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A team of teenagers who competed in a robotics competition in Washington, D.C. have gone missing:
Six teenagers from a Burundi robotics team have been reported missing after an international competition in Washington and two of them were seen entering Canada, police said on Thursday.
The four males and two females were last seen late on Tuesday afternoon when the robotics contest ended at the FIRST Global Challenge, police said. Authorities issued missing persons photographs of the six on Wednesday.
Two of the Burundians - Audrey Mwamikazi, 17, and 16-year-old Don Ingabire - were spotted crossing the United States border into Canada, District of Columbia police spokeswoman Margarita Mikhaylova said.
"We don't have any indication of foul play and we're continuing to investigate this case," she said. Police said they did not have information about how they were spotted or the nature of the border crossing.
DC Police photo on Twitter with contact number. Time notes:
There was no official indication Thursday that any of the teens were trying to avoid returning to their homes in Africa, but a leader in the Burundian community in the U.S. suggested that they may be intending to seek asylum. Immigration attorneys said an asylum application could take years to sort out.
Also at NPR, which gives a reason why the kids may want to seek asylum:
Burundi, which is in central Africa, has faced intense political unrest since 2015. "Hundreds of people have been killed, and many others tortured or forcibly disappeared," according to Human Rights Watch. "The country's once vibrant independent media and nongovernmental organizations have been decimated, and more than 400,000 people have fled the country."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:17PM (2 children)
Nope. [oxforddictionaries.com] The history of usage does not support your claim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @08:59PM (1 child)
But according to this OED article, only Mormons still decimate. Hmm, you keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means, even if it does not mean what the idiot grandparent post thought it means, either.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Saturday July 22 2017, @05:20AM
So the article prompts the question: If decimatus meant to tithe, and the modern term derived from that, then what term did the Romans use for the practice of killing one in ten as punishment?
Wikipedia says decimatio but the texts linked unhelpfully do not use the term, instead referring to choosing 'one in ten' or 'a tenth' and executing them, without putting a name to the practice; though Plutarch uses δεκατείᾳ which links in a lexicon entry δεκάτ-ευσις which it translates as decimation (Aristarchus--HELP!).
In the article, the Emperor Maurice is also said to have specifically forbidden the practice in The Strategikon, but although calling himself a Roman, he wrote in Greek, which helps not at all when investigating a Latin term (not that the article bothers to link to that particular text).
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Man, I wish classical languages had been offered when I was going to school.