creation together, they expelled the contradictory nature of these euro centric attitudes. and how these police can be changed. stopped filming on the 21st on p a. w. hello, and welcome to another edition of the 77 percent. the show for app because you, i'm your host live show here is that we have on today's program celebrations and dancing is live slowly returns back to normal in the field. he has to grievance in sierra leone. if the money uh young people, how they get over memories of the civil war and on with their lives to be in an hour award winning girls off new does assault,

we find out lifestyle come early and children are scared of wearing the school uniform. our show today is about healing after war. and while we do not want to portray africa as war in the truth is that there are occurring t more than $35.00 conflicts happening on the continent. now for peace and healing to occur, it's necessary to understand what the warring factions were fighting about in the 1st place. so let's begin with the t great conflict. and if your pm, if you're not from the horn of africa, you probably haven't heard much about that conflict recently. so let's take a look at where things stand at the moment. on 2nd, november 2022 q, the federal government, and the tv people's liberation fun, but to pure of agree to enter 2 years or 4 in particular region. but how does the conflict integration begin? let's start on the 4th november 2020. if you best prime minister of the estimate

ordered, if you can national defense force troops, entity, great civil effect has led to the crisis. power struggle, an election and a push for political reform. since 1994. if your peer has had a federal system in which different ethnic groups control, this is of 10 regions. 50 po, f, which is credited with india if you please, military team in 1991 was quite influential in setting of that system. however, when i be made was selected as prime minister, the 2018 teachers need to store history forms as an attempt to centralized power and destroyed is federal system. the feud came to a hit in september 20 great, beside the central government to hold its own regional election months later it'd be made since the army took degree and the consequentially escalated into civil, also known as a t 3 war millions were displaced because of the conflict, humanitarian aid was difficult to deliver those who needed it. and soldiers from

both sides, accused of human rights, violations, and rate. some estimate half a 1000000 people died. issue appears to me, but informed that 1st week i read to you join the if you can government early in the conflict of to months of to 9 the present in spring 2021 prime minister of the estimate admitted. but retrench troops were 5 points into great of the peaceful have resulted in less violence in the region and a chance for the people in degree to rebuild their lives. so the conflict and t gray is not quite over yet, but in many parts of the region, life is slowly getting back to normal for 40 grand women, finding healing as a war comes in many forms for some senior consulate has helped for admit on that hon it's finding time to enjoy traditional ceremonies just like before the war. and this years she's especially excited about the ashen,

the festival. the man i'm best time gets a soft ready for this and a traditional to graham festival, that honest woman and goes the the joy for atmosphere, however, marks a stock reality the just a few months ago. the train to makeup artist was a soldier in the t great defense for the ultimate if i were to want, it's just we were the supply team and delivered munition to the front not to go. we did not care so much about our own lives, but rather the lives of a comrades on the front line to go to live because of us. they could engage the enemy. you need to know that what was really hard though, were the drones which followed us and destroyed our depots and hiding places out of

not being able to deliver ammunition due to the strikes was the hardest part of the law that i'm happy to add in november 2020 a conflict between the c o p and an arrow trail. and the t great people's liberation friend escalated into a harrowing with a killed of a half a 1000000 people. the women played a vital role in the conflict. fabi and being a victim. as active as nurses, doctors, and soldiers, they had a decisive impact on shaping the costs of the wall. the and my candidate capital of t. great in northern you see, oh yeah, that's end as being celebrated for the 1st time. 3 years. for one week, man, i expected to present small gifts, while women with additional impressions gathered in town squares and streets to meet these like done and have fun. it's kind of an atmosphere. there are many other

female evictions and mikaela just like best time to join the local militia to protect themselves from the um, according to them. a decision that lets i get it gives a busy lassie also had to make the tools because of what the retreat in, in the human army due to us, the raping and killing of the young people of degree, particularly women. our anger and frustration drove us to the front lines, but now with the prospect of peace, were finally feeling a sense of relief and happiness. the celebration is early after the war inflicted a severe toll and full issue of him with the trust that he's committed by all sides, women and t grey. those were disproportionately affected and systematically brutalized by soldiers. mckayla's hospital lulu miss bean, leads to the one stop st of

a victims of sexual violence. she actually has conscious stories of extreme abuse, a woman and goes mutilation in other forms of torture. she does her best to help those who have made the oddest journey to the hospital. my mother tried to follow the once i don't want to talk to him to death. i came here. unless i came alone, i had so many problems guessing here 0. do we have lots of fights and going on and the army was to day the people i had no other choice but to go to the village. i did this picture associates as a will coming go as well as a donor site. they cease in to put

a new order in the us as a because the nice because of the identity to get in to present on this and said we went to land on the place on us. we had to stream the, especially the woodlands, to get that sentiment to close. women at the back, one of the country was able to keep it after counseling more than 2000 rape survivors. miss vin believes that the remarkable place of woman integrates history is one reason why they are old deliberately targeted they make this make this come here. what with me, you are my boss and this was kind of back on the streets, but fun makes a way to the main to send a fist of a t's let's let's have some fun of this house. the at martinez, bologna stadium benz chip. the audience mentioned only what's from the

galleries. this was not the 1st will in which the women love to grace ford for the lives and freedom from 1974 to 1991. the tp, if played a pivotal role in defeating if you're, if he has repressive military regime. approximately 88000 women were actively involved. one 3rd of po, if competence for the firm from an empty and strain a complementary rather than contradictory. what else? what sets this ocean that pod from previous ones is the intense fighting, the hunger and all the other hardship and again, the homes, even dick on the street. but the girls are resilient, you just see them after all the attacks witnessing them, then tall and celebrate ocean. the fields meet with immense joy. the outcome of

this transformation is what makes this session to truly special this for many this year as a sanders festival. as you need to significant it's not only a celebration of peace, cultural heritage and woman, but also attribute to the resilience of woman degree. we mean us truly. we are facing so many problems, but to always overcome them from one generation to the next. that's what makes us stronger the well of send a celebrated a recent report by physicians for human rights and organization for justice and accountability in the horn of africa, revealed military units and t graceful. carry out shocking sexual violence. this is an oven by 2022 piece agreement. in

fact, that is just one of many conflicts where a rape is used as a weapon of war. and it was the same and the civil war of sierra leone, which lasted for 11 years. now though that conflict ended more than 20 years ago, those will survive that, so carry visible and invisible scars with them. let's look at some background. the wars started in 1991 when the rebel group revolutionary united front for him to over throw the government. over 10000 children, some as young as 5 years where recruited by armed groups and became child soldiers . the fighters carried out numerous horrific atrocities, rape abductions, amputations, killings. they also destroyed towns and villages the rebels payments their activities through the sale of so called the blood or conflict. diamonds. with the help of liberia has been president charles taylor diamonds were smuggled abroad and later as sold worldwide. by the time the war ended in 2002,

after 70000 people had died and over 2000000 were displaced. those sierra leone ends live in peace today. many say that the underlying causes of the war, such as corruption, poverty, and unemployment remain unresolved to the state. in 2022, my colleague, it is kamani travel to the sierra leone and capital free town. and that's just spoke to people who are merely children during the war to find out how the conflict is impacting their lives even today. the hello and welcome to the 77 percent of the show for advocates. this week we are in the west african country looks clearly gone. and 20 years ago this. yeah, i mean 1180 a brutal civil war came to an end. unfortunately, some of the people who participated in the will lost their loved ones and even lost some of their lives. what children 20 as on those children now make

a part of the 77 percent. so we want to find out from them. what does the world look like for them? so we'll begin to with, well, how much you tell of you was what you've been through our safety natural is when the river that fact in our town shape and we went with a voice for 3 months. then there was nothing to eat with my parents asked me to go our time to get some foods. so on my way reading, i step from out on the 9th. so it's a much colors dropped my leg here. so i wasn't a voice for 3 good. this was, i mean that's really, really tough. how do you survive in the bush for 3 days with an unprotected leg? it was really tough for me because i was crawling my hands on my knees. so what it would be, i'm really, really sorry to hear about that. unfortunately it's more terrible news and we're just going to come to you for a 2nd of fun to see we. because what they're describing is not alien to you either

having been an ivan, also a teenager at that time. no. uh, but it wasn't, it was and actually and for the fact that i think it was in 1998. i was a child. and then to rebuild, attacked in come by law. we went into the bush with our life for like, uh, 5 days i think i gets to my mother. and then my mother is like, you have to go back and get medication. and then i went that and i saw a family friend and i went back there was no way to go back to my mother and then he was like, you're safe with me. the good, you know, spend the night. and then that was the night that i bought right by him not once or twice 3 times. and then i was the helpless. i could you nothing about set up. okay. well, thank you for sharing that right? yes. so let's come to each row. please explain to us what happened with you and how you found yourself to be here today. i live and well. so when i was about 12 years

old, the war came into my life. i started running for mitch by the time i was 13, recruited to fight in the government army. and i fought for nearly 3 years. i lost everything my, my home, my aspirations long and short of it, i was able to survive to walk in and i was adopted in the family in the united states. so i left. but i carry the burden of the war with me because i felt beautiful having survived. and by the way, you smells case and everybody else we have heard from today. the case is the case is a one of tens of, but it's estimated that about $10000.00 children participate to them. that will and the children were talking about a probably not older than the ones who are playing football here. so that gives us a visual, but also very difficult to imagine, maria, and so you will one when the war ended. but your parents obviously who raised you and who gave birth to you are very much part of this crisis. is this something that

you discuss at home openly, has it affected how you were raised? it as a fix said lots of family members that i know directly and what, what we experience is the trauma to them as well. so you would, you would experience that a, lots of family members, we are not able to get job the, we're not able to learn skills because they are full, mitzy is we had destroyed by the war. let me invite john to this conversation. what do you think is the biggest challenge with the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them from the world? well, the biggest thing is, so how the conversation added community live. most of the guys in to young generation do much experience the war. and for the export as to what would do to have the space to have that dialogue. so i think part of our talent initial is having an ongoing conversation about what went wrong. okay? so let me come back to fund to see here because we're hearing that on the one hand, not only to the opportunities and the space has to speak openly. they don't exist,

but not speaking about it creates smoke from even for the generations after the fact. when one thing we're good at and certainly on is we move too fast. and we pretend like what happened yesterday didn't happen. and that's why you have people like me and then the people, the fucking up there is a time become like, sole partner, like any sound would i, i would just like a went into like i would just black out. if smell, let me come to you, did you get a chance to get sort of mental health care after the fact? uh yes, i did have a little bit of mental psychos of sure therapy as they used to call it right after the war. that was not the case for a lot of people. yeah. now what i, what i also want to really address is the fact that if you look at our society serial, now a lot of us are broken. can you give me some of those examples? what think about social personal spaces, the way people view women, way people view relationships, all of those things. so the dysfunctionality is,

had existed during the war. and some of the people who inherited that went on to the parents and race children. they don't know how to pass on those things to them . yeah, i want to hear from mary. um, if the education system is also catering to this, you know, as somebody who says, your facing 2nd generational trauma, is it something that you would talk to school? are you addressing this in your own sort of, you'd circle as mental health issues right now lots of people, even youths as my age do around around mental health discussions, trauma, depression, anxiety, the don't wanted talk about seats. and even i have spoken to some of my colleagues west study mets in, in things where i live in college of minutes. and they'll tell you that i don't want to study psychology or be a psychiatric piece because everybody in my company to fill out my fussy and i'm working with my people. so let me ask a question that, you know, it might even sound call us to ask you, but i need to have sierra leonean really lunch from the wor, no,

no, no, no. when i say you're saying that everybody says no, everyone is wrong. you know why? because we pretend like it didn't happen. nobody talk about, say not in school, not in college now and houses in that it didn't happen, mary, i'm you one of the people who said very emphatically, no, we haven't learned all the situations around the wall. all the effects, all the things that let's do all i still present, i still have corruption. these have utah, unemployment is helpful. that these. yeah. and even the fact that we don't talk about seats makes the most kerry, because if we don't talk about the how do we want to move past it? so john, how do we move forward from a situation like this? what we need is it cause corruptive engagement of young people. let's try to include in the curriculum of schools, the history of the will most likely not part of the curriculum. oh it's oh my

goodness. it's not to disclose. let's how about go about the show in the schools? did university so difficult to understand what went through. all right. if i could add something to that, there is an adage scenario. if you don't know it was that you come what's, you know? no, it was i you to go. if you don't know where you're coming from, you will not know where you going. let's know where we've been. what, what's this, what's behind those? do you live with that and didn't know how to go forward. if not, we'll go back to that. yeah, i think that's a fantastic place to end. it's very rare. that's one district debate. we dwell on the past, but it is something that has come up very, very clearly today. is that in some instances, in order to move forward as punch, as you said, very clearly, you sometimes have to look back. thank you for watching the as we heard in the debate, whenever there is armed conflict in the region or a country, it's the children whose stuff are the most. the constant fear of being displaced

from the home. they grew up and maybe even witnessing people being killed right in front of them. and the english speaking regions of kind of rolling one major impact of the fighting. there has been that children can barely go to school because it's not safe. in our award winning girls of mute peace, a reporter who is a student, herself, spoke to friends and teachers to find out how they are managing to still get an education the and i live one come moon school, georgia like me. i'll face with incredible danger. that's because this area, so that's a realm between the government on people, one jesse breed states, sometimes they at the school did you always keeps one eye on the classroom window because the children have been killed by at that goes right in the classroom in this region and still have been shot. ok, not on the way to i'm from school it as happens to some of my friends and all that

. i've moved to other parts of the country to continue with that education. look, i'm as well as a school uniform because i don't want to attack us. no, almost google. i am lacrisha for those of you. and i'm going to be telling you was good. you're just like me, a fights and then we go to school. in bremond the why do you worry about when you leave for school early in the morning? let's start with you fable. when you leave for school in the morning, you have to be scared of the random kidnaps gunshots. no tags the sometimes because of serial gunshots. new tags is available for us to go to school elementary school lead. what of you pretty much asked me what i would love to go to school and my school uniform. okay, let's go back, let's keep it from the fundraiser, but not i can't, i'm not calling my books and papers. i'm going to squeeze you. how does this

confound being? just affects your education. as a student or 4 or 5, are you facing the gc examinations? you have to be in school, you must be able to pull that up. you'll see levels, so as to meet the expectations of did you see both? because you said general eye exam don't know policy that i did not resume, sold with that in crises and almost don't said based what did do those said based to this level? she was supposed to call back but it community here is not give and up to a show that education continues. it has set up mix you've schools as discreetly as possible. we just so part of unemployed teach as a local clergy. but when the enemy strikes at teach us, i also left helpless. i'll skip it in on. also, as a teacher, i can only play my role in the classroom. and if the government comes into the classroom, i am helpless and you talk to the gills about safety measures. always stood in, avoid should goods avoid going home late at night. i would visiting friends

on also the move in groups. you remember when last you failed, save on your way to school at school. the last time i felt safe at school on my way to school was around 2016. when do a new crises of i totally lost a good number of friends. so my drop out, so my, my wisdom teeth and some of them i don't with i don't really dusty a life. what i did yells like us here in bomb and once to have an education. but we need a secure environment to achieve that. the long standing police got in security and violence, that'd be an extra thing here is i'm in that is standing in the way of that. well, that report from lou impressions in cumberland wraps up the 77 press and for a to date. to remember, you can always get great content from our team anytime you want,

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