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Darfur's ethnic war

How a teenager's life was changed by the war in Darfur in Sudan, plus Norway's worst day of terror, the first law on domestic violence in Brazil and the fame of Vincent van Gogh.

We hear about the start of the war in Darfur, through the eyes of a teenage boy whose life was changed when the Sudanese military allied to a local militia, the Janjaweed, laid waste to villages across the region, killing and raping as they went. We hear from a survivor of Norway's worst day of terror, when a far-right extremist, Anders Breivik, launched a bomb attack on government offices and attacked a summer camp. Plus a story from our archives from a British army officer during World War Two who witnessed the end of Italy's colonial rule in East Africa during a final battle in the Ethiopian town of Gondar. From Brazil, the women's rights activist whose story of abuse inflicted by her husband inspired the country's first legislation recognising different forms of domestic violence in 2006. Lastly, the story of how the family of the artist Vincent Van Gogh worked to get him recognised as a great painter after he died penniless in 1890.

Photo: A young Darfurian refugee walks past a Sudan Liberation Army Land Rover filled with teenage rebel fighters on October 14 2004 in the violent North Darfur region of Sudan. (Photo by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images)

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50 minutes

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Mon 26 Jul 2021 23:06GMT

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  • Sat 24 Jul 2021 13:06GMT
  • Sat 24 Jul 2021 18:06GMT
  • Mon 26 Jul 2021 23:06GMT

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