WORLD
Thursday, January 20,2000
THE BATTALION
Six poachers, 15 elephants
killed in northeastern Kenya
^ Serbian war criminal Raznato^
gunned down in Belgrade -
//
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers in northeastern Kenya
have killed at least 15 elephants since September, and police
and rangers have killed at least six
of the gunmen, the Kenya Wildlife
Service said yesterday.
In a statement, KWS said anti
poaching forces have arrested 10
poachers suspected of killing ele
phants for their ivory and have
seized eight firearms in the last
two weeks.
“Despite the intensification of
anti-poaching activities, which
include surveillance, the poachers
have continued to search for
ivory,” the statement said.
Despite the intensification
of anti-poaching activities,
the poachers have contin
ued to search for ivory.
The statement said Kenya’s elephant herds have not fully
recovered from the horrors of massacres in the 1980s, and
many small populations could
be wiped out completely if this
pressure returns.
Kenya and other seven
African countries maintain
that the reopening of ivory
trade was premature because
conditions to protect elephants
have not been met.
Kenya has already submit
ted a proposal to return the ele
phant to the most protected
status at an April 16-20 con-
..also known as Arkan
When Serbian war criminal Arkan, real name Zeljko Raznatovic, was gunned down
in Belgrade, Jan. 15, any chance that he could implicate Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic and Serb officials in atrocities committed during the bloody breakup of the
former Yugoslavia died. All are under indictment by the U N war crimes tribunal at
The Hague, Netherlands.
Arkan’s long criminal record:
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Kenya Wildlife Service
Three tusks were also seized in the town of Garissa, and
two ivory dealers arrested in a separate incident in the last
two weeks, the agency said.
KWS blamed the increased poaching on the relaxation of
a 10-year-old international ban on all trade in ivory and oth
er elephant products.
Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia have been permitted
one-time limited sales of the products.
ference in Nairobi of the Convention on International Trade
in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Britain’s Environmental Investigation said Jan. 16 that
between April and December, 1999, their information
showed customs officers seized at least seven illegal ship
ments of ivory including 1.8 tons of African ivory at Dubai
airport, 221 pairs of elephant tusks shipped to southern Chi
na and about a half ton of ivory seized from a North Korean
diplomat at Nairobi’s international airport.
Rightist rampage follows rebel attacks
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Sus
pected rightist militias dragged seven un
armed villagers from their homes and ex
ecuted them in the town plaza Tuesday,
police said, as political violence surged
in Colombia.
The rampage followed bombings of
electrical towers and bloody weekend
clashes between guerrillas and govern
ment troops. The fresh fighting had been
expected following the expiration last
week of a temporary, year-end truce.
In another attack Tuesday, two hand
grenades thrown at a small police post in
the capital, Bogota, killed a girl and
wounded five people at an adjacent
school, authorities said.
In yet another episode, about 100
armed men wearing the armbands of
Colombia’s national paramilitary orga
nization burst into three adjoining vil
lages in Antioquia State and began shoot
ing people, witnesses said. Soldiers and
police were headed to the villages late
Tuesday to try to confirm the reports.
In a village near the town of Becerril
in Cesar state, about 350 miles north of
Bogota, gunmen lined the seven men up
and shot them to death, state police said.
The gunmen arrived with a list of names
— a trademark of rightist paramilitary
groups, who have killed thousands of
people they accuse of collaborating with
leflist guerrillas.
The violence coincided with a visit
to a rebel stronghold Tuesday by a U.N.
envoy, who nonetheless expressed op
timism in the country's Hedging peace
process.
On Monday, bombs planted by sus
pected rebels damaged or toppled 22
electrical towers, mostly in Antioquia
state, cutting off power and forcing many
schools to close.
The state capital, Medellin, was un
der severe electricity rationing Tuesday,
and more than 650,000 students were un
able to go to school, officials said. In
neighboring Choco State, 14 towns were
without any power.
Officials suspect the bombings
were carried out by the Leftist National
Liberation Army, or ELN, which rou
tinely sabotages oil pipelines and elec
trical towers.
Both the ELN and the paramilitary
groups have complained about being ex
cluded from peace negotiations begun a
year ago between President Andres Pas
trana and Colombia’s largest rebel band,
the Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia, or FARC.
Those talks are moving slowly amid
ongoing fighting.
FARC attacks over the weekend
killed 75 rebels, twelve soldiers and po
lice and eight civilians, the army report
ed. They were the bloodiest clashes since
a 20-day truce expired on Jan. 10.
Despite the latest violence, U.N. en
voy Jan Egeland of Norway said Tues
day he sees ample “political will” to
make peace in Colombia.
Accompanied by presidential peace
commissioner Victor G. Ricardo, Ege
land made the statement after meeting
with Manuel Marulanda, the founder and
legendary chief of the FARC.
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1981: Escapes police custody in Frankfurt, Interpol issues arrest warrant
reportedly recruited by Yugoslavia's secret service as hitman to kill dissidents
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x- 1990: Reportedly in charge of recruiting soccer fans to cause trouble at
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