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In Jan. 2012, the Costa Concordia ran aground off a small Italian island, killing 32 passengers and injuring others
on board. Ship captain Francesco Schettino is now on trial for manslaughter and abandoning ship. Schettino
claims that at the time of shipwreck,“the ship was literally falling on top of him and he fell into the lifeboat,”
according to CNN. Schettino’s crew members contend otherwise.“Francesco Schettino jumped into the
lifeboat,” Stefano lannelli, a crew member who allegedly followed Schettino, testified at a court in Grosseto, Italy.
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is that Typhoon Haiyan
has killed too many to
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survivors as “worse than
hell,” Haiyan wrecked the
Philippine islands from the
East, displacing at least 800,000
people. On Nov. 12, four
days after the storm made
landfall. Marine Corps Brig.
Gen. Paul Kennedy called
for a dispatch of U.S. Navy
amphibious ships, CNN
reports. Kennedy intends
for the specialized vessels
to carry helicopters,
small boats, trucks and
equipment to produce
potable water.
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flexible program encourages
dropout students to return
to school and make inroads in
education at their own pace.
Gulf of Guinea, Nigeria
An analyst declared “extreme danger” after two U.S. sailors were kidnapped by armed pirates off the coast of
Nigeria on Oct. 23. Nearly three weeks later, the U.S. Department of State has confirmed release and rescue of the
sailors, both believed to be U.S. citizens. Infiltrated by criminal gangs who account for over 200 incidents involving
piracy in 2013, the Gulf of Guinea is the top kidnap hot-spot in the world, the International Maritime Bureau reports.
Tiananmen Square vehide crash gives rise to smoke, suspicions, allegations
BY RISHAB REYANKAR
World & Nation Editor
Beijing is on alert.
On Oct. 28, a 4x4 vehicle lurched through
a crowd of tourists at Tiananmen Square,
eventually slamming into a guardrail and
bursting into flames.
After the incident left five dead and 38
injured, witnesses and police agreed that the
crash was deliberate.
But nearly three weeks afterward, many
continue to wonder whether the incident was
an act of terror or a final cry of desperation?
Chinese authorities have given their
answer.
"The attack in Beijing was organized
and premeditated," China's security chief
Meng Jianzhu told Phoenix Television.
"The instigator behind the scenes is the
East Turkestan Islamic Movement terrorist
organization that operates in Central and
West Asia."
"Activists from the western province of
Xinxiang are playing some kind of role in
the incident," Ryong Oh, editorial director
of the Asia Journalist Association, told The
Guilfordian in a phone interview.
Commonly associated with the Uighur
Muslim ethnic minority, the ETIM hails from
Xinxiang and faces the blame for nearly 200
acts of terrorism.
"After 9/11, China managed to convince
the U.S. government and the U.N. that ETIM
of
Tiananmen Square, made famous by the 1989 protests, may be the site of another political incident.
is a terrorist group," Chien-peng Chung,
author of "China's 'War on Terror' and
Uighur Separatism," told The Guilfordian in
a phone interview.
"But are they a force to be reckoned with?
Are they responsible for the Tiananmen
crash? I really don't know," Chung said.
Although the Chinese government
indicated ETIM as the perpetrator within
24 hours of the incident, many, like Chung,
fail to see the evidence linking ETIM to the
violence.
"Beijing is trying to link the attack
with terrorism, because it provides better
justification for their initiative to suppress
Muslim groups," said Professor of Political
Science George Guo.
Umberto Bacchi, journalist for
International Business Times, expressed
a similar sentiment in an email to The
Guilfordian.
"Branding an attack as the work of
jihadists and Muslim terrorists makes it
easier for Chinese authorities to justify the
quelling of dissent in Xinxiang," Bacchi said.
As Bacchi suggests, Beijing's pointing a
finger at ETIM may be the result of a long
and complicated relationship with Muslim
groups in Xinxiang.
"The extremely exciting developments in
China have disproportionately benefitted
the Han Chinese compared to the Uighur
people," said Associate Professor
Religious Studies Eric Mortensen.
"So even if the Uighurs or ETIM are
responsible, there's justification for the
discontent," Mortensen said. 'They're
very hard-pressed politically, religiously
and economically. The situations in the
back alleys of cities in Xinxiang are pretty
desperate."
Mortensen studied abroad in Beijing as
an undergraduate and has spent months
living with nomadic communities during his
travels to China.
Zhonghao Cui, a native of Kunming,
China, and Guo both believe that dissent
played a role in instigating the attack.
"You see incidents like these recurring
in China," Guo said. "I think it could be
anyone voicing dissatisfaction and deciding
to retaliate against the government."
"This was clearly amateurish," said Cui,
who currently studies at The University
of Texas at Austin, in an email interview.
"It's likely a protest against the corrupt
government by some private citizen."
While the rest of the world awaits
evidence to confirm the attackers' identities,
Chinese security forces are addressing an
issue of their own.
"This was an attack that shook a symbolic
and tightly controlled place like Tiananmen
Square," Bacchi said. "It's not often you
see smoke billowing next to the portrait of
Chairman Mao at the Tiananmen Gate."