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Kidnapping children for battle, from Nigeria to Uganda
By Mick Krever, CNN
They come in the night.
Armed militants take young children from their beds, as they sleep: Young recruits for extremist causes.
It happened this week in Nigeria, when heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped 200 girls from their boarding school.
And it has been happening in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, and other neighboring countries for decades – the work of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army.
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour covered Kony’s sick work 16 years ago, for 60 Minutes, when she reported on the abduction of 139 girls from their school.
She spoke with their teacher, Sister Rachele Fassera, who begged for the children’s return.
“He bent down and on the ground he wrote, ‘The girls are 139. I will give you a 109.’ He wrote, ‘I keep 30,’ Sister Raquelle told Amanpour at the time.”
“I knelt in front of him,” she said. “And I said, please give me all the girls. He said, ‘No.’ [crying] Then they started, ‘Sister, they will rape us tonight. Sister, will you come back tonight?’”
“That was the last time I saw them.”
Russia: No plans to intervene, says ‘hysteria is becoming contagious’
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russia will not invade Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“Russia has no plans to intervene militarily, no plans to invade anybody – not Ukraine, not any other country; or to annex anything.”
Amanpour asked the ambassador whether Russian would also stay out of Transnistria, the breakaway state - recognized by no sovereign nation – sandwiched in between Moldova and Ukraine.
Authorities in Transnistria asked Russia to recognize the enclave as a sovereign independent state on Wednesday.
“Hysteria is becoming contagious,” Chizhov said. “It’s not Russia’s intention to annex Transnistria or any other territory in any other place of the world.”
Russia's next move
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Russian Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov about unrest in eastern Ukraine.
Pro-Russian militants appeared to tighten their grip on Ukraine's eastern town of Slovyansk on Wednesday as Ukrainian military forces massed nearby in an uneasy standoff.
In Donetsk, six armored vehicles sent into the nearby city of Kramatorsk in the morning later showed up carrying Russian flags in Slovyansk.
EXCLUSIVE: UN issues stark warning against arming Ukraine protesters
By Mick Krever, CNN
“Whoever arms protesters can be held accountable for potential tragic consequences.”
That is the stark warning issued on Ukraine by the U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights, Ivan Simonovic, in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
“What is at the moment, I would say, most important, it is to prevent arming of protesters and transforming them into paramilitary troops.”
U.N. releases report on Ukraine
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with U.N. Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic.
Simonovic is the author of a new U.N. report, out Tuesday, that details the protests and incursions that lead up to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
The report comes as worried residents and onlookers around the world shudder at the similarities between Russia’s annexation of Crimea last month and what is happening today in eastern Ukraine.
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves calls for ‘physical presence on the ground’ in region as deterrence against Russia
By Mick Krever, CNN
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves called for a "physical presence on the ground" in the region as a deterrence against Russia.
Estonia, a former Soviet republic that shares a border with Russia, is now a member of NATO. Its leadership has been outspoken expressing concern about Russia's incursion into Ukraine.
"We need more exercises," President Ilves said. "We think that the decision to increase the number of planes providing air policing in the region is a very good one."
"But given the uncertainty that we see to the east and the kinds of actions that we’ve seen in the east, we need to make sure that others understand that this is not something to play around with."
Estonia's plea on Russia
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves about Russia and Ukraine.
Amanpour asked President Ilves what he thought Russian President Vladimir Putin's "goal" was.
"We are in new territory right now. The rules have been broken."
The courage to imagine the other
By Lucky Gold and Christiane Amanpour, CNN
The showdown between Russia and Ukraine demonstrates how hard it is understand the story of “the other.”
The struggle over narratives dates back at least to the time of the Passover – which began on Monday – when Pharoah kept the people of Moses in bondage.
Now imagine a world where imagining the other could mean deliverance for warring sides such as Israelis and Palestinians.
In what may be a first, Mohammed Dajani, a Palestinian professor at al-Quds University in east Jerusalem, recently took 27 of his students to Auschwitz, the notorious concentration camp in Poland.
The idea was to promote greater understanding between peoples.
And yet Professor Dajani was branded by many of his own people as a traitor.
Amanpour asks Venezuelan President Maduro about mediation
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has agreed to talks with the opposition – with the Vatican as mediator, Reuters reports.
CNN's Christiane Amanpour asked President Maduro about this very idea - of having the pope as mediator - when she interviewed him exclusively last month in Caracas.
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And you can see the rest of Amanpour's interview with President Maduro here.
Why is Donald Rumsfeld so ‘extraordinarily pleased with himself’?
By Mick Krever, CNN
As the Bush Administration was drumming up momentum for its war with Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld went before a Pentagon press conference and uttered some now-notorious words.
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns – there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns – that is to say, there are some things we know we do not know.”
“But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
A bit of impromptu philosophy? It is the context, says filmmaker Errol Morris, that reveals the slippery nature of the character involved.
“That reply in a Pentagon press conference came in response to a very specific question from Jim Miklaszewski, the NBC News Pentagon correspondent,” Morris told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in an interview that aired Friday.
“He asked Donald Rumsfeld, ‘What evidence’ – he used the E word – ‘what evidence do you have for the presence of WMD in Iraq?’”
His “gobbledygook non-answer” to a “direct and very important question” says much of what you need to know about Rumsfeld, according to Morris.
So much so that he has named his new film about the former Secretary of Defense after yet another version of that very phrase – “The Unknown known.”
Morris interviewed Rumsfeld for 33 hours in an attempt to reveal a depth, a peek behind the curtain, into the highly controversial figure.
Rwanda minister warns against repeat elsewhere
Has the world learned its lesson from the genocide - now 20 years old - in Rwanda?
"I can see what is happening in Syria, I can see what is happening in the Central African Republic," Rwandan Justice Minister Busingye Johnston told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "I'm not so sure that the world is putting out good mechanisms to ensure something like this never happens again.
"This kind of eruption can happen."
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You can watch more of Amanpour's interview with Busingye here.
Leading Afghan candidate Ashraf Ghani reaches out to U.S.
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani pledges to “overcome” past problems with the United States, and says the consensus in Afghanistan for a productive relationship is there.
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You can see the rest of Amanpour's interview with Ghani here.
Couple's mission: Justice after genocide for Rwanda
CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports on the couple whose marriage is a mission for Rwanda; Click above to see their search for justice, twenty years after the genocide.
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