Murder in Bangladesh
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Insight, colour and analysis. In this edition: the authorities deny IS or al-Qaeda is active in Bangladesh but others believe a spate of vicious killings there is the work of Islamist extremists; after Columbine, Virginia Tech and Sandy Hook, American schools are now having to rehearse what they'll do if their place of learning comes under gun attack -- but the precautions aren't always a comfort to parents; there are now hundreds of thousands of Syrians taking shelter from the war in neighbouring Jordan - their presence is having a marked effect on the Jordanian economy and on its peoples' eating habits; we meet a man in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania who tells us how the country's new president is providing his country with inspirational leadership at last. And surely covering the Cannes Film Festival is a thoroughly pleasant experience? Only up to a point, apparently. We hear a story of status anxiety and snobbery, indignity and humiliation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, |
| 0:03.0 | you've downloaded the latest edition of BBC Radios from our own correspondent. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, May the 19th, |
| 0:10.0 | and it's introduced by Kate Aide. |
| 0:12.0 | Hello. Today, priests, academics, bloggers, gays, |
| 0:17.0 | who'll be the next victim of the murder gangs in Bangladesh? |
| 0:21.0 | Crouching in the classroom closet, American school children rehearse for every parent's worst nightmare. |
| 0:27.0 | They may be fleeing a war, but the Syrians in Jordan are boosting the economy and revitalising the cuisine. And liberty, equality, fraternity, |
| 0:37.3 | we find there's not much of that among the stars and the others at the film festival in Cannes. A Buddhist monk has become the latest |
| 0:46.4 | victim of a series of brutal murders in Bangladesh. The body of the man who was |
| 0:51.1 | in his 70s and had been hacked to death was found in a temple in the |
| 0:55.2 | south of the country. |
| 0:57.1 | As well as religious minorities, bloggers, gays and university staff are among those who've been |
| 1:02.3 | targeted. An English professor was |
| 1:04.8 | killed while walking from his home to a bus stop. After the attack teachers went on strike at |
| 1:10.0 | his university in the northwest of the country saying they feared for their lives. |
| 1:15.3 | Most students then abandoned their studies and headed home. |
| 1:19.4 | The Islamic State Group and a local branch of Al-Qaeda have said they carried out some of the murders. |
| 1:25.5 | Many people in Bangladesh believe they're trying to turn this moderate Muslim nation into |
| 1:29.8 | a state run according to Sharia law. Sanjoy Majumda's been to the capital to investigate. |
| 1:36.0 | Kalabagun is a peaceful well-to-do neighborhood in Central Dhaka. |
| 1:40.0 | There's a serenity in the air when I visited one evening. |
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