Exclusive: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkul Karman on the Struggle for Democracy in Yemen
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Uploaded by democracynow on Oct 21, 2011
www.DemocracyNow.org - In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Yemeni activist, Tawakkul Karman. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately step down after 33 years in power. All five permanent members of the Security Council back the measure, which "strongly condemns" government violence against demonstrators. The popular uprising Yemen continues despite more attacks by government forces, including dozens of demonstrators murdered by snipers in recent days. Karman has been in New York City all week to press for international pressure on the Saleh regime. She is the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. A 32-year-old mother of three, an outspoken journalist and Yemeni activist, Karman has agitated for press freedoms and staged weekly sit-ins to demand the release of political prisoners from jail. She founded Women Journalists Without Chains and has played a leading part in the struggle for women's rights and for democracy in Yemen. Most recently, she has led rallies in the continuing protests against the rule of Saleh. "We have the dream, and we have the ability...we will not stop here, we will build our country," Karman said. "We tell Saudi that they should stand with the Yemeni people. And anyone who doesn't stand with our people, they are the losers. We know what it means to be free, and we will achieve it." Of today's vote at the United Nations, Karman said, "The international community has to create pressure on Saleh. ... "Dictatorships are going down and are done. There are a lot of scenarios for the end of those dictators...like running away like Ben Ali did. Or to be held accountable and prosecuted just like Mubarak, or maybe getting killed like Gaddafi. In Yemen, we will have our own scenario. We will not go in the direction of violence. And I ask the international community not to let Yemen go in that direction."
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Bitch shut the fuck up and go go back home
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For example she said she feels PAIN of the thought that Nobel prize gave her added security , the translator said she feels comfortable, and i could go on and on, to sum it up this translator is ridiculously incompetent and was bad to be chosen for this important woman.
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The translator is a fucking moron, he messed up her good speech.
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@TurboFuss1 OIL. And to keep people in fear of 'terrorists'. That's like calling the french terrorists in 1942 for shooting at Germans in Paris.
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@garrethdavis Liberals like Bush and Obama love to waste taxpayer money on foreign interventions. Even in Iraq which was stable until we fucked it up.
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demanding UN intervention?
Paid for by the tax payer of course.
To encourage freedom, and protect civilians...
By killing 60,000 of them in Libya. Blowing up ALL of the infrastructure.
Give me a BREAK.
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tawakkul = 1000 mans in all arab country
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لنا الفخر يا بنت اليمن
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who brought this translator????? No offense, I don't think that this guy was qualified at all to translate for a journalist because she is using terms that he obviously doesn't know at all!
dantai2020 4 months ago 4
The translator is not accurate
botbot883 4 months ago 2