Even the Dead Can鈥檛 Escape Politics
Despatches from close to the De-militarised Zone in Korea and from the United States, Pakistan, Colombia and Myanmar
Insight, colour, analysis. Steve Evans visits a cemetery which poignantly illuminates present day politics in the troubled Korean peninsula; Owen Bennett Jones has the story of a young Pakistani man who left home to see a film and ended up with the Taliban in Afghanistan; Jonah Fisher in Myanmar explains how Aung San Suu Kyi has turned the tables on the generals and taken for herself a string of top government jobs; Rachel Wright has been in Colombia where they're preparing a case for the UN saying the war on drugs isn't working and it's time for a radical change and Neal Razzell's been talking to cowboys out in the canyonlands of eastern Oregon. There's a plan to turn huge tracts of them into a national park. So why are the ranchers far from keen?
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From Our Own Correspondent
Insight, wit and analysis as 麻豆官网首页入口 correspondents tell stories beyond the news headlines.