The Leonard Lopate Show
Trying To Survive
Thursday, July 19, 2007
On today's Underreported: a look at the 2004 massacre of hundreds of Congolese Tutsi refugees, and how the survivors are adjusting to a new life in the United States. Also, more about Iraq's health care crisis. Then: how the concept of childhood has changed around the world in the past 150 years. We'll hear the music of a young Indian-American tabla artist. And TIME magazine's Baghdad Bureau Chief Bobby Ghosh talks about four years of covering the Iraq war.
Underreported: Gatumba Massacre Survivors
On the night of August 13th, 2004, Hutu militants crossed from Congo into Burundi and attacked the Gatumba Transit Center in which fifteen hundred Banyamulenge Congolese Tutsi refugees had sought safe haven. Hundreds were killed and wounded. Now nearly 600 hundred of the survivors have been resettled in the US. On today's Underreported, we'll find out what happened during the massacre, and how the survivors are dealing with the aftermath and getting the help they need. Leonard talks to Sasha Chanoff of Mapendo International, one of the architects of the Gatumba resettlement; also, Olivier Mandevu, president of the Gatumba Refugee Survivors Foundation.
Event:
The Third Annual Gatumba Genocide Memorial
will be held on Sunday, August 12
at Pinnacle Mountain in Voorheesville, NY
For more information, go to gatumbasurvivors.org
Underreported: More on Iraq's Healthcare Crisis
Last week we heard about Iraq's healthcare crisis. This week, find out what's being done to help Baghdad's sick and wounded in Jordan and in northern Iraq. Nicolas de Torrente of Doctors Without Borders has just returned from a trip to the region to try to set up faster and more effective ways to treat Iraqi patients.
The History of Childhood
In Full of Grace, photographer Ray Merritt has chronicled how youth is depicted in photography over the last 150 years. With photos from Lewis Carroll, Richard Avedon, Andre Kertesz, and other master photographers, Merritt explores the progress of the child in areas such as child development and welfare, but also the setbacks in areas such as poverty and hunger.
Full of Grace is available for purchase at amazon.com
Covering the Baghdad Battlefields
Aparisim “Bobby” Ghosh is TIME magazine’s Baghdad Bureau Chief and has been covering the fighting in Iraq since the US-led invasion back in 2003. He has been caught in crossfire, seen two colleagues badly wounded, and was part of the team of journalists that first reported on the killings of 24 civilians in Haditha. He'll talk about why he keeps going back.
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