6,700 Rohingya Muslims killed in attacks in Myanmar, MSF says
At least 730 young children among people shot, burned or beaten to death in Rakhine state between August and September
More than 6,700 Rohingya Muslims, including at least 730 children under the age of five, were killed between August and September after violence broke out in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state, according to Médecins Sans Frontières.
The figures released on Thursday by the humanitarian agency are believed to be a conservative estimate and far exceed Myanmar’s official death toll of 400.
“The numbers of deaths are likely to be an underestimation, as we have not surveyed all refugee settlements in Bangladesh and because the surveys don’t account for the families who never made it out of Myanmar,” said Dr Sidney Wong, MSF’s medical director.
Hua Yong: Artist flees Beijing after filming mass evictions of migrant workers
Residents 'have no heating and no supermarkets to shop for groceries, because they have all been shut down'Jon Sharman
A Beijing based artist has fled the Chinese capital after posting videos showing the evictions of migrant workers from their homes on social media.
In another film Hua Yong, posted to Twitter, he said he was on the run after filming and publishing videos that documented the clearing of what authorities have said were unsafe buildings.
In mid-November fire ripped through a housing block in the capital’s southern Daxing district, killing 19 people.
Since then the government has embarked on a controversial safety campaign that included the sudden eviction of thousands of Chinese migrant workers from low-cost housing in unregulated slum districts.
US torture continues at Guantanamo Bay, warns UN expert
The US has continued to torture detainees held at the controversial detention center in Cuba, said the UN's expert on torture. He warned that enacting a policy of torture is among "the most serious international crimes."
Nils Melzer, the UN special rapporteur on torture, on Wednesday urged the United States to end its torture of detainees held at the controversial Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
The prison was opened under former President George W. Bush in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks for the purpose of housing alleged terror suspects. Although former President Barack Obama attempted to close the facility, it remains open, in part as a policy directive from sitting president, Donald Trump.
The UN, Western countries and human rights organizations have criticized US authorities for creating a "legal black hole" that allows for the indefinite detention of suspects without charge, and for holding many of the detainees for more than a decade.
'Not In My Name': Activists fighting hate in India
by Zeenat Saberin
On a cold winter afternoon in the Indian capital, scores of writers, activists and students gathered under a poster of a blood-splattered pair of sandals on Wednesday, holding up placards that said, "Not In My Name".
The protest came in response to the brutal murder of Mohammed Afrazul, who was hacked to death in the western state of Rajasthan last week by a man who railed against "love jihad", a term used by Hindu nationalists to accuse Muslims of marrying Hindu women in order to convert them.
The killing was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube.
How Greenland would look without its ice sheet
Scientists have produced a stunning visualisation of Greenland – without its ice cover.
It is made from decades of survey data that show the position and shape of the territory’s bedrock, and the surrounding seafloor.
This is critical information needed to understand how the huge island might respond to a warming world.
Were all the ice on Greenland to melt, it would raise global sea-levels by 7.42m (24.34ft).
This is one of the refined statistics to come out of the new compilation of data. It is a simple calculation: if you know the elevation of the top of the ice sheet and you subtract from that the height of the bedrock - you get a volume: 2.9 million cubic km.
AS TRUMP BLOCKS REFUGEES, AFRICANS FLEEING VIOLENCE MAKE THE TREACHEROUS TRIP TO THE U.S. THROUGH MEXICO
THE HOSTEL IN Tapachula looked at first like any other border town flophouse. Dark back rooms with naked mattresses. Dust unspooling in the sunlit lobby. A bird cage under a dirty towel. A few tenants hung out over smartphones, skin slick in the thick air of southernmost Mexico. Then a young woman in a black hijab passed through.
“Salam alaikum,” she said, exchanging greetings with a Somali student who’d folded himself onto a small bench in the lobby. Her long skirt disappeared around the corner.
The student chose the pseudonym Ahmed Ali Hassan, the Somali equivalent of anonymity, and kept his voice low. He was 24, and the hostel’s other guests were mostly young African men like him.
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