Eleven killed as Myanmar protesters ‘fight soldiers with rifles’
Local media say residents of a northwest town used guns, knives, firebombs as security forces attempted to quell a huge protest.
At least 11 people have been killed in a northwestern town in Myanmar, local media reported, as security forces cracked down on anti-coup protesters who fought back with hunting rifles and firebombs.
The Myanmar Now and Irrawaddy news sites said on Thursday that six truckloads of troops were deployed to quell a huge protest in the town of Taze on Wednesday. When the protesters fought back with guns, knives and firebombs, five more truckloads of troop reinforcements were brought in.
Fighting continued into Thursday morning and at least 11 protesters were killed and about 20 wounded, the media said.
Twelve months of trauma: more than 3,600 US health workers died in Covid’s first year
More than 3,600 US healthcare workers died in the first year of the pandemic according to Lost on the Frontline, a 12-month investigation by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News (KHN) to track such deaths.
Lost on the Frontline is the most complete accounting of US healthcare worker deaths. The federal government has not comprehensively tracked this data. But calls are mounting for the Biden administration to undertake a count as the Guardian/KHN project comes to a close today. The project, which tracked who died and why, provides a window into the workings – and failings – of the US healthcare system during the pandemic. One key finding: two thirds of deceased healthcare workers for whom we have data identified as people of color, revealing the deep inequities tied to race, ethnicity and economic status in America’s healthcare workforce. Lower-paid workers who handled everyday patient care, including nurses, support staff, and nursing home employees, were far more likely to die in the pandemic than physicians.
Bluffing or for real? Russia’s military build-up on Ukrainian border raises questions on intent
Fears are growing that the simmering conflict between the two countries could considerably worsen
The seven-year conflict between Russia and Ukraine appears to be returning to the boil as peace talks break down, heavy weaponry is built up and explosions are documented all along the 250-mile contact line.
The surge has already taken dozens of lives. On the Ukrainian side, at least 27, mostly young soldiers have been killed this year. The numbers of dead on the Russian-backed side are somewhat hazier but the confirmed death of a five-year-old boy in a village near the frontline has understandably raised stakes and emotions.
That tragedy has been a major focus for Russian propaganda foot soldiers, with state media channelling local claims without evidence that a Ukrainian drone was to blame. The same coverage warned Kiev was preparing for a “victorious” offensive to “punish” the long-suffering Donbass region, with President Volodymyr Zelensky supposedly responding to “domestic political chaos” and “low poll ratings”.
Auschwitz survivor Zilli Schmidt: Fearing new Nazis today
The 96-year-old Zilli Schmidt has made it her mission to tell the world what was done to the Romani people by the Nazi regime. She warns of contemporary parallels — and strikes a chord with many of her listeners.
Zilli Schmidt was awarded the Order of Merit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier this year.
In September, Schmidt walked into the Kulturhaus RomnoKher in the western German city of Mannheim to attend a reading of her book about her memories as a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp. "Your visit is a gift," said many of the people who had turned out to greet her.
The book is titled God Had Plans for Me: To Keep Alive the Memory of the German Sinti. It recounts her happy childhood days — as well as her incarceration and hunger, the guards shooting at small children and mass murder.
Boris Johnson desperately needs a more coherent China strategy
Updated 1006 GMT (1806 HKT) April 8, 2021
Like many of its global counterparts, the United Kingdom is in desperate need of a China strategy.
Belfast: Rioting 'was worst seen in Northern Ireland in years'
Rioting in Belfast on Wednesday night was on a scale not seen in Northern Ireland for years, police have said.
During several hours of violence, police officers were attacked, petrol bombs were thrown and a bus was burnt.
Eight officers were injured at an interface between loyalist and nationalist areas in west Belfast.
Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive said it was "gravely concerned" by recent street violence and has called for calm to be restored.
No comments:
Post a Comment