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Twenty years on, children of Rwanda's rape
Hundreds of thousands of women were raped during those 100 days of terror in Rwanda – but many of those victims of sexual violence still haven't found justice, and some find it hard to forgive.
CNN’s Nima Elbagir reports. Click above to watch.
Rwanda Minister: ‘Eye for eye’ would have left 'very many' blind
By Mick Krever, CNN
Twenty years after nearly one million Rwandans were slaughtered in just 100 days, Rwandan Justice Minister Busingye Johnston said that the choice of reconciliation over traditional justice was one of necessity.
“We had a complex situation in this country. The genocide that happened in this country – neighbors killed neighbors, friends killed friends, husbands killed wives, parents killed children.”
“If you wanted to have justice where…an eye would go for an eye you would certainly have to remove very many peoples’ eyes.”
Why 'eye for eye' couldn't work in Rwanda
The Rwandan justice minister tells Christiane Amanpour an "eye for an eye" would have left "very many" blind.
“So what we thought that was good for our society was also to heal a broken society, and try to pick up from where we were – try to build a society.”
In the 20 years since its horrific genocide, Rwanda has undergone a startling transformation unseen anywhere in the world.
U.S. Senator and war veteran John Walsh speaks out on shooting
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour speaks with U.S. Senator (and Iraq War veteran) John Walsh about the shooting at Fort Hood.
He's so concerned about the mental health of some soldiers that he's just introduced legislation he hopes will cut down on this terrifying suicide rate.
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Ancient tragedy gives hope to Syrians
At the Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan, an ancient tragedy is giving hope to Syria's tragic generation today.
Christiane Amanpour reports – and draws on her own experience, watching a production of “Hair” in war-torn Bosnia, in 1993.
Exclusive: Training with Afghanistan's elite commandos
As international forces draw down in Afghanistan, CNN's Anna Coren had exclusive access to Afghanistan's Red Berets - an elite commando unite - the forces who have been trained by the U.S. Military to take on the Taliban.
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Full interview: Ashraf Ghani
Click above to watch Christiane Amanpour's full interview with Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani.
Russia could invade Ukraine 12 hours after order, says NATO commander
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russian troops could invade Ukraine within 12 hours of getting an order, General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“It’s my opinion that they could move within 12 hours of a go,” General Breedlove said from NATO headquarters in Brussels. “So essentially they could move right away if given the go.”
NATO military chief's warning
CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks with General Philip Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, NATO.
General Breedlove said that there are now 40,000 Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s eastern border.
But even that number, he said, doesn’t tell the full story.
“This is a combined-arms army, with all of the pieces necessary should there be a choice to make an incursion into Ukraine,” he said.
Forces are “supported by fixed-wing aircraft [airplanes], rotary aircraft [helicopters] – all of the logistics required in order to successfully make an incursion if they needed.”
Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani vows to sign security agreement
By Mick Krever, CNN
You can watch Amanpour's full interview with Ghani here.
Afghanistan’s leading presidential candidate, Ashraf Ghani, vowed on Wednesday to sign a security agreement that would keep foreign troops in the country after their scheduled withdrawal at the end of 2014.
“I find the instrument to guarantee Afghanistan’s sovereignty,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “My commitment is to sign the agreement so that the intentional forces that are needed to support the building, equipping and training of Afghan security forces are in place.”
In an interview with Amanpour also on Wednesday, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Philip Breedlove, said he expected international forces to remain in the country after 2014.
Ghani, a former World Bank official, came back to Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban in 2001 to help with the transition to democracy.
He is now campaigning for president on a platform of beefing up security and the economy, and stamping out corruption that he calls a “cancer.”
He also, he told Amanpour, wants to change Afghanistan’s regional role as one “from rivalry to cooperation.”
“There is no competitive advantage in the game of nations,” he said.
Click above to Watch Amanpour’s interview with Ghani.
Amanpour has also interviewed the other two leading presidential candidates in Afghanistan; you can watch those interviews here.
NATO Commander: Troops will stay in Afghanistan post-2014
By Mick Krever, CNN
International forces will remain in Afghanistan after the currently scheduled withdrawal at the end of the 2014, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Philip Breedlove, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Wednesday.
“I think you will see a very large ISAF combat mission changed to a smaller but continued resolute support, train, advise and assist mission at the end of the year,” General Breedlove said, referring to the International Security Assistance Force.
“NATO’s mission doesn’t end [after 2014]; NATO’s combat mission ends, but our train, advise, assist mission begins, and this is very important to remember.”
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who will soon end his term of office, has refused to sign an agreement to keep foreign security troops in the country after 2014.
Amanpour has interviewed all three leading presidential candidates – Abdullah Abdullah, Zalmai Rassoul, Ashraf Ghani – and each one has told her that he is in favor of signing a deal.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim says his is a ‘a very different bank’
By Mick Krever, CNN
From Ukraine to Russia, Tunisia to Egypt, it’s the economy, stupid, as Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign famously put it during his 1992 campaign.
How to get nations into better health, and thus greater wealth? That is the herculean task of Jim Yong Kim and the institution he leads, the World Bank.
“Twenty years ago I was actually on the streets protesting against the World Bank,” Kim said. “I was part of the ’50 years is enough’ movement, and we wanted to shut down the World Bank on its 50th anniversary.”
Now, as president of the organization, he says it is “a very different bank.”
“Twenty years ago the World Bank wasn’t focussed so much on health and education,” he said. “The World Bank was saying, ‘Well, let’s just make the economy grow, and then once the economy grows then we can think about health and education.’”
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