Daily Heritage October 2

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•U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley delivers
remarks at a security council meeting at U.N
U.S. envoy to U.N. demands Myanmar prosecutions, weapons curbs, over Rohingya
U.S. Ambassador to the
United Nations Nikki Haley
on Thursday called on countries
to suspend providing
weapons to Myanmar over
violence against Rohingya
Muslims until the military
puts sufficient accountability
measures in place.
It was the first time the
United States called for punishment
of military leaders
behind the repression, but
stopped short of threatening
to reimpose U.S. sanctions
which were suspended under
the Obama administration.
“We cannot be afraid to
call the actions of the
Burmese authorities what
they appear to be - a brutal,
sustained campaign to
cleanse the country of an
ethnic minority,” Haley told
the U.N. Security Council,
the first time Washington
has echoed the U.N.’s accusation
that the displacement
of hundreds of thousands
of people in Rakhine State
was ethnic cleansing.
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At least 22 dead and 35 injured in stampede at Mumbai train station
AT LEAST 22 people have been
killed and 35 injured in a stampede
at a train station during morning
rush hour in the Indian financial hub
of Mumbai, according to Deepak
Deoraj, spokesman for the Mumbai
police department.
The deadly stampede happened
around 10:30 a.m. local time Friday
on a footbridge at Prabhadevi train
station, formerly known as Elphinstone
station, Anil Saxena,
spokesman for India's Ministry of
Railways told local media.
Saxena said the crowd on the
footbridge grew larger as people
took cover during an unexpected
rain shower. Once the rain stopped
the crowd started moving and someone
"must have slipped" leading to
the initial blockage.
Television and social media
footage from the scene shows heaving
crowds of trapped commuters
desperately trying to climb over railings
and stairways to escape the
crush, as lifeless bodies are pulled
free.
Indian rescue teams inspect the
bridge where the deadly stampede in
•Relatives of victims injured in the stampede react as
they wait at a nearby hospital
Prabhadevi train station took place.
In a message posted to his official
social media account, Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed
his "deepest condolences to
all those who have lost their lives
due to the stampede in Mumbai.”
India's railways Minister Piyush
Goyal is currently in Mumbai for a
scheduled event. Writing on Twitter,
he offered condolences to the families
of those who had died in the
stampede and promised a high level
inquiry. CNN
Cameroun bans proindependence
rallies in
Anglophone area
CAMEROUN HAS
banned public meetings
and travel in a mainly
English-speaking region
ahead of a protest to
demand independence
for the area.
The South-West region's border with
Nigeria has also been shut to block "infiltration"
by people threatening Cameroun's
unity, officials said.
Pro-independence marches have
been planned for Sunday, the 56th anniversary
of Cameroun's unification.
English speakers accuse the Francophone
majority of discrimination.
They say they are often excluded
from top civil service jobs, and that the
French language and legal system have
been imposed on them.
The government denies the allegations
and insists that it treats all citizens
equally.
Cameroun was colonised by Germany
and then split into British and
French areas after World War One.
Following a referendum, British-run
Southern Camerouns joined the Frenchspeaking
Republic of Cameroun in
1961.
• Activists accuse the government of using excessive force to end protests
It is now divided into the South-West
and North-West regions.
Demands for independence have
grown in the two regions in recent years
and tension has been escalating ahead of
Sunday's planned protests, reports the
BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah from the capital,
Yaoundé.
At least six protesters were killed and
dozens arrested during protests earlier
this year. Access to the internet in the
Anglophone regions was also blocked
from January to April. BBC
• A boy in a class
More than half of schools
in Nigeria's Borno state
remain closed
MOST SCHOOLS in Nigeria's
Borno state remain
shut due to the Boko
Haram conflict the UN children's
agency Unicef said.
Unicef blames the Islamist
militants for deliberately
targeting schools.
The new academic year
started this month but
there's a shortage of teachers
in the area.
School buildings have
also been destroyed in the
ongoing violence.
Justin Forsyth, Unicef's
deputy executive director,
speaking from Maiduguri,
Borno's capital, told the
BBC's Newsday programme
that at least 57 percent of
schools there have been destroyed.
He said that more than
2,295 teachers have been
killed and 19,000 displaced
with nearly 1,400 schools
destroyed in the eight years
of fighting.
Mr Forsyth said,
"There's a need to rebuild
the schools and recruit
teachers and encourage
them to go to these more
dangerous areas".
He also said that three
million children were in
need of emergency education.
BBC