Lederhosen Style
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Thousands of Kenyans prepare to go to court to pursue claims against the British. Gabriel Gatehouse in Nairobi explains how they date back to the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s and why they are getting little publicity inside Kenya itself. The Dutch are changing their famously-liberal drugs laws. Manuela Saragosa says the decision's delighted some but infuriated others. Caspar Leighton's been observing celebrations of fifty years of Ugandan independence. He says people there are wondering whether, after their nation's shaky start, they are now suffering from too much stability. Rich and poor , young and old, if you want to strike up a conversation with an Indian, start talking about gold. Rahul Tandon is in Calcutta finding out why. Lederhosen for men. Heidi-style dresses for women. Bethany Bell has been learning why these clothes, so long the preserve of the ultra-conservatives in southern Germany and Austria, have now become highly fashionable.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent. |
| 0:04.6 | You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our |
| 0:08.6 | site at BBC online. |
| 0:10.8 | But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:16.0 | Today, first it was three, now it's thousands of Kenyans preparing to take the British government to court over allegations dating back to the 1950s. |
| 0:26.4 | The Dutch tighten up their cannabis laws. |
| 0:29.1 | Some of their citizens are delighted, others are furious. We discover why they can't stop talking about it. are dresses for women. In Austria, they are no longer a political statement, their high fashion. |
| 0:47.0 | It's 60 years ago this week that a state of emergency was declared in Kenya in response to the Maumau uprising. |
| 0:54.8 | And it's now become clear that thousands of Kenyans are considering taking the British government |
| 0:59.5 | to court over incidents said to have occurred during that rebellion in the early 1950s. |
| 1:05.0 | This follows the ruling earlier this month that three Kenyans, tortured by the British |
| 1:09.9 | authorities then, can proceed with their legal claims despite the time elapsed. |
| 1:15.7 | The government in London accepts that the colonial administration did torture detainees, |
| 1:21.4 | but it denies liability and plans to appeal. |
| 1:25.0 | Gabriel Gatehouse says that decision of the court in London, while welcomed by those who campaigned |
| 1:30.4 | for years for this outcome, received surprisingly little attention in Kenya. |
| 1:36.0 | It was a wrinkled crowd that assembled in the gardens of the Kenya Human Rights Commission to hear |
| 1:41.0 | the decision of the High Court. The judge was half a world away in London. |
| 1:45.8 | The events on which he was due to rule had occurred more than half a century earlier. |
| 1:50.8 | The vast temporal gulf that separated those original events from the long-awaited promise of judicial dress was visible in physical form. |
| 1:59.0 | Its lines were etched on the faces of the 50 or so men and women who perched on plastic chairs that day clustered |
| 2:06.2 | around patches of shade. In some you could see the imprint of pain. Above his sunken eyes, Paolo Muoko and Zili's forehead is a contorted knot of muscle |
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