Monday, April 19,1993
The Battalion
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South African gunmen
kill 15 funeral mourners
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa— Black gunmen in a stolen car
shot dead 15 people Sunday night in the black township of Sebokeng,
police said. Twelve people were also wounded.
The attack came the same day thousands of mourners filed past the
open, flower-draped casket of slain black leader Chris Hani at a soccer
stadium.
Witnesses told police the attackers were black men in a Volkswagen
that was later found gutted in the township south of Johannesburg.
Police Maj. Joseph Ngobeni said a group of black gunmen killed a
man and a woman and stole their car. Several shootings in different
parts of Sebokeng then occurred from the same car, Ngobeni said.
One of the shootings killed six people — two men, two women and
two children — and reportedly came from a different car, Ngobeni
said. But he said the witnesses might have mistaken the model of the
vehicle.
Ngobeni said all the victims were black and that police were unable
to establish a motive for the attacks. He said police were investigating.
Tension was high as the African National Congress prepared to
bury Hani, one of its most popular leaders. He was assassinated in his
driveway on April 10 by a white suspected extremist.
Several violent protests and looting occurred in the past week, and
the government has deployed thousands of extra police and soldiers to
try to maintain order during Monday's funeral.
Tens of thousands of supporters were expected to attend one of the
biggest political funerals in the nation's history.
Hani's killing raised fears that right-wing attacks could increase
tension and threaten talks between mainstream black and white
leaders on ending apartheid. Political leaders have said the talks must
continue.
Bosnia signs truce
Armistice permits aid, but surrender
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
— Srebrenica's defenders caved in
to a relentless Serb siege Sunday
and signed a truce that permits
aid and evacuation, but amounts
to virtual surrender of the
strategic Muslim town.
Many of Srebrenica's fighters
resented the agreement and it was
unclear if the cease-fire would
last. Scores of truces in the
Bosnian war have collapsed over
the past year.
It would be the Bosnian
government's biggest capitulation
in the year-long war and
underlines the weak position of
the outgunned government forces
against the Serbs and Croats who
have seized most of the state.
Serbs are driving for control of
eastern Bosnia to hook up with
adjacent Serbia and other Serb-
held areas of Bosnia and Croatia
into a "Greater Serbia." Only two
other Muslim enclaves, Gorazde
and Zepa, remain in eastern
Bosnia.
Just hours after Serbs and the
Muslim-led Bosnian forces signed
the truce, 130 Canadian U.N.
peacekeeping troops entered the
the town to a hero's welcome,
said ham radio operators.
Crowds mobbed the
peacekeepers' 22 armored
personnel carriers and 19 trucks
and hugged and kissed the
soldiers.
French and British helicopters
then began ferrying sick and
wounded to Tuzla, under an
agreement permitting airborne
evacuation of the 500 most
desperate cases before an
overland evacuation starts for all
those who want to leave the town.
U.N. officials said they
expected about 60 people to be
evacuated before nightfall
Sunday, and the helicopters
would continue their mission
over the next few days.
Tuzla, 45 miles northwest of
Srebrenica, is already overflowing
with an estimated 60,000 refugees
from the Serb drive in eastern
Bosnia. There are up to 60,000
more in Srebrenica.
Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian
Serb leader, pledged to honor
terms of the Srebrenica
agreement.
World News Briefs
Earthquake hits
Peru; two die
LIMA, Peru (AP) — A power
ful earthquake early Sunday sent
thousands of people running
into the streets of Lima, and trig
gered landslides that killed at
least two people and injured
three on the capital's outskirts.
Civil defense officials report
ed no major damage in the capi
tal, but said the quake cut elec
tricity and telephone services to
parts of the city.
The 4:16 a.m. (5:16 a.m. EOT)
quake lasted about 50 seconds in
Lima, home to a third of the
country's 21 million people.
It measured 5.6 on the Richter
scale, the Peruvian Geophysical
Institute said.. It was centered in
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Lima.
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Yeltsin campaigns
for election votes
MAVLADIMIR, Russia (AP)
— President Boris Yeltsin mixed
religion and politics Sunday,
marching in an Easter procession
and campaigning for votes one
week before a referendum on his
leadership.
Yeltsin flew by helicopter to
this 12th-century city 80 miles
east of Moscow to kick off the fi
nal week of political activity be
fore the April 25 balloting. He
called the referendum to settle
his power struggle with Russia's
Communist-dominated parlia
ment ' V
A choir sang, church bells
pealed and more than 15,000
people cheered Yeltsin as he
walked down Vladimir's main
street behind altar boys and
Russian Orthodox priests carry
ing candles and icons in celebra
tion of Christ's resurrection.
Mubarak fires
interior minister
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Presi
dent Hosni Mubarak appeased
Muslim radicals Sunday by fir
ing his interior minister, whose
harsh campaign failed to stanch
anti-government violence and
raised accusations of human
rights abuses.
The new minister has first
hand experience with the mili
tants and is a known crusader
against corruption, one of the
radicals' main complaints in
their holy war to replace Egypt's
secular government with strict
Islamic rule.
Moreover, Police Maj. Gen.
Hassan el-Alfy, 57, is not a mem
ber of Mubarak's political party,
which is sure to win favor with
militants.
It was uncertain how widely
Hassan's policies may differ
from his predecessor, Abdel-Hal-
im Moussa. But analysts expect
the militants to suspend attacks
on tourist sites and other areas as
they await his first move.
Seoul hospital fire
kills 35 patients
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) —
At least 35 patients burned to
death when a predawn fire
swept through a provincial hos
pital on Monday, police said. Fif
teen other patients were rescued
unharmed. t '■ y "
The 45 patients of the Seoul
Neuro-Mental Hospital in Non-
san were asleep in three rooms
when the fire broke out, police
said.
The front door of the two sto-
Police were investigating the
cause of the fire and why so
many patients were crowded
into three small rooms.
Nonsan is 150 miles south
west of Seoul.
Palestinians ax
Israelite to death
JERUSALEM (AP) - An Is
raeli man was hacked to death
Sunday in the first Israeli fatality
since the occupied territories
were sealed three weeks ago in
an attempt to calm unrest.
Army radio said the man was
slain with axes and knives, ap
parently by several Palestinians
who were seen fleeing the site in
the occupied Gaza Strip.
The army had no other details
about the slaying.
Also Sunday, Israeli newspa
pers quoted senior military
sources as saying a Palestinian
commander who was ambushed
and critically wounded In south
Lebanon on Friday "got what he
deserved."
They portrayed Samir Swei-
dan as a major Israeli foe who
engineered rocket attacks on
northern Israel and bombed Is
raeli troops in southern Lebanon.
Sweidan, 36, belongs to the
radical Popular Front for the Lib
eration of Palestine. His wife and
daughter died in the ambush
near Tyre.
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