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Friday 12 June 2020

Police officers attend an incident at the primary and secondary
school in Vrutky (Zilina region), Slovakia, Thursday, June 11,
2020.
Associated Press
1 dead in knife attack

at Slovak school;

attacker also dead In this Friday, May 8, 2020, file photo, a protester flees police during clashes in the Kariobangi slum
of Nairobi, Kenya, on Friday, May 8, 2020.
Associated Press
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — A man with a knife attacked
a school in Slovakia on Thursday, killing one person and Floyd killing finds echoes of
wounding at least five before he was killed by police, au-
thorities said. abuse in South Africa, Kenya
The attack took place at the United School in the town of
Vrutky in northwestern Slovakia on Thursday morning. The By GERALD IMRAY and people in Kenya to march Africa in what he calls "the
establishment operates for children from elementary age TOM ODULA and tell their own stories of echoes of apartheid."
up to high school. The dead victim was the deputy direc- Associated Press injustice and brutality by Khosa's family said his beat-
tor of the high school, authorities said. CAPE TOWN, South Africa police. Despite racial rec- ing death followed accu-
The attacker was identified as a 22-year-old man from the (AP) — Collins Khosa was onciliation that emerged sations by the soldiers that
nearby town of Martin, a former student at the school, killed by law enforcement after the end of the apart- he was drinking a beer in
police said. officers in a poor township heid system, poor and his yard, which was not il-
The Slovak rescue service said three adults and two stu- in Johannesburg over a black South Africans still legal even though buying
dents were treated in a hospital in Martin but didn't im- cup of beer left in his yard. fall victim to security forces alcohol was prohibited at
mediately reveal more details. The 40-year-old black man that now are mostly black. the time because of South
Slovak President Zuzana Caputova said she felt great sor- was choked, slammed The country is plagued by Africa's strict coronavirus
row and offered her condolences to the relatives of the against a wall, beaten, violent crime, and police lockdown.
victims and support for those who were wounded, teach- kicked and hit with the butt often are accused of re- The sale of tobacco also
ers and police. of a rifle by the soldiers as sorting to heavy-handed is illegal during the lock-
"Unfortunately, there are crazy people living among us police watched, his family tactics. Journalist Daneel down, and middle-class
and we're not able to prevent such a situation," Prime says. Knoetze, who looked into whites discovered buying
Minister Igor Matovic said.q Two months later, South police brutality in South cigarettes have gotten off
Africans staged a march Africa between 2012 and with a warning from police.
India seizes $180M in against police brutality. But 2019, found that there were Montsha described how
it was mostly about the kill-
more than 42,000 criminal the soldiers, while beat-
jewels from fugitive ing of George Floyd in the complaints against police, ing Khosa, struck her with
diamond merchants United States, with the case which included more than sjamboks, the heavy whips
of Khosa, who died on April 2,800 killings — more than wielded by security forces
10, raised only briefly. one a day. There were during the apartheid era.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities have seized dia- "We also lost our loved more than 27,000 cases Police and soldiers still carry
monds, pearls and silver jewelry worth millions of dollars as one. South Africa, where of alleged assault by po- the notorious weapons.
part of an investigation of a fugitive diamond merchant are you?" Khosa's partner, lice, many classified as "The old house. You put
who is being held in London while fighting his extradition. Nomsa Montsha, asked in a torture, and victims were new furniture in but it's still
The seized valuables worth 13.5 billion rupees ($180 mil- wrenching TV interview Fri- "overwhelmingly" poor and the old house," Fick said of
lion) had been kept in a logistics company's warehouse day, eight weeks after she black, he said. the security forces.
in Hong Kong after being taken there from Dubai in 2018, held his hand as he died "It is clear that in South Af- In Kenya, the police force
India's Enforcement Directorate, which investigates finan- while waiting for an ambu- rica, 26 years of democra- has for two decades been
cial crimes, said in a statement late Wednesday. lance. cy have not as yet ensured ranked the country's most
The jewels and gems belonged to Nirav Modi, whose jew- Her words, in a soft, steady that black lives matter as corrupt institution. It's also
els once adorned stars from Bollywood to Hollywood, and voice, were a searing re- much as white lives," said Kenya's most deadly, kill-
his uncle Mehul Choksi, who also fled India and is living in buke of the perceived a statement last week from ing far more people than
Antigua. Modi is being held without bail. He was arrested apathy in South Africa over the Nelson Mandela Foun- criminals do, according to
by British authorities last year, more than a year after In- Khosa's death. The army dation, which promotes the human rights groups.
dian authorities alleged he was involved in a $1.8 billion exonerated the soldiers in vision of the anti-apartheid In the last three months in
bank fraud. He left the country in early 2018 and started a report that concluded leader and the country's Kenya, 15 people, includ-
living in London. he died from a blunt force first black president. ing a 13-year-old boy, have
Indian authorities have sought his extradition to face head injury that was no Angelo Fick, who research- been killed by police while
prosecution, claiming that the companies Nirav Modi one's fault. His family is still es issues of human rights they enforce a curfew, ac-
controlled defrauded the state-owned Punjab National seeking a criminal case. and equality, said white cording to a watchdog
Bank by using fake financial documents to get loans to Floyd's death also embold- people are policed differ- group. Human rights activ-
buy and import jewels.q ened a small number of ently from blacks in South ists put the figure at 18.q