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Miller with the pole; he only held

it up when there was a lull in the

fight, the point at which Mr. Mill-

er walked to the front door of a

house and banged on it, asking

the occupants to call 911.

Christian Theriault also called

911, and told the operator that all

three of them were “bloodied”

and that Mr. Miller had tried to

break into their house. When the

tape was played in court, Michael

Theriault said he did not know

why his brother had said those

things. The Theriaults later told

police they were sore; only Mr.

Miller was bleeding and had ma-

jor injuries.

Mr. Miller called 911, but Mi-

chael Theriault took the phone

from him and spoke to the oper-

ator. When Durham Regional Po-

lice arrived, Mr. Miller was belly-

down on the driveway with Mi-

chael Theriault on top of him, his

knee on Mr. Miller’s back. Mo-

ments before that, Michael The-

riault said, he’d tossed the pole

onto the lawn.

“I’m going to suggest you

throw away this pole at this junc-

ture because you’re trying to dis-

associate yourself from it,” Mr.

Scrutton said. “You both know

you brought it to the scene that

night, and you know how bad it

looks.”

“That’s not at all true, sir,” Mi-

chael Theriault responded.

The trial will resume in Janu-

ary, when Justice Joseph Di Luca

will hear closing arguments.

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andhisbrotherChristian
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Clashes broke out in the streets of the Bolivian

capital Tuesday evening after a member of the

opposition party in the Senate declared herself

the country’s interim president after the resig-

nation of Evo Morales.

Jeanine Anez, who was the second vice-

president of the Senate, assumed temporary

control of the Senate late in the day, putting

her next in line for the presidency. Lawmakers

from Mr. Morales’ Movement for

Socialism party were not present

when she made the announce-

ment.

Angry Morales supporters

tried to reach the Congress build-

ing screaming, “She must quit!”

Mr. Morales, who sought to

transform Bolivia as its first in-

digenous president, flew to exile

in Mexico on Tuesday as thou-

sands of his supporters clam-

oured for his return.

“We’re not afraid!” shouted demonstrators,

who believe the ouster of Mr. Morales after

protests was a coup d’etat.

The march followed weeks of clashes and

protests against Mr. Morales, who was accused

by his many detractors of becoming increas-

ingly authoritarian and rigging an election. His

resignation Sunday led to a power vacuum in

the Andean nation.

At the Mexico City airport, Mr. Morales re-

peated allegations he had been forced to re-

sign by a coup.

“The president of Mexico saved my life,” Mr.

Morales said, thanking President Andres Man-

uel Lopez Obrador for granting him asylum.

He vowed to “continue the struggle.”

Urged to resign by the military, Mr. Morales

had stepped down after widespread outrage

fed by electoral fraud allegations in the Oct. 2 0

presidential election.

Resignations by all other constitutionally

designated successors left unclear who would

take his place and how.

Ms. Anez had positioned herself to become

interim president by taking temporary control

of the Senate and moving into a spot to suc-

ceed to the presidency.

Mr. Morales’s resignation still

needs to be approved by both

houses of Congress. Ms. Anez al-

so needed to be approved as

president of the Senate, but she

said that lawmakers loyal to Mr.

Morales declined to be part of

the session and that Bolivia

could not be left in a power vacu-

um.

Mr. Morales’s departure wasa

dramatic fall for the former

union leader who as president

increased social rights and presided over near-

ly 14 years of stability.

After Mr. Morales resigned, angry support-

ers set barricades ablaze to close some roads

leading to the main airport Monday, while his

foes blocked streets leading to Congress.

Ronald Arias, a native Aymara, said that

thanks to Mr. Morales, his parents in the

countryside gained access for the first time to

running water and gas for cooking.

“I was so saddened by his resignation,” he

said. “A lot of people in El Alto shed tears for

the president.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS

ProtestsflareinBoliviaafteropposition

senatordeclaresherselfinterimpresident

LAPAZ,BOLIVIA

NEWS |

The federalgovernment will con-
sider how to best support a geno-
cide lawsuit against Myanmar’s
government over the forced dis-
placement of more than 740,
Rohingya Muslims, the Canadian
special envoy to Myanmar says,
including how Canada and other
countries could help fund the
case and intervene in proceed-
ings.
Gambia, a tiny, mostly Muslim
country in West Africa, filed the
dispute at the International Court
of Justice (ICJ) – the principal ju-
dicial organ of the United Nations

• on Monday, accusing Myanmar
  of violating the Genocide Con-
  vention. In a statement, Foreign
  Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland
  said Monday that Canada will
  “explore options” to support the
  case – something Bob Rae, the

special envoy, elaborated on in an

interview with The Globe and

Mail Tuesday.

Mr. Rae said Canada and other

countries could help ensure Gam-

bia’s case against Myanmar is

“well financed and getting the

best legal advice possible.” He

said Canada could also work with

like-minded countries to figure

out what they are prepared to do

to support the lawsuit, including

whether any would be willing to

intervene in the case against

Myanmar.

“What would be the possible

role of an additional intervention

from Canada and other coun-

tries? We want to explore with the

ICJ and with others what would

be the most constructive way for

that to take place,” he said.

However, Mr. Rae said the gov-

ernment has not made any deci-

sions about how it will proceed.

He said its next steps will be clear-

er after Prime Minister Justin Tru-

deau appoints his new cabinet on

Nov. 20.

Gambia filed the lawsuit

against Myanmar with the sup-

port of the Organisation of Islam-

ic Cooperation, a group of 57 Mus-

lim countries. The suit alleges the

Myanmar military and security

forces committed “genocidal

acts” intended to destroy the

Rohingya through the use of

“mass murder, rape and other

forms of sexual violence.”

Violence erupted in Myan-

mar’s Rakhine state in August,

2017, after Rohingya insurgents

attacked police posts and an ar-

my base. Myanmar’s military re-

sponded with a violent crack-

down, triggering an exodus of

Rohingya. More than 742,

Rohingya, an ethnic minority

largely denied citizenship in

Buddhist-majority Myanmar,

have since fled to Bangladesh, ac-

cording to the UN refugee agency.

In September, 2018, Canada’s

Parliament unanimously

deemed the violent campaign

against Rohingya Muslims a gen-

ocide. Earlier this year, 34 sen-

ators and more than 100 human-

rights organizations and advo-

cates called on Ms. Freeland to

initiate proceedings against

Myanmar at the ICJ.

John Packer, former assistant

to the UN Special Rapporteur on

human rights in Myanmar who is

now a law professor at the Uni-

versity of Ottawa, said Canada

could have initiated the ICJ case,

as Gambia did.

“We’re not little, weak Gambia.

Gambia had to raise millions of

dollars. We can cover that our-

selves in a split second,” he said.

Prof. Packer said Canada could

play a particularly helpful inter-

venor role by bringing a feminist

lens to the case, especially when

it comes to sounding the alarm

about allegations of sexual vio-

lence by Myanmar officials

against the Rohingya.

Human Rights Watch said

Gambia’s case represents “the

first judicial scrutiny of Myan-

mar’s campaign” against the Roh-

ingya. It recognized that Canada,

along with Bangladesh, Nigeria,

Turkey and France, have declared

Myanmar’s violations against the

Rohingya a genocide.

Last year, the Liberalgovern-

ment committed $300-million to

help respond to the Rohingya ref-

ugee crisis. The money funds ef-

forts to hold perpetrators to ac-

count, find a political solution to

the crisis and improve conditions

in crowded Rohingya refugee

camps in Bangladesh.

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