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On the 70th anniversary of the partition of India, Kavita Puri hears remarkable testimonies from people who witnessed the drama first hand - and even took part in it. They speak with remarkable clarity about the tumultuous events, whose legacy endures to this day. Witnesses describe the immediate aftermath of partition itself. As the former British territories were divided into two new dominions of India and Pakistan, millions on both sides of the new border found themselves in the wrong place – and fled. Intercommunal violence spread rapidly among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs, and news of the atrocities sparked revenge attacks. Yet even as this brutality shocked the world, some of those who bore witness to it recall many individual acts of courage and humanity.

On its 70th anniversary, Kavita Puri hears the untold stories of those who witnessed India’s partition in 1947. The years leading up to partition was a time in which many Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus recalled living together harmoniously. We hear about the calls for independence; the rising clamour for an independent Pakistan; the dread as communal rioting gripped ever more of the sub-continent; how the movement of people began prior to independence; and how independence day was marked on both sides of the border.

Ulrikas mormor är 90 år. Efter 57 års äktenskap med Ulrikas morfar, som idag är död, lever mormor nu tillsammans med sin ungdomskärlek, Konrad. Ulrika är 24 år och börjar ställa frågor om det ingen i släkten har talat högt om: "Vad har mormor egentligen burit inom sig under alla år?" Mormor och kärleken är ett program om plikt, ansvar, skam och kärlek. Om längtan som inte försvinner, trots att åren går.   Av Ulrika Svensson

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Who are the people hoping to overthrow President Maduro? For Assignment, Vladimir Hernandez reports from Caracas.

Has Pakistan has lived up to the vision of its founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah - to create a unified national identity for the country with Islam as the great unifying factor? Pakistan was founded as a homeland for the Muslims of the Indian sub-continent, but religion, nationality and gender have caused faultlines in the region. For women, Pakistan is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to live in and yet it has also spawned a thriving women’s rights movement with thousands of activists such as Tanveer Jahan, “Societal transformation,” she says, “is a very, very long struggle”. (Photo: Presenter Shahzeb Jillani standing outside in front of a mosque, Pakistan)

The mass migration of 1947 and what that version of events says about the country now. In Pakistan they are racing against time to record the memories of those who witnessed Partition: people like Syed Afzal Haider, now in his late 80s, who recalls, as a 15-year-old, creeping through the deserted streets of Lahore and watching dogs sniffing around the scattered corpses. Hundreds of thousands died in 1947 as Muslims were driven across the partition line into the newly created Pakistan, and Hindus and Sikhs were forced in the opposite direction. Taha Shaheen and Fakhra Hassan are making sure the stories of 1947 are not forgotten. They are collecting the testimonies of people who remember the carnage. Taha’s grandmother was driven out of her village in the Punjab and could only watch as her mother and brother were cut to pieces on the journey to Pakistan. Fakhra met a man who helped set fire to Sikh houses in Lahore. He was seven years old at the time. But young Pakistanis learn only a partial version of these events, as Shahzeb discovers at a government school in the walled city of Lahore, a school that once carried the name of a local Sikh ruler. The 14-year-olds in the history class are taught that Muslims were the victims of Partition. There’s no mention of the atrocities committed by Muslim mobs against Sikh and Hindus. Shahzeb is disappointed by what he hears. How, he asks, can Pakistanis learn to be tolerant of people of different faiths, if history is distorted in this way? One answer may be the Partition Museum, which will open soon in Lahore, and which will put the stories of Partition on public display. Aaliyah Tayyebi of the Citizens Archive of Pakistan believes this will encourage a true understanding of why Pakistan was created and how it can learn to live at peace with itself and its neighbours. (Photo: Shahzeb Jillani at Lahore station, Pakistan)

När Sovjetunionen anfaller Finland och vinterkriget bryter ut i november 1939 bestämmer Sveriges regering att inte hjälpa Finland militärt. Under en sömnlös natt får Sveriges utrikesministers fru Maja Sandler en idé: Hon vill hjälpa finska barn genom att evakuera dem till Sverige. Över 70 000 barn kommer att skickas till Sverige under de följande sex åren. Barn så unga som tre månader separeras från sina föräldrar och syskon. Många förlorar sitt modersmål men resan blir också en räddning undan sjukdomar och bombanfall. Flera tusen kommer aldrig att återvända. I P3 Dokumentär om de finska krigsbarnen får vi höra skrämmande skildringar från Bengt Lander som blev misshandlad och sexuellt utnyttjad i fosterfamiljen. Men det handlar också om Irma Ahlenius och Kielo Bengtsson som hittade ett nytt hem och tvekade när de skulle åka hem till Finland igen när kriget var över. Dessutom ett unikt vittnesmål av en finsk mamma genom en tidigare opublicerad ljudinspelning: Hur var det att skicka iväg sina barn mot sin vilja, utan att veta vart de kommer att hamna? En dokumentär av: Lotta Hoppu Producent: Magnus Arvidson Produktionsår: 2017