白人警察殺黑人

Terence Crutcher shooting: Unarmed black man killed by Tulsa policewoman on camera

Tuesday Sep.20. 2016
By Justin Carissimo

Video released by law enforcement on Monday shows police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma fatally shooting an unarmed black man whose car was stalled in the middle of the street.

Police originally claimed that 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was not cooperating with officers when they arrived for a routine traffic stop on Friday night. They said that he would not raise his hands in the air when instructed to. Tulsa Police Officer Betty Shelby called dispatch saying Mr Crutcher was not complying before fatally shooting him at the scene. Officer Tyler Turnbough also fired his Taser and the entire confrontation was recorded via dash cam.

However, in the video, Mr Crutcher can be seen raising his arms in the air in the middle of the street. He stood beside his driver’s side window as several police officers stood behind him with their weapons raised. Seconds later a single shot was fired from the officer. He falls and his bloodied body lied limp beside his vehicle. Officers appeared to wait more than one minute before approaching Mr Crutcher’s body.

It remains unclear exactly why the officer fired her weapon.

“We’re truly devastated. The entire family is devastated,” Mr Crutcher’s twin sister Tiffany Crutcher told The Washington Post. “That big bad dude was a father, that big bad dude was a son, that big bad dude was enrolled at Tulsa Community College just wanting to make us all proud, that big bad dude loved God, that big bad dude was in church singing with all of his flaws every week.”

His family members and community leaders called for justice after reviewing the dash cam footage of the fatal shooting. “We saw that Terence did not have any weapon," family attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons told reporters on Monday.  "Terence did not make any sudden movements. We saw that Terence was not being belligerent.”

Nearly a dozen protesters gathered outside the Tulsa County courthouse following the news conference, calling for justice in the case.The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice will also conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. “The justice department is committed to investigating allegations of force by law enforcement officers and will devote whatever resources are necessary to ensure that all allegations of serious civil rights violations are fully and completely investigated,” US Attorney Danny C Williams said in a statement.

“He needed help, he needed a hand. And what he got was a bullet in the lungs,” Benjamin Crump, a civil rights attorney, told The Post. Mr Crump compared the shooting to the 2015 killing of Corey Jones in Florida, another black man who was fatally shot by police after he phoned 911 for help when his vehicle broke down.

“What was Terence Crutcher’s crime?” Mr Crump asked. “When unarmed people of color break down on the side of the road, we’re not treated as citizens needing help, we’re treated as criminals, as suspects.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/terence-crutcher-fatally-shot-by-tulsa-police-a7317531.html

Structure of the Lead:

 WHO        Terence Crutcher   (a black man)  

  WHEN     2016/9/16
  WHAT     Unarmed black man killed by Tulsa policewoman
  HOW        He stood beside his driver’s side window as several police officers stood behind him with their weapons raised.

 WHERE     In  Oklahoma

 WHY          Police originally claimed that 40-year-old Terence Crutcher was not cooperating with officers when they arrived for a routine traffic stop

Keyword:

1.Unarmed (a)未武裝的,徒手的

2.instruct(v.)指令 命令

3.devastate(v.)崩垮

4.dude(n.)類似guy  

5.enroll(v.)登記

6.flaw(.n.)缺點 瑕疵(+in

7.belligerent(a.)好鬥的

8.attorney(n.)律師

歐洲難民

Over 160 bodies recovered from Egypt refugee shipwreck

Sep.24.2016

Officials say bodies of 162 people have been pulled from the Mediterranean, amid fears death toll could rise further.

The death toll from a refugee boat sinking off Egypt's coast has risen to 162, as rescuers recovered more bodies from the Mediterranean.

Survivors have said up to 450 people were on board the overcrowded fishing vessel that was heading to Italy from Egypt when it capsized off the port city of Rosetta on Wednesday.

The bodies of 162 people had been pulled from the waters off the Egyptian coast, Mohammed Sultan, the governor of Beheira  province, where Rosetta is located, told the Associated Press on Friday.

An earlier official toll on Friday had put the number of dead at 148.

The military said that it had rescued 163 survivors, and recovery attempts were continuing.

There are fears the death toll could rise further, with rescuers focusing their efforts on the boat's hold where witnesses said around 100 people had been when the vessel flipped over.

In a new report on Friday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that "as many as 240 [people are still] unaccounted for or presumed missing" from the shipwreck.

"Normally in such situations, 'missing' migrants are presumed drowned, their remains never recovered," it said.

The IOM said most of those rescued were Egyptians, but also included Sudanese, Eritreans, a Syrian and an Ethiopian.

Authorities arrested four suspected people traffickers on Thursday over the incident, the latest in what the UN refugee agency expects to be the deadliest year on record for the Mediterranean.

The accident comes months after the EU border agency Frontex warned that growing numbers of Europe-bound refugees were using Egypt as a departure point for the dangerous journey.

People-traffickers often use barely seaworthy vessels and overload them to extract the maximum money in fares from desperate refugees.

The IOM reported on Friday that 300,450 migrants and refugees had entered Europe by sea in 2016 through September 21, arriving mostly in Greece and Italy. Some 166,050 people have arrived in Greece and 130,567 in Italy during 2016.

Total arrivals for the entire month of September last year were 518,181 - nearly 50 percent higher than 2016's totals, with slightly over a week remaining before the start of October.

Deaths, however, are considerably higher than last year's total of 2,887 on this date.

According to the IOM's Missing Migrants Project, this year's death toll stand at 3,501, including the people who died in the latest tragedy off Egypt.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/140-bodies-recovered-egypt-refugee-shipwreck-160923135015543.html

Structure of the Lead:Structure of the Lead:

  WHO       refugee  
 WHEN      9.24.2016
 WHAT      The death toll from a refugee boat sinking off Egypt's coast has risen to 162, as rescuers recovered more bodies from the Mediterranean.
  HOW       There were up to 450 people on board the overcrowded fishing vessel that was heading to Italy from Egypt when it capsized off the port city of Rosetta on Wednesday.

 WHERE    In the Mediterranean
 WHY         People-traffickers often use barely seaworthy vessels and overload them to extract the maximum money in fares from desperate refugees.

Keyword:

1.Mediterranean 地中海

2.vessel(n.)船

3.capsize(v.)翻覆

4.International Organization for Migration (IOM)國際移民組織

5.shipwreck(n.)船難

6.People-traffickers人民偷渡販

7.EU border agency Frontex 歐盟國家邊境署

Source: Al Jazeera News And News Agencies

Aung San Suu Kyi

Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi
Nov 13,2015
By BBC News

Aung San Suu Kyi led the National League for Democracy (全國民主聯盟)(NLD) to a majority win in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in November 2015.

The win came five years to the day since she was released from 15 years of house arrest.

The 70-year-old spent much of her time between 1989 and 2010 in some form of detention because of her efforts to bring democracy to military-ruled Myanmar (Burma) - a fact that made her an international symbol of peaceful resistance in the face of oppression.

In 1991, "The Lady" as she's known, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and the committee chairman called her "an outstanding example of the power of the powerless".

However, after her release and subsequent political career, Ms Suu Kyi has come in for criticism by some rights groups for what they say has been a failure to speak up for Myanmar's minority groups during a time of ethnic violence in parts of the country.

Political pedigree

Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, General Aung San.

He was assassinated during the transition period in July 1947, just six months before independence, when Ms Suu Kyi was only two.

In 1960 she went to India with her mother Daw Khin Kyi, who had been appointed Myanmar's ambassador in Delhi.

Four years later she went to Oxford University in the UK, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics. There she met her future husband, academic Michael Aris.

After stints of living and working in Japan and Bhutan, she settled in the UK to raise their two children, Alexander and Kim, but Myanmar was never far from her thoughts.

When she arrived back in Rangoon (Yangon) in 1988 - to look after her critically ill mother - Myanmar was in the midst of major political upheaval.

Thousands of students, office workers and monks took to the streets demanding democratic reform.

"I could not as my father's daughter remain indifferent to all that was going on," she said in a speech in Rangoon on 26 August 1988, and was propelled into leading the revolt against the then-dictator, General Ne Win.

Inspired by the non-violent campaigns of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King and India's Mahatma Gandhi, she organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.

But the demonstrations were brutally suppressed by the army, who seized power in a coup on 18 September 1988. Ms Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest the following year.

The military government called national elections in May 1990 which Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD convincingly won - however, the junta refused to hand over control.

House arrest

Ms Suu Kyi remained under house arrest in Rangoon for six years, until she was released in July 1995.

She was again put under house arrest in September 2000, when she tried to travel to the city of Mandalay in defiance of travel restrictions.

She was released unconditionally in May 2002, but just over a year later she was put in prison following a clash between her supporters and a government-backed mob.

She was later allowed to return home - but again under effective house arrest.

During periods of confinement, Ms Suu Kyi busied herself studying and exercising. She meditated, worked on her French and Japanese language skills, and relaxed by playing Bach on the piano.

At times she was able to meet other NLD officials and selected diplomats.

But during her early years of detention she was often in solitary confinement. She was not allowed to see her two sons or her husband, who died of cancer in March 1999.

The military authorities had offered to allow her to travel to the UK to see him when he was gravely ill, but she felt compelled to refuse for fear she would not be allowed back into the country.

Re-entering politics

She was sidelined from Myanmar's first elections in two decades on 7 November 2010 but released from house arrest six days later.

Her son Kim Aris was allowed to visit her for the first time in a decade.

As the new government embarked on a process of reform, Aung San Suu Kyi and her party rejoined the political process.

When by-elections were held in April 2012, to fill seats vacated by politicians who had taken government posts, she and her party contested seats, despite reservations.

"Some are a little bit too optimistic about the situation," she said in an interview before the vote. "We are cautiously optimistic. We are at the beginning of a road."

She and the NLD won 43 of the 45 seats contested, in an emphatic statement of support. Weeks later, Ms Suu Kyi took the oath in parliament and became the leader of the opposition.

And the following May, she embarked on a visit outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years, in a sign of apparent confidence that its new leaders would allow her to return.

'Overly optimistic'

However, Ms Suu Kyi became frustrated with the pace of democratic development.

In November 2014, she warned that Myanmar had not made any real reforms in the past two years and warned that the US - which dropped most of its sanctions against the country in 2012 - had been "overly optimistic" in the past.

And in June, a vote in Myanmar's parliament failed to remove the army's veto over constitutional change. Ms Suu Kyi is also barred from running for president because her two sons hold British not Burmese passports - a ruling she says is unfair.

In 2015, the military-backed civilian government of President Thein Sein(吳登盛) said a general election would be held in November - the first openly contested election in 25 years.

Early on after the vote on 8 November it became clear the NLD was headed for a landslide victory.

On 13 November, the NLD secured the required two-thirds of the contested seats in parliament to win a majority in what was widely regarded as a largely fair vote - although there were some reports of irregularities.

However, hundreds of thousands of people - including the Muslim Rohingya(穆斯林羅興亞) minority, who are not recognised as citizens - were denied voting rights.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11685977

Structure of the Lead：

 WHO-The National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

     WHEN-1947-2015

     WHAT-Aung San Suu Kyi's profile 

     WHY-Suu Kyi organised rallies and travelled around the country, calling for peaceful democratic reform and free elections.

     WHERE-Myanmar

     HOW-she was released from 15 years of house arrest.

Keywords：

1 assassinate(v.) 暗殺

2 upheaval(n.) 動亂

3 monk(n.) 僧侶

4 brutally(ad.) 殘酷的

5 defiance(n.) 蔑視

6 confinement(n.) 監禁

7 diplomat(n.) 外交官

8 cautiously(ad.)謹慎的

9 oath(n.)誓言

10 parliament(n.)國會

11 sanction(n.)批准