Witness History: Archive 2014

In November 2006 Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in a Baghdad courtroom. The trial of the deposed President by the Iraqi Interim Government followed the American led invasion of Iraq. Witness has been speaking to Ramsey Clark, one of Saddam Hussein's defence team. (Photo: Ramsey Clark (L) and Saddam Hussein (R) courtesy of Ramsey Clark)

In November 1994, a French magazine revealed that President Mitterrand had a secret daughter, with his mistress of more than 30 years. Witness speaks to Sebastien Valiela, the paparazzo who broke the story. (Photo: Mazarine Pingeot with her father Francois Mitterrand, as published in Paris Match November 1994. Credit: Sebastien Valiela)

In November 1989 government soldiers shot dead six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter. The shocking killings became a turning point in the Salvadorean civil war. We hear from Lucia Cerna, who was forced to flee the country because of what she witnessed that night. (Photo: Mourners gather for the funeral of the Salvadorean Jesuits. Credit: AP/Luis Romero)

Manfred Marx was the man who discovered the diamonds which transformed Botswana's economy. As a young geologist in the 1960s his find in the Kalahari desert completely changed the country's fortunes after independence. Photo: Diamonds, Credit: Getty Images

The left-wing Sri Lankan rebel died in government custody on 13 November 1989. He was the leader of an armed Marxist uprising which led to tens of thousands of deaths. His former friend and lawyer, Prins Gunasekara remembers. (Photo: Rohana Wijeweera speaking, courtesy of the JVP party)

This act by the white minority government in 1965, led to a decade of war with black nationalists. Ian Findlay, a District Commissioner at the time, explains why Rhodesia tried to hold back the 'winds of change' sweeping across Africa. (Photo: Armed Rhodesian police on the streets of Bulawayo, Nov 1965. Credit: Terry Fincher/Getty Images/Hulton Archive)

In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein ordered the draining of southern Iraq's great marshes. It was one of the biggest environmental disasters of the twentieth century, and with it an ancient way of life - dating back thousands of years - was almost wiped out. Witness talks to Iraqi environmentalist Azzam Alwash, who is trying to restore the marshes, and to journalist Shyam Bhatia, who saw them being destroyed. Photograph: An Iraqi Marsh Arab looks out across a barren stretch of the marshes of southern Iraq. Credit: Essam al-Sudani/AFP/Getty Images)

A Soviet spy ring was uncovered in London in 1961. Two of the spies, a married couple, were sending radio messages to Moscow from a transmitter in their bungalow. But British secret service agents were watching them from the bedroom of a teenage girl called Gay Search. Hear her story. (Photo: The house where the spies lived in Ruislip, London)

It had been one of the enduring icons of the Cold War. It had divided East Berlin from West Berlin; and socialism from capitalism. But on 9 November, 1989, after weeks of anti-Communist protests across East Germany, that all changed. Hear from two East Germans - Aram Radomski and Siegbert Schefke - who were among the first to cross from East to West Berlin. Photo: copyright Siegbert Schefke

Lord Lucan disappeared in 1974 after his nanny was murdered, and his wife brutally beaten. The son of the nanny, Neil Berriman tells the story of one of Britain's most well-known unsolved crimes. (Photo : Lord Lucan on his wedding day. Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)