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a ifeA^nMfliird suspect in
v.'a'vv\r“ “(Slaying of bishop
,|" K °' C ^ GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — A
, ^ iround," 0Slii rcl military suspect was ar-
miicr sa| j -aKBsted Saturday in the 1998
V .' L .d [ . slaying of a Roman Catholic
U!n L ' ‘ bishop whose office had issued
_ , a human rights report critical of
,'l <!\ k th' military,
i I and I - P oinB J| Army guard Jose Obdulio Vil
Scott teamed up«|4i ueva was detained in the city
is oil the bench tiu of Quezada, about 40 miles east
k had 11 poink of the capital, police spokesper-
n the stretch, wh!:® n Qerson Lopez said.
10. In all. the .A^| | n February 1998, Obdulio had
>m the bench. iBen sentenced to five years in
so made up the rebaBson for shooting a milkman who
g a 27-1? advantisild careened into a presidential
^Hrade two years earlier,
boss were ledbfl On April 7, 1998, an appeals
lon j \j a5 on .Burt ruled that he could go free if
,[.• s cine limits B the equivalent of 84 cents
> ■ i c to fouirB each day he was to serve, or a
• I'ins trend»B^ al at>out $l-500.
1 . ^ lB Bishop Juan Gerardi was
jbl idgeoned to death in his
g|rage on April 26, 1998, two
Jn/C " I' 11 ' dt ys after presenting a report
contnbu!!- )ni j n g the military and pro-
i doublc-dou.'. - g ( vernment dggtf, S q U ads for
b^wrds. Host of the deaths during
it was great a Qt atemala’s 36-year civil war,
We matured, ii5i imich ended in 1996.
aid and reifiyjusi | On Friday. National Civil Police
ed the other team. Wrested Guatemalan army Capt.
ia State ''as the.Bron Lima Oliva and his father,
win for the AgfBtiredCol. Disrael Lima Estrada,
conterence opetrlin connection with the slaying
is the pre' ious >jB>d took them under heavy guard
cc h. B a Guatemala City prison.
At least 40 dead
TmtuTt/ro^Bin Indonesia
J hopes to keel JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Vi-
Bic 12 an<l x ® !nce across Indonesia claimed
icets ■ least lives over the past few
rca H v jp^Bys. authorities and news reports
"7)' JjV.Sfiid Sunday, as bloodshed con
tinues to plague this sprawling
butt southeast Asian nation,
i to cotiicttiKii Clashes between Muslims
. v tun. espe,:. a^q Christians broke out in east-
ertand wel!. efn Indonesia, leaving dozens
dead and destroying hundreds of
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of Jakarta, showed at least 24
bodies lying on the ground.
I Several ships could be seen
an iving bringing in Christian fight
ers. No soldiers or police were
present, and hundreds of hous
ed and several churches in
Haruku and Sameth.the island’s
two main towns, were on fire. It
was impossible to get a precise
number of how many people died
in the violence.
I Local military chief Brig. Gen.
Max Tamaela said the fighting
started after a Muslim mob at
tacked and burned a church on
Sunday morning.
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Scarred by Chechen war,
refugee children struggle
SLHPTSOVSKAYA, Russia (AP)—Grammar class at the
makeshift school for Chechen refugees starts like it does any
where in Russia: the children stand, say a polite hello to their
teacher and promptly sit down.
Beyond that, very little is the same. The class at the Sput
nik camp takes place in a large plastic tent where January tem
peratures hover around freezing, children study bundled in win
ter coats and the sound of a plane overhead sends some students
diving under their desks in fear.
Many Chechen refugees are de
termined to bring some normalcy
to their children’s lives, creating
camp schools and trying to help
them cope with memories of
bombing and death in breakaway
Chechnya.
But damp conditions and poor
nutrition leave many children sick
or weak, while the scars of years
of war leave them scared or
deeply cynical about the future.
“The children in these refugee
camps are spending their lives in war,” Lamara Umarava, a
psychologist who works with the children at the Sputnik camp
in Sleptsovskaya, just west of the Chechen border, said.
“They do not have the experience of life in normal living
conditions.”
According to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees,
children make up 30 percent to 40 percent of the estimated
240.000 refugees who have fled Chechnya, where the Russ
ian military has been fighting militants since September.
Many of the children also fled Chechnya during the 1994-
96 war between Russian troops and Chechen separatists.
Children at the camps do what kids do anywhere: they play
tag, they tease, and when there’s snow on the ground, they sled
down nearby hills or build snowmen.
Some camps have schools. At the Sputnik camp, refugee
teachers instruct children on Russian grammar, mathematics,
Russian literature, English and history.
But many parents do not send their children to school be
cause they do not have winter boots or coats, or for fear they
will catch infections from their classmates.
Other children appear to have more on their minds than
learning.
Eleven-year-old Zendi Alikhan, meandering alone around
a snow-covered field near the tent where his family lives,
fled the Chechen capital Grozny
after two months of living in a
basement to hide from Russian
airstrikes. I le says he spent part of
the time staring at the mangled
bodies of several neighbors killed
in a bombing raid.
“There was a basement, we sat
there with our dead neighbors. One
of them didn’t have a throat be
cause a piece of a bomb hit it,”
Alikhan said.
I le could not remember when
he got to the refugee camp he now lives in, called Severny.
Like many children interviewed at refugee camps in In
gushetia, a republic on Chechnya’s western border, Alikhan
said he is desperately bored, spending his days cutting wood
and fetching water.
“It's not interesting at all,” 16-year-old Zaurbek Versayev, who
has lived in the Sputnik camp for two months, said. “Every day
we go cut wood, go look for coal. What else is there to do?”
Doctors said the children are particularly susceptible to ill
ness because they rarely get fruits or vegetables, and that a flu
epidemic going through some of the camps has left many
bedridden.
“We had 58 come in today, 72 yesterday, and 108 the day be
fore — all under the age of 15,” Ilza Khaidara, a doctor from
Grozny who works at a clinic set up in a train car at one camp, said.
'There was a basement, we
sat there with our dead
neighbors. One of them did
n't have a throat because a
piece of a bomb hit it"
— Zendi Alikhan
Eleven-year-old refugee
Kohl scandal reaches into France
BERLIN (AP) — The web of secret
money transfers trapping Germany’s
conservatives in a financing scandal
widened Sunday with allegations that
the French government of Francois
Mitterrand funneled millions of dollars
to support former Chancellor Helmut
Kohl’s 1994 re-election.
The scandal which has involved
money trading hands in suitcases, arms
deals stretching from Canada to Saudi
Arabia, and the suicide of a party ac
countant — took a further bizarre twist
Sunday after a fake statement was
faxed to news media saying Kohl was
ready to name anonymous donors to the
Christian Democratic party.
Kohl told the Frankfurter Allge-
meine Zeitung newspaper that the fax
was a forgery and reiterated that he
would not identify the donors from
whom he has admitted soliciting $1
million that was kept off party books.
“1 don't have the intention to make
such a statement,” Kohl was-quoted as
saying.
His refusal to name names has be
come the key issue in the scandal. Par
liament has launched an inquiry to ex
amine whether bribes or kickbacks
"I don't have the in
tention to make
such a statement."
— Former Chancellor
Helnut Kohl
influenced government decisions under
Kohl, who was chancellor from 1982-
98, and he also is the subject of a crim
inal investigation.
Kohl stepped down as honorary
chairman of the Christian Democratic
party last week under pressure from
party leaders who demanded he identi
fy the donors.
Some party officials have even hinted
of possible legal action against Kohl to
compel him to reveal the donors.
Angela Merkel, party secretary-gen
eral, was meeting with senior party
leaders Sunday evening to review an
audit of the party’s finances.
She told reporters that accountants
were unable to clarify where $5.7 mil
lion in party money had come from, al
though $1 million were believed to be
from Kohl's anonymous donors.
The audit was to be made public
Monday, but Merkel said it revealed
nothing new about the part of the scan
dal disclosed over the weekend involv
ing Mitterand, who died in 1996, and
the French oil company Elf-Aquitaine.
ARD television reported Saturday
that Mitterrand arranged payment of
$15.7 million to the Christian Democ
rats and that the money was transferred
as part of alleged bribes totaling $44
million paid by Elf-Aquitaine for its
1992 purchase of the former East Ger
man Leuna refinery.
The alleged bribes have long been
the subject of investigation by Swiss
and French prosecutors.
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