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The Documentary Podcast

The Silent Wound

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.32.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

*** Some viewers may find parts of this report difficult to listen to *** During Colombia’s 53-year internal conflict, around 15,000 military veterans have lived through their own bodies the heart-breaking consequences of a barbaric war. But a considerable part of that group has also sacrificed their masculinity by suffering different forms of genital or urinary trauma. Natalia Guerrero discovers the profound physical and physiological effect genital injuries can have for generations of Colombian soldiers.

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0:00.7

¿De acuerdo a una cosa?

0:11.2

Loinação.

0:16.8

He entrado por la겠다,

0:19.9

gambling MY foreign y quedaba divino en nuestra mano.

0:24.5

Viste mirando en su cosería pero lo dejara mirando en su�o

0:28.4

en la caja de la tria y me luché y me pudiera ver que mi lega no era ahí.

0:38.4

La rama ahí para atrás.

0:47.4

Hay muchos guantes en mis manos, mis chas y mis penas.

0:52.4

Más o menos.

0:55.4

These were the sounds of Colombia.

0:58.4

The country grew up in.

1:00.4

The voices of John healthy soldiers who for decades found the guerrilla rebels

1:05.4

of the FARC, the ELN and other criminal groups.

1:17.4

I am Natalia Guerrero and for all as Colombians this has been the reality of our entire lives.

1:25.4

Now I am going to talk to many of these men who have been left in pieces.

1:30.4

But more than that, when writing about the war casualties as a journalist,

1:35.4

I discovered that the one wound that destroys masculinity is just not being reported.

1:41.4

It is easier to say that I have got a left leg.

1:45.4

I mean, I lost both of my arms, my right leg, one eye and I had bad burns.

1:53.4

But I kept my little left leg.

1:56.4

I lost my right leg under the knee.

1:59.4

It's an amputation known as a BK below the knee.

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