Page 10 - aruba-today-20170909

A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 9 September 2017
Togo police beat opposition protesters, fire tear gas

By ERICK KAGLAN years in power. tial term limits. Parliament says it will vote pora population of 2 million
Associated Press Opposition supporters Internet service has been Tuesday on a draft bill that have the right to vote in the
LOME, Togo (AP) — Security dressed in orange and red down in the country of 7 would return to the 1992 2020 presidential elections.
forces in Togo beat peace- were playing music, cook- million during the protests. constitution, though it has The opposition seeks the
ful protesters and fired tear ing and singing in the capi- “The severe reaction of not provided a copy of resignation of President
gas to disperse thousands tal’s main square when the security forces against the draft or further details. Faure Gnassingbe. While
of opposition supporters police moved in late Thurs- largely peaceful protesters Two years ago a similar bill Gnassingbe has not said he
who urged the president to day. The sit-in followed two is a clear violation of the was rejected in Parliament, will run in 2020, the opposi-
step down, witnesses said, days of demonstrations de- freedom of peaceful as- where the ruling party holds tion National Panafrican
as anger in the small West manding the return of the sembly,” said Francois Pa- a majority of seats. Party has said it suspects he
African nation grows over country’s 1992 constitution, tuel, Amnesty Internation- The opposition parties also will not quit power unless he
the Gnassingbe family’s 50 which included presiden- al’s West Africa researcher. demand that Togo’s dias- is compelled to do so.q

South Korea braces for possible North Korea missile test

By KIM TONG-HYUNG tion had nukes but was
Associated Press “contained and deterred,”
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Trump demurred. “I don’t
— South Korea is closely put my negotiations on the
watching North Korea table, unlike past adminis-
over the possibility it may trations. I don’t talk about
launch another intercon- them. But I can tell you
tinental ballistic missile as North Korea is behaving
soon as Saturday when it badly and it’s got to stop,”
celebrates its founding an- he said.
niversary. North Korea broke from its
Seoul’s Unification Ministry pattern of lofted launches
spokeswoman Eugene Lee last month when it fired a
said Friday that Pyongyang powerful new intermedi-
could potentially conduct ate range missile, the Hwa-
its next ICBM tests this week- song-12, over northern Ja-
end or around Oct. 10, an- pan. North Korean leader
other North Korean holiday Kim Jong Un then called
marking the founding of its the launch a “meaningful
ruling party. prelude” to containing the
North Korea has previously U.S. Pacific island territory
marked key dates with dis- South Korean conservative activists and North Korean defectors hold signs during a rally against of Guam and called for his
plays of military power, but North Korea and North’s leader Kim Jong Un in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 8, military to conduct more
now its tests appear to be 2017. South Korea is closely watching North Korea over the possibility it may launch another ballistic missile launches tar-
driven by the need to im- intercontinental ballistic missile as soon as Saturday when it celebrates its founding anniversary. geting the Pacific Ocean.
prove missile capabilities. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) Meanwhile, Sweden urged
The North is just coming off States, including major cit- spheric re-entry and deto- ground explosion but so far its citizens Friday to refrain
its sixth and the most pow- ies such as Los Angeles and nate properly. noted nothing inconsistent from unnecessary trips to
erful nuclear test to date on Chicago, when perfected. In Washington, President with Pyongyang’s claim. North Korea.
Sunday in what it claimed North Korea fired the ICBMs Donald Trump reiterated “Military action would cer- The announcement by
was a detonation of a ther- at highly lofted angles in Thursday that military ac- tainly be an option,” Trump the Swedish Foreign Affairs
monuclear weapon built July to reduce ranges and tion is “certainly” an option told a White House news Ministry came hours after
for its ICBMs. The country avoid other countries. But against North Korea, as his conference. “I would pre- Mexico’s government said
tested its developmental South Korean officials say administration tentatively fer not going the route of it declared North Korean
Hwasong-14 ICBMs twice the next launches could be concurred with the pariah the military, but it’s some- Ambassador Kim Hyong Gil
in July and analysts say the conducted at angles close nation’s claim to have test- thing certainly that could as persona non grata and
flight data from the launch- to operational as the North ed a hydrogen bomb. A se- happen.” ordered him to leave the
es indicate the missiles would seek to test whether nior administration official Pressed on whether he country within 72 hours in
could cover a broad swath the warheads survive the said the U.S. was still assess- could accept a scenario response to Sunday’s nuke
of the continental United harsh conditions of atmo- ing last weekend’s under- in which the isolated na- test.q

Amnesty says ‘horrific’ violence in Central African Republic

By KRISTA LARSON zation interviewed dozens While a period of relative horrific attack in May. She their five children, Amnesty
Associated Press of survivors in Basse-Kotto stability allowed for Pope said UPC fighters shot her said. Then they fatally shot
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — prefecture in the country’s Francis to visit and for elec- husband in the legs when her husband in the head.
Rebels in a volatile region east, where a rebel group tions to be held, interna- he tried to flee and then Joanne Mariner, senior cri-
of Central African Republic known as the UPC has car- tional observers now warn told the couple: “We’re go- sis response adviser at Am-
are raping women and kill- ried out waves of attacks. that Central African Re- ing to do something to you nesty, said the U.N. peace-
ing their male relatives in a The rebels are considered public is approaching the Christians that won’t be keeping force has proved
“horrific surge” of violence an offshoot of the most- levels of violence seen at forgotten for many genera- ineffective in stopping such
that is now clearly along ly Muslim rebel coalition the height of the conflict in tions.” abuses. “Civilians are not
sectarian lines, Amnesty In- known as Seleka that over- 2014. One of the men raped her, accidental victims in this
ternational warned Friday. threw the longtime presi- One woman interviewed while another raped her conflict; they are direct tar-
The human rights organi- dent in 2013. by Amnesty described a husband — all in front of gets,” she said. q