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Southern Albania erupts into armed revolt
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SARANDA, Albania (AP) — Gov
ernment jets bombed a southern
town Wednesday and anti-govern
ment militants commandeered
tanks and fired off anti-aircraft guns
as weeks of unrest erupted into an
armed revolt in southern Albania.
The two sides fired at each other
across a river east of Vlora, the city
at the center of the conflict. Alba
nia’s foreign minister, meanwhile,
acknowledged that the situation in
Vlora, Saranda and Delvina was
“out of control.”
Wednesday’s bombing, near
Saranda and a major security oper
ation launched by the government
reflected President Sali Berisha’s de
termination to quickly end the
growing insurrection.
At least five T-55 tanks and half a
dozen armored personnel carriers
manned a checkpoint Wednesday
near Fieri, 35 miles south of Tirana.
Other government checkpoints also
were set up.
In Rome, Italian Foreign Minis
ter Lamberto Dini said his Albanian
counterpart, Tritan Shehu, told him
the insurgents had captured three
tanks and many other weapons and
aim to seize Tirana, the capital.
The government is seeking to
“isolate” the three southern cities
without armed conflict, Shehu said.
Southerners warned the govern
ment not to provoke them.
“If they move into Saranda, Al
bania will see the worst bloodshed
ever,” said one armed protester, II-
ias Sideris.
Two months of protests by Alba
nians who lost savings in shady in
vestment schemes culminated in
an orgy of anti-government vio-
“If they move into
Saranda, Albania
will see the worst
bloodshed ever.”
Nias Sideris
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lence that led Berisha to declare a
state of emergency Sunday.
The rebellion has exposed a
deep north-south divide in this im
poverished Balkan nation, between
Berisha’s supporters in the north
and those who back the opposition
Socialists in the south. Overall,
southern Albanians are wealthier—
and therefore lost much more than
northerners in the shady schemes.
Some opposition leaders ac
cuse the government not only of
negligence in connection with the
schemes but also of profiting
from them.
Fearing an attempt to free Fatos
Nano, the Socialist leader jailed on
corruption charges, the govern
ment moved him to a jail near
Tirana, his wife said.
U.S. Secretary of Defense William
Cohen said there was no need yet to
evacuate Americans in Albania.
In Washington, White Fiouse
spokesman Mike McCurry said Pres
ident Clinton was concerned about
the situation in Albania and “views
with some alarm” Berisha’s re-elec
tion earlier this week by parliament.
British Foreign Secretary Mal
colm Rifkind said Berisha must re
spect the rule of law if he wants to
get crucial financial aid from other
European nations.
"We are not prepared to give sup
port when he acts in an authoritari
an and dictatorial way and that, sad
ly, has been an increasing feature of
his regime,” Rifkind said Wednesday.
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Zaire government accepts cease-fire
Rebels have captured 900
miles of territory and may
not be ready to put down
their arms.
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TINGI-TINGI, Zaire (AP) — The govern
ment, reeling from a series of battlefield losses,
accepted a U.N. cease-fire proposal on
Wednesday, while rebels closed in on a strate
gic river port that would give them control of
the eastern third of Zaire.
The rebels, on the verge of capturing the provin
cial capital of Kisangani after weeks of fighting,
may notjbe ready to put down their arms right
away. “First we talk, then maybe a cease-fire,” said
rebel spokesman Kazadi Nyembwe.
Refugees fleeing the rebel advance report
ed that scores of people were slain Saturday
when rebels took over a huge refugee camp in
Tingi-Tingi.
On Wednesday, a few dozen exhausted Rwan
dans lay dying in what was once Zaire’s largest
refugee camp. Only rebel fighters were there to
help, distributing small amounts of food. Aid
workers fled last week.
Since September, rebels wanting to overthrow
the government of President Mobutu Sese Seko
have captured a 900-mile swathe of territory in
eastern Zaire.
Mobutu’s 31-year dictatorship has left re-
source-rich Zaire, Africa’s third-largest country,
desperately poor.
Kazadi, speaking from Dar es Salaam, Tanza
nia, said commanders told him their forces were
14 miles northeast of Kisangani and could take
the town “within days.”
That would put them at the Zaire River, a key
location in a country with few good roads,
river runs into Kisangani, then south to the
ital, Kinshasa.
In New York, diplomats at the United
who spoke on condition of anonymity
consensus was that Zaire was desperate to
the fighting, while the rebels likely would
Kisangani first and then decide whether
was anything to talk about.
The Zairian government, meanwhile,
dered 19 U.N. relief workers and 38 other
ternational aid specialists expelled from
country, saying their flight from eastern
sparked a refugee panic over the weekend
gave the rebels a clear path in their advance
ward Kisangani.
“Enough is enough,” vice ministerfor
affairs, Henri-Thomas KolondoYoka,toldtheAs
sociated Press. “Since they prefer to pull out,the
can go do it somewhere else.”
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