Category: Conflicts
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Living in Cape Town During Apartheid
Jacqui Braunlich was a student in the midst of the apartheid era. She talks about the harsh realities of the time and about Nelson Mandela. Mandela was a political prisoner in South Africa for 27 years, before he was released and later became President of the nation. Length: 14:21.
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Lakota Culture: Part 2 – Wounded Knee
In December 1890, soldiers massacred more than 150 and possibly up to 300 Indians, most of them women, children and elderly men, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation at a place called Wounded Knee. The soldiers were trigger-happy because the Indians had defeated the 7th Cavalry at Little Bighorn a few years earlier (in 1876). Moreover, the soldiers…
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The Fight for Scottish Independence
Gayle hopes that Scotland will soon leave the union with England, Wales and Northern Ireland, to become a sovereign nation again. We met her in Edinburgh where she is currently part of a group of activists fighting for Scottish independence. They live and fight together from a camp just outside the Scottish capital. Watch the…
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A Divided Society : Part 1
Northern Ireland is a beautiful country with an ugly history. Until1998, there were regular battles between Protestants and Catholics and thousands of people have lost their lives. Belfast is the second largest city in Northern Ireland, and even today, a huge wall called the Peace Wall separates the two religious groups. They live in separate…
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A Divided Society: Part 2
Northern Ireland is a beautiful country with an ugly history. Up until 1998, there were regular battles between Protestants and Catholics and thousands of people have lost their lives. Belfast is the second largest city in Northern Ireland, and even today, a huge wall called the Peace Wall separates the two religious groups. They live…