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Bosnian concentration camp photo and hero clown
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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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