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WORLD NEWSWednesday 16 September
Hungary declares emergency, seals border, detains migrants
DUSAN STOJANOVIC said had become threat- Hungarian soldiers stop a migrant family at the border exit between Serbia and Hungary in Asot-
VANESSA GERA ened by the large numbers thalom near Roszke, southern Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Hungary are set to introduce
Associated Press of Muslims streaming into much harsher border controls at midnight — laws that would send smugglers to prison and deport
HORGOS, Serbia (AP) — the continent. migrants who cut under Hungary’s new razor-wire border fence. The country’s leader was em-
Hungary sealed off its bor- “The supply is nearly end- phatically clear that they were designed to keep the migrants out.
der with Serbia with mas- less — we can see how
sive coils of barbed wire many of them are com- (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Tuesday and began de- ing,” Orban said in a tele-
taining migrants trying to vised address just before
use the country as a gate- the new laws took effect at
way to Western Europe, midnight. “And if we look
harsh new measures that at the demographics, we
left thousands of frustrated can see that these people
asylum-seekers piled up on have more children than
the Serbian side of the bor- our communities who lead
der. a traditional, Christian way
Human rights activists con- of life.” “Mathematics tells
demned the move, with you that this will lead to a
Amnesty International say- Europe where our way of
ing Hungary’s “intimidating life will end up in a minority,
show of militarized force is or at least face a very seri-
shocking.” But Prime Minis- ous challenge.”
ter Viktor Orban defended By nightfall Tuesday, thou-
the measures, saying he sands of migrants, includ-
was acting to preserve ing many babies and chil-
Christian Europe, which he dren, prepared to spend a
night in the open or in flimsy hayni, a 32-year-old Syrian crime to breach or dam-
tents erected in the bushes from Damascus, who be- age the 13-foot (4-me-
or on the main highway came separated from his ter) high razor-wire fence
near the Serbian border wife as they tried to enter erected along 110 miles
with Hungary. Hungary a day earlier. of Hungary’s border with
Men collected wood in “I lifted the razor wire for Serbia and include longer
a nearby forest for fires her, she got in before a prison terms for convicted
in preparation for a chilly Hungarian border patrol human traffickers. Authori-
night. “I had hope until came by,” he said. “Now ties said they detained 174
now, but it’s all gone,” la- I don’t know where she is.” people who tried to cross
mented Mohammad Ma- The new laws make it a the border Tuesday. q
North Korea:
All nuclear bomb fuel plants have restarted
ERIC TALMADGE cerns the North may soon tern of using claimed im-
Associated Press either conduct a launch provements in its nuclear
PYONGYANG, North Korea — which Washington and and missile programs —
(AP) — With a big anniver- its allies see as a pretext many of which don’t lead
sary drawing near, North for testing missile technol- to launches or nuclear tests
Korea declared Tuesday ogy — or hold another test — to push for talks with the
it has upgraded and re- of nuclear weapons that it United States that could
started all of its atomic fuel could conceivably place eventually provide the im-
plants — meaning it could on such a rocket. poverished country with
possibly make more, and Either would be sure to concessions and eased
more sophisticated, nucle- get world attention and sanctions, or backfire and
ar weapons. be milked by North Ko- deepen its standoff with
The statement, coming just rea’s state media as major the U.S. and its allies.
a day after it said it is ready achievements by Kim Jong North Korea has spent
to conduct more rocket Un and his ruling regime. decades trying to devel-
launches any time it sees But North Korea’s recent op operational nuclear
fit, has heightened con- statements also fit a pat- weapons.q
