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From Our Own Correspondent: A Poisonous Cocktail

10/11/2012

A Poisonous Cocktail

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Filling in the spaces between the headlines - foreign correspondent reports with Kate Adie

A mosaic of victory in a graveyard in Libya is reconsidered, and a poisonous cocktail of prejudice casts a dark shadow over Burma's new democracy. Presented by Kate Adie.

Burma: Jonathan Head goes to Rakhine state in Burma where bitter unrest has resulted in more than a hundred deaths and a hundred thousand displaced.

Libya: Kevin Connolly visits a war graves cemetery and considers stories of loss and love, grief and anger.

Japan: Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a boat to the islands at the centre of a bitter argument in the South China Sea.

USA: As the dust settles after the election Jonny Dymond's in Indiana looking on as the real business of America gets done.

and Mexico: Will Grant's in Oaxaca state where they believe in bidding farewell to the dead in a festive rather than a funereal atmosphere.

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