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Tuesday, July 28,1992
Files reveal death count
BONN, Germany (AP) — In
vestigators sifting through Com
munist files say at least 350 peo
ple died trying to flee East Ger
many — nearly twice the previ
ously documented number, a top
official said Monday.
The final figure could reach
400, said Manfred Kittlaus, head
of a special Berlin police unit in
vestigating crimes by East Ger
many leaders. Some drowned in
previously unknown attempts to
swim to freedom across the
Baltic Sea, Kittlaus said.
The revelation comes amid
dashed hopes that Erich Honeck-
er, the deposed East German
leader, would soon be returned
from Moscow to face manslaugh
ter charges related to 47 border
killings.
Honecker has been holed up
at the Chilean Embassy in
Moscow since last December.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's
government said last week that
Honecker's expulsion from
Moscow could be imminent. But
the German press reported that
negotiations broke down at the
last minute over who would take
responsibility for having Ho
necker returned.
Authorities have long thought
that more than 200 people died
trying to escape over the Berlin
Wall or at other border points,
though the documented cases
numbered 187. Most were shot
by border guards, some died
from land mines sown in “death
strips” along the border. Kitt
laus, head of the Central Group
For Investigating Government
and Unification-Related Crimes,
said investigators have uncov
ered evidence indicating at least
350 died.
Speaking by telephone from
his office in Berlin, Kittlaus re
fused to give further details, say
ing that could jeopardize the
work of his 276-member unit.
War - torn Sarajevo to receive aid
U.N. plans airlift of supplies
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegov-
ina (AP) — U.N. relief officials
said Monday they will try to air
drop food and medicine to thou
sands of Muslim refugees in
Gorazde, since efforts to reach the
besieged city by land have failed.
The Bosnian government's last
major southeastern stronghold,
Gorazde has been under Serb
siege for nearly 90 days. Sporadic
dispatches by ham radio operators
speak of heavy casualties and
drastic shortages of food and
medical supplies.
Meanwhile, leaders of the war
ring factions gathered in London
for another effort to negotiate an
end to the violence.
And Yugoslav Premier Milan
Panic, touring Western capitals in
hopes of easing U.N. sanctions on
his country for fomenting violence
in Bosnia, blamed the violence on
1,200 Muslim, Croat and Serb
“hoodlums."
Serbian opposition leader Vuk
Draskovic said in Belgrade that
Panic should stay closer to home
and “drain the swamp" that led to
the sanctions. He was alluding to
Serbian President Slobodan Milo
sevic's support of Bosnian Serb in
surgents.
The fighting has killed at least
7,500 people — some estimates
say more than 40,000 — and has
uprooted nearly one-third of
Bosnia's 4.3 million people. The
war began after Bosnia's Muslims
and Croats voted on Feb. 29 for in
dependence from Serb-dominated
Yugoslavia.
Gorazde, once populated by
Muslims and Serbs and now home
to thousands of Muslim refugees
from surrounding towns, has been
shelled regularly by Serbs on its
outskirts. About 70,000 people are
trapped in the city near the Ser
bian border, 30 miles southeast of
Sarajevo. A small U.N. convoy
tried to reach Gorazde last week
from Sarajevo but turned back af
ter hitting mines.
“We are even more convinced
that the situation in Gorazde must
be solved,” said Una Sekerez at
the offices of the U.N. High Com
missioner for Refugees in Saraje
vo. She said relief officials were
working to have aid dropped into
Gorazde from the air, but gave no
details.
Serb forces, whose have anti
aircraft artillery, warned relief
planes supplying Sarajevo over
the weekend to avoid flying over
their positions or risk attack.
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