Episode 16 Ellen Tordesillas "Too complacent for too mny years."

After six years of violence, murder and blatant disregard of the law the presidency of Rodrigo Duterte is history. His successor Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., who had won the election by a landslide margin, was sworn in on June 30th. But there is little joy in the South East Asian island state. The new president's style of Government might be more subtle than the brutal and often vulgar approach of his predecessor. But like Duterte, Bongbong Marcos is no friend of independent free media. His is set to rehabilitate his father's image. Ellen Tordesillas, an investigative journalist from Manila and...

The deconstruction of Yugoslavia ended with the declaration of independence of Kosovo in 2008. But nothing of the traumatic experiences of 15 years of war has been forgotten since. The Kosovar journalist Visar Duriqi talks not only about the political stumbling blocks on the way to a lasting peace. His dire prediction for the troubled region is a new wave of murderous violence - if the EU doesn't get its act together and gets back into the political driver's seat.

On February 1, 2021 the Burmese military seized power deposing the legitimate government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Since then, roughly 10,000 citizens have been arrested, 2,000 more have been killed. The journalist Mary Wine knew that she couldn't face the same destiny any time. So she left her job and fled to a neighboring country where she joined the Burmese resistance movement. Since then the young woman has been invited by the Hamburg Foundation for politically persecuted People to its temporary shelter program. Even though she doesn't expect an early end toi military rule, Mary...

For Tajik journalists talking or writing facts comes at a high price: The regime of President Rahmon never forgets - and never forgives. To avoid years in prison and the danker of physical and psychological torture Humayro Bakhtyiar, like so many others before and since, had to leave her home country.