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Tim Kaine: “You are going to have a lot of instability if you do not treat 70 percent of your population well.”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
You are going to have a lot of instability if you do not treat 70 percent of your population well.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine warns that Bahrain's instability is linked to the treatment of its Shi'a population.

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