Vigilantes, Strongmen and Mannequins
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Jill McGivering investigates the cow protection squads in northern India, some of which have been accused of extreme violence against Muslims. Colin Freeman gets a Blue Feeling moment in Gambia as he explores why so many young men are leaving the country. Turkmenistan has one of the world's most repressive governments, and now the president's personality cult includes a nationwide health kick. Abdujalil Abdurasulov asks if that means everybody has to jump to it. Fifty years ago, South Africa's apartheid government razed the District Six neighbourhood of Cape Town: as a multiracial, rackety, creative hotbed it didn't fit a model of strict segregation. Lindsay Johns has personal links to the area, and considers how the evictions destroyed far more than just homes among the Coloured community. And Katie Razzall is in West Virginia, in the coal mining areas, where people voted in droves for Donald Trump. They're hoping he'll re-open the mines and bring jobs back to the area but will real life return to the bars and hotels?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.0 | And thanks for downloading this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. |
| 0:07.0 | It was first broadcast on Radio 4 on Saturday the 10th of December 2016, |
| 0:12.0 | and it's presented by Kate |
| 0:13.6 | 80. Hello the era of the strong man at the country's helm seems to be |
| 0:19.2 | creeping back. We have two of them. In Gambia, the president said he could cure AIDS and would be around for a billion years. |
| 0:28.0 | In Turkmenistan, their authoritarian leader is on a health kick, and his country better be too or else. |
| 0:35.0 | It's 50 years since one of the most infamous acts of the apartheid regime in South Africa. |
| 0:40.0 | Our correspondent looks at what happened to District 6 in Cape Town. |
| 0:45.0 | And Donald Trump, one of his promises was to bring back jobs for all in places like West Virginia. |
| 0:52.0 | We ask if this might include real life returning to the |
| 0:55.5 | hotels and bars. The new five pound note in this country has resulted in a |
| 1:02.0 | petition from vegans, 120,000 signatures |
| 1:05.4 | protesting about the trace of tallow fat from cows. Some Hindu groups want the |
| 1:11.1 | note replaced because it contains beef. |
| 1:14.3 | The sacredness of cows is a frequent cause of disputes in India, and since the pro-Hindu |
| 1:19.7 | government came to power two years ago, Hindu vigilantis have been accused of vicious attacks |
| 1:25.1 | on Muslims and the welfare of cows is often at the centre of the violence as |
| 1:30.3 | Gilmigivring's been finding out in Northern India. |
| 1:33.0 | Mr. Tivari is a lean man in his late 60s |
| 1:37.0 | with an erect military bearing, metal-rimmed spectacles, |
| 1:40.0 | and a hunter's camouflage cap. |
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