A little bit was the worst day of my life. Our neighbors came to our home and murdered my family that is. Up to 1000000 people were killed over the course of just 100 days. Most of this crowd werent even born to theyre here today to audition for a t. V. Talent show. On sure. It will be one of those good months since. The show is called east africas gone talent its similar to programs that. Broadcast in europe and the us. In the 3rd simon is in charge of the auditions like many others here simon lost family members in the genocide in rwanda as young people know the history of the massacre but on days like this they try to forget about it for a while still you know were just. Were moving on were moving along we dont want to be held by whats up in the past we want to move on we want to look for the future and it doesnt but the odds you all know we are in the period of 100 days of calm the ritual and just this thing is part of it so we remember we are night and then didnt you so we had a n
Our main topics to be. Initiation rites before we talk about lets look at what some young men have to go through the numbers may not be as high but this suffer mental and physical pain across africa different cultures smog a transition from boyhood to manhood initiation rituals in south africa many young men lose their lives thats a result. Close to the fall river early in the morning in these initiation students practice traditional chants it is a highly secretive process we are lucky out of 20 students these 5 and their future are willing to talk they perform a cleansing ritual in the river every morning these schools are infamous for their allegedly brutal methods but this young initiate shows no signs of fear. You see some guys are scared but thats only because other people things so some have this fear but because this is our culture i fear nothing i feel like most of the boys here have to go through it. The traditional. And pretty ethnic groups believe a boy can only become a man
19 1918 armistice that ended world war i. Up next on american artifacts, historian Mitchell Yockelson and french battlefield guide Guillaume Moizan guide us to several key locations in northeastern france, including place wheres hearry truman, an others had life experiences. We have an unexploded 75 millimeter ar till rear shell on the floor of the Argonne Forest. This is about an hour. Were standing in front of the pennsylvania monument dead indicat dedicated in 1927 to honor the veterans of pennsylvania many of them in the 28th National Guard division that were directly involved with liberating the town that was in the 407 day meuse argonne operation that involved the doughboys. You grew up not far from him. Is it easy to say you explored these battlefields on many occasions as a young manned and today as a battlefield guide . Yes, indeed. I was born in the small town around 15 miles away from here. And i grew up close by the Argonne Forest, so always walking in the forest when i was
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A law when their forces are not there. We do. Ok and thats why. Theyre mad. And i mean my boss and he with. How when the. No i mean you couldnt buy. In the year 2011 kenya passed a law that basically said that female genital mutilation was illegal despite this its still being practiced across the country and even here way we are in our county and we want to investigate why and id like to begin with selena who is actually a member of this community and an activist this is still happening and i know that the school youre running is also facing this challenge can you talk to me about that from 00 originally so when you said that she doesnt want to go through there could somehow theyre theyre trapped there and they cant find themselves out even if they want to to get out of the situation. Up or were you to quote to know. Who was china who cotta not to misc you want to talk on a while ambo how tuckey like you ever come. Up are you community will not come or your cook it when you visit him a