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Pistorius case ‘fits the profile’ of guns in South Africa
By Mick Krever, CNN
On the day Olympic star Oscar Pistorius testified in a South African court about the killing of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, a South African gun control advocate told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, that the case “fits the profile.”
“It’s highly racialized, gun ownership – the use of guns, but also who the victims are,” Adele Kirsten of Gun Free South Africa said.
Women “are particularly vulnerable in their home to be shot and killed by a man intimate and known to them, usually with a legal gun,” as was the case with Pistorius and Steenkamp.
Dutch priest killed in Syria
For decades, Father Frans offered sanctuary to many in Syria. He was killed this week in Syria.
CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
Russia ‘financing subversion’ in Ukraine, Poland accuses
By Mick Krever, CNN
Russia is “financing subversion [in Ukraine] using the pretext of ethnic problems,” Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, in an interview on Tuesday.
Those alleged ethnic problems, Sikorski said, “are non-existent.”
Pro-Russian protesters seized government buildings in three eastern Ukrainian cities – Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv – on Sunday.
Rebels occupying Donetsk's regional government building Monday declared a "people's republic" and called for a referendum on secession from Ukraine to be held by May 11.
Strong talk from Poland on Ukraine
CNN's Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, speaks with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski about Ukraine.
“In Crimea and in east Ukraine everybody speaks Russian. The media are Russian and until now there were no ethnic problems there.”
Oscar Pistorius in his own words
Cold-blooded murder or tragic accident?
Oscar Pistorius broke down on the witness stand Tuesday, sobbing as he recounted the moment he realized he had fatally shot his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp.
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Never again? U.S. ambassador responds
One of the world's leading voices of conscience on the question of genocide and human rights is Samantha Power, who is now the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.
She won a Pulitzer Prize a decade ago for her book, “‘A Problem from Hell’: America and the Age of Genocide.”
On Monday, she spoke with CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, from the Rwandan capital Kigali, where that country was marking 20 years since its horrific genocide.
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Blair: Rwanda needed ‘strong leadership’ after genocide
By Mick Krever, CNN
Without “strong leadership,” Rwanda would have been unable to modernize and change at the pace it has in the 20 years since its horrific genocide, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour, on Monday.
The country on Monday marked 20 years since nearly 800,000 people were murdered in about 100 days.
“I think it is an almost unique set of circumstances,” Blair said. “Frankly, without strong leadership, the country couldn’t have come the distance it has in the last twenty years.”
Rwanda has seen incredible modernization in the past two decades, Blair said, lifting “a million people” out of poverty, and getting huge reductions in malaria and maternal and child mortality, among other achievements.
While many credit President Paul Kagame with those successes, some also accuse the leader of stifling Rwanda’s opposition and having authoritarian tendencies.
In an interview with Amanpour last year, Kagame said she should not “worry” about whether he will step down at the end of his constitutionally limited term of office in 2017.
Pleitgen questioned Blair – who as founder of the Africa Governance Initiative serves as an informal adviser to Kagame – about the president’s record.
“You know the threat when people are in power too long, especially in Africa,” Pleitgen said. “You know that they can become authoritarian, that there is that danger and that that can lead to instability.”
“Yes; that's absolutely true,” Blair said. “He is someone I know well. I don't think he's that type of person or leader.”
“And by the way, I discuss [these issues] very openly with President Kagame and…there's not a problem having that discussion with him.”
FIRST ON CNN: Ukraine warns Russia in phone call: Don’t invade
By Mick Krever, CNN
Ukraine’s Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs, Andrii Deshchytsia, warned Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a phone call on Monday not to invade his country.
“I expressed our concern about the situation,” Deshchytsia told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, sitting in for Christiane Amanpour. “I also warned him not to use any military force to protect Russians in eastern Ukraine, since we have enough power to protect Russian-speaking [people].”
“We both agreed that we have to deploy all necessary means to deescalate [the] situation.”
Ukraine envoy details talks with Russia
CNN's Fred Pleitgen speaks with Ukraine's Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs Andrii Deshchytsia.
Pro-Russian protesters have seized state buildings in several eastern Ukrainian cities, prompting accusations from Kiev that Moscow is trying to "dismember" the country and carry out a replay of Crimea.
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.
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