10 METRO Wednesday, September 23, 2009 D METROWorld CHINA: Pupils at a primary school in Dexing stand to form a giant Chinese national flag to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the founding of the Republic Picture: Reuters VENEZUELA: Police have begun opening unmarked graves of people killed during riots in Caracas 20 years ago. Public investigators removed remains from one of the citys main cemeteries and hope to match them to some of the hundreds of riot victims who died in unrest sparked in 1989 by increases in petrol prices. The evidence could help bring to justice officials who rights activists say ordered security forces to open fire. Twenty years of impunity must end here, this must set a precedent that soldiers and politicians cannot kill people again, said Jose Luis Martinez, 42, who lost a kidney in the protests. He says he was shot by a policeman for being on the street. ViEtNAm: Sixteen people went on trial yesterday for allegedly selling more than 250 babies for foreign adoption. The head of two social welfare centres in Nam Dinh province, as well as several doctors and nurses at village clinics, were up in court. They are charged with abuse of power and authority and could face prison terms of five to ten years. The defendants allegedly solicited infants from single mothers and those from poor families, falsifying documents to claim the babies had been abandoned at clinics, making them eligible for adoption. They allegedly sent 266 babies for foreign adoption from 2005 to July 2008, when the activity was discovered. thAiLANd: The countrys 81-year-old king, the worlds longest-serving monarch, remained in hospital for a fourth day yesterday with what the palace described as a lack of appetite and a low fever. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pictured) was admitted to a Bangkok hospital on Saturday with fatigue. A statement from the Royal Household Bureau said the kings fever was lower but he can eat very little and remained on a glucose drip. Doctors were treating the king with antibiotics, the statement added. NEW ZEALANd: Students filming an armed robbery came face-to- face with police who believed they were dealing with a real crime. The film producers from the Wintec technology institute complained they had been given permission by police to make the crime drama but then discovered they were filming on the wrong day. Police confiscated a shotgun and five airguns. RWANdA: President Paul Kagame said his country and neighbouring Congo are making progress in restoring peace to war-torn central Africa. Mr Kagame (pictured) said a January offensive by forces from both countries aimed at disarming Rwandan Hutu fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo achieved a major breakthrough by drastically decreasing fighting and seriously weakening the command of the rebels. But he said both countries recognise that there is still a lot of work to be done. Were making very good progress. hONdURAS: Ousted president Manuel Zelaya and the government must find a way to talk to avoid violence following his return from exile to the Central American nation, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. Its imperative that dialogue begin ... (that) there be a channel of communication between Mr Zelaya (pictured) and the de facto regime in Honduras, Mrs Clinton said after she met Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, who sought to broker a resolution to the crisis that followed Mr Zelayas June 28 exile. iRAN: Human rights groups have urged the UN to appoint a special envoy to investigate abuses in the country, alleging detainees held after disputed elections have been raped and tortured. Iran has called the allegations baseless. Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said 400 prisoners remained in custody for suspected involvement in election protests following the vote in which president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected. The opposition says the poll was rigged. As many as 72 Iranians have been killed by government forces since the election, and several have been tortured and sexually abused, the groups allege. AmERiCA: The fourth racketeering trial of John Junior Gotti has begun in New York City with the government portraying the mob heir as a maniacal killer and chronic criminal who has dodged prison by intimidating witnesses and obstructing justice. Assistant US Attorney Elie Honig pointed at the son of the late Gambino boss of the same name, telling jurors Gotti had risen from a vicious and violent street criminal to a savvy and money-hungry business criminal. Gottis lawyer, Charles Carnesi, tried to debunk that image by telling a jury that his client never participated in murders and had quit the mob in 1999 by pleading guilty to federal charges. Illegal migrants camp bulldozedBy NICOLAS GARRIGAA squAlid, sprawling forest camp known as The Jungle near the northern city of Calais was cleared out and bulldozed by police yester- day. Hundreds of illegal migrants who had hoped to slip across the English Channel into Britain were detained. French immigration Minister Eric Besson, who visited the site yester- day, called it a base camp for hu- man traffickers and said he would return the rule of law to the northern French coast. The people who camped there mainly migrants from Afghanistan have strained relations between Britain and France, and become a symbol of Europes struggle with il- legal migration. A total of 278 people nearly half of them children were detained in the operation, said Pierre de Bous- quet de Florian, the top official for the Pas-de-Calais region. This op- eration is not targeting the migrants themselves, it is targeting the logis- tics of the human traffickers ... who exploit them, he said. Refugees in jeans and sweatshirts, many appearing to be in their teens, carried knapsacks and blankets as they were led away in single lines by police. Activists yelled at police with bullhorns. some formed a human chain around the refugees and brief- ly scuffled with officers as they took the men and boys one by one. several refugees appeared de- spondent about their fate, sobbing quietly as they squatted in the sand or stood in police lines. Mr Besson said there was no violence in the op- eration and all personal belongings were collected and were being sort- ed out in the Calais mosque. Thirty interpreters and a medical team were helping authorities and 200 temporary beds had been arranged for the migrants. After the people were cleared out, authorities sent in bulldozers to raze the maze of makeshift tents built from sticks and sheets of plastic amid the sand and brush. Workers with chainsaws cut down the trees and scrub brush that had supported the tents. Activist group Refugee Action called the police operation horrific and inhumane but agreed the camp should not have been permitted to sprout up in the first place. Resistance: Activists clashed with French gendarmes at The Jungle camp yesterday Picture: AFP index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html