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Police raid in Haiti
Activists roughed
up in attack by
military regime
Ap photo
A dead man was found July 4 behind a metal gate in the Sous Dalles neighborhood of Port-Au-Prince.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police raided
an opposition coalition’s offices and roughed up ac
tivists Tuesday while the United States belittled
diplomatic efforts by military rulers to end their in
ternational isolation.
Firing into the air, police and gunmen in civilian
clothes raided the downtown headquarters of K-16,
roughed up several people and arrested at least one,
said Sen. Tumeb Delpe, a coalition spokesman.
The coalition, formed in June, supports exiled
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and has called for
the resignation of army chief Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras.
One of its leaders is Port-au-Prince Mayor Evans
Paul, who has kept a low profile since the army top
pled Aristide’s government in September 1991.
Asked about the raid, police officials said they
were unaware of it and sent three officers to investi
gate. They arrived more than an hour later, when
the opposition headquarters building was deserted.
Delpe called the raid “a serious violation of the
right of assembly.” He wasn’t present during the
raid, but witnesses confirmed his account.
Diplomats fear human rights abuses will in
crease after Haiti last week expelled rights ob
servers from the United Nations and the Organi
zation of American States.
Police also used belts and switches to control a
crowd of about 1,000 people who stormed a Ro
man Catholic food distribution center that was
distributing rice.
Already the Western Hemisphere’s poorest na
tion, Haiti is suffering acute shortages of basic foods
in part because of an international embargo de
signed to pressure the military to step down and al
low Aristide to return.
The United States has threatened an invasion to
restore democracy. U.S. warships carrying more
than 2,000 Marines are standing by off Haiti.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Stanley Schrager said
Haiti’s military was “trying to buy time” by raising
the possibility of a negotiated solution to the crisis.
“The days of negotiation are over,” Schrager said.
Rwanda falls to rebels
as refugees flee nation
KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) —
Victorious Tutsi-led rebels in
stalled a new government
Tuesday, then immediately
promised peace and urged a
halt to the desperate flight of
millions of terrorized refugees.
Nearly half of Rwanda’s
population has either fled
abroad or is on
the move to
ward the bor
der with Zaire.
The new
government
has an ethnic
Hutu as presi
dent and the
rebel military
commander as
his vice presi
dent and de
fense minister.
The rebels,
who blazed
from exile tqf)
victory in the
14-week civil
war, routed
the Hutu gov
ernment. Its
army and
many of its
leaders have
fled in disar
ray into Zaire
along with
other refugees.
Fearing the
rebels will re
taliate, 1.7
million Hutus
have poured
across the bor
der into Zaire
in the past
week, and
refugee offi
cials say 1.5
million more
are on their
way in an exo
dus of epic
proportions.
Approx. French French base Major roads
security zone
Currently in Rwanda
As hundreds of thousands of Hutu
refugees continued to stream out
of Rwanda, Tutsi rebels claimed
total control of the ravaged nation
and said a cease-fire is in place.
The rebels plan to install a
moderate Hutu in a five-year
presidential term. Meanwhile,
death and disease are taking a
toll in refugee camps in Goma and
Bukavu.
in a peace agreement that was
signed last August to end a
three-y^ar civil war.
The agreement was never
implemented and the war
restarted after the Hutu presi
dent was killed in an unex
plained plane crash. His allies
began a systematic slaughter
of Tutsis and
moderate
Hutus.
The two new
deputy prime
ministers are
officials of the
rebel Rwandan
Patriotic Front.
Twenty other
Cabinet mem
bers also were
sworn in, five
of them rebel
leaders.
But in the
far southwest
ern corner of
the tiny central
African country,
the refugee
flight contin
ued. If all those
moving through
the southwest
cross into Zaire,
it would bring
the number of
Rwandans liv
ing in refugee
camps in neigh
boring countries
to about 3.5
million. Rwan
da’s prewar
population was
about 8 million.
Aid groups
already are
stretched to the
limit in strug
gling to stave
off starvation
and disease.
AP/Wm. J. Castello, Eileen Clanton
Relief officials predict wide
spread famine unless massive
aid arrives.
Little evidence has emerged
of reprisals by Tutsi rebels
against Hutu civilians.
‘‘Today is a day of joy and
sorrow,” said rebel leader Maj.
Gen. Paul Kagame, 37, as he
was sworn in as vice president
and defense minister.
“The (rebel) army has re
moved a system of oppression
and dictatorship but only at
the cost of many lives.”
Faustin Twagiramungu was
sworn in as prime minister,
arid Pasteur Bizimungu was
inaugurated as president. Both
are moderate Hutus.
The makeup of the new gov
ernment generally follows a
power-sharing plan worked out
Rebel leader Alexis Kan-
yarengwe asked the refugees to
come home.
“There is peace,” he said.
“No Rwandan should ever be a
refugee again. There has been
a lot of suffering in this coun
try and now the RPF has decid
ed to work democratically to
end Rwanda’s pain.”
Since Sunday, an estimated
400,000 refugees have crossed
into Kamannyola, Zaire, from
the southwest border. About
300,000 more crossed the bor
der farther north. Nearly 1 mil
lion Hutu civilians and soldiers
fled into Goma, Zaire, from
northwest Rwanda last week.
Another 1.5 million Hutus
were streaming toward the
southwestern Rwandan border
town of Cyangugu and believed
to be headed for Bukavu, Zaire.
Argentine bomb
kills 26, hurts 127
Muslim extremists blamed for bombing
A car bomb destroyed a building housing two Jewish organizations in downtown
Buenos Aires on Monday. Israel blames the Muslim extremist group Hezbollah.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) — Rescue crews saved a
man trapped for 31 hours in
wreckage Tuesday, a day after
the deadly explosion that de
stroyed the offices of Argentina’s
two main Jewish groups.
Jacobo Echemanuel, 56,
opened his eyes and smiled as he
was carried out on a stretcher,
drawing cheers from doctors and
rescue workers.
The same rescuers told Noti-
cias Argentinas news agency,
however, that they saw six or
seven more bodies under the
rubble. The government had re
ported 26 people dead and 127
injured in the Monday blast that
leveled the seven-story building.
Israel blamed Muslim funda
mentalists backed by Iran for
the attack. Iran denied it.
An Iraqi and a Moroccan were
being held for questioning by Ar
gentine authorities.
Echemanuel’s legs had been
pinned under a steel beam and
masonry and federal police res
cuers said they first thought a
leg would have to be amputated
to free him. That did not prove
necessary.
Rescue physician Alberto
Crescenti said Echemanuel was
given intravenous fluids,
painkillers and oxygen while
rescuers applied liquid vaseline
to slip his legs loose.
Three other people were res
cued from the rubble overnight,
bringing to at least nine the
number of survivors removed
since the building crumbled
Monday morning. It was head
quarters for the Delegation of
Argentine Israeli Associations,
an umbrella group for Jewish or
ganizations, and the Argentine
Israelite Mutual Association, a
social aid group.
Delegation president Ruben
Beraja told reporters up to 70
people were missing.
The explosion transformed
the building into a heap of man
gled steel and masonry, de
stroyed nearby cars and heavily
damaged businesses as far as a
block away. Hospitals said sev
eral of the injured were in criti
cal condition.
As many as 200 people were
believed to have been in the
building at the time.
Police refused to go into
specifics, but some officials said
they presumed the explosion
was caused by a bomb. Both
President Carlos Menem and
Beraja said it might have been
planned by foreigners who were
helped by people in Argentina.
Menem said an Iraqi man car
rying an expired Brazilian pass
port was detained Monday night
while trying to cross the border to
Brazil in Paso de los Libres, about
620 miles north of Buenos Aires.
He was identified in news reports
as Mohammed Yousif, 31.
Menem also said a Moroccan
man, identified as Kabir Palkan,
33, was detained in the neigh
borhood of the explosion.
A German woman and Iran
ian man who wanted to travel
Monday from Ezeiza Interna
tional Airport outside Buenos
Aires to Caracas were ques
tioned but later released, a fed
eral judge said Tuesday.
Hezbollah (Party of God)
Formed in Lebanon in 1982, the group
spearheads the late Ayatollah Khomeini's
Islamic revolution. Made up of about 3,500
core fighters and supported by thousands
more trained by the Iranian Revolutionary
Guard, it has become one of the Mideast’s
most feared guerrilla groups.
^ It carried out suicide bombings against
U.S., French and Israeli forces in Lebanon
in the mid-1980s, killing hundreds.
Underground factions such as Islamic
Jihad (Holy War) are believed responsible
for terrorist attacks all over the Middle East,
western Europe and Asia.
1! The military wing, the Islamic Resistance,
is waging a guerrilla war with other Muslim
and leftist factions in south Lebanon against
Israel’s self-designated “security zone.”
River Plate
Punta
Quilmes
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8 miles
dosed airport
8 km
AP/Wm. J. Castello, Alex Sibirny
Bosnian Serbs give conditional response to peace plan
PALE, Bosnia-Herzegovina
(AP) — Bosnian Serbs hedged on
fully accepting an international
peace plan Tuesday, defying the
United States and other media
tors who had demanded clear-
cut approval.
In a closed session, the Serbs’
self-styled parliament set condi
tions for full acceptance that
would amount to a renegotiation
of the entire plan, sources said
on condition of anonymity.
Mediators had threatened in
ternational reprisals if the plan
was rejected.
The international resolve to
end the 27-month war could
come unglued if the Russians,
traditional Serb allies, insist
that the Serb response not be re
jected out of hand. The media
tors are to meet in Geneva on
Wednesday.
The parliament of the Muslim-
led government and Bosnian
Groats accepted the plan Monday.
Sources close to the Bosnian
Serb leadership said the condi
tions included modification of
maps to allow Serb access to the
sea and control of part of Saraje
vo, the capital.
The Serbs apparently also
want a constitutional arrange
ment that would give them vir
tual autonomy in Bosnia and
firm guarantees that U.N. sanc
tions against the Serbs’ patron,
Yugoslavia, will be lifted.
The result of the secret vote
by the Serb assembly in Pale, 10
miles east of Sarajevo, was kept
strictly confidential so interna
tional negotiators could be in
formed first, Serb officials said.
Lack of agreement on the
peace plan could make the war
flare with new fury and force
NATO and the United States to
become more deeply involved in
the region.
To push the plan through, its
authors — the United States,
Russia, Britain, France and
Germany — threatened to
tighten sanctions on Yugoslavia
and exempt the Bosnian gov
ernment from an arms embargo
on past and present Yugoslav
republics.
Moreover, U.N. peacekeepers
may be pulled out of Bosnia if a
settlement is not reached.
Under the plan Bosnia would
be divided, and Serbs, who now
hold 70 percent of the country,
would be left with 49 percent.
Fifty-one percent would go to a
Muslim-Croat federation, and
the two parts would remain
within Bosnia.
Bosnian Serbs want to link
their holdings with Serb-held
parts of neighboring Croatia and
Serbia proper to form a “Greater
Serbia.” The peace plan would
not permit that.
Bosnia 2^
control
C ] Serb control
plan
A plan authored by the United
States, Russia, Germany, France
and Britain would give ethnic Serbs
49 percent of Bosnian territory and
a Muslim-Croat federation the rest.
AP/Wm. J. Castello
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