US begins mass deportations of Haitian migrants as Haiti calls for moratorium

Haitian officials say they can't cope with thousands of homeless deportees in the middle of a national crisis. [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [View in your browser]( [Top of The World]( --------------------------------------------------------------- What The World is following US begins mass deportations of Haitian migrants as Haiti calls for moratorium [A National Guardsman walks along a border fence near the International Bridge where thousand of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have formed a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 20, 2021.] Credit: Eric Gay/AP Haiti The US has begun [mass deportations]( of Haitian migrants who were camping out under the Del Rio International Bridge in Texas along the US-Mexico border. [More than 320 migrants]( arrived back in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday — with more flights expected this week. An estimated 12,000 people were taking shelter under the bridge in unbearable heat without proper food and water. Haitian migration officials have asked the US for a “[humanitarian moratorium](,” citing an inability to cope with thousands of homeless deportees in the middle of a national crisis. Over the past several months, Haiti has dealt with a massive earthquake, the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and COVID-19. Rwanda A Rwandan court has convicted Paul Rusesabagina of terrorism for backing a rebel group in a series of attacks that killed nine civilians in 2018, and awaits sentencing. His family says he was [forcefully taken to Rwanda]( from exile for the trial. Rusesabagina was portrayed as a hero in the 2004 Oscar-nominated Hollywood movie “Hotel Rwanda,” which depicted the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Rights groups are calling the move a “[show trial](” against critics of Rwanda’s president. Prosecutors have been [seeking a life sentence]( for Rusesabagina on nine charges, including terrorism, arson and directing an armed rebel group from abroad. His daughter Carine Kanimba has spoken out against the verdict, saying, “the script was written long before he entered the courtroom.” Russia At least six people have been killed, and two dozen others wounded, in a shooting at a Russian university in the city of Perm, around 800 miles east of Moscow. Russia’s Investigative Committee says the [suspect is a student]( at the university, and has opened a murder probe into the incident. Around 3,000 of the 12,000 students enrolled at the university were on campus at the time of the shooting, and some of them barricaded their classroom doors with chairs to prevent the shooter from entering. [Local media]( showed some students throwing their belongings out of first-floor windows and jumping out to run to safety. 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