the, the hello and welcome to another edition, the 77 percent. the show for app because you, i'm your host live show here is that we have on today's program, abrasions and dancing is live slowly returns back to normal in ethiopia to grievance in sierra leone. if the money as 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 death assault,

we find out lifestyle uncomfortable, and children are scared of wearing the school uniform. our show today is about healing after award, and while we do not once to portray africa as warren, the truth is that there are a current p 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. and 2nd, november 2022, acute the federal government and the tv people's liberation fun, but to pure of agree to end 2 years or 4 in particular region. but how does the conflict integration begin? let's start on the 4th of november 2020. if your best prime minister be estimate

ordered, if you can national defense force troops and to degree 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 can submit it to reach you in 1991 was quite influential in setting up that system. however, when i made was selected as prime minister the 2018 jesus need to saw his reforms as an attempt to centralize power and destroy the cubic is federal system. the feud came to a hit in september 20 great, beside the central government to close 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 needed and soldiers from both sides,

accused of human rights violations. and great, some estimate half a 1000000 people died. if you'll excuse me, but inform at 1st we reach you join the if you can come in early in the conflict of 2 months of to 90 presence in spring 2021 prime minister of the estimate admitted. but retrench troops were 5 turns into great for the peace talks have resulted in less violence in the region and a chance for the people integrate 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 2 grand women and finding healing after work comes in. many forms for some senior counselor has helped form it on that hon . it's finding time to enjoy traditional ceremonies just like before the war. and this year 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 joyful atmosphere. however, marks a stock reality just a few months ago, the train to makeup artist was a soldier in the t great defense for the meal. tonight i will do one. 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 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 do. i see in november 2020 a conflict between the c o p and an error tray and on 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 on being a victim. as active as nurses, doctors, and soldiers, they had a decisive impact on shaping the costs of the world. the in my, canada, of the capital of t. great in northern ethiopia, fashioned as being celebrated for the 1st time. 3 years. for one week, man, i expect it to present small gift, while women with additional impressions gathered in town squeeze in the street to meet the dawn and have fun. it's kind of an atmosphere. there are many other female

veterans and mikaela just like the best time to join the local militia to protect themselves from the um, according to them, a decision that lets i get it gives the last the also had to meet the rules because of what the retreat 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 in t grey. those were disproportionately affected and systematic. he brutalized by sold drugs. mikaela is hospitalized modem is being leads to the one stop same to full 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 with i don't want to talk to move that's i came here. and as i came along, i had so many problems guessing here 0. do we have lots of fights and going on and the army was to day 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, to the site, the season to put a new order,

just endless as a because the nice because i just took it in 2 percent and this and said we went to land on the place on us. we had industry the especially the woodlands to get is that sentiment to close women at the back. one of the stuff was able to keep it after counseling more than 2000 rape survivors. miss vin believes that the remarkable place a woman into grace history is one reason why they are old deliberately targeted hey, make this make this come here. what with me, you are my boss and this was kind of back on the streets, but from makes a way to the main to send a fist of a t'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 tpl 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 relate to what sets this ocean. the pod from previous ones is the intense fighting, the hunger and all the other hardship. and again, the mirror comes even dick on the ship, but the girls are resilient to this. even after all the attacks witnessing them then tall and celebrate ocean,

the fields meet with immense joy. this transformation is what makes this session. the 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 the organization for justice and accountability in the horn of africa. revealed military units in t graceful. carry out shocking sexual violence. this is a november 2022 piece agreement. in

fact, that is just one of many conflicts where a rape is used as a weapon of war. it was the same and the civil war of sierra leone, which lasted for 11 years. now although that conflict ended more than 20 years ago, those who survived it still 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 form to over throw the government over 10000 children, some as young as 5 years were 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 said 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 going. and 20 years ago this. yeah, i mean, 11 year brutal civil war came to an end. unfortunately, to you, some of the people who participated in that, who 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? i was 15 as of is when develop factor 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 outside and get some foods. so on my way rain, 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 surviving the bush for 3 days with an unprotected leg? it was really tough for me was i was calling 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 i've and 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 and come by law. we went into the bush with i live for like 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 and there was no way to go back to my mother and then he was like, you're safe with me. i think it's, you know, spend the night. and then that was the night that i bought by him not once or twice 3 times. and then i was the helpless i could to you nothing about set up. okay. well, thank you for sharing that right? yes. so let's come to each mo, 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, what came into my life?

i started running for mitch by the time i was 13, i didn't go 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, and i was adopted in the family in the united states. so i left. but i carried the, the burden of the wall, which means because i felt beautiful having survived. and by the way it smells case and everybody else we've heard from today. the case is the case is a one of tens of, but it's estimated that about $10000.00 children participated in 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 my resume, 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 knew directly, and what, what we experience is the trauma trauma. well, so you would, you would experience that a, lots of family members. we are not able to get job. the one that's able to learn skills because they are full, mitzi is we had destroyed by the war. let me invite john to this conversation. what do you think is the biggest challenge of the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them from the world? well, the biggest thing is to have a conversation at a community live. most of the, because in to young generation did not 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 challenge initial is having an ongoing conversation about what went wrong. okay. so let me come back to frontier, see here, because we're hearing that on the one hand, not only to the opportunity to them,

the space is 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 the people the fucking up there is a time become like solo, a partner like any sounds would i, i would just like i went into like i was just blackout. ishmael, let me come to you. did you get a chance to get sort of mental health care after the fact? oh, yes, i did have a little bit of noun. so psychosocial therapy as it 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 where people view relationships, all of those things,

so the dis, functionalities 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 my re, 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're taught to school? are you addressing this in your own sort of, you'd circle as mental health issues right now lots of people even use as my age do from around main to health discussions, trauma, depression, anxiety, the don't want to talk about it. and even i have spoken to some of my colleagues west study mixing in things where i live in college of lives. and they'll tell you that i don't want to studies psychology or be a psychiatric piece because everybody in my company to feel out of my fussy and i'm working with my people. so let me ask a question that, you know, it might even sound colors to us, but i need to have sierra leonean really lunch from the wor, no, a,

no, no, no, i say you 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. no and houses in that. it didn't happen. mariam, 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, i still present, i still have career ups and these have you to an employment 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 and judgment off with young people. let's try to include in the curriculum of schools, the history of dual most why is it not part of the curriculum?

oh it's oh my goodness. it's not to disclose. let's how about going into schools? how does university so that people get to understand what went wrong. all right? if i could add something to that, there is an adage in syria, you, 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 know where we've been. what, what's the, what's behind the 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 debates. we dwell on the past, but there's something that has come a 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 in 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 on come moon school, georgia like me. i'll face with incredible danger. that's because these are you guys the battle ground between the government and people ones as a breach dates sometimes they at the school at the job 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 not what i was a school uniform because i don't want the i took us know almost google. i am the impressions for those of you. and i'm going to be tell you why school children 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 the 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 scrutiny from k myschoolbucks. let us get it from the front of me, but not i could not cold my books and pass. i'm going to squeeze you. how does this

cost on being just affects your education as a student of 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 asked to meet the expectations of did you see both? because you said general eye exam, they'll know quality that i did not rest on this child with that in crises and almost don't said based what they told you. those said base to the sea 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 bought of unemployed teach as a local college. 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 do 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 felt 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, i totally lost a good number of friends. so my dropped out so my mother keeps on some of them i don't know with, i don't know if that's the i 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 in bombing that is standing in the way of that. well, that report from low pressure as in cumberland, wraps up the 77 percent for it today. i remember you can always get some great content from our team anytime you want, just follow us on youtube, facebook,

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