doing enough to fight xenophobia human rights watch accuses police and vigilante groups of routinely targeting foreigners so what's needed to ensure equality for all in the so-called rainbow nation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong cone routine lethal violence against foreigners an indifference from the police human rights watch says migrants in south africa facing increasing numbers of attacks a year after the launch of a national plan to tackle xenophobia. the watchdog found many south asians and migrants from other parts of africa living in fail police often ignored foreigners who report crimes against them some face hurdles getting access to lawyers and public services a year ago mobs destroyed foreign owned businesses and homes human rights watch says at least 18 foreigners were killed and a few of the attackers have been brought to justice there have been similar attacks over the years there a poll was based on interviews with 51 people in a number of provinces they reported xenophobia attacks not only by south africans but also by government a

human rights watch joins us from all stored in the u.k. and thanks for your time. again. but it's not getting any. reports. well yes there's a lot of that violence in south africa continues to escalate and it comes in waves so much as well because it is never been resolved today has been no accountability of the police it will take an action to conduct with those who committed the act uses so we continue to hear these problems in the political leaders in south africa also in some cases. it will be violence it is not been dealing with decisively to date. i mean it sounds like a very complicated issue we talk about this every time. sense now what you've got is the root cause of all this hate against especially other african migrants in south africa well their root causes relates to competition for resources. over to an informal settlements but also a tree lit 2. month political leaders to scapegoat in blame foreign nationals of what the problem or lack of service delivery insides of africa which you've been buttressed by the police looking the other way the police not inves

it was accused of intentional image and i'm asking people are you familiar with the 2005 human rights watch report about this conflict. no human rights watch. you know. because in their report which is the most exhaustive. they refer to torture. rape. full killings. on both sides on the r. a side and also on the beauty of sites so it's not in the case of possible to have our own human rights commission. but you do agree that for instance. 2005 report by human rights watch the world's a pretty strong wing full killing torture this is not lights where. some of them. some of them just one little these are not verified yet would have cases over matter matter of one person. people. and intuitional. why was the united states desperate to support the ugandan regime. despite its abuses despite the authoritarian rule of most of any president for more than 3 decades or was it because the agent ugandan autocrat was providing a few services to his american godfather. it's true that that made it one don't present in the way they say that for too long. as we speak you learn not to feign so much. when you

human rights watch joins us from walks forward in the u.k. thanks for your time. but it's not getting any. reports. well yes there's a lot of the violence in south africa continues to escalate and it comes in waves. particularly because it is never been resolved they have been no accountability police it would take an action to conduct with those who committed the act uses so we continue to hear these problems in the political leaders in south africa also in some cases. it will be violence it is not been dealing with decisively to date. i mean it sounds like a very complicated issue we talk about this ever time there's an incentive now what you've got is the root cause of all this hate against especially other african migrants in south africa well their root causes relates to competition for resources. over to an informal settlements but also a tree lit to. mount political leaders to scapegoat in blame foreign nationals for the problems and for lack of service delivery insides of the africa which is been buttressed by the police looking the other way the police no

human rights in geneva to take some serious action. rachel denberfrom some serious action. rachel denber from human rights some serious action. rachel denberfrom human rights watchn leader, alexay navalny, has been taken out of his medically—induced coma. doctors treating him in berlin say his condition is improving. he was flown to germany after falling ill on a flight in siberia in august. doctors say he was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. his team believe that was on the orders of russian president vladimir putin. he has denied any involvement. officials have blamed a baby gender reveal party for wildfires in california. a smoke bomb precipitated a fire that now has covered thousands of acres. nearly a million hectares of land across the state have already burned this year, making it the worst season for wildfires since records began. i spoke to peter bowes earlier, his home is not far away from the fires raging. it is too close to comfort. i experienced fires closed to my home and neighbours lost their homes altogether. i have lived here for nearly 25 years, year—on—year, these fires do seem to be getting much worse. and what we are experiencing righ

i guess it's all about implementation that south africa direct outfall human rights watch thanks for your analysis thank you thank you. now we all need some showing out especially during the cold the 19th and then it was just cost health and economic crisis doesn't attainment has also been neglected by the nigeria. a clown has taken to the streets of lagos to give the cats something to cheer for. for just if you bought her a latte today it's like any other day places make up to transform into his alter ego joe punky. but corner virus measures mean joe punkin come clown around arctic spent the party and anti-social events like he used to so the former school teacher has had to find other ways to make ends meet while the party business is one whole lives in his shop in lagos and travels nearby markets in neighborhoods to sell his balls and sponges he says it hasn't been easy for more. i think outside my house you know going to. transfer to. that would move a says brick out of the. wall i don't know stand out. joe makes a fraction of what he used to make before the pandemic and it's cos

think we can count — we should be counting on the un human rights council in geneva to take some serious action. rachel denber from human rights watchosition leader, alexay navalny, has been taken out of his medically—induced coma. doctors treating him in berlin say his condition is improving. he was flown to germany after falling ill on a flight in siberia in august. doctors say he was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok. his team believe that was on the orders of russian president vladimir putin. he has denied any involvement. strong winds and extreme heat are threatening efforts to contain more than 20 wildfires in california. and forecasters are warning conditions could deteriorate further on tuesday. more powerful hot winds are expected. nearly a million hectares of land across the state have already burned this year. it's the worst season for wildfires since records began. live now to chip franklin, a talk show host and filmmaker from kgo radio in san francisco. it's very good to talk to you. it's very good to talk to you. it's a pretty bad scene, as far as we can see, but it's different, isn't it, the way this is looking b

i guess it's all about implementation that i think south africa direct outfall human rights watch thanks for your analysis thank you thank you. now we all need some showing out especially during the cold the 19th and then it was just cost health and economic crisis doesn't attainment has also been neglected by the nigeria. a clown has taken to the streets of lagos to give the cats something to share for. for just if i have a latte today it's like any other day classes make up to transform into his alter ego joe punk. but corner virus measures mean joe punching can't clown around a kid spent the party and on a social events like he used to so the former school teacher has had to find other ways to make ends meet the party business is one lives in his shop in lagos and travels nearby markets in neighborhoods just selling his balls and sponges he says it hasn't been easy. growing outside my house you know going to sell my market was really transporting. there were moving. the brick out over the. wall i don't know stand out there are allowed my style is the window joe makes a fraction of wha

think we can count — we should be counting on the un human rights council in geneva to take some serious action. rachel denber from human rights watchbaby gender revealed party for one of more than two dozen wildfires now burning across california. a firework or smoke bomb was set off at a party to reveal whether a couple's soon to be born baby was to be a boy oi’ to be born baby was to be a boy ora girl, to be born baby was to be a boy or a girl, which has now sparked a fire covering more than 7000 acres. all this while the area sponsors in a record heatwave. los angeles county has registered its hottest temperature ever, nearly 50 celsius. tim edwards is the president of a union representing more than 7,000 firefighters in california, and has been a firefighter for at least 25 years. this is his impression of the conditions are like. right now, it's really extreme, we have temperatures well over 116 degrees, and at the fire, it's over 1,000 degrees with flames up to 1,000 feet. your members have been dealing with fires for something like three weeks continuously? yes, throughout the state of california, my members have been runnin

no human rights watch. you know. because in their 2005 report which is the most exhaustive they refer to torture. rape. full killings. on both sides on the r. a side and also on your beauty of sites so it's not in the case of possible to have our own human rights commission report but you do agree that for instance some 2005 report by human rights watch to the world's a pretty strong willing full getting raped. this is not blights where she went to see. some of them. some of them just one little reason not to verify yes we have cases over matter matter of what goes on mother groups of people. and intentional. why was the united states desperate to support the ugandan regime at all costs despite its abuses despite the authoritarian rule of most of any president for more than 3 decades or was it because the agent ugandan autocrat was providing a few services to his american godfather. it is true that that may have gone wrong president you wouldn't say that for too long today as this big to fame so might. 212 for being

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relieve it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from robertson from human rights watch. and questions of accountability at all to being raised of me and miles de facto leader aung san suu kyi the human rights icon has been criticised most recently by the european parliament for not speaking up on the rohingya issue it has now suspended from the south side of fries community. for a long deferred tribute finally taking place on sun suchi at the european parliament in 2013 collecting her human rights prize 23 years after she'd won it that honor has now been hollowed out. citing lack of actions and acceptance of ongoing crimes the european parliament has suspended suchi from the sucker off prize community effectively banishing her from the circle of honorees how did it come to this fall from grace for decades on sun suchi was regarded as the voice of peaceful resistance to myanmar's military dictatorship she won the nobel peace prize in 1991 her advocacy of democratic reform earned her a total of 15 years under house arrest these images show her emergence from one such conf

human rights watch. amnesty international says it is stopping its operations in india.hat is after indian authorities allegedly froze amnesty's bank accounts, saying it violated rules on foreign funding. let's get more from delhi. international's accounts were frozen by the enforcement director, an agency that handles economic crimes. the e group sayays this happens because they have been critical of the government. this happened weeks after a reportrt came out talking about the complicity of the delhi police in riots that took p plae in february were 53 people were killed, mainly muslim. the organization has been targeted for about two years now, and most often every time a criticalal report comemes out, e government has been unhappy about reports of the organization has done on cashmere of human rights abuses there, especially after article 370's affirmation earlier this year. supporters of the government reacted with glee because they believe that organizations such as amnesty international have tarnished the image of the countrtry abroad. countryw is the second wher

we leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from robinson from human rights watch. and questions of accountability adults are being raised of myanmar's de facto leader aung san suu kyi the human rights icon has been criticised most recently by the european parliament for not speaking up on the rohingya issue it has now suspended from the south side of fries community. for a long deferred tribute finally taking place on sun suchi at the european parliament in 2013 collecting her human rights prize 23 years after she'd won it that honor has now been hollowed out. citing lack of actions and acceptance of ongoing crimes the european parliament has suspended suchi from the sakharov prize community effectively banishing her from the circle of honorees how did it come to this fall from grace for decades sun suchi was regarded as the voice of peaceful resistance to myanmar's military dictatorship she won the nobel peace prize in 1991 her advocacy of democratic reform earned her a total of 15 years under house arrest these images show her emergence from one such confinement

i was accused of intentional image and i'm asking people are you familiar with the 2005 human rights watch report about this conflict. human has no human rights watch. no you know. because in their 2005 report which is the most exhaustive they refer to torture. rape. killings. on both sides on the r. a side and also on your video sites so it's not in the case of what have our own human rights commission. but you do agree that for instance some 2005 report by human rights watch that the world's a pretty strong willing full killing rape torture this is not lights where humanity sports. some of them. some of them just one little kids are not verified yet we have cases over mother. mother who move so people. into. the mud. why was the united states desperate to support the ugandan regime at all costs despite its abuses despite the authoritarian rule of most of any president for more than 3 decades or was it because the agent ugandan autocrat was providing a few services to his american godfather. it is true that that may have gone on president you wouldn't say that for too long today as we spe

mob attacks on migrant communities in south africa have been documented by human rights watch based on dozens of interviews foreigners are often subjected to discrimination and violence the human rights group says foreign businesses are disproportionately targeted and police raids and police often respond with indifference describing xenophobia crimes as routine the head if libya's internationally recognized government says he'll resign at the end of next month until then prime minister. will oversee the selection of a new leadership his talks are due to start in geneva this week the tripoli based governments will be negotiating with the rival administration in the east which is allied towards the have. the iraq government has launched a campaign to reduce the number of illegal weapons across the country the aim is to reduce crime and is part of a wider initiative by the prime minister who took office in may but as dorset jabari reports from baghdad some tribes are not on board with the government's plans. these are members of iraq's special task force looking for illegal guns in the s

rachel denber is deputy director of europe and the central asia division for human rights watch.n new york. i know that you know this region very well. what do you think is going on, and what is your reaction to it? well, it's com pletely your reaction to it? well, it's completely outrageous about maria kalesnikava has been abducted, and unfortunately i can't say it is an aberration. it is something we have come to expect from this government. she is not the first person to be abducted in this way. and she is not the first person in the opposition co—ordination council who has been targeted. ivan krustev, the press secretary, has been abducted and is missing. other members have also been abducted. other members have been arrested and are currently serving short—term prison terms. another was basically forced to leave the country. the government has filed criminal charges against the co—ordination council as a group. it is not surprising, it is completely outrageous, and the authorities have to immediately free these members of the co—ordination council. are you concerned that her

this south africa doing enough to fight xenophobia human rights watch accuses police and vigilante groups of routinely targeting foreigners so what's needed to ensure equality for all in the so-called nation this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm in wrong routine lethal violence against foreigners an indifference from the police human rights watch says migrants in south africa facing increasing numbers of attacks a year after the launch of a national plan.

human rights watch issued a very detailed press release which went into detail of the torture and howon. so, we are satisfied, based on data and based on the work of other groups such as the centre for human rights in iran, that navid is innocent of the charges. afkari, who wasjust 27, was a national champion and wrestling. he was hanged following his conviction for the killing of security guard during anti—government protests two years ago. the cases sparked an international outcry. there had been many calls to stop the execution. concept for us that an athlete who is involved in peaceful protest, he was convicted of crimes, pursuant to coerced confessions, who has suffered torture and then been subjected torture and then been subjected to execution, is... isjust horrifying. in the past two yea rs, horrifying. in the past two years, iran has seen some of the biggest demonstrations since 2009, with thousands of protesters arrested and hundreds executed. russians are voting on sunday in dozens of local elections across the country. it's being seen as a key test for the united russia pa

the news africa coming up on the program it's much worse than we thought and you reports from human rights watch says fallon native all victims of xenophobia in south africa discrimination against foreign ministers to news on the faintest we hear from one young lisa viable who says she was meeting i have classes . to further.

leave it there for the time being but thank you so much for joining us from robots and from human rights watch. and questions of accountability adults are being raised of me and myles de facto leader aung san suu kyi the human rights icon has been criticised most recently by the european parliament for not speaking up on the rohingya issue it has now suspended her from the subtle fries community. along deferred tribute finally taking place on sun suchi at the european parliament in 2013 collecting her human rights prize 23 years after she'd won it that honor has now been hollowed out. citing lack of actions and acceptance of ongoing crimes the european parliament has suspended suchi from the sucker off prize community effectively banishing her from the circle of honorees how did it come to this fall from grace for decades on sun suchi was regarded as the voice of peaceful resistance to myanmar's military dictatorship she won the nobel peace prize in 1991 her advocacy of democratic reform earned her a total of 15 years under house arrest these images show her emergence from one such confinement

there are human rights watch going on in the northwestern muslim minority province in china.f course what has been going on in hong kong. where a new national security law is imposed the chinese just this summer. something that the germans see as stripping away very important memento hong kong when it rejoined china from being a british colony back in that 97. all of these major issues on the table. at the same time that the chinese and europeans want to agree an important investment treaty that is particularly important for the europeans because they say they wanted to give their companies better access to the chinese market. with them coming to these diplomatic talks with a cloud of having openly threatened a european lawmaker hanging over him, they weren't necessarily the most auspicious circumstances to make big progress. brent: now, to russia and a battle to stop mining in an area residents consider sacred. the hill has been the site of sometimes violent demonstrations for weeks. >> a beautiful hill and more recently, a symbol of resistance. at the start of the summer, t

estate trieso expel its own citizen, it is unacceptable from the perspective of international human rights watch the main candidate has been speaking again today. she was forced to flee after she complained that the election was rigged. she has been calling for sanctions against mr. lukashenko's government. >> hundreds of people are jailed, beaten, raped. this should not be the norm in europe. this can't be the norm in the civilized world. >> whether sanctions are brought in or not, their ability to influence the situation appears limited. mr. lukashenko has been in power since the 1990's. the only things that would change that are police turning against him or vladimir putin despite pressure, those things have not happened. >> absolutely. we need to be engaged, the international community, more actively in diplomacy and trying to engineer a transition. we know ultimately the ukrainian transition did not work because the leader who had been discredited and forced by his people from his position lost his nerve and fled to russia. before that happened, the u.s. and russia brokered a transition for

bias dozens of opposition activists and academics have been arrested over the past few months human rights watch is called the charges against the activists baseless and he's calling for the prisoner's unconditional release. the watchdog says 12 prominent human rights activists and academics have been jailed on politically motivated charges since june 2018 prosecutors accuse them of supporting a maoists rebellion and being responsible for inciting violence which led to fighting with b j p party members the arrests have been widely condemned in india and abroad united nations expert says the detentions seem to be designed to send a chilling message to india's vibrant civil society that criticism of government policies will not be tolerated. let's bring in our guests and nandan tiring of heights aren't professor of public law and legal theory at oxford university and general editor of the indian law review in new delhi karuna monday advocate at the supreme court of india and an international lawyer and here in doha chandra assistant professor of government at georgetown university welcome to the p

and hennessy is the middle east and north africa communications director for human rights watch and joins me now from casablanca in morocco good to have you with us on the news are just take us through the main points that your reports has. thanks for having me this report and chorus of the dance and complex web of restrictions and obstruction efforts really of humanitarian aid distribution and the devastating impact that obstruction has a millions of yemenis who need live see the aid including for health care but also water food and basic sanitation let's just remind the u.n. calls yemen the world's most humanitarian crisis about 80 percent of the people in yemen need one form of aid or another that's 24000000 people were in some form of assistance to tackle the politician disease water sort of juice and checked spread of various diseases including cooking mind you but not just that so that's the context in which we're an hour before documents obstacles put in the face of crucial humanitarian and that is needed by the people there and what will his blocking this humanitarian aid and why.

in march a curfew was put in place as a covert prevention measure and it's reported by the human rights watch that in the 1st 10 days of that curfew 6 people died at the hands of police officers and so today we are asking who do you turn to when you need protection from the police and as you can see there are no uniformed police officers here we did send them an invitation literally camped at their office but they did make it but the show must go on and so i'd like to begin this conversation with perpetual karaoke she is actually from the k only a social justice center but beyond that you know this idea of police brutality it's not just abstract to you it's affected your family you know a very personal way could you please tell us about that. brother through this. so. by then i couldn't follow up the case because we had no idea or. can you tell us how your brother came to even be in contact to the police in the 1st place so from this story we were told by the police is that he would he went to his friend health who was a wanted guy and the guy got out and locked him up. and that's when the po

as news africa coming up on the program it's much worse than we thought and your reports for human rights watch says that made him all victims of xenophobe yet in south africa discrimination against foreigners from kenya was on the faintest we hear from one young called alisa via who says she was teaching class. to food in.

of beacon of tolerance and coexistence that you say you have where torture is widespread not human rights watch said this was just the tip of the ice a perception. confirms the rule no we don't have the stomach this is an incident that happened there if you say the this is what happened in the guantanamo doesn't mean that in the us to live the torture this is an incident that happened once and confirmed that with this is not the case and let you know you know very well mr lowy to me this completely because we have so many things that we are not satisfied about and there are but we don't turn it into being a place where people are tortured and yet the reports credible reports of torture have continued to surface in the 4 years since that interview was recorded no change there no change either in any of the sectarian carve ups and political patronage for the fact it and still act as immovable roadblocks to reform. ever since the civil war the complex power sharing system spawned many factions and warlords who empowered and enrich themselves at the expense of the people they shared between them th

in march a curfew was put in place as a covert prevention measure and it's reported by the human rights watch that in the 1st 10 days of that curfew 6 people died at the hands of police officers and so today we are asking who do you turn to when you need protection from the police and as you can see there are no uniformed police officers here we did send them an invitation literally camped at their office but they did make it but the show must go on and so i'd like to begin this conversation with perpetual karaoke she is actually from the coyote social justice center but beyond that you know this idea of police brutality it's not just abstract to you it's affected your family in a very personal way could you please tell us about that. brother through that. so. they then. had no idea. how. can you tell us how your brother came to even be in contact to the police in the 1st place so from this story we were told by the police is that he would he went to his friend health who was a wanted guy and the guy got out and looked him from outside and that's when the police came. executive here and. ther

ships' human rights watch so i feel that today we had a good open honest dialogue which should be continued. on to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin the day with climate change suddenly burning its way into the u.s. presidential campaign there are less than 5 weeks until voters in the u.s. go to the polls if you have followed incumbent donald trump and his democrat challenger joe biden you may have noticed that climate change has been almost completely absent when on the more u.s. president visited california on monday and came face to face with the consequences of a warming planet in the past weeks unprecedented wildfires have scorched 50000000 acres claiming lives and destroying homes the smoke has made the air quality in cities such as portland oregon and san francisco the worst in the world and climate change is not directly responsible for the blazes but it is responsible for the conditions allowing them to become so large and so deadly scientists agree white house hopeful joe biden agrees president donald trump does not trump has alwa

human rights watch says thousands of people are sleeping rough in the hills around moria and in the streetsmartha roussou is a senior advocacy officer for the international rescue committee. it's working to deliver basic supplies to those in need. she says lots of organisations are working together to help. all the response is co—ordinated by the minister of migration and asylum, as well as international organisations and the ngos. the number of people is really large. there's 12,000 people, so not very much one organisation can do on its own. so, as the irc we have moved some chemical toilets that we had in moria that were left unburnt, to this new camp, as well as the community centre, that is about to host a single women. we also provide blankets and sleeping bags as well as psychological first aid. we've set up a hotline where people can actually seek psychological support in english, french, farsi and arabic. let's get some of the day's other news. women protesting against the re—election of president alexander lukashenko in belarus have confronted security forces arresting demonstrato

should be coerced into moving and any who are already on the island should be brought back human rights watchsay the warring parties in yemen are all severely obstructing the delivery of human humanitarian aid of the keys here the rebels the saudi led coalition forces and the u.a.e. back southern transitional council of interfering in relief operations it's exacerbating the country's di humanitarian situation agencies have been forced to cut desperately needed services putting millions of civilians at risk. a run in court has charged paul with a bank you know whose story inspired the film her 12 randa with terrorism complicit complicity in mud and forming an armed rebel group he declined to respond to all 13 charges and denies any criminal wrongdoing he's been credited with saving more than a 1000 lives sharing wanda's 994 genocide marc webb has been following the case from nairobi. full recess to begin a period in handcuffs in a courtroom in rwanda's capital kigali amid tight security prosecutors say that he's responsible for terrorism and involvement in an armed group that carried out attac

eva eva i'm i'm having a hopeful voice a little weary face what would you tell us from the human rights watch perspective about the prospects for the thousands of refugees who are now on the last boss i think feel each issue and then the main worry really is new gown that many call morea $2.00 these how can bury really be. because we hear tribe 6 months which means that people will have to spend a winter in these tents and. we're going to also say that the location of these gowned is at the such place next to the sea that the 6 flows to weather conditions so these new cressy has brought more and certainly more shear we spoke with women mccool are who are survivors of gender based violence for example and were in safe spaces in moria before and now are in the same maybe as their separate traders and people with disabilities do they have access to the leds to bathrooms yes certainly the east they live main thing that people are thinking about how long are we going to stay here how are we going to survive and because they can at least for now is very basic sticking it. yes i agree i mean the 1st

communities in south africa have been documented by human rights watch based on dozens of interviews foreigners are often subjected to discrimination and violence and police often respond with indifference describing xenophobia crimes as. they head of libya's internationally recognized government says he'll resign at the end of next month until then prime minister will oversee the selection of a new leadership he talks are due to start in geneva the. top u.s. government officials could face work crimes charges for approving weapons sales to yemen the new york times says the state department had full knowledge of a pattern of indiscriminate civilian killings by the. coalition. those are the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is coming up next but i am steve clemons who i have a question about these days it's hard to filter out the noise and keep track of what's really important to the bottom line tackles the big issues that issue in the united states its people its economy and the way it deals with the rest of the world the bottom line only on al-jazeera. i have the arcadia watching t

facing criticism by environmental groups of what many called his weak environmental policies human rights watch says 5 don't come naturally in the i was on but have been deliberately set to clear lines for agriculture it says both in our hasn't done enough to tackle the crisis. under international pressure the president has banned all agricultural burning answer the army to tackle thousands of fires some rooms brought temporary relief last week but with heavy rain not expected until november many fear the fines will keep. them on the dizzier or the governor of oregon is asking for u.s. federal assistance as her state struggles to deal with wildfires a call followed the visit by president trying to california which has also been badly hit he dismissed climate change as the cause clashing with that state's governor he said it had to be recognized tribes rival joe biden has accused him of ignoring climate changes affects on the wildfires which have killed at least 35 people. join us now from the city of esta qaeda in oregon which is being threatened by those wildfires talk us through what the situ

of beacon of tolerance and coexistence that you say you have where torture is widespread not human rights watch so this was just the tip of the iceberg. confirms the rule no we don't have the stomach this is an incident that happened there if you say the this is what happened in the guantanamo that's it means that and they do us to live the torture this is an incident that happened once and confirmed that with this is not the case and you know you know very well mr know it me this completely because we have so many things that we are not satisfied about in there but we don't turn it into being a place where people are tortured and yet the reports credible reports of torture have continued to surface in the 4 years since that interview was recorded no change there no change either in any of the sectarian carve ups and political patronage but the fact it and still act as immovable roadblocks to reform. ever since the civil war the complex power sharing system spawned many factions and warlords who empowered and enrich themselves at the expense of the people they shared between them the spoils the

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