Aung San Suu Kyi breaks silence on Rohingya crisis: 'Myanmar does not fear scrutiny'
Leader and her government ‘burying their heads in the sand over the horrors unfolding in Rakhine’, says Amnesty
Aung San Suu Kyi has broken her silence on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, saying she does not “fear international scrutiny” and the government was still assessing allegations of atrocities.
In her first public address since a bloody army crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority that has been branded “ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations, the Nobel laureate stressed the short time her government had been in power.
“I’m aware of the fact that the world’s attention is focused on the situation in Rakhine state. As a responsible member of the community of nations Myanmar does not fear international scrutiny,” she said.
Hurricane Maria 'devastates' Dominica: PM
Dominica has suffered "widespread damage" from Hurricane Maria, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says.
"We have lost all that money can buy," he said in a Facebook post.
The hurricane suddenly strengthened to a "potentially catastrophic" category five storm, before making landfall on the Caribbean island.
Earlier Mr Skerrit had posted live updates as his own roof was torn off, saying he was "at the complete mercy of the hurricane".
"My greatest fear for the morning is that we will wake to news of serious physical injury and possible deaths as a result of likely landslides triggered by persistent rains," he wrote after being rescued.
Syrian civilians fleeing Raqqa are taking up arms to go back and fight Isis
Exclusive: 'Isis stole three years of our lives. I’m fighting for freedom for the others, and for revenge'
A lot has changed for 32-year-old Amar Al Alil since the Syrian civil war began six years ago, sparked by mass protests.
Back then, work was scarce and he jobbed in construction when the opportunity arose. The country had not yet unravelled. He hadn’t seen public beheadings by Isis, or his teenage neighbour whipped for playing football.
The whirr of US Apache helicopters dropping bombs wasn’t a familiar sound, and he had not been forced to flee his home town of Raqqa, fearing for his life.Migrants found by German police in back of truck go missing
Almost all of the 51 Iraqi refugees found in the back of a truck in the German town of Eisenhüttenstadt on Saturday have gone missing. Officials are waiting to see if the refugees register at another reception center.
The missing Iraqi migrants were most likely picked up in Eisenhüttenstadt and driven away by relatives already living in Germany, said Frank Nürnberger, head of the town's reception facility, speaking with Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.
While it remains unclear when exactly the refugees left the facility, unconfirmed reports stated that a number of people got into cars with license plates registered in Bielefeld.
Sean Spicer Is Honored Because — As Bush Officials Have Shown — D.C. Elites Always Thrive
SEAN SPICER’S playful, glamorous appearance at last night’s Emmy Awards and being honored as a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School (the honorific which the CIA vetoed for Chelsea Manning) has prompted a mix of shock and indignation. Former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau wrote: “Harvard fellowships, Emmy appearances, huge speaking fees: there’s just gonna be no penalty for working in Trump’s White House, huh?” Slate’s Jamelle Bouie added: “The degree to which Sean Spicer has faced no consequences is a glimpse into the post-Trump future.”
There should be nothing whatsoever surprising about any of this, as it is the logical and necessary outcome of the self-serving template of immunity which D.C. elites have erected for themselves. The Bush administration was filled with high-level officials who did not just lie from podiums, but did so in service of actual war crimes. They invaded and destroyed a country of 26 million people based on blatant falsehoods and relentless propaganda. They instituted a worldwide torture regime by issuing decrees that purported to redefine what that term meant. They spied on the communications of American citizens without the warrants required by law. They kidnapped innocent people from foreign soil and sent them to be tortured in the dungeons of the world’s worst regimes, and rounded up Muslims on domestic soil with no charges. They imprisoned Muslim journalists for years without a whiff of due process. And they generally embraced and implemented the fundamental tenets of authoritarianism by explicitly positioning the president and his White House above the law.
Video footage indicates Iran dispatching Afghan refugees to battlefields in Syria
(Mainichi Japan)
TEHRAN, Iran -- The Mainichi Shimbun has filmed a scene that appears to show Iran assembling Afghan refugees living in its territory to send them to fight in the Syrian civil war.
Based on testimonies provided by those dispatched to Syria in the past, the Mainichi Shimbun twice confirmed Afghan refugees being assembled on the outskirts of Tehran.
Some news organizations have reported testimonies by those who have been deployed to Syria in the past, but it is rare for a media outlet to capture video footage of such scenes.
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