Something For The Pain
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Nigerian militants who rely on drugs to fight their fears and the displaced people taking them to forget the violence. Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories.
Sally Hayden reports from Madhugiri where the battle against Boko Haram is creating a growing problem with drug abuse. Tom Stevenson is in Diyarbakir, the Turkish city which has for decades, been at the heart of the conflict between Kurdish rebels and the state. Caroline Eden explores the Brodsky synagogue in Odessa and sifts through its archive which tells of controversies old and new. Rahul Tandon finds out that what you wear, what you drive and how you speak can affect which shops and restaurants are willing to take your money in India. It is, he says, one of the most class-conscious societies in the world. And David Chazan once owned a work of art worth tens of thousands of pounds – not that he knew it – opting instead to replace it with a coat of blanc cassé on the walls of his Paris flat.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, today yet again dreams of a Kurdish state independent from Iraq fade |
| 0:09.0 | as we visit the Turkish city which has been at the center of the battle for greater autonomy for Kurds. |
| 0:16.0 | In Ukraine we leave through the archives of Brodsky Synagogue in Odessa, the city which |
| 0:21.3 | once boasted the second largest Jewish population in Europe. |
| 0:25.7 | In India, how you dress, what you say, and what language you say it in, we find out how much |
| 0:31.4 | it matters. And in Paris, our correspondent once preferred to have |
| 0:36.6 | an attractive shade of off white for his walls to a cutting edge piece of art, a costly decision he now regrets. |
| 0:45.5 | More than 20,000 people have died since 2009 in the battle against the militant Islamist |
| 0:50.9 | Spoker-Haram, according to the UN. |
| 0:54.0 | Others say the true figure could be closer to 100,000. |
| 0:58.4 | While the Nigerian army has recaptured much of the territory once held by the group, the attacks continue with young |
| 1:04.7 | girls sometimes used as suicide bombers. |
| 1:08.0 | In Borneo State in northern Nigeria, more than half the local schools remain shut. In the state capital, my doggery, displaced people |
| 1:16.8 | camp out in abandoned schools, in churchyards and anywhere else they can find. Millions |
| 1:22.3 | have fled their homes. |
| 1:24.2 | As Sally Hayden has found, the conflict has taken its toll |
| 1:27.2 | mentally as well as physically. |
| 1:29.6 | The day before, in a hospital through the war wounded in May Dugary, I'd pass dozens of patients of all |
| 1:35.5 | ages, their skin torn off by suicide bombs, or bones fractured by bullets, all victims of Boca |
| 1:42.3 | Ram attacks. Now I was going to investigate a less visible problem, |
| 1:47.3 | addiction. Over several years reporting on the devastating war in the Lake Chad region, I'd heard repeated reports of widespread drug use. |
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