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Afghanistan. Votes are cast in afghanistan. Well watch it in the weeks ahead. Two decades ago humanity showed its worst nearly a Million People were butchered in rwanda. Cut down by machetes as a country turned on itself. Vigils and memories to honour all that was lost. A frame of remembrance is travelling over the country. 20 years ago today a plane with the president in it was shot down. Im here to ask god to keep me well, thank him and to ask that the genocide never happens again. There has been services across the country. People gatored at a church. Members of the ruling hutu group, tutsis and moderates. People have been divided after belgium colonized rwanda in 1916. It introduced identity carts. The minority tutees being an elight over tutsis. 20,000 tutsis were killed in riots. In 1994 the president s plane was shot down, setting off the 100 days of violence. Many girls were raped and some made painful choices whether to k ....
Us. For the choices that our parents made. Fighting deportation. A woman waits to find out if her younger brother has to leave the u. S. , which is the only home the two have ever known. Good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its been held as afghans first democratic transition of power. In under an hour when the polls will close, security is tight. 200,000 troops deploy to protect the voters. The taliban is calling the election a sham and threatens to disrupt a process. Outgoing President Hamid karzai cast his vote and a top c contender Zalmai Rassoul cast his at the polling stags. Hes believed to have Hamid Karzais backing, but officials warn of possible corruption in his campaign. Bernard smith has more. Weve had ....
Tonight afghanistan is counting the votes and whoever becomes president will be critical the way the American Forces remain. Afghans seem to embrace the significance of the moment. More than 7 million voters showed up. Turn out 60 and widespread violence did not erupt as expected. The queue started to form before the polling stations open. Despite taliban threats to target the elections people wanted to vote. In 5,000 years this, is the first democratic transfer of power. People are eager to seize the chance. We dont care about the taliban. I dont have any threat for me, from the taliban. Im not afraid of the taliban. 12 Million People were eligible to vote. In parts of the country where the taliban held sway, polling situations were closed. Had is the situation repeated at polling stations. People queue up after going through a security check, dipping their finger in indeli ....