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TENS OF THOUSANDS of people were evacuated from flood-prone areas of Beijing as Typhoon Doksuri lashed China’s capital with heavy rain today and residents were urged to stay indoors.
The deadly storm has been sweeping northeast over China since Friday, when it careened into the southern Fujian province after battering the Philippines.
The Chinese capital and surrounding region were drenched over the weekend, with officials warning of potentially hazardous conditions including floods, swelling rivers, mudslides and landslides.
More than 27,000 people in high-risk areas of Beijing have been evacuated, and another 20,000 were relocated from parts of Hebei’s capital Shijiazhuang, state media said.
Hundreds of millions of people in northern China, including in Beijing, remain under a red alert – the highest level – for heavy precipitation through at least to Monday afternoon.
It is the first time since 2011 that such a heavy rainfall warning has been issued, according to local media. Beijing residents were urged not to go outside unless necessary, advice that appeared widely heeded with the usually buzzing streets empty of many cars or pedestrians.
Many popular sites in the capital were temporarily closed, including the Forbidden City, libraries and museums.
The sprawling National Centre for the Performing Arts, located near Tiananmen Square, cancelled opera and musical performances scheduled for today.
China has posted record temperatures this summer, with scientists saying the extreme weather was being exacerbated by climate change.
Doksuri was initially categorised as a super typhoon as it tore across the Pacific Ocean earlier this week, but it lost some intensity as it neared the Philippines, where it killed more than a dozen people.
It still brought colossal waves and howling winds of up to 175 kilometres per hour to China’s southeast on Friday, causing significant damage.
More than 880,000 people in Fujian province were affected by the storm, state media said Sunday.
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Died in a nice comfortable bed at the age of 98…. I hope he had a miserable life with nightmares of what he did
Na, ever listen to ex nazis memoirs? No guilt whatsoever.
R.i.p
Hell got a fuel supplement on Saturday…
now he will meet his maker
Ah the Sun, print lies about the hillsborough tragedy then hunt nazis to make amends
Absolutely nothing to do with Hillsborough. As vile as it was it’s got nothing to do with what this sick freak did
Never said it was, just thought it was nice to see that The Sun “newspaper” tracked him down
Get over it. The sun didn’t cause the hilsbrough. And this has nothin to do with that.
Get over it?? The holocaust or hillsborough, neither one should be forgotten
Get over the suns non part in it. So they printed lies. Big deal. Papers print lies every day.
and now they are the paradigm of virtue, shining light of nazi hunters, “we tracked down fritz, read the full account on page 3 under a photo of some slapper with her tits out and a story about justin biebers latest bowel movement”
They are a joke. All tabloids are.
What a pity he died in hospital pitu it wasnt dangling at the end of a rope (if guilty)
He got off lightly
This man was just a soldier doing his duty during a war. He can’t be held accountable for this once the war is over. He’s no more guilty than Americans who killed people in Iraq or Irish who killed the British during our own war.
Agreed..
Very evil man who enjoyed following his orders without remorse.
Just like some of the modern day war criminals we have today.
Put down the crackpipeTony!!!
Put down the crackpipe Tony!!!
Just a soldier following orders…. Do he whipped and tortured people because he had no choice? Everyone has a choice and everyone is accountable for what they do
Yeah, soldiers who are complicit in significant war crimes should totally walk free shouldn’t they? On that basis, Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels could nearly be acquitted. At Nuremberg, it was decided that wrong is wrong; laws that go against the grain of humanity and allow for the killing of some six million innocent people in a genocide are wrong laws. In your world, My Lai would be fine and the Nazis would be forgettable, like the genocide in Eastern Europe just twenty years ago. Give me a break: every book, film and effort at international peace in the world says you’re wrong.
Awful examples. You seem to have a very skewed view of what a soldier does. The US military didn’t engage in the systematic extrermination of the Iraqi people in gas chambers. Although their behaviour in the Iraq was less than humane a lot of the time, the idea that they are no better than the Nazis is ludicrous.
As for the Irish fighting the British, they were fighting a guerrilla war against an occupation that would be more suited to be compared to the Nazis, even that’s a far stretch.
Of course war criminals can held accountable for their actions after a conflict. That’s what the ICC is for. Anyone who breaks the Geneva convention should stand trial. Although the Geneva convention was written after the second world war, it still applies to those who commited those brutal crimes against humanity againts Jews, gays, gypsies and the handicapped.
To say they were just following orders is the exact kind of complacency that gave birth to The Third Reich.
Surely the bombers who dropped Atomic bombs on Japan should be prosecuted as war criminals?
Similarly those that bombed Dresden, a city of refugees.
Absolutely they should. The bombing of Dresden was the worst act of collective punishment in the European theatre of WW2, as was the Nuking of Japan in the Pacific.
Thhe time has passed to be able to bring those responsible for the Armenian Holocaust to justice. But the US allies in the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan should be held accountable for the deaths of up to 3000 prisoners in 2001. Which the US knew about.
Some difference I would have thought between murdering Nazis and brave men trying to free Ireland from what was a foreign invader.
* murderous Nazis.
Anyone who knows anything about the slaughter at Okinawa will realise that the nuking of Japan saved millions of lives, as the next alternative was an invasion of the Japanese home islands. In Okinawa thousands of Japanese civilians resorted to killing their own children and themselves because they had been told by the Japanese military that the American would turn them all into slaves and comfort women (as the Japanese had done in Manchuria and other replaces in Asia). The Japanese military was clearly willing to countenance the complete annihilation of the Japanese people to fight off an invasion. The nuclear bombs denied them a chance of glorious defeat, and so saved the lives of millions.
The irish must say you must be a brit lover putting us in the same sentence; lure fool you are .
Aha the lad with the 3 pronged fork is waiting for him :)
If only
We don’t see Bush, Obama or any of the rest of the warmongers on trial, but I suppose they kill people in a much nicer way so that’s ok? And if books and films say I’m wrong then I guess that proves it. However, most of these books and films are written by Americans and British so they might be slightly biased.
I’m confused Tony, are you justifying what this man did by comparing him to other people who do wrong. Do you think he deserved to get away with it ( which he did) because there are other evils in the world? What exactly is your point here?
You can’t compare the Holocaust to modern day deaths. Not even in the same league
f£ck the much use that is to the victims , they are still dead.
Killjoy. He is charged with being responsible for deaths of 15,000 people.
Bush Senior (WW2) is responsible for enabling Germany to fight a war that caused the deaths of 10s of millions.
Bush the 2nd (Gulf War 1) responsible for killing at least 5 times what Csatari is charged with.
Bush the 3rd is responsible for killing at least 10 times what Csatari is charged with.
Comparing people. Not overall events.
The American butchers who designed , created and atom bombed two cities on totally innocent civilians ,non-combatants,old men ,women and children and babies killing 100 000s are still walking around free. The British butchers who firebombed cities with innocent Japanese women and babies killing 10 000s are also walking around free. Nobody is reporting this though.
“History is written by the victors”
I suppose they should have ended the war with an invasion of the home islands and allowed millions of soldiers and Japanese civilians to be killed instead, eh? If you’re in any doubt, look at the stats for Okinawa and multiply by at least 10. Okinawa disproves the ” they were about to surrender anyway” theory that anti-American zealots usually use to point the finger at the one nation that stood between the Axis forces and world domination.
Should have been hung with his poisonous comrades. Filth.
As an atheist I don’t believe in any deity or afterlife but if I’m wrong then I hope this man is in eternal torment. Hopefully this will help bring closure to the remaining holocaust survivors & their families.
That pic is Auschwitz 1 which actually just looks like a school outside ,I witnessed 2 asian girls burst into tears merely from the atmosphere of the place. It is really is haunting , Auschwitz 2 isn’t half as eerie.
Yes, some awful sorrow descends on you once you see that place and stays with you forever. It’s the saddest, most haunting and eerie place I have ever visited. Rightly so. You can almost tangibly feel the horrors that occurred.
Hopefully it was extremely painful
As an atheist I don’t believe in any deity or afterlife but if I’m wrong then I hope this man is in eternal torment. Hopefully this will help bring closure to the remaining holocaust survivors & their families.
The irony is he will be cremated
I hope someone has tracked down every piece of art he dealt with while in Canada to make sure none of it was stolen off any families during the war who were rounded up by the nazi.
If he knew Vatican was smuggling war criminals from the continent into Ireland, he would have been running some legit business like Folen, printing school books or the like.
The world is a better place without him
Laffin…an meanwhile barrak and the shaved chimp before him
Travel the world and do after dinner speeches…
Watch the film “Shoah”. This film is all the education anyone will ever need with regard to the holocaust.
the nazis were well ahead when it came to wartime technology. when they lost the war America stoled all there technology and within a decade later there were a super power ? makes ya think
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