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Eliot Engel: “I applaud the decision to restrict security aid, but for too long we looked the other way on the atrocities being…”

On the recordJune 25, 2019
I applaud the decision to restrict security aid, but for too long we looked the other way on the atrocities being committed in the English-speaking region because of our partnership in the fight against Boko Haram.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel criticizes U.S. complicity in atrocities due to security partnerships.

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