Confliction zones and a safe areas in syria particularly in the last 34 years as dismal none of them have worked and the reason is the Bigger Picture which were seeing right now which is an extraordinary affirmation of the role of imperial powers using local actors in the middle east particularly in syria and iraq and particularly the kurds the russians the americans the british the french now the turks as a Regional Power this is been going on for 100 years so theres nothing new here this is a all the says is a sad reaffirmation of the continuation of imperial manipulation of weak dependent local actors and betraying them time after time after time for the interests of the bigger power and this is i think the sad situation youre in and do you think any of. Those powers that you just mentioned have thought about the hundreds of thousands of not the millions of civilians that are in this area that tookie has said that it wants to create a safe zone in return millions of Syrian Refugees
In 2015, she was sexually assaulted by a member of the Stanford University swim team, brock turner. He was later sentenced to just six months in jail sparking nationwide outrage in the recall of the judge. The text of her victim impact statement was read by millions around the world. Today Chanel Miller will join us to talk about her remarkable new memoir titled know my name. In court was so stripped of identity. You dont have any. You dont have characteristic traits. Your spoken about in terms of being a some of your body parts and really nothing more than that. So coming forward is my way of saying, i have a history. I have people that love me and i also have talent in writing. Amy today, Chanel Miller for the hour. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In northern syria, dozens have been killed and tens of thousands have fled their homes amid the Turkish Military offensive against kurdishcontrolled areas
People belonging to an ethnic group were killed and their homes burned down. Reunited with their families about Political Prisoners released in nicaragua say they wont be silenced. Now signs of a breakthrough in the crisis in sudan after more than a week of violence disruption and deadlock ethiopian mediators say the military jointer and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks soon on the formation of a council to oversee the transition to civilian rule they have pledged to on a previous agreements on issues such as the structure of a Transitional Government the opposition is suspending its Civil Disobedience Campaign and general strike and for its part the military has agreed to release all Political Prisoners one of the conditions for talks laid down by protest leaders on the collapsed. On june the 3rd the start of a violent military crackdown on protesters which according to a Doctors Group killed 129. 00 people and Rights Groups are now warning of war crimes by Paramilitary F
Prodemocracy groups can do is to show 1 the opposition through protests ethiopian mediators say sudans military and opposition groups have agreed to resume talks on the transition to civilian rule protest leaders have suspended Civil Disobedience Campaign and general strike meanwhile the u. N. Security council has strongly condemned the violence and going to aim has. This fire in darfur was retribution for allegiance to the protesters nationwide strike according to the Sudanese Professional Association the group says on monday about 10 people were killed and stores and homes were torched by a peer a military group called the Rapid Support forces or r s f Amnesty International says it has evidence proving the r. S. S. Is committing war crimes in the region and internet blackout and reports of electricity outages in the capital mean information is slowly trickling out tuesday it was the 3rd day of a nationwide strike intended to show the Transitional Military Council that protesters may
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