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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2018
WORLD IN BRIEF
Former UN leader
Annan dies at age 80
Associated Press
Pope on sex abuse:
‘We showed no care
for the little ones’
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a let-
ter to Catholics around the world today condemn-
ing the crime of priestly sexual abuse and its cov-
er-up. He demanded accountability but offered
no indication of how he plans to sanction com-
plicit bishops or end the Vatican’s long-standing
culture of secrecy.
Francis begged forgiveness for the pain suf-
fered by victims and said lay Catholics must be
involved in the effort to root out abuse and cov-
er-up. He blasted the clerical culture that has been
blamed for the crisis, with church leaders more
concerned for their reputation than the safety of
children.
“With shame and repentance, we acknowl-
edge as an ecclesial community that we were not
where we should have been, that we did not act
in a timely manner, realizing the magnitude and
the gravity of the damage done to so many lives,”
Francis wrote.
“We showed no care for the little ones; we
abandoned them.”
The Vatican issued the three-page letter ahead
of Francis’ trip this weekend to Ireland, a once
staunchly Roman Catholic country where the
church’s credibility has been devastated by years
of revelations that priests raped and molested
children with impunity and their superiors cov-
ered up for them.
As a result, the letter was clearly an effort
by Francis to respond to outrage in the U.S. and
pressure from Ireland to take a tough stand on the
global abuse scandal. That pressure has mounted
steadily after Francis’ own reputation was tar-
nished during his disastrous trip to Chile in Jan-
uary, where he dismissed victims’ accusations of
cover-up as “calumny.”
Priestly sex abuse was always expected to
dominate the pope’s Irish trip, but the issue has
taken on new gravity following revelations in
the U.S. that one of Francis’ trusted cardinals,
the retired archbishop of Washington, Theo-
dore McCarrick, allegedly sexually abused and
harassed minors as well as adult seminarians.
In addition, a grand jury report in Pennsylva-
nia last week reported that at least 1,000 children
were victims of some 300 priests over the past
70 years, and that generations of bishops failed
repeatedly to take measures to protect their flock
or punish the rapists.
Afghan forces free
most hostages taken
in new Taliban attack
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan forces res-
cued nearly 150 people today, including women
and children, hours after the Taliban ambushed a
convoy of buses and abducted them. The quick
response marked a rare if limited battlefield suc-
cess for the troops after weeks of unrelenting
insurgent attacks.
The militants escaped with 21 captives fol-
lowing the battle in Kunduz province, and offi-
cials said tribal elders were trying to negotiate
their release. Esmatullah Muradi, a spokesman
for the governor in the northern province, said
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South Korean Lee Keum-seom, 92, left, weeps with her North Korean son Ri Sang
Chol, 71, during a reunion today.
Brief Korean reunions bring
tears for separated families
SEOUL, South Korea — The 92-year-old South Korean woman wept and stroked the wrin-
kled cheeks of her 71-year-old North Korean son today, their first meeting since they were
driven apart during the turmoil of the 1950-53 Korean War.
“How many children do you have? Do you have a son?” Lee Keum-seom asked her son Ri
Sang Chol during their long-awaited encounter at the North’s Diamond Mountain resort.
The emotional reunion came after dozens of elderly South Koreans crossed the heavily for-
tified border into North Korea to meet temporarily with their relatives. The weeklong event,
the first of its kind in nearly three years, was arranged as the rival Koreas boost reconcilia-
tion efforts amid a diplomatic push to resolve a standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons
program.
Hugging the woman he’d last seen when he was 4, Ri showed his mother a photo of her late
husband, who had stayed behind in North Korea with him after being separated from his wife
while fleeing south. “Mother, this is how my father looked,” Ri said.
Most of the participants in the reunions are in their 70s or older and are eager to see their
loved ones once more before they die. Most have had no word on whether their relatives are
still alive, because they are not allowed to visit each other across the border or even exchange
letters, phone calls or email.
About 90 elderly South Koreans, accompanied by their family members, will have three
days of meetings with their North Korean relatives before returning to the South on Wednes-
day. A separate round of reunions from Friday to Sunday will involve more than 300 other
South Koreans, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry.
the Taliban have demanded the national identi-
fications of the captives to determine their fate.
The identities of the captives have not been
made public, but Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, the
head of the provincial council, said the insur-
gents likely targeted the three buses to try to
abduct civil servants or members of the security
forces.
The Taliban have been at war with the U.S.-
backed Afghan government for nearly 17 years,
and have stepped up attacks in recent years, seiz-
ing rural districts and carrying out major assaults
against security forces and government com-
pounds on an almost daily basis.
Earlier this month, the insurgents launched
a coordinated assault on Ghazni, a strategic city
only 75 miles from the capital, Kabul. They
seized several neighborhoods, and it took secu-
rity forces, aided by U.S. airstrikes and advisers,
more than five days to drive them out. The bat-
tle for the city killed at least 100 security forces
and 35 civilians, according to Afghan officials.
The Defense Ministry said about 200 militants
were killed.
In the latest attack, the Taliban stopped the
buses in the Khan Abad district and ordered
the passengers to come with them. The ambush
came a day after President Ashraf Ghani pro-
posed a holiday cease-fire, saying it would be
conditional on the Taliban halting attacks. He
suggested extending the truce all the way to Nov.
20, when Muslims will celebrate the birthday of
the Prophet Muhammad.
In a message released Saturday, Taliban
leader Maulvi Haibatullah Akhunzadah said
there would be no peace in Afghanistan as long
as the “foreign occupation” continues and reit-
erated that the group will only negotiate directly
with the United States, which it blames for the
17-year war.
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ACCRA, Ghana — Kofi Annan, a charis-
matic global diplomat and the first black Afri-
can to become United Nations secretary-gen-
eral who led the world body through one of its
most turbulent periods, died early Saturday at
age 80.
Tributes flowed in from around the world
after his foundation announced his death
in the Swiss capital, Bern, after a short and
unspecified illness. The statement remembered
the Nobel Peace Prize winner as “radiating gen-
uine kindness, warmth and brilliance in all he
did.”
He died “peacefully in his sleep,” the pres-
ident of Ghana, where Annan was born, said
after speaking to his wife.
At U.N. headquarters in New York, the U.N.
flag flew at half-staff and a bouquet of flowers
was placed under Annan’s portrait. Reflecting
the widespread regard that won him a ground-
breaking uncontested election to a second term,
leaders from Russia, India, Israel, France and
elsewhere expressed condolences for a man Bill
Gates called “one of the great peacemakers of
our time.”
Annan spent virtually his entire career as an
administrator in the United Nations. His aristo-
cratic style, cool-tempered elegance and polit-
ical savvy helped guide his ascent to become
its seventh secretary-general, and the first hired
from within. His two terms were from Jan. 1,
1997, to Dec. 31, 2006, capped nearly midway
when he and the U.N. were jointly awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2001.
During his tenure, Annan presided over
some of the worst failures and scandals at the
world body. Challenges from the outset forced
him to spend much of his time struggling to
restore its tarnished reputation.
When he departed from the United Nations,
he left behind a global organization far more
aggressively engaged in peacekeeping and
fighting poverty, setting the framework for its
21st-century response to mass atrocities and its
emphasis on human rights and development.
800,000 displaced in
flooding in southern
Indian state
ALAPPUZHA, India — Thousands of peo-
ple in flood-ravaged south India waded today
through muck and mud to begin the immense
task of cleaning their homes and businesses.
Rains have been diminishing in parts of Ker-
ala state, where floods and landslides have killed
more than 200 people in less than two weeks and
about 800,000 more have been forced into thou-
sands of relief camps.
Torrential rains began Aug. 8 in Kerala in the
midst of the annual monsoon season, eventually
leaving much of the state partially submerged.
The Indian military also opened an air base
today to commercial flights to help bring in relief
goods and fly out residents.
Thousands of people are taking shelter in
small camps in the coastal town of Alappuzha.
Many are in schools, but at least one is on the
grounds of a mosque where Christians, Hindus
and Muslims have all found food and a place to
sleep.
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