Nagaland Post, Dimapur FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 2020
PLA fires missiles into South China Sea
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Christchurch mosque gunman sentenced to life without parole Christchurch, Aug 27 (IANS): The gunman who killed 51 people at two mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch city in 2019 was sentenced to life in prison without parole, a court announced on Thursday. The verdict, which is the first of its kind in New Zealand, came after three days of the final hearing of the case at the High Court in Christchurch, reports Xinhua news agency.
The 29-year-old Australian gunman, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, was sentenced on 51 murder charges, 40 attempted murder charges and one terrorism charge. A total of 91 victims or their families gave impact statements at the hearing that started on Monday. According to the description of the shooting read at the court, “the defendant turned to his right and
craft-carrier killer”, into the South China Sea (SCS) on Wednesday morning, a day after US U-2 spy plane entered a no-fly zone during a Chinese live-fire naval drill in the Bohai Sea off its north coast, Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Thursday. One of the missiles, a DF-26B, was launched from the north-western province of Qinghai, while the other, a DF-21D, (aircraft-carrier killer missile) lifted off from Zhejiang province in the east. Both were fired into an area between Hainan province and the Paracel Islands, the Post quoted Chinese military sources as saying. Paracel Islands fall in the disputed part of the South China Sea. The DF-26 dual-capable missile is a type of weapon banned by the IntermediateRange Nuclear Forces Treaty signed by the US and Soviet Union towards the end of the Cold War.
When the US withdrew from the treaty last year, it cited China’s deployment of such weapons as justification, the report said. The DF-26 has a range of 4,000 kilometres and can be used in nuclear or conventional strikes against ground and naval targets. The DF-21 has a range of around 1,800 kilometres, with the state media describing it the most advanced in the series, and the DF-21D, as the world’s first anti-ship ballistic missile. The missile launch was aimed at improving China’s ability to deny other forces access to the South China Sea, the report quoted sources as saying. “This is China’s response to the potential risks brought by the increasingly frequent incoming US warplanes and military vessels in the South China Sea. China doesn’t want the neighbouring countries to misunderstand Beijing’s goals,” the report said.
Brenton Tarrant (File)
fired 32 shots from his AR15 into the mass of people in the northeastern corner of the room”. The rate of fire was extremely high
and the defendant moved the AR-15 across and back many times.” Tarrant murdered 44 people at the Al Noor Mosque and killed seven more at the nearby Linwood Mosque. He also injured 40 others in the mass shootings, according to the prosecutor Mark Zarifeh who called Tarrant “New Zealand’s worst murderer”. The gunman conducted a research of the view
of the Al Noor Mosque by flying a drone over the mosque in January 2019. “The planned time for entry was to ensure the maximum number of worshippers would be present,” the summary presented at the court said. According to his interview with the police, Tarrant said he had planned to burn down the mosques dand wanted to “inflict as many fatalities as possible”.
Appreciation
A DF-26 missile was from Qinghai into the South China Sea on Tuesday, according to a source close to the Chinese military. (Reuters)
Beijing, Aug 27 (PTI): For the first time, China has fired its “aircraft-carrier killer” missile into the South China Sea as part of the naval drills being carried out by the military in the disputed region amid aerial reconnaissance by US spy planes. China is engaged in hotly contested territorial disputes in the South and East China Seas. Beijing has also made substantial progress in militarising its man-made islands in the past few years, which it says it has the right to defend. Beijing claims sovereignty over all of the South China Sea. But Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines, Brunei and Taiwan have counterclaims. In the East China Sea, China has territorial disputes with Japan. The South China Sea and the East China Sea are stated to be rich in minerals, oil and other natural resources. They are also vital to global trade. China launched two missiles, including an “air-
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