BBC World Service - Witness History

The End of El Salvador's Civil War

A former Salvadoran guerrilla fighter talks about her experience of war and peace.

What exactly goes on during the months between election and inauguration?

How Britain's most famous Royal brought the danger landmines to the world's attention.

A victim of abuse at the hands of the Chicago police tells his story.

How British code-breakers exposed a German plot against the United States in 1917

In 1999 a Turkish woman MP appeared in parliament wearing a headscarf. It caused uproar.

Auca tribesmen killed five American missionaries in the jungle in January 1956.

How the collapse of 'pyramid' investment schemes caused riots in Albania in 1977

In January 1977 an opposition movement began in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.

A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam