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Somalia's civil war and golf on the moon

Published: June 24, 2023, midnight

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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week\\u2019s Witness History stories.

Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, a fighter pilot in the Somali air force defied orders to bomb civilians in 1988. Explaining more about the Somali civil war and its legacy is BBC Monitoring's regional analyst Beverly Ochieng.

Also, the demonstrations in East Germany that triggered martial rule in 1953.

From the archive, Sam King recalls arriving in England on the Empire Windrush in 1948, one of 802 pioneering Caribbean migrants.

Plus, the 1994 raid on a gay nightclub in Melbourne, Australia, where more than 400 people were strip-searched and detained.

Finally, in 1971 Alan Shepard, the commander of Apollo 14 became the first and only person to play golf on the moon.

Contributors:\\nAhmed Mohamed Hassan on being a fighter pilot in the Somali air force\\nBeverly Ochieng, BBC Monitoring's Horn Of Africa analyst\\nHelmut Strecker on his recollections of the protests in East Germany\\nSam King on the Empire Windrush\\nGary Singer on the raid of Tasty nightclub\\nLaura Shepard Churchley on her father Commander Alan Shepard

(Photo: Refugees in Somalia's civil war. Credit: Getty Images)

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