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WORLD NEWSFriday 19 February 2016

Protests against India student leader’s arrest spread AP: Egypt buries
B. Boutros-Ghali
NIRMALA GEORGE hearing Wednesday, re- Indian. gan, India’s Home Minister with top honors
Associated Press newing allegations that the Prime Minister Narendra Rajnath Singh tweeted that
NEW DELHI (AP) — A protest Hindu nationalist governing Modi’s Bharatiya Janata anyone shouting anti-India CAIRO (AP) — Egypt on
that rocked a New Delhi party is intolerant. Party and other Hindu slogans “will not be toler- Thursday laid to rest its
university this week spread He was arrested last Fri- groups accuse left-wing ated or spared.” veteran diplomat Boutros
across India on Thursday, day over his participation student groups of anti-na- The violence by lawyers Boutros-Ghali, holding a
occurred despite the Su- funeral procession with top
Indian students wave an Indian flag and shout slogans during a protest at the Jawaharlal Nehru preme Court ordering the honors in the capital, Cai-
University against the arrest of a student union leader in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016. police to ensure security in ro, followed by a service at
Scenes of protest that rocked a New Delhi university this week spread across the country Thurs- the court and has drawn the nation’s largest Coptic
day, with students and teachers from cities including Bangalore, Kolkata and Chennai joining wide criticism of the law- cathedral for the man who
demands for the release of a student leader arrested on sedition charges. yers and police. was the first U.N. chief from
“Such a deliberate ob- Africa.
(AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal) struction of justice amounts Egyptian President Abdel-
to constitutional contempt Fattah el-Sissi led the pro-
with students and teach- in events where anti-India tionalism because of their and cannot go unpun- cession, walking at the
ers in at least 10 cities de- slogans were allegedly criticism of the 2013 execu- ished,” said Maja Daruwala front of the cortege as a
manding the release of a shouted. A New Delhi court tion of a Kashmiri separatist of the Commonwealth Hu- horse-drawn hearse car-
student leader arrested on has ordered him to stay in convicted of an attack on man Rights Initiative. ried Boutros-Ghali’s flag-
sedition charges and ac- custody for two weeks. The Parliament. The Bar Council of In- draped coffin. The head
cused of being anti-Indian. court will hear his bail plea Kumar’s treatment and at- dia said it had appointed of Egypt’s Coptic Church
The protesters were out- on Friday. tacks on teachers who sup- a three-member panel to attended the service in
raged by nationally tele- The demands for the stu- ported him have triggered investigate the violence by Cairo, along with senior
vised scenes of Kanhaiya dent’s freedom in the In- allegations that the Modi lawyers. dignitaries.
Kumar, the student union dian capital were met by government and the BJP “We are going to take Eulogizing Boutros-Ghali,
president at Jawaharlal mobs of Hindu nationalists, are cracking down on po- a strong action against the Coptic patriarch, Pope
Nehru University, being including many lawyers, at- litical dissent in the name of them,” Council president Tawadros II, said Egypt was
kicked and punched while tacking students and ac- patriotism. Manan Kumar Mishra said. bidding “farewell to this
he was escorted to a court cusing them of being anti- Soon after the protests be- “We are going to pun- fine example in Egyptian
ish the lawyers if they are life and in Egyptian history.”
found guilty,” he said be- UNESCO chief Irina Bo-
fore apologizing on behalf kova, Arab League Secre-
of the lawyer community. tary-General Nabil Elaraby
On Thursday, students as well as his predeces-
in at least 10 Indian cit- sor Amr Moussa and other
ies marched through the Egyptian ministers and of-
streets and denounced Ku- ficials attended the service
mar’s arrest. at the Coptic Cathedral
In New Delhi, thousands of in the Abbassia district in
students, professors and Cairo.
journalists gathered in the Boutros-Ghali, who died on
center of the city. They Tuesday at the age of 93,
carried flowers as a sign of helped negotiate Egypt’s
peace, Indian flags and landmark peace deal with
placards saying, “Free Israel but then clashed with
Speech under attack” the United States when he
and “Just because I don’t served a single term as U.N.
agree, doesn’t mean I am secretary-general.
an anti-national.”q The scion of a prominent
Egyptian Christian politi-
Seoul claims North Korea is preparing attacks cal family, he was the first
U.N. chief from the African
HYUNG-JIN KIM capabilities that can pose about any such attack could target anti-Pyong- continent, stepping into
Associated Press a direct threat to our lives preparations. The South yang activists, defectors the post in 1992 at a time
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — and security.” Korean presidential official and government officials in of dramatic world chang-
North Korean leader Kim He said the possibility of did not say where the latest South Korea, the party of- es, with the collapse of the
Jong Un recently ordered North Korean attacks “is in- information came from. ficial said requesting ano- Soviet Union, the end of
preparations for launching creasing more than ever” Earlier Thursday, Seoul’s Na- nymity because he wasn’t the Cold War and the be-
“terror” attacks on South and asked for quick pas- tional Intelligence Service authorized to speak to me- ginning of a unipolar era
Koreans, a top Seoul official sage of an anti-terror bill in briefed ruling Saenuri Party dia publicly. dominated by the United
said Thursday, as worries parliament. members on a similar as- Attacks on subways, shop- States.
about the North grow after North Korea has a history sessment on North Korea’s ping malls and other public His five years at the world
its recent nuclear test and of attacks on South Korea, attack preparations, ac- places could also happen, body’s helm remain con-
rocket launch. such as the 2010 shelling cording to one of the party he said. troversial. He worked to es-
In televised remarks, senior on an island that killed four officials who attended the The official quoted the tablish the U.N.’s indepen-
South Korean presidential South Koreans and the 1987 private meeting. NIS as saying North Korea dence, particularly from
official Kim Sung-woo said bombing of a South Korean During the briefing, the NIS, could launch poisoning at- the United States, at a time
North Korea’s spy agency passenger plane that killed citing studies on past North tacks on the activists and when the United Nations
has begun work to imple- all 115 people on board. Korean provocations and defectors, or lure them was increasingly called
ment Kim Jong Un’s order But it is impossible to inde- other unspecified assess- to China where they would on to step into crises with
to “muster anti-South terror pendently confirm claims ments, said the attacks be kidnapped.q peacekeeping forces, with
limited resources.q