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A view of the Mount Agung volcano erupting in Karangasem, Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 27, 2017.  — AP
A wiser international response to natural disasters
THERE has been little doubt that the Mount Agung volcano on the beautiful Indonesian island of Bali faced a new eruption, at least as significant as its last in 1963, when more than a thousand people were killed. The way in which the government in Jakarta and the local authorities have responded to the latest feared eruption has been impressive.Over 100,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes and businesses. All those who do not have family or friends with whom to stay, have been accommodated successfully in pre-planned public shelters, including sport stadia, schools and local halls. There seems no shortage of emergency supplies for those who have been forced to leave most of their belongings behind. It is not quite as clear how well the police and security forces are...
November 27, 2017

A wiser international response to natural disasters

Rohingya return deal
MYANMAR and Bangladesh have signed a three-phase agreement under which Rohingya Muslims who have taken shelter in Bangladesh can return to their homes in Rakhine state in the Buddhist-majority country.Over 6,00,000 people have fled Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since August when the military intensified crackdown against alleged militant outfits of Muslims. According to Foreign Minister Wang Yi of China who played a mediatory role to resolve the crisis, a ceasefire will be implemented in the first phase so that Rohingya remaining in Rakhine state will not be displaced.The agreement does not say anything about those who had to flee in earlier waves of violence. That is a minor problem when we consider how the agreement was worked out and the conditions under which the Rohingya will be...
November 26, 2017

Rohingya return deal

Terrorism reaches a mosque
The flood of messages of condolences and condemnation from around the world following Friday’s unprecedented terrorist assault on a mosque in Egypt reflects both sorrow for the victims and anger at the culprits. The at least 235 worshippers who were killed and 109 injured by gunmen in North Sinai during Friday prayers is thought to be the deadliest terrorist attack in Egyptian history. It was extremely well coordinated. After improvised explosive devices were detonated inside the mosque, gunmen sprayed bullets on people fleeing and also fired on ambulances.The death toll is shocking. The area in which the ambush happened had not witnessed anything on this scale before. North Sinai is admittedly one of the world’s most dangerous places, receiving that notoriety following the pledge of...
November 25, 2017

Terrorism reaches a mosque

The PLO mission in Washington should stay open
The Trump administration should reconsider its position on closing the Palestinian mission in Washington. According to Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Malki, the administration has begun to reconsider the move following warnings by the Palestinian Authority’s leadership that Ramallah would cut its ties with Washington. To shut the office could derail President Trump’s own bid to broker a Middle East peace deal, one which many times he has said he wants to make. And the PLO, which represents all Palestinians, maintains the office specifically to continue talks with the US over a peace agreement. It, therefore, makes perfect sense to keep the mission open.To keep the mission working, the US administration is demanding that the PLO does two things: stop calling on the International...
November 24, 2017

The PLO mission in Washington should stay open

Submarine horror
Violent and horrific death has become a fixture of wars and terror attacks around the world. Yet there can be few ways of dying more horrible than being trapped in a slender tube of metal that is resting on the seabed while you wait, as calmly as possible, for your oxygen to run out.It must, of course, still be hoped that the international effort to locate the Argentinian submarine San Juan and to rescue its 44 members of crew will still succeed. But a senior naval official admitted yesterday that the situation was becoming critical and that the oxygen inside the hull was coming close to running out.When the Argentinian navy lost contact with the sub eight days ago, there appears to have been some muddle and confusion in naval headquarters. In its last radio contact, the boat reported that...
November 23, 2017

Submarine horror

:Ex-Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic appears in court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands Wednesday. — Reuters
Mladic verdict ends 23 years of Hague prosecutions
Ratko Mladic, the butcher of Srebrenica, was yesterday convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity. There will be some who regard a life sentence as totally inadequate for the horrific crimes carried out by this 74-year-old former commander of the Bosnian Serb army.Mladic led these thugs for six years to 1996. It was not just the 8,000 men and boys slaughtered on his orders in Srebrenica. Mladic led the four-year siege of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo with Serb guns firing down on the city from the surrounding hills murdering some 5,500 civilians. Serb snipers vied with each other to score the most kills in “hunts”. Woe betide the Sarajevo citizen who ignored the “Pazite, Snajper!” (“Beware, Sniper!”) signs at key points in the capital.Bosnian Serbs ran hideous detention...
November 22, 2017

Mladic verdict ends 23 years of Hague prosecutions

Modern slavery
The UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called it horrific. European governments have described it as appalling in this modern day and age. Human Rights organizations are disgusted and insist that something must be done immediately. What has outraged everyone is the discovery that human beings are being bought and sold in Libya.The US broadcaster CNN sent a courageous news team with a no less courageous fixer to a small Libyan town outside the capital Tripoli where they secretly filmed the nighttime auction of sub-Saharan migrants for use as farmhands. One man was knocked down for 800 Libyan dinars, less than $100 at the black market exchange rate.Afterward the journalists even approached the auctioneer to ask him how he felt about what he was doing. He declined to talk. Amazingly...
November 21, 2017

Modern slavery

Angela Merkel
Germany at risk
THESE are suddenly dangerous times for Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel has failed to persuade one of her three preferred partners to enter into a coalition government, following September election.Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU party grouping was not in doubt. She had been in talks with the Green party and the free-market liberal FDP, a frequent junior partner in past coalition governments, which are the rule in Germany thanks to its proportional representation voting system. Though the Greens’ agenda is seen by many Germans as too radical, it was not the environmentalist party that proved the collapse of four weeks’ negotiations to form a new government. That role went to the FDP whose leader Christian Lindner walked away from the talks on Sunday night saying that there was “no...
November 20, 2017

Germany at risk

Hate crimes are on the rise in US
HATE crimes are on a steady rise in US as the wave of racist violence consumes migrants indiscriminately, with Muslims falling victims as well as migrants or locally-born minorities. Europe too is witnessing violence directed against nonwhites as last year’s Brexit vote in the UK and Donald Trump’s triumph in the US presidential election have galvanized right-wing populists in the continent. But there is a crucial difference. Only in the US we find the head of the administration sometimes making common cause with people and groups who make no secret of their hostility to people who are different on account of their religion, race, ethnicity or ancestry.According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 6,121 hate crimes reported in 2016 — an increase from the around 5,800...
November 19, 2017

Hate crimes are on the rise in US

More French than the French
Controversies over Islam regularly flare up in France, whether it’s over the wearing of the veil, school dinners for Muslim pupils or the wearing of burkinis on French beaches, an issue which made global headlines in summer last year when the swimwear was banned by around 30 French mayors.This time about 100 French politicians recently marched on a street in a Paris suburb in protest at Muslims holding Friday prayers in public.The politicians, wearing tricolor sashes of office and singing the national anthem, disrupted about 200 worshippers on a street in Clichy. They were protesting against what they said was the unacceptable use of public space for prayers, even though the worshippers have nowhere else to go since the town hall took over the room they used for prayers back in March.The...
November 18, 2017

More French than the French

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