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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.”
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.
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.
Would a referendum vote end Ukraine crisis?
In Russia's parliament there was just one lone voice who stood against the annexation of Crimea. Now lawmaker Ilya Ponomarev tells CNN's Christiane Amanpour a national referendum in Ukraine is the answer to the crisis.
Click above to watch the full interview.
Former CIA agent shines a light on a dark chapter
By Fred Pleitgen and Ken Olshansky, CNN
The great Roman philosopher and politician Cicero once said, "Laws become silent in times of war."
Many say the United States broke its own norms against prisoner abuse in its war on terror – undermining the U.S.'s role as a champion of human rights and the rule of law.
CIA operatives called things like waterboarding "enhanced interrogation methods." But the only adequate word to describe them is "torture."
A pending report on a senate investigation into the brutal interrogations has become a political football, with critics calling it "a partisan sham."
But Dianne Feinstein, the head of the senate intelligence committee, says it's vital to show that the U.S. is a country that makes mistakes, but also one that has the courage to deal with them openly.
In an interview with CNN’s Fred Pleitgen on Thursday, former CIA agent Glenn Carle – who worked at so-called ‘black sites’ – describes the moment the Agency became “caught-up in enhanced interrogation.”
Click above to see why he says there is “no debate” over whether the method works – it doesn’t.
In Egypt, case of trial by error
Russian Senator: West always thinks the worst of us
By Mick Krever, CNN
As pro-Russian unrest flares in eastern Ukraine, a Russian senator took his country’s case to the international stage on CNN Thursday, saying Moscow has a “very different” vision of the situation than the West.
“Of course somebody in Western countries maybe prefer to see just bad grace from Russia,” Andrey Klimov, member of the Russian Federation Council, said. “But the situation is quite different.”
“We are thinking only about peaceful exit from this situation, which now happened unfortunately in Ukraine.”
Russia defends intervention
CNN's Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Russian Senator Andrey Klimov.
Pro-Russian protesters are occupying a government building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, demanding more independence from Kiev.
Some are concerned that after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, the country may intervene in eastern Ukraine as well.
“Well, first of all, we are looking at this country as our neighbor country,” Klimov said.
In a telling exchange, though, Klimov emphasized the fact that Ukraine – a former Soviet republic – does not have a long history as a sovereign country.
Meet India's most devoted voter, age 97
As Indians go to the polls, CNN's Fred Pleitgen has the story of the 97-year-old who has voted in every Indian election.
Click above to watch.
‘Era of these negotiations is over’ says Israeli Minister Naftali Bennett as Palestinian Mustafa Barghouti says Israel reneged on deal
Israel minister says negotations at 'end'
CNN's Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Israeli Minister Naftali Bennett about the peace process.
Palestinian: Israel reneged on deal
CNN's Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Palestinian leader Mustafa Barghouti about the peace process.
By Mick Krever, CNN
“The era of these negotiations is over,” right-wing Israeli Minister Naftali Bennett told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Wednesday.
“The approach that we’ve been trying for twenty years now clearly has reached its end,” Bennett, who is chairman of the Jewish Home party, said.
“Everyone understands it’s going nowhere. Everyone in the world gets it. So why are we bashing our heads again and again?”
Al Jazeera journalist Peter Greste forced to read food labels to avoid boredom in Egypt jail, parents say
By Mick Krever, CNN
Peter Greste, the Al Jazeera journalist who along with two colleagues has been jailed in Egypt since the end of December, suffered such boredom that reading food labels was his only refuge, Greste’s parents told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour.
“Up until a couple of weeks ago, they weren’t even allowed reading material,” Greste’s mother, Lois, said in an exclusive interview. “So to keep themselves occupied, they used anything – off labels, off plastic bottles, and off food containers.”
“They made a mural on the wall, which said ‘Freedom Now.’ Unfortunately, that had to be pulled down because the prison authorities considered that as a slogan.”
“But instead he’s got more creative, and out of foil made a sun with rays that go out to a meter wide. It’s arranged so that the sun hits the foil and lights up the whole of the room. So I think that’s wonderful.”
Journalists' support 'keeps Greste going'
Journalist Peter Greste has been jailed in Egypt since December. His father says colleagues' support keeps his son going.
Monday marked 100 days since Greste and his colleagues were arrested in Cairo. They are charged with collaborating with a terrorist organization, which is the designation the government gives the Muslim Brotherhood.
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