INTERNATIONAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2014 Police, protesters clash in St Louis ST LOUIS: Police clashed with protesters in St Louis on St Louis Police Chief told local television sta- of the officer who killed Brown, and want to draw attention to Thursday for a second night after an officer killed a black tion Fox 2 that at one point during the tense protest, someone police treatment of black Americans. Protest organizers said teenager, ahead of a weekend of planned rallies in the area behind the massive crowd threw a knife that struck an officer’s they are planning only peaceful activities, but fear that over the August killing of unarmed black teenager Michael body vest at the shoulder. He added that a police car and sev- Wednesday’s killing of the black teen might trigger violent Brown. eral businesses and residences had been damaged and that outbursts. “We never advocate violence ... But I do know that Throughout the night, as many as 400 demonstrators US flags were burned. Two people had been arrested by mid- people were angry last night and they will be out this week- spread out across several city blocks in south St. Louis, angrily night local time, Dotson said, during which one officer suffered end,” said Tory Russell, a leader of . “I don’t shouting and chanting at rows of police officers, many of minor injuries. know what they are going to do.” whom were clad in riot gear. Dozens of protesters had met ear- At least 6,000 have registered on an organizing website for lier at the site in the Shaw neighborhood where 18-year-old Police treatment the “weekend of resistance” events in and around Ferguson, Vonderrit Myers Jr. was shot dead on Wednesday by an off- The St Louis area is bracing for further unrest over the which kicked off yesterday with a “Justice Now” march to the duty white officer working for a private security firm in what killing of Brown by a white police officer two months ago, with office of St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch. The police described as a firefight. But demonstrations grew Myers’ death on Wednesday expected to add fuel to the fire. weekend is to be capped with actions of “civil disobedience” increasingly chaotic. At one point early yesterday morning, a Several civil rights organizations and protest groups, including on Monday. Organizers said they are also planning to create a line of police pushed towards a group of several dozen pro- Hands Up United, planned to mark the weekend with marches “memory altar” to victims of police violence and to hold a can- testers who jeered and cursed at them, pepper-spraying those and rallies in St. Louis and the suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, dlelight march carrying a coffin to the Ferguson Police who refused to disperse. where Brown was killed. The groups are demanding the arrest Department.— Reuters Pakistani teen and India activist win Peace Prize Yousafzai, youngest Nobel winner at 17 OSLO: Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head by the Taleban in 2012 for advocating girls’ right to education, and Indian campaigner against child traffick- ing and labor Kailash Satyarthi won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize yesterday. Yousafzai, aged 17, becomes the youngest Nobel Prize win- SANTA MONICA: Ariel Jalali (R), CEO of Sensay, offers US ner and 60-year-old Satyarthi the first Indian- President a job when he’s out of office, dur- born winner of the accolade. They were ing a Q&A session at Cross Campus, a shared office com- picked for their struggle against the oppres- plex in Santa Monica, Thursday. — AFP sion of children and young people, and for the right of all children to education, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said. New mass graves The sharing of the award between an Indian and a Pakistani came after a week of hostilities along the border of the disputed, found of missing mainly Muslim region of Kashmir - the worst fighting between the nuclear-armed rivals in Mexican students more than a decade. “The Nobel Committee regards it as an important point for a Hindu IGUALA: The case of 43 Mexican students missing since an and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to This photo combo shows Indian children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi attack by gang-linked police took another grim turn Thursday join in a common struggle for education and (left) and Malala Yousafzai. Satyarthi of India and Yousafzai of Pakistan jointly with the discovery of new mass graves where suspects said against extremism,” said Thorbjoern won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, for risking their lives to fight for chil- some were buried. Jagland, the head of the Norwegian Nobel dren’s rights. — AP Four new suspects took investigators to the site of the four Committee. Kristian Berg Harpviken, head of pits, 200 kilometers (125 miles) south of Mexico City, but the the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, school bus in the Swat Valley of northwest You are going to build it strong. It is you who number of bodies remains unknown, said Attorney General described the joint award “an innovative Pakistan by masked gunmen as a punish- can lead the charge.” Jesus Murillo Karam. prize that brings attention to the problems ment for a blog that she wrote for the BBC’s of the young”. Satyarthi said he hoped to “They say there are remains of students,” Murillo Karam Urdu service as an 11-year-old to campaign Fighting child slavery work with Yousafzai for peace. “I will invite said, adding that some of the bodies appeared burned. against the Taleban’s efforts to deny women Satyarthi, who gave up a career as an her to join hands to establish peace for our The discovery has put another dent on hopes of finding an education. Unable to return to Pakistan electrical engineer in 1980 to campaign subcontinent, which is a must for children, after her recovery, Yousafzai moved to against child labour, has headed various the students alive almost two weeks after they were pursued which is a must for every Indian, for every by Iguala police officers accused of working in tandem with England, setting up the Malala Fund and sup- forms of peaceful protests and demonstra- Pakistani, for every citizen of the world,” he porting local education advocacy groups tions, focusing on the exploitation of children the Guerreros Unidos gang. said at the New Delhi office of his organiza- The pits are “relatively” close to the location of another with a focus on Pakistan, Nigeria, Jordan, for financial gain. “It is a disgrace for every tion, Bachpan Bachao Andolan, or Save the Syria and Kenya. Her former teacher, Ahmed human being if any child is working as a child mass grave found last weekend in the southern state of Childhood Movement. Yousafzai later told Shah, said the peace prize was wonderful slave in any part of the world,” Satyarthi said. Guerrero that contained 28 unidentified bodies, the attorney reporters in the English city of Birmingham news for Pakistan. “This is a breath of fresh air, “I feel very proud to be an Indian that in India general said. Two hitmen confessed to executing 17 of the where she now lives that she had spoken by a gift for Pakistan, at a time when we are I was able to keep this fight on for the last 30 students and dumping them in the mass grave found last telephone with Satyarthi yesterday and they embroiled in terrorism and violence and years or so. This is a great recognition and Saturday. Authorities have said it will take at least two weeks had agreed to invite the prime ministers of wars,” Shah told Reuters by telephone from honor for all my fellow Indians.” In a recent to identify the bodies through DNA analysis. India and Pakistan to the ceremony in the Swat Valley. “Those who oppose her, editorial, Satyarthi said that data from non- The case has outraged Mexicans, who held protests across December. extremist elements or whoever else, they government organizations indicated that the country Wednesday to demand the return of the students, “The tension that is going on is really dis- have been rendered irrelevant. They are a child laborers could number 60 million in in a nation that has lost tens of thousands of people to drug appointing and I’m really sad because I want weak minority.” India - 6 percent of the total population. violence since 2006. both countries to have dialogue to have talks Yousafzai addressed the UN Youth “Children are employed not just because Authorities say crooked officers shot at buses the students about peace,” she said. Yousafzai said she Assembly last year at an event Secretary- of parental poverty, illiteracy, ignorance, fail- had seized to return home on September 26, sparking a night had found out about winning the Nobel General Ban Ki-moon called “Malala Day”. ure of development and education pro- of violence that left six people dead, 25 wounded and 43 Peace Prize yesterday from a teacher during a This year she travelled to Nigeria to demand grams, but quite essentially due to the fact missing. Surveillance cameras showed several students being chemistry lesson, adding that the news had the release of 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by that employers benefit immensely from child taken away in patrol cars. come as a big surprise. “This is not the end of the Islamist group Boko Haram. “To the girls labor as children come across as the cheap- Murillo Karam said there are several lines of investigation this campaign which I have started. I think of Nigeria and across Africa, and all over the est option, sometimes working even for free,” into the motive but that the city’s mayor, Jose Luis Abarca, his this is really the beginning. I want to see world, I want to say: don’t let anyone tell you he wrote. Last month, based on a complaint wife and the public security director are wanted for question- every child going to school,” she said, adding that you are weaker than or less than any- filed by his organization in a Delhi court, the ing. The trio have apparently gone into hiding. The mayor’s she felt “really honored”. thing,” she said in a speech. “You are not less Indian government was forced to put in wife, Maria de los Angeles Pineda Villa, is the sister of two late than a boy,” Yousafzai said. “You are not less place regulations to protect domestic work- members of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel, which founded the ‘A breath of fresh air’ than a child from a richer or more powerful ers who are often physically and sexually Guerreros Unidos. —AFP Yousafzai was attacked in 2012 on a country. You are the future of your country. abused and exploited.—Reuters