Dalai Lama awarded in US despite China anger
The Dalai Lama was bestowed Friday with a US award for his
commitment to democracy, the latest honor for the Tibetan spiritual
leader despite China’s angry protests over his White House
welcome.One day after President Barack Obama met the exiled monk at
the White House in defiance of Chinese warnings, the National
Endowment for Democracy gave the Dalai Lama a medallion before a
packed crowd at the Library of Congress.
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Guinea opposition bloodbath a crime against humanity
The massacre of opposition supporters by Guinea’s
military junta in September 2009 amounted to a crime against
humanity, the deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court
has said.“As the deputy prosecutor of the ICC, I end this visit with
the feeling that crimes of the order of crimes against humanity were
committed,” Fatou Bensouda told reporters at the end of a three-day
mission to Conakry on Friday.Bensouda spoke of “atrocious crimes”
committed on September 28 in Conakry’s biggest stadium, adding “men
in uniform attacked civilians, they killed and wounded.
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