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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
New hope for Yazidi women
raped and tortured by IS fighters
Mexicans weigh the daunting
prospect of deportee camps
MEXICO CITY — Mexicans fear deportee and refugee camps
could be popping up along their northern border under the Trump
administration’s plan to start deporting to Mexico all Latin Ameri-
cans and others who entered the U.S. illegally through this country.
Previous U.S. policy called for only Mexican citizens to be sent
to Mexico. Migrants known as “OTMs” — Other Than Mexicans
— got flown back to their homelands.
Now, under a sweeping rewrite of enforcement policies
announced Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,
migrants might be dumped over the border into a violence-plagued
land where they have no ties while their asylum claims or deporta-
tion proceedings are heard in the United States. U.S. officials didn’t
say what Mexico would be expected to do with them.
The only consensus so far in Mexico about the new policies of
President Donald Trump is that the country isn’t remotely prepared.
“Not in any way, shape or form,” said the Rev. Patrick Murphy,
a priest who runs the Casa del Migrante shelter in the border city
of Tijuana, which currently houses about 55 Haitian immigrants.
They were part of wave of thousands who swarmed to the border
in the closing months of the Obama administration in hopes of get-
ting asylum in the U.S.
Police: Suspects in N. Korean
death coated hands with poison
AP Photo/James MacPherson
Dakota Access pipeline opponents burn structures in their
main protest camp in southern North Dakota near Cannon
Ball, N.D., on Wednesday, as authorities prepare to shut
down the camp in advance of spring flooding season.
Burgum listed the same time and date in an emergency evacuation
order last week.
Large-scale arrests are possible at the camp Wednesday, said
Morton County sheriff’s spokeswoman Maxine Herr, but she
insists that’s not want authorities want. Though law enforcement
and state officials in the past said they wouldn’t forcibly evict pro-
testers, they now cite the coming threat of spring flooding as a
safety issue that requires clearing the camp.
Long road ahead for justice
and accountability in Syria
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The two women suspected
of fatally poisoning a scion of North Korea’s ruling family were
trained to coat their hands with toxic chemicals, then wipe them
on his face, police in Malaysia said Wednesday, announcing they
were seeking a North Korean diplomat in connection with the
attack.
But the North Korean Embassy ridiculed the police account of
Kim Jong Nam’s death, demanding the immediate release of the
two “innocent women” and saying there was no way they could
have poisoned him. It alleged the women daubed liquid on Kim
“for a joke.”
If the toxins had been on their hands “then how is it possible
that these female suspects could still be alive?” demanded a state-
ment from North Korea’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Police say
the women — one of them Indonesian, the other Vietnamese —
washed their hands soon after poisoning Kim, the long-estranged
half brother of the North Korean ruler.
Earlier Wednesday, Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu
Bakar told reporters that authorities are searching for two new
North Korean suspects, the second secretary of North Korea’s
embassy in Kuala Lumpur and an employee of North Korea’s
state-owned airline Air Koryo.
“We hope that the Korean embassy will cooperate with us,
allow us to interview them and interview them quickly,” he said.
“If not, we will compel them to come to us.”
GENEVA — A fresh round of Syrian peace talks is set to begin
in Geneva on Thursday. And while the U.N-sponsored talks may
represent the best opportunity in years to make progress toward an
end to the conflict, the burning question for many Syria observers
is whether justice will be sacrificed in the name of peace.
To the dismay of those active in the fields of human rights law,
accountability is not even a prominent topic on the agenda.
Syrian dissident and lawyer Anwar al-Bunni calls the dip-
lomatic effort in Geneva “a waste of time” at the expense of the
blood of the Syrian people. He is among those pushing for the cre-
ation of a Syrian court to prevent war criminals from escaping with
impunity.
“Until now we have been unable to send the right message,
whether to the victims or the perpetrators,” al-Bunni, who lives
in Berlin, told The Associated Press. “Solving the Syrian conflict
requires the efforts of the entire international community, whether
we are talking about holding criminals accountable, reconstruc-
tion, or the return of refugees.”
But when it comes to justice in Syria, activists like al-Bunni can
find themselves up against the political pragmatism and at times
outright indifference of the international community. Expectations
for this latest round of talks are relatively low.
US shutting down Dakota Access
oil pipeline protest camp
Iraqi Shiite militias push
to take villages west of Mosul
BISMARCK, N.D. — The Army Corps of Engineers’ plan to
close a Dakota Access pipeline protest camp that’s been around for
more than six months isn’t likely to be the demise of on-the-ground
opposition in North Dakota.
Wednesday’s deadline for the protesters to leave also may not
spell the end of heavy law enforcement presence near where the
Dallas-based developer is finishing the last big section of the pipe-
line, which will carry oil from North Dakota through the Dakotas
and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois.
The protest camp is on federal land in southern North Dakota
between the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and the pipeline
route. It has at times housed thousands of people, though it’s dwin-
dled to just a couple hundred as the pipeline battle has largely
moved into the courts.
The Corps has told those who remain in the Oceti Sakowin
camp that they needed to leave by 2 p.m. Wednesday. Gov. Doug
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s government-sanctioned paramilitary
forces, made up mainly of Shiite militiamen, have launched a new
push to capture villages west of the city of Mosul from Islamic
State militants.
The forces’ spokesman, Ahmed al-Asadi, said on Wednesday
that the villages are located southwest of the town of Tal Afar, still
held by the Islamic State group.
He didn’t provide details but the move by the umbrella group
of mostly Shiite militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces
is likely coordinated with government effort to recapture western
part of Mosul from IS.
Iraqi government forces this week took a hilltop area overlook-
ing the Mosul city airport.
The Shiite militias already hold a small airport outside Tal Afar,
which is s located some 93 miles (150 kilometers) east of the Syr-
ian border.
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GOP members of Congress face
Trump foes at town halls
BLACKSTONE, Va. — Republican U.S. Rep. David Brat,
who rode voter anger to a historic political upset nearly three years
ago, was on the receiving end of constituent angst about the Trump
administration as he held a town hall in Virginia.
Protesters and supporters crowded a restaurant conference
room in Blackstone where Brat fielded questions for about hour
Tuesday. He was loudly heckled and booed when he defended
President Donald Trump and his policies on health care and immi-
gration, with the occasional cheer from supporters of his positions
on gun rights and fewer regulations.
The former economics professor said he enjoyed the feisty give
and take.
“People are very nervous and anxious after the Trump win. So
my goal tonight is to help allay some of those anxieties,” said Brat,
who defeated then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in a 2014
GOP primary.
Brat’s town hall was among several protests lobbed at GOP
members of Congress returning home this week on break to their
districts around the country.
Hundreds rescued from
California floodwaters in San Jose
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rescuers chest-deep in water steered
boats full of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose
neighborhood inundated Tuesday by water from an overflowing
creek.
Further north, farmers used tractors to shore up an endan-
gered levee in California’s agricultural heartland, officials opened
a spillway at the Don Pedro reservoir for the first time in 20 years,
and a Sierra Nevada highway threatened to collapse after the lat-
est downpours swelled waterways, leaving nearly half of the state
under flood advisories.
In San Jose, at least 225 residents were taken to dry land and
rinsed with soap and water to prevent them from being sickened
by floodwaters from the Coyote Creek that had traveled through
engine fuel, garbage, debris and over sewer lines, San Jose Fire
Capt. Mitch Matlow said.
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DOHUK, Iraq — It’s been less than two weeks since Perwin
Ali Baku escaped the Islamic State group, after more than two
years in captivity, bought and sold from fighter to fighter and carted
from Iraq to Syria and then back again.
When a door slams, the 23-year-old Yazidi woman flashes back
to her captors locking away her 3-year-old daughter, captured with
her, to torment her. When she hears a loud voice, she cringes at the
thought of them barking orders.
“I don’t feel right,” she said, sitting on a mattress on the floor
of her father-in-law’s small canvas-topped Quonset hut in a north-
ern Iraq refugee camp. “I still can’t sleep and my body is tense all
the time.”
Perwin wants treatment, and is hoping to find it in a new psy-
chological trauma institute being established at the university of
Dohuk, the first in the entire region.
It’s the next phase of an ambitious project funded by the
wealthy German state of Baden Wuerttemberg that brought 1,100
women who had escaped Islamic State captivity, primarily Yazidis,
to Germany for psychological treatment. The medical head of that
project, German trauma specialist Jan Kizilhan, is also the driv-
ing force behind the new institute, which opens at the end of the
month.
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