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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 BBC 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 202323:06GMT
BBC World Service & BBC Afghan Radio

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  • Sat 27 May 202313:06GMT
    BBC World Service News Internet
  • Mon 29 May 202309:06GMT
    BBC World Service
  • Mon 29 May 202323:06GMT
    BBC World Service & BBC Afghan Radio

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