India's Partition - Part One

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The partition of India led to millions of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs fleeing their homes during terrible religious violence. This is the first of two programmes remembering that time. Listen to the story of Saleem, who was only five-years-old when his family tried to escape to the new Islamic state of Pakistan. This programme was first broadcast in 2010. (Photo: Muslims with bullock carts and on foot flee Hindu India across a bridge in the rain on a road in Lahore, India on 27 August, 1947.) (Credit: AP)