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From Our Own Correspondent: Even the Dead Cannot Escape Politics

02/04/2016

Even the Dead Cannot Escape Politics

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, Even the Dead Cannot Escape Politics

The Korean cemetery where the dead tell you much about the living.

Despatches from close to the demilitarised zone in Korea and from the United States, Pakistan, Colombia and Myanmar.

Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables on the generals and taken on a string of top government jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't working and it's time for a radical change and Neal Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn a huge tract of it into a national park. So why are the ranchers so unenthusiastic?

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