.3

In Papua New Guinea the passage to Manhood can be painful, as boys are sometimes scarred in order to look like crocodiles in initiation ceremonies.

0:37.0

And under the gaze of Germany's wine saint, our correspondent has a cool glass of

0:42.3

reasoning, and here's how the industry is making an international comeback. It's a year since the Burmese military began a crackdown on the Rohingya minority in Myanmar's

0:54.4

Rakhine state. Human rights groups have alleged genocide, an orchestrated

1:00.2

campaign of torture, rape and murder as whole villagers have been burnt to the ground.

1:06.8

Many of those who could fled to Bangladesh and today its sprawling camps house almost a

1:12.4

million refugees where tales of sexual abuse and child

1:16.5

exploitation are rife, while landslides and one soon rains threaten.

1:22.1

In Cox's Bazaar, Helen Nianas met the men whom some people are

1:26.5

turning to for help and direction. Having trudged through seemingly endless mud hardening in the sun, past thousands of one-room bamboo huts

1:36.0

occupied by Rohingya refugees, something seemed strange about Shofix home in Balochali camp. He has electricity and not one but two electric fans. There's

1:46.8

also a huge pile of fragrant garlic and ginger in one corner. For most people in the

1:51.9

camp electricity is hard to come by, and food, beyond the

1:56.1

desultory rations of rice, lentils and oil, is a mere fantasy.

2:01.2

Schofik points to a great stack of sacks in another corner of the living room of his

2:04.8

deluxe hut which has a labyrinth of rooms.

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