Boko Haram massacre in Nigeria and the Irish shopworkers strike

The History Hour

BBC

History, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week’s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

First, we hear about Boko Haram militants driving into Gwoza in north-east Nigeria in 2014, to begin an assault which left hundreds dead.

Next, the Irish shopworkers who went on strike after refusing to handle South African goods.

Then, it’s 25 years since Nato bombed the Serbian state TV station in Belgrade.

Plus, Norway’s biggest industrial disaster.

And, Brazil’s iconic egg-shaped telephone booth.

Contributors:

Ruoyah who lived through the Boko Haram massacre.

Makena Micheni - Associate Lecturer at St Andrews University.

Irish shopworker Mary Manning.

TV technician Dragan Šuković.

Harry Vike and his wife Greta.

Chu Ming Silveira’s son Alan Chu.

(Photo: A woman from Gwoza displaced by the violence. Credit: Reuters/Stringer)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the History Hour Podcast from the BBC World Service with me
0:08.8	Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there. This week Irish shop workers who went on
0:14.8	strike in the 1980s over apartheid in South Africa. And I could see a woman
0:19.2	approaching me and she had two grapefruit in her basket.
0:22.6	I just said to her that like following union policy,
0:25.2	we are handling said African goods.
0:27.6	Also 25 years on, the NATO bombing of the Serbian state
0:31.0	TV station in Belgrade.
0:33.0	I was buried to my neck.
0:35.0	I have a problem because I have injuries, six, seven serious injuries on my head.
0:42.0	Plus Norway's worst industrial desire. serious injuries on my head.
0:42.7	Plus Norway's worst industrial disaster
0:45.7	and the birth of Brazil's iconic egg-shaped telephone booths.
0:49.6	Like the phone cabins in London,
0:52.3	how they became a symbol of the country.
0:55.2	The same happened here in Brazil.
0:57.6	That's all coming up later in the podcast.
0:59.6	But first we're taking you to the very bleak heart of a conflict which has blighted northern Nigeria since the early years of this century.
1:07.0	In 2014 Boca Haram Islamist militants drove into Guoza, a region in northeastern Nigeria, and began an assault that would leave hundreds of people dead.
1:17.0	As a young girl, Royer found herself caught in the middle of it, and she's been telling her story to Anushkumatanda Doherty starting with what happened on the
1:25.4	morning of June the 2nd, 2014.
1:27.4	When I woke up from sleep, I swapped the compound and we started cooking. We had finished and started eating. That was when they came.
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