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The Chinese government and Buckingham Palace said last year’s first state visit to the U.K. by President Xi Jinping had been successful, following comments by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II captured on camera that Chinese officials had been “very rude.”

In a video distributed by Buckingham Palace, the queen is introduced at a palace garden party Tuesday to Metropolitan Police Commander Lucy D’Orsi, who oversaw security operations during Mr. Xi’s visit in October. “Oh, bad luck,” says the queen to Ms. D’Orsi, who goes on to describe Chinese officials storming out of a meeting with the British ambassador.

“They were very rude to the ambassador,” the queen replied, calling the episode extraordinary.

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Her comments came after U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron was also caught on camera Tuesday telling the queen at an event at Buckingham palace to celebrate the monarch’s 90th birthday that “leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries” were coming to Britain to an anticorruption conference he is hosting. He added that Nigeria and Afghanistan were “possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world.”

A Downing Street spokeswoman on Wednesday said: “Both President Buhari of Nigeria and President Ghani of Afghanistan have acknowledged the scale of the corruption challenge they face in their countries” and that both leaders have been invited to the summit “because they are driving the fight against corruption in their countries.”

“This is embarrassing to us, to say the least, given the good work that the president is doing”, said Garba Shehu, spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, in a post on the presidential Facebook page. “The Prime Minister must be looking at an old snapshot of Nigeria. Things are changing with corruption and everything else, ”‎ he added.


A representative for Afghanistan’s government couldn’t immediately be reached.


U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron called Nigeria and Afghanistan “fantastically corrupt” nations while attending a reception for the Queen’s 90th birthday. Photo: Getty Images
The queen’s comments were a rare departure from the U.K.’s official hesitance to criticize China, even as relations have been strained by recent incidents including the case of a bookseller with U.K. citizenship believed by the British government to have been “involuntarily removed to the mainland” from Hong Kong.

The U.K. has been eager to forge stronger trade and investment ties with the world’s second-largest economy, while China views a closer relationship with Britain as a key step on its march toward becoming a global power. Ahead of the Chinese president’s visit officials on both sides declared with much fanfare that China-U. K. relations had entered the “golden era.”

At the Chinese Foreign Ministry’s regular news briefing on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang fielded repeated questions about the incident.

“President Xi’s visit to the U.K. last year was a very successful one,” Mr. Lu said. “The visit by President Xi ushered in the golden era for the development of the bilateral relationship. Both sides spoke highly of that.” He declined to say whether Beijing had been in touch with British officials regarding the comments—or whether there had been any dust-up at all.

The British Embassy in Beijing declined to comment beyond a statement released by Buckingham Palace. “We do not comment on the queen’s private conversations. However the Chinese State Visit was extremely successful and all parties worked closely to ensure it proceeded smoothly,” the palace said.

Meanwhile, some Nigerian political leaders took issue with Mr. Cameron’s remarks. “Mr. Cameron should also be reminded that the Britain colonized Nigeria and during that period, lots of things were bastardized by the British,” said Nigerian Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, spokesman for the legislative body.

Others in Nigeria, where corruption has been a central political issue, supported Mr. Cameron’s comments. “I agree with the statement of the British prime minister,” said Bukar Abba Ibrahim, a senator with the ruling All Progressives Congress party. “In fact, the statement is very, very right.”

http://www.wsj.com/articles/britains-queen-elizabeth-ii-filmed-calling-chinese-officials-very-rude-1462963502#


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Mob justice in Africa: Why people take the law into their own hands
Petty thieves are stoned, burglars are beaten to death or lynched. In many African countries citizens administer justice because they have little trust on the police.


Eric Ponda, DW's correspondent in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa thought he was going to die. Last year, while driving back home after working on a report, a pedestrian suddenly crossed his way, to avoid him, Ponda had to quickly steer his car off the road but while doing so, he caught the left foot of the pedestrian but only mildly. Ponda stopped his car and then all hell broke loose.

"They [people] stormed out of their houses and they really wanted to burn the car, they pushed me out of the car and started beating me up," Ponda recalled. The mob went on to steal all his equipment which he had in the car.

Luckily a police car passed by. "That was my salvation. If the police had not passed by, they would have burnt me alive or set my car on fire," the DW correspondent said. "You can not prove who did it," Ponda added. In and around Mombasa, mob justice happens very often.

More than 500 die annually

In 2011, the Kenyan police for the first time included "lynching" in its crime statistics. The officials recorded 543 victims. In Uganda, 582 people died as a result of lynching in 2014. That is 1.6 cases per day on average. According to the United Nations, mobs have brutally killed 16 people in Malawi in recent months.


In most cases, the police arrive late. This suspect was however lucky
In South Africa it is commonly known as "necklacing." Angry citizens round up the alleged wrongdoer, after being tied up, they force a tire that has been doused in gasoline onto the neck of the suspect, and then burn him alive. Such cases happen several times a year.

Even politicians are not spared. In April, a furious crowd dragged Nigerian lawmaker Bukalo Saraki to a marketplace in the capital Abuja. The mob ripped off his clothes and hurled insults at him. The reason for the attack is that messages had been circulating on social media claiming the senator had illegally enriched himself.

Role of collective punishment

Why would ordinary, peace-loving citizens suddenly turn into murderers? Gail Super, a criminologist at the University of Cape Town, told DW that social problems and the gap between the rich and the poor is to blame. "The problem comes in especially with rapid urbanization and the migration of people," Super said. The criminologist pointed out that lynchings occur more frequently in poor and informal settlements because these areas face a major existential threat.

"Vigilantism or mob justice is a traditional way of communities to deal with criminals or the high level of crime in the country," the researcher said.


Vigilantes in northen Nigeria cropped up because residents had lost trust on the country's security apparatus
A number of African countries also lack enough personnel. According to media reports, the Nigerian Police Chief Solomon Arase, recently complained about the fact that there are less than 8,000 policemen in the state of Niger. That's one officer for approximately 494 inhabitants.

Problem with the police

In addition to that, most people in Africa perceive the police as being corrupt and demotivated. "They often feel like they can not trust the police to address the crime problem," Lizette Lancaster, a researcher with the Crime and Justice division at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa, told DW.

The problem of not trusting the police is particularly worse in major cities. "The police often arrive only later when the bodies have been found by another group," Lancaster said. She said people in these communities are living in a legal limbo. Besides the police, these areas are also governed by traditional norms which ensure law and order in their own context.

After his ordeal, DW correspondent Eric Ponda's image of the police is not a positive one. Although their presence rescued him from the mob, there was no follow up on the case. "In the end you can end up losing everything, your car and even your life, but nothing happens," said Ponda. Since that time, he drives in Mombasa with a sinking feeling in his stomach.




http://m.dw.com/en/mob-justice-in-africa-why-people-take-the-law-into-their-own-hands/a-19238120

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