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Sri Lanka Killings

The horrors of civil war in Sri Lanka, how the West learned about the shrinking of the Aral sea, plus Iceland's women strike. Also, a communist massacre uncovered in the Vietnan and the Yiddish play which shocked the Jewish world in the early 1900s.

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Mon 26 Oct 201504:06GMT
BBC World Service Australasia

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