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No Vacancies: inside the West's favourite dictatorship
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
On today's episode, Victoire Ingabire and Anjan Sundaram join to discuss their first-hand experience facing political repression in Rwanda, why Western governments continue to support the current government, and what happens when the government's leader, Paul Kagame, leaves office. Victoire Ingabire is a leader in Rwanda's pro-democracy movement who was imprisoned for eight years while running for president in 2010. Anjan Sundaram is a journalist and author of Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, whose op-ed entitled "He's a Brutal Dictator, and One of the West's Best Friends" was featured in the New York Times. Thanks to our sponsor, Best Buy.
Released:
Apr 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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