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Australia's attempt to criticize Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims with a milquetoast statement of "deep concern" was "hopelessly weak" and "sweeps under the carpet" the country's crimes against humanity, according to Australia's Human Rights Law Center.  The group's Emily Howie told Fairfax Media that the government's response is "no doubt reflecting the Australian trade interests".  This comes after Australia and other nations failed to push for an international investigation into Myanmar's alleged atrocities at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.  Even the UN's own special envoy for Myanmar said government troops are suspected of allowing or taking part in ethnic cleansing, murder, gang rapes and other sexual violence, and the burning of Rohingya homes.  Myanmar says the allegations are "unverified, intentional and one-sided".

The Netherlands holds national elections today, which will be watched carefully because of the potential for ground-shaking change from a confused and dissatisfied electorate.  Racist xenophobe Geert Wilders gets a lot of attention for his anti-Muslim rhetoric, but center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte put himself into a good position with those concerned over immigration by standing up to bombastic Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan (see below);  suddenly surging is the Dutch Green-Left party leader Jesse Klaver who is offering actual solutions to shoring up Social Security and other programs.  Even if Wilders comes out at the top of 28 candidates, it's highly unlikely any of the others will form a government with him.  But we'll see.

Turkish autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdogan is accusing the Netherlands of somehow being responsible for the Srebrenica Massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in 1995 - when lightly armed Dutch UN peacekeepers couldn't prevent a militia of Bosnian Serbs from storming the town, rounding up Muslim men and boys, and executing them.  Erdogan's idiot claim is meant to whip up his base to vote for constitutional changes in next month's referendum that would allow him to consolidate power.  But in Europe - which has given Erdogan millions of Euros in aid to stop mass migration - it's being met with disgust.  Dutch PM Rutte said "hysterical" Erdogan's claim is "a repugnant historical falsehood" and "totally unacceptable".

Europe's Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that employers can ban the wearing of headscarves, as is popular with women from predominantly Muslim cultures (.pdf link).  But only if it's part of an overall dress code requiring all employees to "dress neutrally", and cannot be at the whim of a customer.  Amnesty International said the "disappointing" ruling "opened a backdoor to" prejudice.

A month before France's presidential election, prosecutors have opened a formal investigation into conservative candidate Francois Fillon's alleged misuse of public funds.  A bombshell newspaper investigation alleged Fillon paid his wife and two of their children at least AU$1,000,000 in taxpayer money over the years for fake jobs she never performed.  Such nepotism isn't illegal if the jobs are legit and work is performed.  This makes Fillon the first major candidate to run for France's highest office while under formal investigation for misusing state money.  Maybe he should have run for US president, instead?

Spanish cops displayed an armory confiscated from an organized crime group during an investigation into weapons trafficking in four Spanish cities.  The 10,000 assault rifles, machine guns, pistols, revolvers, plus 400 shells and grenades would be enough for a small army.

Mass graves aren't particularly rare in Mexico, but the discovery of 250 skulls in a pit in eastern Veracruz state may just be the tip of the iceberg.  State prosecutor Jorge Winckler says, "Veracruz is an enormous mass grave," because the former state government didn't stop criminal gangs from dumping bodies there over the years.

For the first time since 2012, Somali pirates have hijacked a freighter off the coast of the East African nation.  A local official says the gunmen claim to be "fishermen who suffered from the illegal fishing in the area".  The Sri Lankan-flagged vessel was carrying oil and was owned by the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Girl Guides of Canada has canceled all trips to the United States until further notice because it fears problems at the border.  The group says the decision isn't political but reflective of the diversity of its membership.  US border guards and immigration agents have been on a tear, harassing people with legitimate travel papers (just ask Mem Fox) and even US citizens with arbitrary detention and childishly stupid lines of questioning.  The Trump administration is in the midst of its second attempt to ban people from six predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US.

US interest in immigrating to New Zealand is up 70 percent since the orange clown infested the White House.  The Associated Press found there were 170 US applications during the first 12 weeks of 2017, compared with 100 a year earlier.  In the days after last year's election, New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs said the number of Americans visiting its website to learn about citizenship increased to 4,146 from 305 on the same two weekdays a month earlier.