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From Our Own Correspondent: Afghanistan's murdered hopes

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Afghanistan's murdered hopes

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Afghanistan's murdered hopes

Tributes to the lives and ambitions of students killed in the attack on Kabul University

Tributes to the students killed in the attack on Kabul University. Plus: Iran's outsourced assassinations; news from the frontline in Azerbaijan; Martinique reckons with its past

The recent attack on Kabul University didn't only end the lives of dozens of students. It also symbolised the death of many other Afghans' hopes - not just for their own lives, but for their country. Lyse Doucet has been talking to university staff and students who survived the assault about its impact and its aftermath.

Pascale Harter introduces this and other stories of the lives behind the headlines, from BBC correspondents and journalists around the world. 

Why was an unremarkable, middle-aged electrician gunned down outside his home in a quiet Dutch town? Jiyar Gol presents the inside story of a remarkable investigation which took him on a mystery tour of several European countries, hunting the truth about what really happened. Even he didn't suspect, two and a half years ago, that the story would be so complex - or that it would reveal a web of intrigue stretching from the Netherlands to Iran and beyond.

Olga Ivshina reports from the Azeri side of the recent fighting over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and reveals how war reporting has changed in 2020. Now, journalists trying to get to the frontline don't only contend with pushy government minders, gunfire and air strikes - they have to weigh up the risks of Covid 19 as well. 

And Tim Whewell explores the conflicted relationship between Napoleon Bonaparte, his beloved Josephine, and her home island of Martinique. While still officially a part of metropolitan France, the island is starting to question its colonial history - including the centuries when its sugar plantations, worked by enslaved people, sent huge profits back to Europe. How deep does that legacy still run today?

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