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When Eritrea silenced its critics

When Eritrea silenced its critics

A crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea plus Hungary, Nuremberg and Fu Manchu

The History Hour · BBC World Service

November 6, 202149m 58s

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Show Notes

An hour of first hand accounts from the past. Starting with a crackdown on opposition voices in Eritrea from twenty years ago, plus memories of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, the Nuremberg trials, a breakthrough in orthopaedics, and how the fictional character Fu Manchu prejudiced popular opinion against China and the Chinese for decades.