Afghanistan's Martial Arts Megastar
Hussain Sadiqi has been called the Afghan Bruce Lee. He tells Matthew Bannister how be escaped the Taliban to become a martial arts star.
Hussain Sadiqi has been called the Afghan Bruce Lee. As a member of the Hazara, an ethnic minority group persecuted by the Taliban, Hussain was forced to flee the country but this didn't stop him following his dream of becoming an international martial arts star.
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Thor Heyerdahl Junior is the son of the legendary explorer, Thor Heyerdahl - the Norwegian man famous for making an astonishing journey in a primitive raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947. Outlook spoke to Thor Junior along with the actor Pal Hagan who plays Thor Heyerdahl in a new film about the expedition called Kon Tiki.
(Photo: Hussain Sadiqi. Credit: Gavain Brown.)
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