Published on : 04/03/2021 – 07:43
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On the front page of the press, this Thursday, March 4, the bloody repression, yesterday, in Burma, of the opponents of the coup d’etat of February 1. Brazil hit hard by the second wave of Covid-19. The equivalent of the Australian justice minister accused of rape. And a cat who wanted to travel for free.
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On the front page of the press, the brutal repression of the demonstrations against the coup d’état in Burma, where nearly thirty people were killed during the single day yesterday.
The Irrawady evokes a “bloody day”, during which at least 38 people were killed, the police having fired with live ammunition on the unarmed demonstrators. Faced with this bloodbath, the opposition newspaper wants to believe that the game is not yet lost and assures that “the national uprising, sudden but vigorous, continues to gain momentum, despite the repression that has taken place. slaughtered all over the country “. The newspaper regrets, however, the lack of support from Asean, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose reluctance it denounces: “The Burmese people know that Asean is not democratic, that many its members are semi-democracies or authoritarian regimes.
Burmese youth make fun of Asean, China and Japan, and all the countries that pretend to support them lip service. ”Burma’s neighbors are worried above all about the instability in the country. “Besides the fate of Burmese citizens, what is at stake is the future of Southeast Asia”: Asia Times expresses concern about the “transnational” consequences of the coup. “The weakening of democracy dissuades foreign investment in the country,” notes the site, citing the example of the Japanese conglomerate Kirin Holdings, which announced to end its activities in Burma. Asia Times predicts that “the sudden upheaval in Burmese politics will have lasting implications, which will likely extend far beyond the country’s borders.”
Also on the front page, the record number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in Brazil, hit hard by the second wave of the pandemic. According to The Folha de São Paulo, the country has recorded more than a thousand deaths every day for almost a month and a half. A massacre which brings to some 260,000 deaths, the number of Brazilian victims of the Covid-19. “Brazil is currently going through the deadliest week it has known since the start of the pandemic”: the newspaper estimates that the country is “reaping the poisoned fruits of disorientation, ignorance, neglect and the lack of foresight “of the government, and in particular of President Jair Bolsonaro, whose call to boycott the masks he curbs, in the middle of the second epidemic wave, while the vaccination campaign” is dragging “and that the hospitals are completely overwhelmed.
In Australia, the Attorney General, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice, publicly denied the rape charges against him yesterday. The accusations were brought to the attention of Prime Minister Scott Morrison and several parliamentarians last week via an anonymous letter – a letter written by friends of the alleged victim, who had committed suicide last year, to the ‘age 49, the alleged facts going back to 1988. Christian Porter, 50, therefore admitted, yesterday, in tears, to be the person targeted by these accusations, which he however categorically denies.
The Australian, for his part, recalls that this new affair erupts after the government has already been splashed last month by other accusations of rape and says that it is “impossible” to know the truth about what happened in the 33-year-old case that if “Australians want justice for the victims of (this crime), they also await proper investigations, know that not all rape accusations are true and support the presumption of innocence “. The Sydney Morning Herald, on the other hand, is much more skeptical, and calls for the opening of an independent investigation, to shed light on this affair, accusing Scott Morrison of having sought to suffocate it – a strategy that the newspaper considers “harmful “for the image of Australia and for the rights of women in the country.
Accused, him, of sexual harassment, the governor of the State of New York, refuses to resign. Figure in the anti-Covid fight in the United States, promised a national career, Andrew Cuomo finds himself under pressure from his Republican opponents, but also from part of his own camp, according to Politico, which reports the embarrassment of the Democratic Party – which until then presented itself as the great defender, as the spearhead of the #MeToo movement, in particular during the case of Brett Kavanaugh, this conservative judge, whose appointment to the Supreme Court was almost compromised by sexual assault charges.
Before saying to you soon, I suggest you take a look at the Guardian, which tells how a little cat single-handedly caused a big mess on Tuesday at London’s Euston station, forcing all passengers to change trains due to his refusal to leave the roof of a locomotive. The free rider obviously intended to travel to Manchester by eye. The negotiations, what am I saying, the standoff with the station staff, who had great difficulty in convincing the beast to leave its place, lasted two and a half hours.
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