Violence To Votes
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Former Farc rebels stand for election, but for many Colombians, it’s too soon to forgive. Kate Adie introduces stories and analysis from correspondents around the world:
Katy Watson is in Colombia as former guerrilla fighters for the rebel group turned political party fail to make an impact at the ballot box. Chris Haslam is on 'the roof of the world' world in Tajikistan to meet a man threatening to take up arms and fight for Pamiri independence. Cindy Sui reflects on her experience growing up in China and asks what the recent ban on foreign imported garbage reveals about changing attitudes to recycling there. Simon Calder boards one of the last remaining boat ferries in Europe on which the carriages slot in between 40-ton trucks as they make their way from Denmark to Germany. And Sian Griffiths marvels at Ottowa's annual river ice blast, as dynamite is used to break apart sheets of ice and stop meltwater flooding the city.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. Today we're on the roof of the world in Tajikistan to meet a man threatening to take up arms and fight for the Pameres. While in China the fight is against foreign trash and they |
| 0:17.1 | mean that quite literally. We travel from Denmark to Germany aboard one of Europe's last boat trains and in Canada we find out how |
| 0:26.2 | the approach of spring is marked with a bang. |
| 0:31.2 | Congressional elections took place in Colombia on Sunday and for the first time |
| 0:35.6 | former guerrilla fighters were among those standing for office. For many of them |
| 0:40.8 | it was also the first time they never voted after decades spent fighting in the jungle. |
| 0:46.0 | FARC said their inclusion in politics represents a big step forward for Colombia |
| 0:51.0 | and a clear sign that the country has moved on from a conflict that |
| 0:54.8 | killed more than 200,000 people and displaced millions more. But the former |
| 1:00.5 | rebels receive just half a percent of votes cast, while Conservative |
| 1:05.2 | parties which oppose the government's peace deal with FARC performed best. |
| 1:09.9 | And as Katie Watson found, many Columbians are conflicted about Fox's new role. |
| 1:16.0 | I didn't think I'd come out alive, Louisa Lardio Perez tells me of his seven years in captivity in the |
| 1:22.4 | Columbian jungle. |
| 1:24.0 | The former senator was on a political tour in the south of the country when he was taken. |
| 1:28.8 | It was 2001 and a particularly violent time for Colombia. |
| 1:33.0 | Louisa's car had been stolen a few weeks before. |
| 1:36.0 | When he was told it would be returned to him, |
| 1:38.0 | he went to pick it up. |
| 1:40.0 | Instead, he came face to face with 30 guerrilla fighters with guns. |
| 1:44.6 | For six years, Luis was chained by his neck to a tree in the jungle. |
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