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Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown

We hear how a shocking photo from a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world, what it's like to be in a tornado and the heroic clown who helped after an earthquake in Peru.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the 大象传媒 World Service.

We hear how a shocking photo from a Bosnian concentration camp stunned the world, what it's like to be in a tornado and the heroic clown who helped after an earthquake in Peru.

Plus the 1980 military coup in Suriname and the moment in the 1960s when African de-colonisation might have led to a United States of Africa.

This programme contains descriptions of sexual violence.

(Photo: Fikret Alic in a Bosnian refugee camp. Credit: ITN/Shutterstock)

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51 minutes

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Mon 29 May 2023 23:06GMT

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