Nov 10, 2011
From Our Own Correspondent
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🗓️ 10 November 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
'Prosperity for all!' That was the Ugandan president's promise as he stood for re-election but today, as Rob Young's been finding out, there's growing discontent at steeply rising food and fuel prices. There are accusations in Kyrgyzstan of persecution of the Uzbek minority in the south of the country -- Natalia Antelava, who's been investigating, says the official line is that reconciliation's well underway after vicious ethnic clashes there last year. Huw Cordey records that the image of Colombia is slowly changing now that government forces appear to have the upper hand in the long battle against the FARC rebels. Not all the British servicemen stationed in Germany will be coming home -- Chris Bowlby's been meeting some who plan to stay on there. And Vincent Dowd's been visiting a Philadelphia museum which offers a window onto recent American history ... and some rather fine singing too!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is from our own correspondent, a download from the BBC. |
| 0:03.7 | For a sneak preview of our program, you can join our feed on Twitter, |
| 0:07.4 | and there's a daily airing of From Our own correspondent on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:11.8 | but now the latest edition as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 |
| 0:15.2 | and it's introduced by Kate A.D. Today Kyrgyghestan's new leader says he'll |
| 0:20.9 | tackle the ethnic divisions in his country which have led to accusations |
| 0:25.0 | of torture, extortion and persecution. |
| 0:28.9 | Soring fuel and food prices are causing unrest in Uganda. The president maintains the place offers prosperity for |
| 0:35.9 | all. Why Columbians feel their countries no longer a place of drug gangs, kidnapping and |
| 0:41.9 | violence. And why thousands of British troops have decided |
| 0:46.1 | not to come home, but to stay on in Germany instead. |
| 0:51.1 | It's a year and a half now since an outbreak of ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan left |
| 0:56.4 | hundreds of people dead. There'd been long simmering resentment in this Central Asian state between the majority Kyrgyz population |
| 1:05.0 | and the sizable minority of Uzbek's. There were killings on both sides, houses |
| 1:10.2 | burned, livelihoods destroyed. The Kyrgyz government says a process of |
| 1:15.0 | reconciliation is going well, but human rights groups are saying the |
| 1:19.5 | Uspeks are still being persecuted. Natalia Antalava's been investigating in the town of Osh. |
| 1:26.0 | It took Sardar an hour to die. |
| 1:30.0 | He was bleeding heavily when guards pushed him into the dark stuffy room. |
| 1:34.4 | His friends, other prisoners, helped him lie down. |
| 1:37.6 | Crowding around, they listened to his fading voice as Sardor described how 16 men took turns beating him, kicking him around the room. |
| 1:47.0 | Breathing heavily and spitting blood, he then gasped for air one last time. |
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