Hello. Today we hear from the African conscripts who fought for Russia against Ukraine and what

lured them to take up the fight in the first place. We're in Ahmedabad one year on from the Air India

crash, where we hear from one man fighting for answers. Citizens of Ghana, Nigeria and Mozambique

are relocating amid of rise in xenophobia.

Our correspondent has been on a fact-finding mission.

And finally, we're in the Caribbean country of Belize, where we hear the story of the

Garifuna people and attend a performance by a much celebrated band.

But first we're in Myanmar, where a civil war has claimed almost 100,000 lives. In 2021, the country's military seized power in a coup,

but it subsequently lost ground to rebel and ethnic groups who joined together to form a united and formidable resistance.

Now the military hunter is making a renewed push, bolstered by Russian and Chinese support,

with a forced conscription program of tens of thousands of recruits and new drone technology.

Quentin Somerville has spoken to some of those

recruits who've now defected to the resistance. The four young men sat on hammocks

outdoors, smoking cigarettes. It was clear they were close friends. They were laughing together,

and when I spoke to them, they'd finish each other's sentences. If it wasn't for

the context, we were in a jungle camp on a hillside in rebel hell territory in Myanmar's Karen state,

they could have been mistaken for lads on holiday. In fact, they are deserters from Myanmar's military,

conscripts. The youngest is 19, the oldest 23, and they'd been

press gang from the streets of where they'd lived and forced into service. And at the first

opportunity, five months later, the four of them did a runner. We were brought into this fight

without our consent. Before we even understood what was happening,

we were sent straight to the front lines, one of the men told me. I never wanted this,

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