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WORLD NEWS Monday 17 october 2022
U.S., Canada send armored vehicles to bolster Haiti’s police

By DÁNICA COTO
Associated Press
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)
— The U.S. and Canada
sent armored vehicles and
other supplies to Haiti on
Saturday to help police
fight a powerful gang amid
a pending request from the
Haitian government for the
immediate deployment of
foreign troops.
A U.S. State Department
statement said the equip-
ment was bought by Haiti’s
government, but it did not
provide further details on
the supplies flown on mili-
tary aircraft to the capital
of Port-au-Prince.
A spokesman for the U.S.
military’s Southern Com-
mand said he could not
provide further details on A woman cries near the body of another woman shot dead by the police during a protest
the supplies sent, though demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince,
he added it was a joint op- Haiti, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022.
eration involving the U.S. Air Associated Press
Force and Royal Canadian 300 hospitalizations and at fuel prices after Henry an- attacked their installations
Air Force. “This equipment least 35 deaths, with ex- nounced in early Septem- for a second time and fled
will assist (Haiti’s National perts warning the numbers ber that his administration with more than 28,000 gal-
Police) in their fight against are likely much higher than could no longer afford to lons of petroleum products
criminal actors who are fo- what i’s being reported. subsidize fuel. after overpowering surveil-
menting violence and dis- The equipment arrived Since then, gas stations lance and emergency per-
rupting the flow of critically- more than a month after have closed, hospitals have sonnel at the facility.
needed humanitarian assis- one of Haiti’s most pow- cut back on services and It was the second time
tance, hindering efforts to erful gangs surrounded banks and grocery stores this week that armed men
halt the spread of cholera,” a fuel terminal and de- open on a limited basis as broke into the terminal,
the State Department said. manded the resignation of fuel, water and other sup- which stores more than
The Pan American Health Prime Minister Ariel Henry. plies dwindle across Haiti. 10 million gallons of gaso-
Organization said there are Demonstrators also have The owners of the fuel ter- line and diesel and more
more than 560 suspected blocked roads in major cit- minal announced Satur- than 800,000 gallons of
cases of cholera, some ies to protest a sharp rise in day that armed men had kerosene.q

Swedish party official suspended after Anne Frank posting

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swe- and launch an internal in-
den Democrats official was vestigation on the matter.
suspended by the far-right While it remained unclear
party for making degrad- what kind of point Fallen-
ing comments about Jew- kvist wanted to make with
ish teenage diarist Anne her comments on Anne’s
Frank. diary, she sent later a text
In an Instagram posting message to Swedish news-
that has now been de- paper Dagens Nyheter say-
leted, Rebecka Fallenkvist ing she had been misinter-
called Anne “immoral” preted.
among other things, ac- “The book is a moving de-
cording to Swedish media. piction of human good
Anne, who wrote a diary and evil,” Fallenkvist said in
while in hiding in Amster- A photo of Anne Frank is displayed at the opening of the her message to the news-
dam before she was cap- exhibition: “Anne Frank, a History for Today”, at the Westerbork paper. “The good Anne,
tured, died at age 15 in Nazi Remembrance Centre in Hooghalen, northeast Netherlands, who in the first chapters is
Germany’s Bergen-Belsen Firday, June 12, 2009. like any other young girl liv-
concentration camp in Associated Press ing her life in peace and
February 1945. Kulman, who in a tweet The Sweden Democrats’ finding an interest in boys
The posting by Fallenkvist, said: “I strongly condemn media director, Oskar (which I highlighted), is
a 26-year-old head of tele- this despicable insult, disre- Cavalli-Bjorkman, told the contrasted with the evil of
vision programming for spectful of the memory of Swedish news agency TT Nazism. My story was aimed
the Sweden Democrats, Anne Frank.” His posting in- late Saturday that the par- at the good and human
prompted strong reactions cluded what appeared to ty would take Fallenkvist’s in Anne while not playing
from Jewish groups and Is- be a screenshot of Fallen- “insensitive and inappro- down the evil to which she
raeli Ambassador Ziv Nevo kvist’s Instagram post. priate” comments seriously was subjected.”q