Landslide danger Philippines increases

Officials Philippines discovered a crack dangerous Sunday in a mountain affected by a deadly landslide last week and want the troops to dozens of gold miners illegal force to evacuate before another disaster their remote village in the South.

Environment and natural resources Secretary Ramon Paje said that he and other officials discovered the long crack of 70 metres on a slope of mountain above the village of Kingking during an aerial survey.

Part of the slope of the mountain along the crack collapsed after a rain downpour Friday and buried several yards below, leaving at least five dead and 17 missing.

Rescuers search for victims of landslide Friday at a mining camp in the southern Philippines. (Jeffrey Maitem/Associated Press)

Soldiers of the army, police and minor colleagues resumed the search for persons missing in the collapse Sunday hoped that all surviving more could be removed about 30 metres of mud, rocks and debris buried several cabinsthe dormitories and the illegal gold miners tents in Kingking near the town of Pantukan in the province of Compostela Valley, officials said.

Approximately 13 persons were excavated by the muck since Friday.

Unstable Earth along two-thirds of the deep crack could collapse with the next rain and burying about 30 cabins and bunkhouses inhabited by prospectors of gold in Kingking, Paje said.

"It is really critical," Paje said Associated Press by telephone from Pantukan. "This mountain slope is very sensitive to another landslide."

PAJE, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, air survey said that they discussed with provincial, the army and police officials in the Valley of Compostela how minors of gold could be evacuated immediately safe.

Despite the danger, hundreds of poor villagers dug gold tree dangerous close distant villages like Kingking for years. Many have ignored the warnings and defied occasional Government crackdowns on illegal mining by the undermanned military and police.

"They tell us that they would die in a disaster that die of starvation,", said the Mayor of Pantukan Celso Sarenas.

PAJE said that he and the other members of the Cabinet are under the orders of the President Benigno Aquino III to take measures to prevent more deaths in the region of the extraction of gold, which has been hit by fatal accidents in the past.

"The Government has the power to conduct an evacuation forced when the danger is really high", Paje said.

Landslide Friday covered one hectare (at least 2.5 acres) of Kingking and buried more than a dozen cabins, dormitories and tents, where miners of gold remains some with their families, police said.

A similar landslide killed 26 people in a village of Pantukan in 2009, said police.

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Alleged rape in Libya: "My life is in danger"

Eman al-Obeidy crashed into a hotel in Tripoli, Libya, on 26 March and journalists said they were raped by nepotism loyalists.New: Eman al Obeidy says men used guns on their sodomizeNEW: she says she tried to leave Libya, but authorities have thwarted their attemptsNEW: her father asks the international community to come to his daughter aidAl Obeidy says she was interrogated for 72 hours after an interview with Eman al-Obeidy of a HotelWatch is drawn, the woman who claimed she was raped by forces loyal to the Libyan leader nepotism, on "Hurwitz customer", tonight at 10 pm ET.

(CNN) --Eman al-Obeidy, the woman, telling journalists in a hotel in Tripoli, you was beaten and raped by, forces loyal to the Libyan leader Moammar nepotism last month, is no longer in custody, but says that she still feared for their lives.

In two telephone interviews with CNN's "hurkunde," al-Obeidy spoke about her alleged abuse. Sometimes in tears, reminds alcohol defiant at other times, her men casting their eyes and repeated rifles, their sodomize. Said Al-Obeidy has since Libya left and, having nightmares attempts been stopped.

"My life is in danger, and I urge all human rights organisation... the truth and let me now leave." Am I here is hostages, "she said." "they have with me the death threat and I said never again me, prison, will leave if I go the journalists or parts you them something in Tripoli events."

Al-Obeidy, said they spent 72 hours under interrogation after the Tripoli hotel where she tried their alleged abuse journalists tell drawn is.

Interrogators poured water over her face and threw food during the relentless questioning, which ended only after it to prove, by a physician they have been raped, said al-Obeidy, was examined. "And when the test came, it ensures that I raped and tortured... then I was released."

She said the public statements made by a State TV anchor and Government officials, which first mentally ill her drunk and a prostitute, ruin their reputation. Al-Obeidy, said their spirits and morale is low and that she now has nightmares.

"them not me give a chance to respond," she said.

The attempt to discredit al-Obeidy as a promiscuous, un Islamic woman is based on the idea of sexual shame in a conservative Muslim society, where it is generally assumed that a woman who was raped has lost her honour, Mona Eltahawy said, Columnist in Arab and Muslim issues.

For a woman in such a society to submit to claim they were who raped no small thing is.

"No one would do that, if they have been raped, and in particular in a conservative society," said Eltahawy CNN.

Al-Obeidy broke into the Rixos while international journalists there breakfast had hotel in Tripoli on 26 March.

They told reporters that they had been taken by a checkpoint East of Tripoli, against their will for two days held and raped man of 15.

"they had tied my hands behind me, and they had tied my legs, and she would hit me while I was bound and bite me in my body." And she would pouring alcohol in my eyes, so I won't be able to see and sodomize you would me with their rifles, and she would go not let us to the bathroom. We were not allowed to eat or to drink, "she told CNN's" hurkunde, "speaking through a translator."

"A man would leave, and a different type." "He would to end and then another man come", said al-Obeidy.

She said another woman held captive, binding their hands and feet, could so to escape al-Obeidy.

She saw in March as CNN, al-Obeidy were broken legs and face and they had blood on their right inner of thigh. Their visible injuries appeared to support their claims, but CNN could not independently verify their history.

Government officials tried to subdue her, gerangelt with reporters in the process, and finally they dragged away.

Al-Obeidy said, it is no longer in prison, Government, and spent time with her sister. But she said that she can leave the House, where she is he as officials from the police or army pursued her.

She said if she tries to leave the House, officials hunt and take them to a police station. But police do not know what to do, since it is charged with no crime, and it is released with it.

It has abducted by nepotism been al-Obeidy said forces three painting-for the first time from the hotel, the second time, when she tried to escape, according to Tunisia last week and a third time on Sunday. She said the kidnapping Sunday and were accompanying threats try a police unit prevents their complaints, investigations.

Despite the danger, al-Obeidy said that the most important is her, that her voice reached the world.

"I want a Word to all of the locked in America, that we a peaceful people and we are not members of al-Qaeda to draw." We are a simple people and moderate Muslime--not extremism - and we need not expect for our freedom and would for something and "she said the most basic human rights that are denied to us."

Her father said Monday he has spoken with his daughter and asked the international community to get their help.

"It is what wrong." What can I do? I have no power to do. I call for the human rights and all international humanitarian movements to get involved and help us, "said Atiq Al-Obeidy."

CNN's "Hurwitz customer" spoke with al-Obeidy Sunday and Monday. CNN led a third phone interview with her Monday.CNN Saad Abedine contributed to this report.See Anderson Cooper 360 ° evenings 10 pm ET. Click here for the latest from hurkunde °.

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