| Man Dies Following Assault At Monroe Motel
MONROE, Wash. -- A spokesman for the Monroe police department said a 46-year-old man was assaulted at a motel early Tuesday morning and later died at a hospital, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. According to family members the victim is 46-year-old Kenny Wolfe. Tuesday evening police responded to the industrial area of Monroe arrested a man they said they believe is responsible for Wolfes death. Police said the victim was the manager of the Brookside Motel in the 19900 block of state Route 2. From what I heard it was somebody who had stayed here before and was into a lot of drugs, and had to be evicted, the victims brother-in-law Ed Slyter said. Slyter said he thinks the person who killed his brother-in-law returned to the motel Tuesday morning to confront the victim.
Thaksin party 'can form alliance'
The PPP, allied to ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, did not gain enough seats in Sunday's poll to rule outright. The rival Democrat party still hopes it can form its own coalition and keep the PPP out of power. According to unofficial election results, the PPP won 232 seats in Sunday's poll, while the Democrats won 165. The PPP needs to gain at least nine more seats if it is to take office. However, BBC correspondents in Bangkok say the political landscape is still uncertain. More negotiations are likely in the coming weeks and smaller parties may come under pressure from the military not to form a coalition with PPP. Vote investigations Surapong Suebwonglee, secretary general of the PPP, told a press conference in Bangkok: "Other parties have agreed to join a coalition, which would give us more than half of the seats in parliament." .
V. Human Rights Abuses of Street Children
Indeed, the CRC requires the state to provide special protection and assistance to children who are temporarily or permanently deprived of their family environment.93 Nevertheless, our research suggests that the round ups of children in Hanoi often are primarily carried out to make them less visibleparticularly to visitors to Vietnamrather than to further their best interests. The combination of the questionable authority on which police detain these children, the purposes for which they are detained, and the absence of any judicial process or oversight for their detention renders the detention of these children following massive sweeps arbitrary and unlawful under international law. Most children interviewed by Human Rights Watch said they were picked up from public placesparks, restaurants, tea houses, and streetsby between two and four regular police officers or members of Canh Sat 113 (an emergency mobile police force), sometimes together with brown- or green-uniformed government security guards (bao ve),who patrol the lake areas and other tourist spots.94 In some cases, many children are rounded up at the same time and put into police vans, which are often stationed across the street from Hoan Kiem Lake.
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