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From Our Own Correspondent

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From Our Own Correspondent

BBC

News, News Commentary

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Kate Adie introduces reports from correspondents around the world. Following the death sentences handed down to four men in India for the rape and killing of a young woman, Rupa Jha reflects on her own personal experience of some disturbing events from her childhood. Linda Pressly is with the gold miners of Kalimantan in Indonesia and sees the high price they have to pay as they try to earn a living. Mary Harper is in Somaliland, where books have a more powerful draw than guns. Lindsay Johns reflects on the culture of the Caribbean island of Martinique and what it means to be French by accident. And Emma Jane Kirby is with the former Casanovas of Italy who are still hoping for a return to better days.

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to a download from the BBC, this is from our own correspondent.

0:04.6

You can hear the version of the program we make for the BBC World Service by visiting our site

0:08.9

at BBC online.

0:10.8

But here's the latest edition broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and introduced by Kate Adi.

0:16.0

Today the high price paid by Indonesia's gold miners,

0:20.0

why books are more powerful than guns in Somaliland.

0:24.0

We try not to make a linguistic faux-par on the Caribbean island of Martinique, and we're looking

0:29.7

back on more romantic times with the former Casanova's of Italy.

0:35.0

Campaigners in India have welcomed a judge's decision to sentence four men to death

0:40.0

for the rape and murder of a 23 year old student in Delhi last December.

0:45.0

A case caused outrage and protests across the country.

0:49.0

Campainers are calling for more to be done for women's safety in India.

0:54.0

The controversy has caused Rupert Jard to reflect on her own personal experience of some disturbing events from her childhood.

1:02.0

I don't have many particularly vivid memories of my

1:05.2

early childhood, but the images of sexual abuse never go away. I was barely

1:11.4

seven years old living in a typically large middle-class family with five

1:16.4

siblings and numerous other relatives sharing a two-bedroom flat with a terrace.

1:22.3

My mother, a housewife with a terrace. My mother, a housewife, was always busy with the business

1:27.1

of running such a big family on very limited resources. My father had so much to do just to feed all of us. I love being a part of this huge

1:37.8

family. It gave me a strong sense of home, but it also made me an easy prey for sexual abuse.

1:47.5

Distant relatives and cousins kept coming and going through the family home. Being the youngest girl in the family, I was loved by them.

1:57.9

These love sessions would happen only when I was alone with one of them. I hated it but like many others in the same situation I was too petrified to talk

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