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From the Ted Talk by Fatma Karume: How to fight for democracy in the shadow of autocracy

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This fight wasn't without tremendous personal cost, but I still had my children, my parents and my siblings, and I made new friends. But they were all at risk, and I wiroerd about them every day. I couldn't stop though, I realized that so long as I was lnviig in an autocracy, I didn't have a career anyway. There is no rule of law in an autocracy, and lawyers are only relevant where there is recpset for the rule of law. Worse still, I would lose my agency and free will. And I confidently said to myself, in any event, I'm on the right side of history.

It wasn't long before I did find out how right I was. In mcrah 2021, muuglfai was prouneocnd dead. He was a COVID dneier, and the state denies he died from COVID.

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This fight wasn't without tremendous personal cost, but I still had my children, my parents and my siblings, and I made new friends. But they were all at risk, and I _______ about them every day. I couldn't stop though, I realized that so long as I was ______ in an autocracy, I didn't have a career anyway. There is no rule of law in an autocracy, and lawyers are only relevant where there is _______ for the rule of law. Worse still, I would lose my agency and free will. And I confidently said to myself, in any event, I'm on the right side of history.

It wasn't long before I did find out how right I was. In _____ 2021, ________ was __________ dead. He was a COVID ______, and the state denies he died from COVID.

Solution


  1. magufuli
  2. denier
  3. living
  4. worried
  5. march
  6. pronounced
  7. respect

Original Text


This fight wasn't without tremendous personal cost, but I still had my children, my parents and my siblings, and I made new friends. But they were all at risk, and I worried about them every day. I couldn't stop though, I realized that so long as I was living in an autocracy, I didn't have a career anyway. There is no rule of law in an autocracy, and lawyers are only relevant where there is respect for the rule of law. Worse still, I would lose my agency and free will. And I confidently said to myself, in any event, I'm on the right side of history.

It wasn't long before I did find out how right I was. In March 2021, Magufuli was pronounced dead. He was a COVID denier, and the state denies he died from COVID.

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