European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes monday May 20, 109115,000 s. Koreans attack riot police Kwangju South Korea apr thousands of protesters in Kwangju it it tacked riot police with clubs and pipes on sunday in some of the fiercest Street fighting tit three weeks of anti government protests. I he Battles marked the anniversary of the 1980 Kwangju uprising in which at least 200 people died protesting martial Law. A. A a a a a. On sunday More than 15,000 students and workers shouted a Down with the murderous regi me and at t asked police. 1 he police were blocking a funeral March for Kang Kyung Dae a 20-year-old student beaten to death by police on april at least 120 police arid protesters were injured in 12 hours and the count will Rise according to the National news Agency Yonl vap. Some of the injured were reported in serious condition the students death has touched off. The largest anti government demons a ton since president Roll 1�?Tae woo came to Power in 1088, posing the most serious Challenge yet to his Rule. More thai 200,000 people staged Vio Lent protests around the country on saturday turning fashionable streets of downtown Seoul into Battle zones there also were protests in at least 2 1 cities. Dissident students workers and oppo a sit Ion politicians Are demanding the resignation of Robes .cabinet., there has been speculation that Roll will re shuffle his ministers in coming Days in response to the pressure. try to placate protesters after last months Healing death or the student Rob fired the minister in charge of police and five police officers have been charged in the death. Hut protesters Are demanding the arrests of the former minister and the National police chief. The government faces Sis elections around the country in the next 20 months including the next presidential election and polls have suggested that popularity of the government is at an Al time Low. In Kwangju hundreds of pol cd and protesters fought hand to hand on sunday. Protesters using Iron pipes and clubs beat riot troopers swinging Shields and truncheons. Police fired volleys of tear. Gas and sometimes used the Butts of Gas launching rifles to beat the protesters a four Lane Highway was blocked for More than four hours while the lighting raged in and around the. Area. Columns of Black smoke from piles of burning tires billowed into the air. . Sentiment is High m Kwangju a City 165 Miles South of Seoul because residents condoned the military suppression of the 1980 uprising. The United states has denied the accusation. The funeral procession Tor Kang including family members and Ghoul 700 Niou Nersi was trapped m the fighting and unable to move protesters set lire to two police vein cles. Roads were littered with rocks firebombs and shrapnel from tear Gas canisters and the air reeked with Gas. A organizers of the Iune Rai procession had announced they would Bury the student without holding Teal rites in Kwangju. Students and workers who had planned the rites complained that the decision Mea it giving in to the government and they refused to accept it. Roadside rites Are traditionally a per a formed in korean funeral services at locations meaningful id the deceased. The government claimed dissidents were using the body for a political motive. South korean riot police Block the funeral procession for Kang Kyung Dac. Retarded Man freed from cellar after 33 years Vienna Austria up a a 39-year-old mentally retarded Man has been released from the cellar of his parents House where he was locked up for 33 years officials said. Officials discovered Rudolf Sulzberger after a government medical officer investigated rumours that person existed in the tiny Hamlet of Berg Atter Gau in the province of upper Austria. Sulzberger had been kept in an 10.4-Squarc-Yard smokehouse chamber furnished with a wooden bed a chair and a bucket which was used As a toilet officials said. No one in the Village of about 12 houses could recall seeing the than since he was 6, but mayor Matthias Eicher who lived Only 300 Yards from the , said he always believed Sulzberger had lived in the House with his parents. Or. Johann Haber who examined the Man after the discovery said he believed he had been hidden from the Community a because of false feelings of . Quot now he must be evaluated As a mentally handicapped person but that is at least in part because of the condition in which he lived for the past 33 years a i Label said. Aloisia sul Berger the Many a 70-year-old Mother television interviewers that she saw nothing wrong with the room in which her son had been kept. When asked it she would sleep in such conditions herself she told the interviewers Quot Why not Quot Sulzberger was taken from he Village and put into medical care at nearby Linz India braces for election violence new Delhi. India up a Security personnel were on Alert sunday for history a largest elections with opinion polls predicting a resurrection of the political dynasty that has ruled India for most of its 44 years since Independence. More than 500 million people in the worlds largest democracy will be eligible to vote for candidates to the 545-member lower House of parliament during Hallot my that was to Start monday and continue on thursday and sunday. Vote counting will begin May 27 the voting is staggered Over three Days so authorities can provide adequate Security at polling centers at least 104 people have died in political violence during the monthlong Campaign and authorities arc bracing Lor More trouble. The press Trust of Ndia news Agency said 15 million police and hundreds of thousands of paramilitary troops will be on duty during the week. In the Western state of Bihar where Campaign violence already has claimed 44 lives police for the first Lime w ill patrol with automatic weapons. In pans of neighbouring utter Pravesh indians most populous state authorities have ordered police to shoot Booth captures on sight the. Press Trust said. Campaigning ended saturday in those regions where polling was to be held monday including the capital the three pm political leaders All will have their contests decided in the first round of voting. ,. Sex prime. Minister raw Gandhi continuing an Cha listing and emotionally charged Campaign turned his attention to later rounds of voting and sunday toured the Arnall northeastern states of Assam Manipur and Nagaland. \ Gandhi 46, a former airline Pilot was voted into of inc m december 1984, after the assassination of his Mother prime minister Indira Gandhi. Gandhi s chief rival . Advani head of the Bharat Hya janata party has campaigned on a platform of res org hindu greatness in a country that for years has eco wracked to Gay violence Between the minority Muslim and majority hindu populations. On Zagreb Yugoslavia a Reform minded Croatia began voting sunday on Independence a div cd tar the Ajili Loiry Nice to discuss the unrest that has crippled the civilian leadership and moved the nation closer to standoff Between the leaders has blocked the an a ointment of the Federal government s first non com must president Stipe Mesic of Croatia it heightened already bitter strife Between the country a leaders. On sunday citizens in violence plagued Croft ii voted on seceding from the count Ryas leaders of their Republic have advocated. Turnout appeared moderate when polls opened Tor 11 hours of voting. Opinion polls have indicated a major to of Croatia a 5 million people Tavor Independence. A former journalist predicted that the referendum would pass Quot every one i know will vote for our Sovereign and in dependent Croatia Quot said. Stjepan Santek 65, a retired journalist As he prepared to vote. To was not Clear what effect the referendum if it passed would have. _ the croatian government issued a declaration saying the historic and fateful moment has a a Van in Roalia both have threatened to break i v a car unsuccessful in efforts to transform r>t�v1va to a Ose federation of republics. Com sirv1s fun Artlia Eads hard line republics favouring a i orig Central government. K Sousa turd a Federal. Defense minister Veljko Kadi i Voth top military officials to discuss Quot the i-0.�?T be cur a aspects of the current situation in t a Lily u Quot Etc National reactions to it a the state 1 a Jug news Agency reported
