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Democracy Now! 2023-08-17 Thursday

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Democracy Now!

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 17, 2023; Rabaa Massacre: A Decade After Egypt Slaughtered 900+ Protesters, No One Has Been Held to Account; Nagorno-Karabakh: Armenia Demands End to Azerbaijan Blockade Amid Accusations of Genocide; Did the U.S. Push Imran Khan from Power? Leaked Cable Shows How State Dept. Pressured Pakistan

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0:00.0

From New York, this is democracy now.

0:16.5

Egyptian initiative for personal rights revealed new evidence previously unpublished for the

0:24.5

first time existence, what happened in Rabah from the official documents of this personal

0:32.5

documents that formed the basis for the only official investigation to have been conducted

0:41.6

into this worst massacre in Egyptian modern history.

0:48.0

In Egypt, human rights advocates mark the 10th anniversary of the Rabah massacre.

0:54.0

In Egyptian forces open fire on a sit-in, where tens of thousands of people had camped

1:00.5

out in Cairo to protest the ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected president,

1:06.5

Muhammad Morsi.

1:08.2

Some 900 protesters were killed.

1:12.4

We'll go to Cairo.

1:14.2

Then a secret Pakistan cable documents U.S. pressure to remove Imran Han as prime minister.

1:23.1

This document that we've revealed shows for the first time that the U.S. uses influence

1:27.4

to remove Imran Han from power in 2022.

1:31.9

The intercepts now publish the secret cable, which reveals how the U.S. was upset by Imran

1:38.4

Han's position on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

1:42.8

Then the U.N. Security Council meets to discuss the Azerbaijanic blockade in Nagorno-Karabakh

1:50.2

and calls for the immediate reopening of the Latin corridor to allow for humanitarian aid

1:56.6

for the roughly 120,000 people suffering severe shortages.

2:02.2

A report by former international criminal court prosecutor Luis Moreno Acampo finds the

2:08.3

blockade amounts to a likely genocide.

2:11.6

Let me read exactly what you say.

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