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are trying always to understand this new culture. not of a little or nothing yet you want to become a citizen. info migrants your platform for reliable information. this week on world stories new waves of violence in colombia. transgender people in germany pursue careers in the armed forces. we begin with india where tens of thousands of people have fled military violence in the ring me and mar they remain in constant fear for the loved ones they left behind.
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but the last 6 years any knowledge and how goods have felt safe here in delhi. but it didn't come easy to get here they had to leave everything behind in the need of man much any says her husband was thought to have been killed by the military. later they were forced to run for their lives after they were caught sheltering students protesting against the military now the situation in myanmar is bringing back painful reminders from home again last month when his brother was arrested for demonstrating against the coup he was released a few days ago but this still isn't good news. right now he's in the hospital because when the military arrested him they tortured him so much that we're told his face isn't even recognizable. protests broke out across non-modern right after the military coup in february the sale. since
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then hundreds have been killed of vested and eating for opposing the armed forces. and the numbers are likely to. india myanmar share a long border in times like these people have often fled across the border into india to escape the authorities but the indian government is not happy with the influx of refugees it has ramped up border security to stop them. here in delhi where thousands have sought asylum since the late eighty's bunny's refugees are disappointed by india's lack of support be valuable friends and relatives back home as internet shut down slow regular updates to just a trickle. all. requests for information have been pouring into james from mine. who heads the refugee support group here the group has written to indian prime minister no dream to more be urging him to condemn the putsch as
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a democratic country they are shocked by his silence it is in their side how things are in myanmar the violent. human rights violations and all the where the military stores on the people just sitting at them in the street and that body in all but india is doing nothing. henny feels helpless in her safety because she can do nothing for those back home but she believes that the international community should speak up. please i beg other countries to help my unmarked citizens even before the cool henny knew me on my i would never be safe for again she why do you say that if things remain as bad as they are far too many people in her home country will end up feeling the same. even if they have the virus
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young people in particular are struggling to cope with the severe constraints and the loss of human contact resulting from the coup that in 1000 pandemic a hospital near brussels is looking to help for. long months of blocked and have been a vassal for many young people. teenagers in acute mental distress come to them in hospital for psychiatric care often after traumatic events or suicide attempts among the residents is this 17 year old we're calling alexandra covert it was an extra thing that just made me kind of collapse it was the one thing too much to have in my home risk so i had to bring. kind of isolated from my farm out. of state by most of. my parents alexandra is not alone in struggling to cope with covert but she's one
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of those fortunate enough to access this hospital's help director sophie marks says new admission requests for troubled teens have skyrocketed since january. mass thinks that's due to exhaustion exam stress and dashed hopes for a return to normality. although makeshift rooms were added there are no places left and no even the waiting list is closed. can you choose between a societal 15 year old and a suicidal 16 year old it's impossible with a doctor must believe the authorities could save lives by prioritising teens as society reopens the best and the poor we need to create spaces for play for joy and for conversation so all young people can once again be part of the social fabric of life something so crucial for teenagers. if not there's a real risk their mental health will keep deteriorating and i'm truly afraid to say it rates increase what it feels like we're at the edge of that tsunami and urgently
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need to build flood defenses. as the young people living here or build up their emotional defenses to reenter the outside world alexandra hopes sharing her story will give strength to other teens who are suffering. we're all struggling with this situation but the fact that we're all still here and we're all still fighting against there is something very positive and something that will make us grow and will be able to look after and say wow i once through these tough times i made. her priority is getting better as soon as she can which could open the door for another young person who needs help. despite the signing of a peace agreement and 2016 intended in colombia
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a civil war violence or options to to you to please the country the new news who is behind the latest attacks. it was. her sign a new hard run to store for decades now on the robert remains but a car bomb exploded in front of their shop they were both miraculously on hard what's that piece of columbia the shuttle to attach it to be put out by far this event has set off a new wave of violence insurgency that 330 years of commercial struggle that review and everything turned towards in the 2nd draft token but feel very nice and i think everybody at it again i don't know what they are battling for a little bit because some do one thing and others to another are not made to people in the middle of the worst part identity original deal in pm or in the actual
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target is probably these buildings the mayor's office of the municipality according to the south and department of a week after the incident the mayor herself cannot understand how such a not rich would hop hop and we are waiting for a clear response from the public forces as to how the car came into the municipality. what's the violence in colombia it goes much farther if someone like the mio coordinator of human rights in tokyo did some ice a folder with hundreds of threats or a desk or a military since obviously a regular groups have made against the regency indigenous people were the best for you as you know that impulse is what it was too much longer assigned to in peace process but it doesn't mean that it is faulty it doesn't mean that it isn't forced cuts it close or that the peace process for these initiatives but a lesson for us just gets lost in the gulf so you look at the earth was it coming
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through no fault so that makes. it along in government among things that the security forces carry out such roles to up hold peace in the region. as a public forum. yes always the n.p.r. and the delta command the past 8000 men which will do this by now in addition to dallas when in my travels the region to dismantle the station i'm going to the message to ben's either they submit to me or they will be brought before the public interest in the public but it will take more than threats to. their signs indicate which group controls to tell you to. despite what the minister says he did not see a single soldier on the roads in the daytime the pots looked like moments not in the night in plain sight the mountains and later with the lights off one of his farms recalling the darkest days of colombia's civil war.
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for a long time to disappear was a strictly mulally to me but even the military has to keep up with the times and it does he'll be fine he's leading the way as germany's 1st equally transgender army commander. putting on makeup has become a part of her every day routine anastasio of the following is a lieutenant colonel in the german army and a transgender woman. i am transgender and i decided it fell 40 to actually remove my male life behind that doesn't mean at 40 i realized that i was a woman it's just that was the point of my life or decided to actually move into that direction was consequently coming out as a transgender woman came after 20 years of military service to anastasio zone surprise it wasn't a stumbling block in her career shortly after her sex change surgery she became a commander in charge of $700.00 soldiers sergeant major deep mushroom that
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anastasio be following after her gender reassignment for him honest as he is just another fellow soldier. or to kill but i just accept that. people are the way they are and that goes beyond transgenderism i feel the same way about other more mundane things like what party they vote for what make of car they like you just have to accept people the way they are so it's you know it's a disease. that would be fun lived as a man she led a seemingly ordinary life but says she felt tremendous emotional pain because she didn't feel comfortable in her body as a male. probably looked for flight into a typical male role the military probably helped that in that sense as well to perform to male standards but my inner self was always. crying after that you know almost 20 years of struggling i was at a point in my life where my emotional stability my motional well being well being
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what had a point where i said i don't want to live this way anymore after 3 years as a commander honest career has taken off she is now the head of a division in the boom disappears cyber and information domain service. she is also making it her mission to stand up for transgender people in the german armed forces promoting diversity and tolerance. what i know from my experience is what is definitely. if you are true to yourself and live the way you are pretty open you will have a better life i think my mom once said that she seems to be finally happy.
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