#overmilitarization

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Mali’s Humanitarian Crisis: Overmilitarized and Overshadowed — Refugees International

Nearly eight years after longstanding ethnic tensions erupted in Mali, more than 3.2 million people are in need of humanitarian aid and almost 200,000 people are displace within the country. With overmilitarization and underfunding, Malians are struggling to find peace.

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“I know the police love their ridiculous, unnecessary military equipment, so here’s another patronizing test: let’s take it all away from them and if they can make it through a whole month without killing a single, unarmed black man, then and only then, can they get their fucking toys back.”

-”Ferguson, MO and Police Militarization” Last Week Tonight with John Oliver