The hurricane Irma has done immense damage to the island St Martin/Sint Maarten, Half French, half Dutch.My news is that I just heard the Dutch interior minister say that the Dutch air force KDC-10 is flying to the West Indies with 110 military personnel and supplies including water for 40 000 people for eight days.
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This proves that the Nobel Peace Prize is worthless. Nothing more than a political tool.
Petition seeks to revoke Suu Kyi's Nobel over Rohingya crisis
Aung San Suu Kyi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 (AFP Photo/ROMEO GACAD)
Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the Nobel committee to revoke Aung San Suu Kyi's peace prize over the Myanmar government's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims.
But the Norwegian Nobel committee has ruled out any such move, saying only that the work which led to the awarding of the prize was taken into account.
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The Change.Org petition has gathered over 365,000 signatures as of Thursday, reflecting growing outrage over a massive security sweep in Rakhine state by Myanmar forces after a series of deadly ambushes by Rohingya militants.
"The de facto ruler of Myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi has done virtually nothing to stop this crime against humanity in her country," the petition says.
Suu Kyi was awarded the prize in 1991, while under house arrest at the hands of Myanmar's military junta, from which she was released in 2010. She then went on to lead her party through the country's first credible elections since independence.
But her government has faced international condemnation for the army's response to the crisis as refugees arrive in Bangladesh with stories of murder, rape and burned villages at the hands of soldiers.
The United Nations said Thursday that about 164,000 mostly Rohingya refugees have escaped to Bangladesh in the past two weeks, meaning more than a quarter of a million have fled since fighting broke out in October.
Suu Kyi lashed out this week at what she called "a huge iceberg of misinformation" over the crisis, "with the aim of promoting the interest of the terrorists".
In Oslo, Olav Njolstad, head of the Nobel Institute, said it was impossible to strip a Nobel laureate of an award once it has been bestowed.
"Neither Alfred Nobel's will nor the statutes of the Nobel Foundation provide for the possibility that a Nobel Prize -- whether for physics, chemistry, medicine, literature or peace -- can be revoked," he told AFP.
"Only the efforts made by a laureate before the attribution of a prize are evaluated by the Nobel committee," he said, and not any subsequent actions.
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If they can take away her Nobel's, then more people will want to take away Obama's and liu xiaobo's. And pretty much everyone else that got a Nobel propaganda prize.
All this stuff on Myanmar recently sounds like a regime change plan had been activated.
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It's interesting how the Burmese activists hated the government before Aung San Suu Kyi got into office and now they're defensive of any criticism of her when she's no different than the government they criticized. And of course I saw an article trying to lay blame on China and Russia for what's happening in Myanmar for not voting for in the UN an investigation over human rights abuses. Then you have another article of how Modi of India is in full support of Myanmar's policies in an apparent move to counter China. So China supports covering up Myanmar's human rights abuses but Modi sides the Myanmar's government as opposed to China...?
And they wonder why China doesn't obey...
And they wonder why China doesn't obey...
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gosh
This is the difference in size between 1992's Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane
This is the difference in size between 1992's Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane
Jura The idiot
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Saturday at 7:43 AM
now noticed
- Irma is the strongest Atlantic basin hurricane ever recorded outside the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea
- It spent three days as a Category 5 hurricane, the longest Category 5 hurricane since satellite storm-tracking began
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now I recalled this post
today in the morning I read in a major Czech server (I lost the link, but it wasn't sensationalist or something) it took a Czech guy four days to be able to leave
in short, he was in the French part (he said in ) during the hurricane and looting started right after, so he moved to the Dutch part (because he thought it'd be safer there), found a hotel, but later was asked to leave (they said the hotel closed), which he didn't, claiming it was his shelter and telling the personnel he would send the pictures to BBC and CNN (then they let him be LOL) ... during daylight he had been waiting for an airplane ... the first day just US and Dutch arrived, taking only US and Dutch citizens on board ... then next day the same plus medical evacuations ... then the same with Canadian aircraft ... finally made it to a French aircraft which was accepting EU citizens
it was obvious from the article he had money etc.
it wasn't obvious though why he had gone there at that time or why he hadn't left earlier I mean before the trouble