Amanpour: Denise Uwimana, Mishal Husain and Dr. Homer Venters

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Denise Uwimana, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide and author of the book "From Red Earth" joins Christiane Amanpour in London to discuss the 25th anniversary of the mass slaughter. BBC reporter and presenter Mishal Husain talks about her new book, "The Skills: From First Job to Dream Job" and how she made it to the top. Our Alicia Menendez sits down with Dr Homer Venters, author of "Life and Death in Rikers Island" to talk about his experiences working in one of the country's most violent jails.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi podcast listeners it's been 25 years since a terrible genocide swept through Rwanda in East Africa.
0:06.7	The world did not step in to stop it and 25 years later I'm joined by a woman who survived, even though she was going into
0:15.7	labor as the killers came knocking on her door.
0:19.6	Also I talked to a fellow journalist Michel Hussein.
0:22.8	Pakistani British journalist presenting the top BBC news program here in the United
0:28.2	Kingdom, how she's got ahead and the skills she says all young women should learn as they climb the career ladder.
0:36.0	And we've been talking prison reform in the United States this week.
0:39.0	It has the highest level of mass incarceration in the world,
0:42.0	and today we look at it from the
0:44.3	perspective of a former medical officer in New York's Rikers Island. So enjoy the
0:49.7	show and have a great weekend. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpur in London.
1:07.0	Imagine waking up one day to find your neighbors, colleagues, the people you've spent
1:12.1	your entire life around coming to brutally and violently kill you and your family.
1:17.0	25 years ago in the spring of 1994, that is what happened when genocide came to Rwanda in East Africa.
1:24.8	A song of hope in grief, innocent children of the genocide,
1:32.1	Rwundans, their parents murdered.
1:35.2	25 years on, these orphans are now adults, but the pictures and their trauma remain harrowing.
1:43.1	On April 6, 1994, a plane carrying the Hutu president
1:47.5	back from a peace conference was shot down,
1:50.1	ending any hope of an end to the war and triggering a hundred days of carefully planned slaughter.
1:56.0	Rwandan Hutu extremists targeted the minority ethnic Tutsis and other moderate Hutus, murdering between
2:06.0	800,000 to a million with clubs, machetes and their bare hands.
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