3 July 2015

Protecting and Honoring Victims

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This week we look at human frailty with some fighting for law and order and others abusing it while disasters show no discrimination.

Law & Order


We begin in Hong Kong where tens of thousands marched at a pro-democracy rally marking the 18th anniversary of Britain handing the territory back to China but while some marched remembering their freedoms others were attacked in Turkey when police fired water cannons, rubber pellets and tear gas to disperse people at a gay pride event in Istanbul.

On the other side of the law this week saw an end to the New York prisoner escape when Richard Matt was shot and killed while the second fugitive David Sweat was shot and taken into custody. Australia saw one of it's largest prisons descend into chaos when a smoking bad was introduced causing prisoners to riot and finally we have a mother who admitted to killing her two children and leaving their bodies in her freezer.

Disasters


The week saw multiple disasters strike across the globe, we begin with an explosion in Taiwan at a water park which has claimed two lives and an explosion at a chemical plant in South Korea which killed 6 workers. In Indonesia a military aircraft crash claimed a staggering 144 lives while an army train accident in Pakistan saw 17 people die followed by 38 people dying when a Philippine ferry capsized.

We end the week with closure on some previous disasters with a report on the TransAsia crash claiming human error when the pilot pulled the wrong throttle shutting down the sole working engine causing the crash.

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