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Hour Award Winning girls off new episode, we find out lifestyle come early and children are scared of wearing the School Uniform. Our show today is about healing after award, and while we do not once to portray africa as warren, the truth is that there are a current p more than 35. 00. Im conflicts happening on the continent now for peace and healing to occur. Its necessary to understand what the warring factions were fighting about in the 1st place. So lets begin with the t great conflict, and if your pm, if youre not from the horn of africa, you probably havent heard much about that conflict recently. So lets take a look at where things stand at the moment. And 2nd, november 2022, acute the federal government, and the tv Peoples Liberation fund, or to pure of agree to end 2 years or 4 in particular region. But how does the conflict integration begin . Lets start on the 4th november 2020. If you best Prime Minister of the estimate ordered, if you can National Defense force troops, entity, great, civil effect has led to the crisis. Power struggle an election and a push for political reform. Since 1994, if you ok has had a federal system in which different ethnic groups control, this is of 10 regions. 50 po f, which is credited with india if you cause military gene in 1991 was quite influential in setting up that system. However, when id be made was selected as Prime Minister, the 2018 teachers need to. So hes reformed as an attempt to centralized power and destroyed is federal system. The feud came to a hit in september when to agree beside the Central Government to close its own regional election. Months later, itd be made, sent the army to degree, and the consequentially escalated into civil, also known as a t 3 war millions were displaced because of the conflict. Humanitarian aid was difficult to deliver those needed and soldiers from both sides, accused of human rights violations. And great, some estimate half a 1000000 people died if youll excuse me, but informed at 1st we reach you joined the if you can government early in the conflict of 2 months of to 90 presence in spring 2021 Prime Minister of the estimate admitted. But retrench troops will fight to integrate for the peace talks have resulted in less violence in the region and a chance for the people in degree to rebuild their lives. So the conflict and t gray is not quite over yet, but in many parts of the region, life is slowly getting back to normal for to grand women and finding healing after work comes in. Many forms for some senior counselor has helped form it on bed. Hon, its finding time to enjoy traditional ceremonies just like before the war. And this years shes especially excited about the i send the festival, the man im best time gets a soft ready for this and a traditional to graham festival. That honest woman and goes the joyful atmosphere, however, marks the stock reality the just a few months ago. The trained to Makeup Artist was a soldier in the t great defense for the ultimate i was do want, its just we were the supply team and delivered munition to the front not to go. We did not care so much about our own lives, but rather the lives of comrades on the front line to go to live because of us. They could engage the enemy. You need to know that what was really hard though, were the drones which followed us and destroyed our depots and hiding places out of not being able to deliver ammunition due to the strikes was the hardest part of the law that im happy to do. I see in november 2020 a conflict between the c o p and an error tray and on and the t great Peoples Liberation friend escalated into a harrowing with a killed of a half a 1000000 people. The woman played a vital role in the conflict. Fabi on being a victim. As active as nurses, doctors, and soldiers, they had a decisive impact on shaping the costs of the wall. The in my, canada, of the capital of t. Great in northern ethiopia, fashioned as being celebrated for the 1st time. 3 years. For one week man, i expected to present small gift while women with additional impressions gathered in town squares and streets to meet the dawn and have fun. Its kind of an atmosphere. There are many other female veterans and mikaela just like the best time to join the local militia to protect themselves from the um, according to them, a decision that lets i get it gives a busy lassie also had to meet the rules because of what the retreat in and you can only do to us the raping and killing of the young people of degree, particularly woman. Our anger and frustration drove us to the front lines, but now with the prospect of peace, were finally feeling a sense of relief and happiness. The celebration is early after the war inflicted a severe toll and full issue of him with the trust that hes committed by all sides women in t grey. Those were disproportionately affected and systematic. He brutalized, i sold drugs. Mikaela is hospitalized modem is being leads to the one stop same to full victims of sexual violence. She actually has conscious stories of extreme abuse, a woman, and goes mutilation in other forms of torture. She does her best to help those who have made the oddest journey to the hospital. My mother tried to follow the once i dont want to talk to move thats i came here. And as i came along, i had so many problems guessing here 0, do we have lots of fights and going on and the army was to day i had no other choice but to go to the village. I did this picture at associates as a will coming go as well as a donor site, the season for a daughters endless as a because the nice because of a just to get in to preset. Im missing said we want to land on the place on us. We have 3 especially these old and the goodness that tended to close woman at the back, one of the stuff was able to keep it after counseling more than 2000 rape survivors. Miss vin believes that the remarkable place a woman into grace history is one reason why they are old deliberately targeted hey, make this make this. Come here, walk with me. You are my boss and this is kind of back on the streets, but fun makes a way to the maintenance in the festivities. Lets have some fun of this house. The mckaylas balloon, the stadium benz chaff. The audience men can only watch from the galleries. This was not the 1st will in which the women love to grace ford for the lives and freedom from 1974 to 1991. The tpl if played a pivotal role in defeating if you, if he has repressive military regime. Approximately 88000 women were actively involved. One 3rd of po, if competence for the firm from an empty and strain a complementary rather than contradictory what sets this ocean, the pod from previous ones is the intense fighting, the hunger and all the other hardship. Then again, my sons even dick on the ship, but the girls are resilient to this. Even after all the attacks witnessing them then tall and celebrate ocean, the fields meet with immense joy. This transformation is what makes this session to truly special this for many this year as a sanders festival, as you need to significant. Its not only a celebration of peace, Cultural Heritage and woman, but also attribute to the resilience of woman degree. We mean us truly. We are facing so many problems, but to always overcome them from one generation to the next. Thats what makes us stronger. The wireless send us celebrated a recent report by physicians for human rights and the organization for justice and accountability in the horn of africa. Revealed military units and t graceful. Carry out shocking sexual violence. This is the move in by 2022 piece agreement. In fact, that is just one of many conflicts where a rape is used as a weapon of war. It was the same and the civil war of sierra leone, which lasted for 11 years now, although that conflict ended more than 20 years ago. Those who survived it still carry visible and invisible scars with them. Lets look at some background. The wars started in 1991 when the rebel group revolutionary united front for him to over throw the government over 10000 children, some as young as 5 years were recruited by armed groups and became child soldiers. The fighters carried out numerous horrific atrocities, rape abductions, amputations, killings. They also destroyed towns and villages the rebels payments their activities through the sale of so called the blood or conflict. Diamonds. With the help of liberia has been president Charles Taylor diamonds were smuggled abroad and later as sold worldwide. By the time the war ended in 2002, after 70000 people had died and over 2000000 were displaced. Those sierra leone ends live in peace today. Many said that the underlying causes of the war, such as corruption, poverty, and unemployment remain unresolved to the state. In 2022, my collegiate is kamani travel to the sierra leone and capital free town. And thats just spoke to people who are merely children during the war to find out how the conflict is impacting the lives even today. The hello and welcome to the 77 percent of the show for advocates. This week we are in the west african country looks clearly going. And 20 years ago this. Yeah, i mean, 11 year brutal civil war came to an end. Unfortunately, some of the people who participated in the will lost their loved ones and even lost some of their lives. What children 20 as on those children now make a part of the 77 percent. So we want to find out from them. What does the world look like for them . So well begin with, well, how much you tell our view is what youve been through. I was 15 as of is when develop factor in our town shape. And we went with a voice for 3 months. Then there was nothing to eat with my parents asked me to go outside and get some foods. So on my way reading, i step from out on the mice. So its a much colors dropped my leg. Yeah. So i wasnt a voice for 3 good. This was, i mean thats really, really tough. How do you surviving the bush for 3 days with an unprotected leg . It was really tough for me because i was calling my hands and my knees supposed to be. Would this im really, really sorry to hear about that. Unfortunately, its more terrible news and were just going to come to you for a 2nd of fun to see we because what theyre describing is not alien to you either having been an ive and also a teenage at that time. No. Uh, but it wasnt, it was and actually and for the fact that i think it was in 1998. I was a child and then to rebuild was attacked and killed by law. We went into the bush with our life for like 5 days. I think i get to my mother and then my mother is like, you have to go back and get medication. And then i went that and i saw a family friend and i went back and there was no way to go back to my mother. And then he was like, youre safe with me. The tickets you know, spend the night. And then that was the night that i bought by him not once or twice 3 times. And then i was the helpless. I could see nothing about set up. Okay. Well, thank you for sharing that right . Yes. So lets come to each mo, please explain to us what happened with you and how you found yourself to be here today, alive and well. So when i was about 12 years old, what came into my life, i started running from mitch by the time i was 13, i didnt go to, to fight in the government army. And i fought for nearly 3 years. I lost everything my, my home, my aspirations long and short of it, i was able to survive to walk in and, and i was adopted in a family in the united states. So i left. But i carried the, the burden of the wall, which means because i felt beautiful having survived. And by the way it smells case and everybody else weve heard from today. The case is the case is a one of tens of, but its estimated that about 10000. 00 children participated in that will. And the children were talking about probably not older than the ones who are playing football here. So that gives us a visual, but also very difficult to imagine my resume, so you will one when the war ended. But your parents obviously who raised you and who gave us to you very much part of this crisis. Is this something that you discuss at home openly, has it affected how you were raised . It as a fix said lots of family members that i knew directly and what, what we experienced is the trauma trauma will. So you would, you would experience that lots of family members were not able to get job. The one thats able to learn skills because they are full, mitzi is we had destroyed by the war. Let me invite john to this conversation. What do you think is the biggest challenge of the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them from the world . Well, the biggest thing is to have a conversation or the community live. Most of the guys in to young generation did not experience the war. And for the export as to what would do to have the space to have that dialogue. So i think part of our college initial is having an ongoing conversation about what went wrong. Okay. So let me come back to fund to see here because were hearing that on the one hand, not only to the opportunity to them, to spaces, to speak openly. They dont exist, but not speaking about it creates smoke from even for the generations after the fact. When one thing were good at and certainly on is we move too fast. And we pretend like what happened yesterday didnt happen. And thats why you have people like me and all the people the fucking up there is a time become like, sole partner, like any sounds would i . I would just like a went into that i would just black out. Uh issue uh let me come to you, did you get a chance to get sort of Mental Health care after the fact . Uh yes, i did have a little bit of mental uh, psychos of sure therapy as they used to call it right after the war. That was not the case for a lot of people. Yeah. Now what i, what i also want to really address is the fact that if you look at the society scenario, now a lot of us are broken. Can you give me some of those examples . What think about social personal spaces, the way people view women, way people view relationships, all of those things. So the dysfunctionality is, had existed during the war. And some of the people who inherited that went on to the parents and race children. They dont know how to pass on those things to them. Yeah, i want to hear from maria if the Education System is also catering to this, you know, as somebody who says, your facing 2nd generational trauma, is it something that you would talk to school . Are you addressing this in your own sort of, youd circle as Mental Health issues right now lots of people, even youths as my age do round around Mental Health discussions, trauma, depression, anxiety, the dont want to talk about it. And even i have spoken to some of my colleagues west study mets in, in, in Sterling College of minutes. And theyll tell you that i dont want to study psychology or be a psychiatric piece because everybody in my company to fill out my fussy and im working with my people. So let me ask a question that, you know, it might even sound call us to ask you, but i need to have Sierra Leonean really lunch from the wor, no, a, no, no, no, i say you saying that everybody says no, everyone is wrong. You know why . Because we pretend like it didnt happen. Nobody talk about, say, not in school, not in college. No and houses in that. It didnt happen. Mariam, you . One of the people who said very emphatic, you know, we havent learned all the situations around the wall, all the effects, all the things that lets do well, i still present, i still have career ups and these have you to an employment is helpful that these yeah, and even the fact that we dont talk about seats makes the most kerry, because if we dont talk about the how do we want to move past it . So john, how do we move forward from a situation like this . What we need is it costs corruptive engagement of young people. Lets try to include in the curriculum of schools, the history of dual most why is it not part of the curriculum . Oh its oh my goodness. Its not to disclose. Lets how about going into schools . Does university so difficult to understand what went through. All right, if i could add something to that, there is an adage in syria, you, if you dont know it was that you come whats, you know . No, it was i you to go. If you dont know where youre coming from, you will not know where you going left. Know where weve been, what, whats the, whats behind those the do you live with that and didnt know how to go forward. If not, well go back to that. Yeah, i think thats a fantastic place to end. Its very rare, thats one district debates. We dwell on the past, but it is something that has come out very, very clearly today. Is that in some instances, in order to move forward, as fantasy said very clearly, you sometimes have to look back. Thank you for watching the as we heard in the debate, whenever there is Armed Conflict in the region or a country, its the children whose stuff are the most in the constant fear of being displaced from the home. They grew up and maybe even witnessing people being killed right in front of them in the English Speaking regions of come, a rolling one major impact of the fighting. There has been that children can barely go to school because its not safe. In our Award Winning girls of mute peace, a reporter who is a student herself, spoke to friends and teachers to find out how they are managing to still get an education. The. And i live one come moon school, georgia like me, i face with incredible danger. Thats because this area, so thats a realm between the government and people. One jesse breed states, sometimes they at the school did you always keeps one eye on the classroom window. Because the children had been killed by at that ghost writing classroom in this region and still have been shot. Ok, not on the way to, im from school it as happens to some of my friends im oh thats. Ive moved to other parts of the country to continue with that education. Look, im not what i was a School Uniform because i dont want the, i took us know almost google. I am latishas for those of you. And im going to be tell you why School Children like me a fights and then we go to school. In bremond the why do you worry about when you leave for school early in the morning . Lets start with you fable. When you leave for school in the morning, you have to be scared of the random kidnaps the gunshots. No tags, the sometimes because of serial gunshots, new tags is available for us to go to School Elementary school lead. What of you pretty much asked me what i would love to go to school and my scrutiny from k myschoolbucks. Let us get it from the fundraiser. But not, i could not co my books and paper. Im going to squeeze you. How does this cost on being just a 6 year education as a student of 45. 00, are you facing the gc examinations . You have to be in school, you must be able to pull that up. Youll see levels so as to meet the expectations of the gc both because you said general eye exam, theyll know policy that i did not read on this out with that in crises and almost dont said based what they told you. Those said base to the sea level, she was supposed to call back but it community here is not give and up to a show that education continues. It has set up mix youve schools as discreetly as possible. We just part of unemployed teach as a local college. But when the enemy strikes at teach us, i also left helpless. Ill skip it in. And also as a teacher, i can only play my role in the classroom. And if the government comes into the classroom, i am helpless and do adults, the gills about safety measures. Always stood in, avoid should goods avoid going home late at night. I would visiting friends on also the move in groups. You remember when last you felt save on your way to school at school . The last time i felt safe at school on my way to school was around 2016. When do a new crises, i totally lost a good number of friends. So my drop out so my mother keeps on some of them i dont with i dont really dusty i life what i did, yells like us here in bomb and once to have an education. But we need a secure environment to achieve that. The long Standing Police got in security and violence, thatd be an extra thing here in bum, and is standing in the way of that. To hold that report from lou impressions, income rule and wraps up the 77 press and for it to date. Remember, you can always get some great content from our team anytime you want, just follow us on youtube, facebook, instagram, and tick tock. So in the so we heard a lot about how people are overcoming war and hardships and hopefully headed into a positive future. So i want to leave you with an f listings phone. Here is ben glove. We use choir with the we will rise. Im gonna show you next time the, the the costs are always a shipping giant building, a gigantic molten, true local residence. So wary of the chinese conglomerate some fishes project, which is causing by corruption and environmental destruction, critical voices of being sensitive logo in 15 minutes, d. W. Lithium from germany. 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