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The Expert Witness from Uncover

S17: "The Kill List" E1: Death of an Icon

The Expert Witness from Uncover

CBC

True Crime

4.510.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A leading human rights activist is found dead. Many immediately suspect murder. The assassinations of dissidents like her have become commonplace in Pakistan. But Karima Baloch's body was discovered off the shores of Toronto, the city where she fled for her life. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-kill-list-transcripts-listen-1.6514561

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0:36.0

difficult subject matter, including references to suicide and torture. Please take care.

0:43.2

I'm going to tell you a story that a powerful state doesn't want you to know about a crisis

1:00.2

they've tried to keep hidden, about tens of thousands who have disappeared, and others

1:06.6

who have escaped only to have the threats follow them around the world. It's a story so

1:13.9

dangerous to tell that for some it's meant ending up on a kill list. And when some who

1:20.6

fled to the west ended up dead, many began to question, is nowhere safe? Could they

1:26.6

have been assassinated? Let's begin on an autumn day in

1:36.4

2020. A small group of protesters has gathered in downtown Toronto, commanding their attention

1:51.6

is a young woman named Karima Baluch. When I look around today, I see people standing

1:59.5

up on her. She's wearing a beautifully embroidered shawl wrapped loosely around her head and

2:03.8

shoulders and reading from a speech in her hands. There's a good chance you've never

2:29.2

heard of Karima's homeland of Baluchistan, a province in Western Pakistan, or the human

2:35.0

rights abuses against her people, the Baluch. But Karima is trying to change that.

2:41.3

It has been two decades. A whole generation has been raised on the roads marching for

2:47.1

the release of their sons, daughters, brothers and father. I ask myself, do we deserve to

2:54.8

live like this? She's small, five foot three, but her presence is one of undeniable strength.

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