The Rohingya Running For Their Lives
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories and analysis from around the world - including from the Bangladeshi border, where we meet the Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar. Sanjoy Majumder is on the banks of the Naf River as families arrive by the boatload trying to escape Rakhine state.
In Uganda, Ruth Alexander finds out what it’s like to try and build a home and a new life in the country often applauded for its generous policy towards refugees.
In Germany, Damien McGuiness meets the “elite hipsters” of Berlin living in a parallel, English-speaking society.
In Russia, Martin Vennard joins the back to school celebrations on the Day of Knowledge.
And in Colombia, Mark Rickards witnesses an extraordinary race around the country and explores how cycling is helping to bring together a once divided nation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello, today open borders and a generous refugee policy. |
| 0:08.0 | Not many countries qualify for that description these days, |
| 0:11.0 | but Uganda does. And what does that really mean for those fleeing violence |
| 0:15.7 | in South Sudan? |
| 0:17.7 | Back to school time, all kinds of excitement or apprehension, and in Russia even the President delivers a lesson. |
| 0:25.6 | If you live in a country should you speak its language. |
| 0:28.7 | After all, many British experts in Spain seem to get by without fluent Spanish, but in Berlin, |
| 0:34.2 | Spreckenze-deutsch is becoming something of an issue. |
| 0:37.7 | And get on your bike. It's a new cry in post-war Colombia. |
| 0:42.3 | The Rohingya are... new cry in post-war Colombia. |
| 0:44.0 | The Rohingya are often described as the world's most persecuted minority, and in the past couple of |
| 0:49.5 | weeks more than 250,000 of this stateless, mostly Muslim ethnic group, have fled violence in |
| 0:56.1 | Myanmar's Rakhine state. |
| 0:58.6 | The government there does not recognize the Rohingya as citizens and insists their outsiders and illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, |
| 1:06.0 | a common attitude among many of Burma's Buddhist majority. |
| 1:10.0 | Sanjoy Majumda has been watching families crossing the border by the boatload. |
| 1:15.0 | From the banks of the Naf River in Bangladesh, you can see Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, |
| 1:21.0 | clearly. It's only a short distance away. This week... known as |
| 1:25.0 | the Burma, it's only a short distance away. |
| 1:24.0 | This week as you looked out towards Rakhine State, |
| 1:27.0 | you could see thick plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. |
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