When Survival Trumps Justice
From Our Own Correspondent
BBC
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Justice can be elusive for the young domestic servants abused and mistreated in Pakistan. Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the world: Secunder Kermani investigates what he describes as the "mess of allegations" surrounding the death of a 16-year-old domestic servant in Pakistan, and learns that for some people money and survival can be more important than justice. Amy Guttman explores the ironies that pervade one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world - the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea. Athar Ahmad finds out what’s it like to observe one of the longest daily Ramadan fasts. Early sunrises and late summer sunsets, mean more than twenty hours a day without food or water. In Iceland. Chloe Farand attends a cross-border meeting of indigenous people from Brazil, French Guinea, and Suriname as they unite in opposition to a controversial new gold mine. And, Caroline Eden visits the ‘Museum of Soviet Lifestyle’ in Kazan; the Russian city will soon be welcoming World Cup fans, but she found memorabilia from the 1980 Summer Olympics still on display.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello. |
| 0:05.0 | Today we visit one of the most heavily guarded borders in the world in the so-called |
| 0:09.7 | demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. And we're where indigenous people from across |
| 0:16.1 | the Amazon conduct their first cross-border meeting. In Iceland, summer means more than |
| 0:22.0 | 20 hours between dawn and sunset. |
| 0:24.8 | So how do Muslims there cope with the long daily Ramadan fasts? |
| 0:29.9 | And it's back to the 80s in Russia, as we visit the Museum of Soviet Lifestyle full of |
| 0:35.5 | cultural kitsch, rock and roll memorabilia and a cuddly bear called Misha. |
| 0:41.8 | Hundreds of thousands of young girls and boys from poor families work as domestic servants |
| 0:47.0 | or child maids in the homes of richer Pakistanis. |
| 0:51.3 | Aged as young as eight, they cook clean and at times suffer horrible abuse. But holding |
| 0:57.1 | those responsible for the mistreatment to account can prove difficult, if not impossible, for the families of the victims are often reluctant to pursue cases. |
| 1:06.5 | The suspicion is that money is normally involved, and a Secunda Kamani found, |
| 1:12.1 | discovering what exactly happened isn't easy. |
| 1:16.1 | A 16-year-old boy had died. That much was clear. |
| 1:20.3 | Somewhere in the tangled streets of old Lahore in a small room that served as both somewhere to sleep and to entertain guests, |
| 1:28.0 | his uncle showed me a grainy mobile phone video of Aktha's corpse. |
| 1:32.0 | There appeared to be bruises and cuts to his legs. mobile phone video of Aktha's corpse. |
| 1:33.0 | There appeared to be bruises and cuts to his legs. |
| 1:35.9 | According to the uncle, Akhthe and his younger sister had been working as domestic servants |
| 1:40.9 | in the home of a local politician and her adult daughter. |
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