Memories of Murder
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The lives behind the headlines. In this edition: forty years in prison for the former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic, found guilty of war crimes. Does it send a signal to those in positions of power that they will, ultimately, be held accountable? Brussels -- not just a city of Eurocrats, but one where people and families live and grow up and where's there's been a phlegmatic response to Tuesday's bomb attacks there; Mexicans are increasingly angry about the level of corruption in their country - organised crime's now said to be deeply embedded in the country's legal and political establishment and the police can't be trusted either; the nine hundred-plus clumps of rock which make up the Solomon Islands may now be independent but, we find, old ties with Britain have not been entirely severed. And while some might regard Cantonese cooking as a little old hat, our correspondent says it is in fact one of China's most exquisite cuisines, with many of its delights unknown to outsiders
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading the latest edition of BBC radios from our own correspondent, |
| 0:05.7 | the best in news and current affairs storytelling. |
| 0:08.8 | It's introduced by Kate Adi. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, today to Brussels and the neighbours view of the horrors which unfolded on their |
| 0:16.0 | doorsteps on Tuesday. |
| 0:18.6 | It's daylight robbery in Mexico as the police escort us to a cash machine. |
| 0:24.3 | The Australians, the Americans and the Japanese are all remembered on the |
| 0:28.0 | Solomons, but what about the British who for generations ruled these Pacific islands. |
| 0:33.4 | And there's a banquet of incomparable artistry in Hong Kong. |
| 0:37.8 | It's a world away from egg-fried rice and sweet and sour pork. |
| 0:41.6 | But first, one of the most brutal chapters of European history has |
| 0:46.8 | finally closed with the conviction of the former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan |
| 0:51.5 | Karajich. He was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was found |
| 0:56.0 | guilty at the Hague of 10 charges including criminal responsibility for genocide at |
| 1:01.2 | Schrebrinitza, where 8,000 Muslim men and boys were massacred. |
| 1:06.0 | A spokesman at the United Nations said Thursday's verdict sent a strong signal to everyone in |
| 1:11.4 | positions of responsibility that they would be held |
| 1:14.5 | accountable for their actions. Alan Little reported on the conflict in the |
| 1:18.9 | 1990s and was in the Hague this week. |
| 1:21.4 | Somewhere in a box in my cellar I have a note scribbled hurriedly by Radevan Karajich. |
| 1:27.0 | It asks that I be provided all the help and protection I need to travel through the territory of the |
| 1:32.0 | Serbian Republic of Bosnia HerzHerzegovina, to pass |
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