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Defense department decides to leave old munitions at bottom of lakesFriday, 3 February, 2012Switzerland’s lakes attract tourists with their pristine image, but up until the 1960s the army was using them as a dumping site. Over 8,000 tons of munitions lay below the surface and today the department of defense announced that they will stay there for good. WRS’s Jordan Davis is at the Federal Palace in Bern:
Documentary explores how Nelson Mendela reconciled an entire nationFriday, 3 February, 2012Reconciliation is perhaps both a noble and foreign concept to many. How do you forgive those who have been so violent and unfair towards you? Documentary filmmaker Michael Henry Wilson looks at how an entire nation was made to forgive each other in his latest documentary Reconciliation: Mandela’s Miracle. The director interviews victims of apartheid in South Africa and follows how Nelson Mendela united his country through the difficult process of reconciliation. His film is now open in French-speaking Switzerland. WRS’s Alex Helmick speaks to Wilson: