Rebels with a Cause
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
India and Pakistan have often confronted each other - but each nation also has to deal with domestic security problems. In Indian-administered Kashmir, Justin Rowlatt hears from restive crowds who have been silenced by neither days of curfew nor a news blackout, and witnesses the police tactics used to try and tamp down their protests. Over the border in Pakistan, Shaimaa Khalil explains why the troubled province of Baluchistan is such a headache for central government - and why the violence which plagues it is now being turned against local lawyers. Lucy Ash hears how drama itself can play a role in reconciling Colombians with their past, as former left-wing rebels, ex-right-wing paramilitiaries, and the victims of their crimes meet on stage. Rayhan Demytrie recently saw a different kind of political theatre unfolding on the streets of Armenia's capital, Yerevan, as veterans of the war with Azerbaijan mounted an armed attack against their own state - and were applauded for it by many Armenians. And far from all the madding crowds, Justin Marozzi joins a scientific mission a thousand feet below the surface of the Sargasso Sea hoping to unlock some of the mysteries of the deep ocean.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for downloading from our own correspondent. |
| 0:03.0 | This is the Radio 4 edition of the programme, |
| 0:05.6 | broadcast on Saturday the 13th of August, |
| 0:08.2 | and it's presented by Kate Hady. |
| 0:10.6 | Hello, today five decades of civil war in Colombia. Can a drama company help deal with the legacy? |
| 0:19.0 | Rumblings in the Caucasus as middle-aged Armenians take up arms to chance of heroes and if life |
| 0:26.9 | on earth seems rather fretful let's go a thousand feet down into the ocean and |
| 0:31.9 | into the unknown. |
| 0:34.0 | First to India, and to the beautiful but violence-racked area of Indian-administered |
| 0:39.5 | Kashmir. |
| 0:41.4 | Recent trouble has seen stone-throwing confrontations between young men and the police |
| 0:45.6 | and army. The rest of India is preparing to celebrate Independence Day on Monday, but |
| 0:51.3 | Justin Rolat has been watching the latest unrest in the region still claimed |
| 0:55.9 | by both India and Pakistan. |
| 0:59.1 | This is the bullet that killed my son, Abdul Riem and Meer says, holding up a copper cartridge case. |
| 1:05.4 | He tells me the police raided the family home in Shriniger, |
| 1:08.8 | the capital of Indian administered Kashmir a month ago. |
| 1:12.2 | They smashed windows and fired tear gas grenades. |
| 1:16.0 | He's kept what's left of the grenades too, wrapped in a handkerchief stained with his son's blood. They dragged him from here, he tells me, |
| 1:26.4 | where in one of the rooms on the first floor and they shot him in the garden. |
| 1:30.6 | That is where he died. There is a ripple of anger from the crowd that's |
| 1:36.0 | followed us into the house. The state government denies this allegation. |
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