Hours evacuating the injured and looking for more survivors a powerful storm has had large parts of western and central Japan injuring at least 16 people and cutting power to thousands of homes meteorologists said typhoon John Durie was generating winds of up to 180 kilometers an hour when it made landfall in the canned side region of Japan's main island of Honshu after reaching the Japanese mainland it weakened to a tropical storm and Israeli prison spokesman says a Palestinian teenager had to Mimi who served an 8 month jail sentence for assaulting an Israeli soldier has been released from prison his term Bateman. The case of our head to me brought in the spotlight to Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and its detention of Palestinian children aged 16 she was filmed by her family slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home in the village of Nabi Sally as she urged troops to leave during regular protests she later admitted assault and incitement many Israelis back to what they saw as their soldiers restrained and accused the to me family of exploiting their daughters actions to Palestinians she became a symbol of resistance against armed occupation Carter is facing allegations that he ran a secret campaign to undermine its rivals during the bidding process for the right to host the football World Cup in 2022 Britain's Sunday Times newspaper claims public relations firms and former CIA agents were used to discredit Qatar's main rivals Australia and the United States his Adam wild the alleged aim was to create the impression that a World Cup would not be supported in those countries other covert operations allegedly involved American p. Teachers being recruited to lobby congressman while in Australia students were encouraged to protest against the country's bid at rugby matches cats are has previously been cleared of any wrongdoing by a fee for Inquiry although it's not clear whether the material published in The Sunday Times was available to that investigation denies the latest allegations Well news from the b.b.c. . Campaigning has officially ended in Zimbabwe ahead of Monday's parliamentary and presidential elections the 1st since Robert Mugabe was ousted last November thousands of local and foreign observers are spreading out across the country to try and ensure the poll goes smoothly and that for the 1st time in years all sides accept the results. Voting is taking place in Cambodia where the Prime Minister Hun Sen is expected to hold on to power after nearly 33 years in office more than 80000 police have been mobilized the largest opposition party the c.n.n. R.p. Was forced to disband by the Supreme Court in November wildfires fanned by strong winds have killed at least 5 people in Northern California and the force nearly 40000 to flee their homes among those killed around the city of Reading were 2 young children and their great grandmother hundreds of homes have been destroyed James Cook is in northern California the devastation wrought by the wildfire which leapt across the Sacramento River and roared into reading is becoming clear inside the ruins of one home the bodies of 5 year old James Roberts is 4 year old sister Emily and their great grandmother melody played so well found there are reports that more than a dozen other people are missing although the situation is confused and some may have made it to safety survivors described an apocalyptic scene as they fled with swelling to needles of flame up losing trees and moving cars the Turkish president Tiber do and has accused Washington of engaging in psychological warfare saying Turkey will not back down over its treatment of an American clergyman he was speaking days after President Trump called for Turkey to release the American pastor Andrew Bronson immediately or face what he called large sanctions the Protestant pastor is accused as supporting coup plotters and Kurdish rebels b.b.c. News. Hello and welcome to from our own correspondent here on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Rebecca b. This week extreme weather has been hitting the headlines all over the world there's been a lethal heat wave in Canada temperatures are soaring across Europe while heavy rain has caused floods and landslides in Bangladesh and Laos governments have to spring into action to cope with the consequences of such events or face criticism for inaction but in India heavily populated poor areas on nearly always the worst affected in Delhi the sweltering summer heat is dubbed the silent killer as so many fall sick and even die due to the lack of clean affordable water the prime minister Narendra Modi has acknowledged that managing the water supply poses a major challenge for India increased demand water mismanagement and changing climate all contribute to the problem but it's only a fair Lera has heard the shortage has left many desperate and prepared to do almost anything to get water that is there was beaten to death New Delhi was sweltering in a suffocating heat hocussed it brisk business selling iced water sugar cane juice and orange ice cream bars no bather spent most days walking up and down the scorched streets of the slum where he lived scouting for discarded plastic bags to sell to a scrap dealer but it was 30 pm on March 17th when a water tanker rumbled into the mouth of the slum he was a tone catching his breath. The tanker was the only source of clean water it showed up at the same time every afternoon and people mark their place in line hours in advance putting down number drums within minutes the her other her child's his son Raul was arguing with a neighbor over whose turn it was to draw water the tanker carried a 1000 liters but hundreds of people lived in the slum the young men knew that if the tanker ran out of water they would have to do without until the following day now about other intervened there is enough for everyone he said but there was no stopping the neighbor he shouted for his friends for people quickly surrounded 53 are allowed brother and started to trash him with a plastic pipe when he fell to the ground they dragged his son behind a car and beat him as well blood was pooling around like the other snack when the attackers venting Sammon him they saw he was dead and just like that lad the herder became the 1st victim of the summer's water wars searching for his family I found myself walking through a smoky industrial estate in the northeastern corner of Delhi where they occupied 2 rooms hemmed in by an open sewer a refrigerator takes up most of the space but there's no electricity the refrigerator is used to store clothes and shoes so she lay they were his widow was sitting by the door in a sorry head covered feet that they killed him for a bucket of water she says that. The head of the un recently warned that water scarcity could lead to conflict between communities and nations global warming has triggered droughts and population growth has amplified the problem 25000000 people live in Delhi but the capital doesn't have enough water for all of them water is piped in from neighboring hereon a state even so many neighborhoods get water for only a few hours a day they depend on government tankers to make up the shortfall they buy hand pumps to draw water from the ground well off people by tanks which they installed in the roof bang the tank mafia to fill up these organized crime groups our petition sleep bump water out of the m. And a river of people in Delhi a so desperate they don't care that the water they are buying at extortionate rates isn't even treated last year some schools forbade the use of toilets and of the air conditioning and some hospitals were unable to sterilize instruments after the heard there was cremated his son rather return to college the fashion conscious 1000 year old was studying for a bachelor's degree he was the 1st person in his family to make it thus far and was determined his mother sat to look after them then in April the 12th less than a month after his father succumb to his injuries Robert collapsed he'd been complaining of chest pain since the beating he was taken to a hospital but turned away on the grounds that it was for he died on route to a 2nd hospital a doctor told me members that the death was most likely connected to the bruises still visible on the teenager's chest we were 5 His mother says she that they were told me then we were for she shook her head in disbelief now we are 3. Sonia Faleiro. The Syrian city of Afrin or half remain close to the northwestern border with Turkey has been fought over by nearly all the players in the country's civil war a richly fertile area historically it's been a mixed community of Arab Kurdish and Turkmen people but its strategic importance to all sides has made it a constant battle ground in this war it was 1st taken from ass and government forces by rebel groups then the so-called Islamic state attempted to dominate they were driven out by the Kurdish rebels of the why but that made the Turkish government nervous as they insist the group is a terrorist militia linked to the p.k. K. Which the Turkish government battles in its own southeastern regions so this January Turkish forces backed Syrian rebels in launching a bid to retake Afrin by March they've succeeded so how does the shifting identity of this city affect those who remain Nana Steffensen has been an African Brotherhood knows no boundaries the graffiti was written in both Turkish and Arabic on a wall by the Turkey Syria border above us 2 different flags sprouted one with Turkey's red and white crescent moon and the other with the 3 stars of the Syrian opposition I saw them as I was crossing into Syria with a large group of journalists we had all been invited to Syria by the Turkish authorities from here we began a one hour drive through a dry landscape dotted with olive trees and tends to the city of African in January Turkish troops and the Syrian Arab rebels they support launched a campaign to wrest control of after him from the hands of a Kurdish militia called the y p g which Turkey considers a terrorist organization by March they have taken the city the Turks say they came . After him to liberate its people from the y.p. G. And that they have no problem with the Kurdish civilians but since taken control Turkey has been accused of trying to change the makeup of the city tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians flat before and during the fighting some of them have since complained that they faced problems returning to their homes Meanwhile thousands of newcomers have a rived in the city Arab Syrians who have been evacuated from other parts of the country like the District of water near Damascus in after in gun toting teenage boys were driving around on motorbikes but there were not many civilians in the streets I noticed that children and some rebel fighters greeted the Turkish convoy with a distinctive hand gesture used by ultra nationalists in Turkey the gesture is associated with the gray wolves a group historically known for its attacks on Kurt's intellectuals and leftists with their fingers arranged to imitate the shape of a wolf's head I wondered where the Syrian children might have learned it we were taken to a buffet table groaning with fresh fruit and cold water then a small press conference took place a spokesperson from the foreign ministry said that accusations that Turkey is an afternoon to occupy the area were completely false in fact he added the Turkish military was about to begin withdrawing from the city center leaving the area to the Turkish trained local police but one local Kurdish man I met nearby saw things rather differently they're going to stay here for 10 years he said quietly when I asked him about the Turkish forces we were whispering to make sure the Turkish government entourage around us dressed in civilian clothes wouldn't hear him. I'm occurred before I am a Muslim he said to him Turkey's presence in after and is an attack on the Kurds themselves Arab fighters allied with Turkey tore down a Kurdish statue in town and were accused of looting local shops after they swept into the city they are changing the democracy it's $5050.00 between Kurds and Arabs now before we were 95 percent Kurds the man claimed he asked not to be named because he was criticizing Turkey he complained that as he saw it there were no local Kurds in the police forces or in the local courts Arabs are coming from Damascus from homes from their sort he said the Turkish authorities allowed us to move around on a short stretch of road interviewing passers by and shopkeepers the Turks told me I couldn't see more of the city because it was too dangerous when I took 2 steps outside of the designated area I was stopped immediately nearby 27 year old Ahmed jot was sitting on a motorbike outside a shop with a group of men from Puerto near Damascus he said his family is or regionally from African but he was born in Damascus like the other men he was thankful to Turkey and the Arab rebel fighters called the Free Syrian Army life here and after him is very good after the turkey and the f.s.a. Came because the p.k. K. Left he said echoing the Turkish line that the Syrian Kurdish y p g is the same as the p k k take his own domestic Kurdish separatist movement he claimed the reason people fled the city was because their y.p. Jihad told them to they said to everyone that the f.s.a. Will kill you they're like ISIS they're going to behead you met said. As we drove back towards Turkey we passed a small checkpoint made of barrels and do base manned by a few teenage f.s.a. Recruits next to them on a brownstone wall someone had written in Turkish There is one God His army is Turkish and that was Nana Miss Steffensen You're listening to from our own correspondent on the b.b.c. World Service I'm Rebecca cares be it's now 7 and a half years since a young too noisy and fruit seller Mohamed was easy to set himself alight in frustration at what he saw as the system that was preventing him from living a fulfilling and prosperous life his action triggered a wave of protests across Tunisia and then the region in one country after another autocratic governments and dictators with toppled largely led by young people desperate for more freedom and better opportunities it became known as the Arab Spring and the aftershocks that followed the seismic political and social shifts a still being felt in Tunis here the old government was ousted but years of turmoil followed inflation is up and unemployment is still high thousands of Tuna's ians have attempted to head for Europe this year in search of a brighter future but it's a perilous journey in June at least $100.00 would be migrants were drowned when their boat sank off the kick in islands in the Mediterranean but home there is still found and has more young men frustrated with their lot as Charlotte Bailey found as I walked down the corridor was a banner respons and trauma center in the south of Tina's I can hear the patients screaming this is the only specialist bents unit in the country and it was here that the fruit seller Mohamed was easy was brought in December 2010 after he set himself on lights in response to harassment by city officials. For the doctor who treated him a man Abdel Massai who's talking to me between appointments he was in many ways just another patient but what Dr Massai calls the noise around him was quite different from anything he had experienced before as well as he lay in his hospital bed street protests grew then President Zene. Even came to visit in an effort to turn around public opinion but the patient died on the 4th of January 2011 the president was ousted 10 days later the fruit seller had Spock's the Arab Spring but his act did not only start a wave of protests that would topple governments in Egypt Libya and Yemen it also triggered a disturbing wave of copycat self-immolation of course Dr Massai tells me authoritatively self-immolation didn't start with was easy but there was he says a dramatic rise after Boise's death everyone expected the copycat immolations to be a short term phenomenon but doctors in Tunis are horrified that more than 7 years later they continue at the same disturbingly high rate doctor Massarotti flips through his records frowns and shakes his head there are 325 patients admitted here last year of those 88 did it to themselves it is a brutal way to die it doesn't kill fast it is slow and very very painful Dr Medibank a forensic pathologist at Shaw Nicole hospital in Tunis had told me the previous day for medical staff to have people rushed through the doors who have deliberately set fire to themselves day after day month after month year after year is heartbreaking the people who do this a very young in general they are under 30 Dr Messiah he says mostly they are unemployed men. The protesters who took to the streets in 2010 were demanding not only democracy but jobs while some of the political demands have been met unemployment not only persists in Tunisia it is Wes and the national unemployment rate is 15 percent but it is a staggering 35 percent for under 20 five's psychiatry's Fatma Chaffee who runs a suicide prevention committee at the Ministry of Health told me it is an act of social protest in the way of transmitting a message there is she says sacrificial symbolism to the suicide Dr Medibank agrees they want to make a display of how they're feeling most of the men set themselves on fire in front of public buildings he is a warm calm presence but tense is slightly as we turn to the subject of the reasons behind this self-immolation and he blames economic factors but also journalists particularly the national media which in the immediate aftermath of the revolution he says idealized self-immolating and held them up as martyrs Salim was easy blames the government not only for his brother Mohammed's death but also for the copycats stop your hypocrisy and your plotting for power and pay attention to the country and its people especially the youth he said Salim told me he couldn't batch remember the pain he and his family had been through over the past years may God have mercy on his soul he said but not everyone dies the survival rate is around 50 percent survivors are doing to live on in an even more difficult situation than before they left terribly scarred the skin around the mouth often retrack so they cannot speak and they frequently left on able to move their arms or legs the treatment for severe burns cost a lot of money and takes up to 2 years a real problem considering most of the people who do this are impoverished to begin with. Families often resent the burden so survivors may be rejected by society because of the bans but also many of the more religious people in this country consider suicide or attempted suicide to be blasphemous The doctors tell me society is very hard on these people say is Dr Massai people think well you did this to yourself he has just finished presenting the results of a survey into the lives of surviving self-immolating they all say that life has become much harder he explains this is no surprise he says he sees it every time a patient comes around they regret they all regret it as soon as they realise what they have done but of course he adds by then it's too late. Charlottes Bailey now back from Tunis further south in Africa this week the Chinese premier she Jinping has been on a state visit with a packed schedule taking in the Bric summit in Jana's but talking business with some of the world's largest up and coming economic players but Rwanda Senegal and the Rishis were also on the itinerary since he came to power president she has visited Africa several times pressing the need for better infrastructure and investment but some in Africa are angered by what they see as Chinese neo colonialism and argue that the relationship Beijing Fosters with state governments can be a little too cozy for comfort in Sierra Leone many of the new roads were laid by Chinese companies who won repeat government construction contracts Chinese loans were arranged to finance new hospitals and in airports while Chinese firms built some of the most impressive landmarks in the capital Freetown including the National Stadium former president Ernest Bai Koroma seemed to have forged a great working relationship with one of the world's great powers but Olivia Ackland wanted to know how Sierra Leonean is who are not part of the country's elite see that relationship if you drive to the end of Freetown speech road you'll find a cluster of buildings that at night early Newman ated by red flashing fairy lights a new one sign that changes color every 2 seconds looms over a doorway it reads grand Leone casino step inside and you'll find a smoky red carpeted room full of Chinese men they crowded around poker tables sip cocktails and toss secular chips on to the furry green baize. This casino forms part of the China time complex which also boasts a sports bar hotel spa supermarkets restaurants and karaoke room as well as gamble hey you can dine on Krispy dock belted to song by Celine Dion by sheer good seaweed and get your back acupuncture some customers a from Sierra Leone Lebanon and parts of Europe but the vast majority of Chinese nobody quite knows how many Chinese people are living in Sierra Leone Lange a Chinese hotel owner reckons there around $6000.00 but says it's hard to keep track because they come in and out of the country all the time that walk ranges from mining gold diamonds and on oil to construction fishing and until the recent introduced by the new government exporting tropical timber banished by Corona who left office in April was criticized for his closeness to the Chinese and for striking deals with them that benefited him and his cronies not the country at large during his administration a lot of government contracts particularly the building roads doled out to Chinese companies Coronas opponents accused him of selling the country to China the new administration headed by Julia small to being says it's reviewing and revising many of the agreements that's a pre-election rally from ought to be I watched revelers done through the streets dressed from head to toe in green his party's color muffled beats were pumped out of speakers strapped to a truck and the smell of marijuana and cheap booze hung in the muggy air somebody in the crowd started to chant say no to a Chinese government saying no to a Chinese Government others enthusiastically joined in I was walking alongside the rowdy green clad throng taking photos when all of a sudden a group of men surrounded me and started shouting it took me a while to decode what they were saying until I heard one man you know we want you to Chinese eyes of our country you came here to steal from us. That same week it's a rally for President Koroma and his a.p.c. Party in all the Sierra Leonean expressed appreciation for that country's ally China by chanting We are Chinese Chinese men marched alongside them wearing red t. Shirts emblazoned with the rising sun The a.p.c. Party symbol over the last year I've noticed that attitudes towards Chinese people in Freetown have soured somewhat more than once children have mistaken me for a Chinese person and have made mocking sounds at me mimicking the tones of Mandarin other American and European friends have had similar experiences at a local wedding reception in Freetown an Icelandic friend was embarrassed when as part of the entertainment a Sierra Leonean man came on stage in a straw hat and started rudely imitating a Chinese person he don't goofily on the spot pinging has a lasting braces and imitating the way Chinese people speak the room roared with laughter despite these kind of jokes and hostility a lot of Chinese people living in Sierra Leone seem to like the lifestyle you young a 25 year old waitress who works in the restaurant next to the casino tells me that she feels free and free time than she did back home my mother used to tell me not to go out in the evening she says but here I can do as I like she not once fall more than she did when she worked in a call center in a small town in northern China she's lived in Freetown for 2 years and says that she's never regretted her decision to move to Africa giggling she tells me that she's in a happy relationship with the Sierra Leonean men but she admits the business is not so good since the change of government the restaurant is rarely full I talk to her on a Friday evening and she points sadly at the empty dining room where only one table is occupied look at the place now so many people went back to China off the election she says how many of those Chinese businessmen come back to Sierra Leone will be up to the new government. In the meantime the Chinatown complex remains on characteristically quiet a levy Ackland there and that's all from us this time but for more adventures around the world join us again next weekend here on the b.b.c. World Service for more from our own correspondent you're listening to the b.b.c. World Service and the money and power from the b.b.c. a heartache at the world's largest dot com slash money and power celebrity is the site most synonymous with the war that ripped apart a culturally bonded nation along religious lines today like every July the eleventh's some of the relatives have been reunited with fragments of their loved ones bones I'm Anna Holligan and her heart and soul from the b.b.c. World Service I'm travelling through both knew her as a governor to meet the Muslims and Christians living separate lives side by slight after the latest b.b.c. News b.b.c. News where Jerry Smit at least 10 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake on the central Indonesian island of Lombok the 6.4 magnitude quake hit early in the morning when many people were sleeping. A big storm has had large parts of western and central Japan injuring at least 16 people and cutting power to thousands of homes meteorologists said typhoon Junger regenerated winds of up to 180 kilometers an hour when it made landfall on Japan's main island of Honshu Israel has released a Palestinian teenager to Mimi he was jailed after she slapped an Israeli soldier at her home in the West Bank speaking to reporters after being freed had to Mimi said as he continued to resist the occupation the bar association in Serbia has said that the killing of one of the country's most prominent lawyers is an attack on the Mall druggers love of age was shot dead on Saturday outside his apartment building in Belgrade he was a defense lawyer for the former president's lawyer bottom a lot of rage in his war crimes trial in The Hague Qatar is facing allegations around a secret campaign to sabotage rivals during the bidding process to host the football World Cup in 2022 a British newspaper claims a p.r. Firm and x. CIA agents were used to discredit Qatar's 2 main rivals for the tournament Australia and the United States presidential elections are taking place in Mali as the country likes to end years of political and economic instability there are $24.00 candidates including the 73 year old incumbent Ibrahim Boubacar Kater who seeking another 5 year term campaigning has officially ended in Zimbabwe ahead of Monday's parliamentary and presidential elections the 1st since Robert Mugabe was ousted last November the governing Zanu p.f. Party sees me and his main challenger the m.d.c. Alliance have both promised to rebuild their economy b.b.c. News. So this is on the just watch my name is Sam a choice I work at Memorial Center Stebbins and currently I'm trying to train out water from the. From the grave. And we're surrounded by white tombstones but these graves have been freshly dug. It feels horrible terrible very bad. Because of the film so this is basically the only work that he could find there is no other way for him to to to earn a living do you also feel like you're honoring the people who lost their lives. Yesterday because. There isn't much of this hell a train that hasn't been dug up searching for the victims of an unspeakable horror . There no longer on our bodies but the families gathered for today's ceremony a grateful for even a fragment of bone to know that their loved ones are laid to rest. Thousands of others are stuck in limbo though still hoping that the next July the 11th will be their turn I'm Anna Holligan and for this week's heart and soul I'm in Srebrenica where they're on our cinc the past some of the best of breed he was 12 years old and he saw everything he saw the killings he was captured himself then he left so that makes it even harder to do this business and the most memory is seeing the troops coming in and burning the houses starting to burn the houses and putting them in buses and. And the rest is a history which haunts this land for the last 7 years I've been covering the trials of those responsible for the genocide as the B.B.C.'s correspondent in The Hague in the Netherlands I've heard so many witnesses memories of being tortured and persecuted because of their face we've seen so many terrifying images of human suffering skeletal men haunted eyes peering out through wire fences kept captive in concentration camps boys being lined up their hands tied behind their backs forced to kneel before the crackle of bullets but I've always wondered how highly educated country and I think Europe could have so recently been the scene of such mass atrocities the war in the Balkans in the early 1990 s. Was the culmination really of decades if not centuries of complicated ethnic religious and cultural tensions after the collapse of Yugoslavia the politicians saw an opportunity to grab the territory they considered historically there is but the victims who lived on that land were often determined by their face. Is the site most synonymous with the war this area was a designated safe zone it was supposed to be protected by the United Nations Dutch battalion soldiers. On the 11th of July they surrendered to the Bosnian Serb commander his sorry Orthodox army and paramilitary troops who forced the Muslim men and boys apart from their mothers and wives. 8372. The number of mostly Muslim men and boys who. Lost their lives here and. Women wearing mostly white headscarf their removing their. Socks and shoes and washing their feet cleansing rituals before they go to pray it's become a. Pilgrimage here hasn't it worse. Even Carmen is a filmmaker and our translator his parents are Catholics and he used to be an altar boy but now in his early start even has a Muslim girl friends and a difficult relationship with his father who doesn't approve this is the 1st time he has visited striper Nitsa nobody in this country was left untouched by the war there's a u.n. Watchtower just on the periphery of the massive crazy arse and it's kind of ironic that this area which is not so densely populated with white tombstones was actually meant to be the safe place yeah he said that the irony seems the very. Words to describe that includes a betrayal of cowardice it just makes it even more huge stark that you can stay there the watchtower the u.n. Watch Tyra's been preserved as part of the memorial site overlooking these fields of. Graves It's not easy to see that our visit looks exactly as it looked like 23 years ago. And there were a lot of places like that bunkers play that throughout the country a lot of. Checkpoints and such or. This was not so holy war but religion was hijacked by politicians intent on securing territory is a way to galvanize neighbors of different faiths to turn upon one another and become sometimes unwitting and often unwilling collaborators in a quest to carve outs an ethnically pure land. With been invited to meet a mother who lost her son and husband. She lives just on the edge of this vast graveyard. For mass. Would remove our shoes and leave them with the others neatly placed on a door mat Moneer a Sebas that she is as always dressed modestly and close the floor lends garments are a static is in contrast to the inner steel and formidable nature of a Muslim mother I've come to know relatively well from her regular trips to the Hague to see her son's killers face justice. More Senor many go to hear the memory of her son was taken away from her where the ceremony took place and he was killed to locations some 20 kilometers away from here called private the only remains that were found from him were 2 bones one at that location and another 20 kilometers to a different way. From the 2 bones of my childhood to bury 222 people of my family that were killed 2 were everybody else that suffered I would have said it's everything but the strongest moment was when they took my son and he said not to worry. And when she found an entire family that starved. Her see a child needs to rest like an immigrant from but that stayed in my memory and I can't ever forget. About the role of religion it's enough to say that there is a video of scorpions in the notorious Serbian squad. That receives the blessing cool from the clergyman from Georgia jokes virgin men yes yes before they go to the killing spree the footage is out of better fight but its impact clear was. Striking quickly between the lines of identical tombstones the bodies all facing east to Mecca some of the older men have taken their prayer mat there's a woman crouching reciting viruses from the Qur'an some of the families are just sitting quietly picnicking on the grass rent the moans of asked. In Islam the dead are usually Perris within 3 days but the families here have been voicing more than 20 years. Muslims are told in the Qur'an that the bodies can be put back together ready for the day of resurrection among them 19 year old Sama and her grandmother is. My name Selma ph I came here because my uncle is buried here this is the person that I should know now but I don't and this really has an impact on every one of us her son is buried here and that is the reason she is here now she also has a son buried here and her brother everybody here has some close relative So this is really important to us and for my family I wouldn't miss this for anything I'm from Sarajevo and these 3 to 4 days are the only ones in the year that I can really have time to come here so how do you feel it and I mean your life as a teenager living in Sarajevo How does the war impact now on you. This is the impact actually all this week Tim's you're wearing a beautiful white head scar in what way has your face helped you well help me because because of my faith I know if I come here and if I pray for him he may be we'll have a better place up here this is how we can do something for them. We're not filled with hatred this is good because that's how the war will not repeat again. To understand how this happens it's helpful to have a rudimentary understanding of the 3 distinct ethnic groups that lived in Bosnia Herzegovina Bosniaks Bosnian Muslims make up just over half of the population just under half of the people living here identify as Christian either Sarpy an Orthodox or Roman Catholic Church before the war these faith lived side by side but when the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia started to seek independence in the early 1990 s. Some political leaders exploited and twisted religious identities and used them as a tool to divide and force people to pick a side from my point of view they don't have anything really to see and know they are just killers. After which is a Muslim he's nervous and clearly uncomfortable with the war being put in a religious context for him religion was used to justify the unjustifiable judge is believed to be one of only just a few who survived the striper in it some massacre I remember very clearly the horror when our boys loading on the truck together every other. Boys. Tied my hands in America. After the order me take off my shoes my socks my. Courts that arranged. That moment I just thought that my mother would never know. When I was 9 they started with a mass killing. Military show stopped in front of my eyes I was I close my eyes waiting to be killed at that moment but he killed them and then Mr Me. I never would imagine that I think that they could survive. Face was that relation was that God that kept you going. Maybe but that moment. What was that hope. This is not a religious feeling we're joined by friend has done has done of it this will was about the ideology of wanting to create big Serbia here the religion was one of the elements misused to make it happen after occupation of. Knowledge forces everything was destroyed mosques everything was deleted everything was arranged everything what remind us of our being here I didn't use for that in a propaganda that you have there Muslims and there are Muslims or. First of all I'm Bosnian 2nd of all I'm Bosnak And 3rd of all I'm Muslim so all I'm all of that I was 19 not not even 20 then I survived the genocide I lost my father and my twin brother I was hunted in forests for 6 days and 6 nights. In front of my building with nothing not even proper shoes as if someone would make you know to run for your life that's how I left I believe so hard that actually changed my life forever we have 6775 of the identified and buried individuals cemetery so the op silent so we have to be day voices I think that region can help us. If we are honest after such horror when you. Lose your father or your uncross your relatives or friends one of my article wasn't found yet we cannot cover most crazed. New factories. Where. I'm Anna Holligan and I'm an instructor it is a for Harsens soul from the b.b.c. World Service and you can join the conversation on social media or by using the hash tag b.b.c. Heart and still. Driving through the maintenance interior every time village we pass has religious symbols clearly on display across silhouetted against a stormy sky minarets and spires still occasionally parallel but mostly it's only the victorious whose religious symbols remain didn't time. Can we start with your name Sasha where does it come from well sessions short from Alexander I'm Sasha and Alexander is the Greek name as you as I just you know in every everyone knows so when someone is called You cannot tell by his name Richard your religion does he or she belong so which also helped me in a way during the war and after the war not being labeled. Sasha Cooley works for the organization responsible for finding and identifying the remains of the victims from. And beyond 12000 Muslims crow that Serbs and others are still missing right across this region we're now in the southern city of Mostar close to the crew ation border most star is famous for its 16th century assuming bridge which was destroyed by fighting during the war its reconstruction was a symbol of reconciliation and the coexistence of diverse religious communities we can hear the church bells but I can stay in mosque minarets in fact we are just entering the old city. On one side there's a Franciscan church my dad has a Muslim background but he never perceived himself as a Muslim while my mom is from the Orthodox background when the war between Bush and crowd broke out we got divided in the city part of my family was on one side part of it was on the other side as you can see there are there are still wounds or for all around the city we have a mosque on our left and then this scar is the shrapnel bullet holes in the concrete on our right this is the western side of the side that was under control of the army of Wasn't have to go in our the Bush negative in part there are certain amount of people that still have their boundaries in their heads what I find appalling is that there are new generations that do not cross the size after the collapse of hubris lady or the rather collapse of socialism communism religion reinvigorated again so it became a really important fight the Church or the mosques or whatever the institutions of religion gain more power and it became more important so nowadays it's. It difficult for younger generations to mix in that way because religion plays to big heart in their lives and we have too many remember as they say to be able to to get beyond the shackles of 4 and the works that you're in finding the missing how do you think that all Smedley can the country as long as there are people who are looking for the loved ones who who'd been disappeared during the war there are healed it's not easy thing to say but there it must atrocities happen been very very grave sorry. All the people will never be accounted for as long as there are family members who are vigilant in their in their pursuit I will be there to try and help the quest. I'm used to it's it's completely normal for me. When you hear the call to prayer it's it means that certain portion of the day has passed. Here in Moscow at the religionists can again in the future show it's possible to co-exist in Iceland I would like to believe that they could and they they will but the problem is that the religious communities here only talk about the suffering of their people there's this Ali we're means but and this is the worst word in our language it's always like I condemn all the atrocities that my army or my people have one but the others have done this and that so there cannot be but if you're talking about weak them so if we're talking about if you're talking about reconciliation there's no but. Sergei is a savage who is busy serving pints in Kulu cool a chilled outdoor bar just on the edge of moss star he is the 1st star who has agreed to speak to us these few days surrounding the celebrity it's the memorial are especially sensitive for the group who often feel as though they are seen especially by foreigners as guilty by association you're sitting there is a star next to muslim your friends how common is that for people in their twenty's to have friendships like this to assess their normal level it's completely normal for example here in this bar we hear my best friend coworker creation and another waiter is Bosniak and we are constantly hanging out together so it's nothing nothing special for us is that because you don't have much religion in your life if your other identities are more important than your religion are you still very religious or has some never goes on though he is religious but religion has nothing to do with nationality and how do your parents feel given that. The war they had to move how do they feel now about your friendship groups being so diverse My sister has missed. So basically my parents for the most part 20 years ago but they've never taught me to hate anybody they came back now and half of my family's search Serbian half my family is near so they want us not to look at each other. Do you see that the spire is like an image of what. Bosnia Herzegovina could be in the future as opposed to like a yes because I do believe because in this bar everybody comes from all kinds of different backgrounds mission I would be professionally to try and nobody's registering those differences but also I can say that this is the only bar in my stride where literally everybody goes out. With just arrived in magic Korea time and unofficial sights of Catholic pilgrimage ever since the Virgin Mary reportedly appeared on apparition Hill in 1981 for walking up a rocky path on a hill in magic or yes people coming to and. Carrying her rosary beads and a group of. Italian women praying in front of. A statue of the Virgin Mary. This is a city in Bosnia-Herzegovina which has had its arguably the fastest recovery family people have. This is apparition hill so the irony is that in a country that was torn apart by a war that had religion as its very hard. Site of Catholic pilgrimage. Is no. The site has seen. The fastest recovery Sasha only in times of tourists visiting. Some people are coming the stores in their bare feet. Even though it's what brought you here I was born here but now I'm living in Germany. We had a mess in mother's knowledge and now we're here to play together in mother's village. Headmen. Over. Here in the thong. I mean it's a spectacular landscape and what is it about this place that gave you strength. Ever that you have to believe that but here she came to give us a message and if you believe and if you take this message and if you follow it you have peace it's so simple. And they should follow him he gave us to give us everything we should all take and use it and live as it says they're really really simple love and. Love one another regardless of their religion regardless of their legion it's important to put aside every think of love it's. Only think that matters. Was it something that you find hard to do to hold on to that religion when this country was at war and at the heart of that war was religion. When you really believed and you and the and that religion it was very very important it give us strength to. To stay calm. In the war and the fear that he will not come back and to have hope that in the end everything will be fine. God didn't give us. The most to blame for this one God gave us a consciousness and gave us everything that we need some people want only what's material and that's disease and why the war happened. Was. The people of both new Herzegovina are living on a land which was carved up along the battle lines I have often naive Lee assumed that the trials I've sat through in the Hague deliver justice and with it a degree of closure while this country is officially at peace many of the Muslims and Christians are still of wrestling for the other to acknowledge their pain there has been no national forum for truth and reconciliation so unearthing the past could be Kasar sic for now both me as pasta is to present and contested to be laid to rest our sin so was produced and presented by me Anna Holligan to see more interviews from all star go to our program page at the b.b.c. World Service website now on the b.b.c. World Service the world's like you never heard it before where you get it leaves the goal which is like. 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