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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 6, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday August 6, 1991the stars and stripes Page 9 Wii victims of croat massacre i a a Prebi Lovci Yugoslavia up More than 10,000 serbs from across Yugoslavia attended the reburial of victims from a world War ii massacre by croats a a commemoration sponsored by the serbian government that some feared could further stir ethnic violence. The ceremony sunday was held As a european Community peace Mission announced it was unable to broker a cease fire Between rebel serbs and croatian Security forces in the Republic of Croatia which declared Independence june 25. On aug. 6, 1941, units of the croatian Stashi which ran a puppet state for nazi occupation troops herded about 500 women from this tiny Village nestled Between craggy mountains near mos tar 220 Miles Southwest of Belgrade in one of the most horrendous executions of the War. The bodies were dumped into a Dank Cave one of dozens in the Irea found to contain the Bones of wartime victims. This Balkan nation was the site of some of the most ruthless fighting of world War ii and of countless inter ethnic massacres. The War fuelled the legacy of hatred particularly Between serbs and croats a hatred that soldered for four decades during the communist regime of wartime hero Jozep Broz Tito. A we do not hide our desire for revenge in our hearts a serbian historian Milorad Elm Eric told about 50 Belgrade journalists flown to the Village by the serbian government. Elm Eric tried to compare4he Stashi Slaughters with the current fighting in Croatia that has left More than 100 people dead. He also suggested that Yugoslavia a 4.7 million croats share a collective guilt for what happened to their serbian neighbors. In a soviet Park poles mournfully uncover past from wire reports Kharkov  a Day by Day the remains of thousands of polish officers slain by the soviet secret police five decades ago Are unearthed in a quiet Park under the remorseful Eye of Poland a chief prosecutor. A we have got the names of 3,896 victims a said Stefan Sniezko the polish chief prosecutor watching the exhumation in by Atichati Park five Miles outside Kharkov. The Kab built a Monument in 1991 in memory of the 4,000 slain poles and soviet soldiers now Are unearthing the bodies of what was the Cream of the polish army officer corps. Soviet prosecutor col. Alexander Trye Tretsky said that the soviet troops started the exhumations july 25 and that they find new evidence every Day that substantiates the mass crime by the a kid the predecessor of the Kab. A we find the insignia of polish officers Epa lets insignia of aviation cavalry watches and Teeth a Trye Tretsky  said a detailed search in the a kid archives in Kharkov showed the officers were buried in the Park. A there Are 100 volumes of documents a he said. The 4,000 poles executed on soviet dictator Josef Stalin a order were among the 15,000 polish officers who sudden stopped writing letters from soviet prisoner of War Camps to their families at the end of 1940. Moscow concealed the crime until last year when the Kremlin officially admitted the a kid did the killings. Soviet president Mikhail s. Gorbachev gave former polish communist president Wojciech Jaruzelski a file of secret documents dealing with the crime and confirming that the largest mass slaying took place in the Forest of Katyn near Smolensk. About 4,500 polish officers were executed there. A the Kharkov site is another Katyn a a Kharkov Driver said. But Kharkov is also a a double Katyn a said the Young soviet soldiers exhuming the victims. They explain that some of the soviet citizens killed earlier by the a kid from 1938-41 rest entwined with the polish officers. A there Are believed to be 6,000 soviet people buried a said Trye Tretsky the soviet prosecutor. _ Sniezko the chief polish prosecutor said the Khak Kov exhumation will end by Friday but another will begin sex Days later in. Mea Noye near Tver formerly Kalinin where the rest of the polish soldiers were buried. Sniezko said the crime was a Thorn in the memory of the whole polish nation a it has always been a baneful Issue for us because the Cream of the polish intelligentsia a top ranking officers Reserve officers who were Well known lawyers doctors and professors had been killed a he said. Another polish prosecutor Henrik san brillo has Good reason to be emotionally involved in unearthing evidence. A there my Grandfather capt. Miczyslaw Brzezinski was killed a he said. A we remember. We have not forgotten the  according to the a kid documents the polish officers were executed in the Kharkov prison and their bodies were buried in the Park during the night. Soviet army representative col. Yuri Shumaiko said the soviet soldiers who Are digging in this grim 2,500-Square-Yard Patch Are performing their soldiers duty in memory of their polish colleagues. A we Are paying Back our debt to them a he said. Shumaiko said it was the initiative of Kab col. Nikolai Morin and a group of his fellow officers that led to erecting the Monument in a form of 9-foot-High Black Marble Cross at the Road outside the Forest. A May god let them rest in peace a says the inscription that also carries the Date of the murder of the soviet citizens and poles �?o1938-1941.�?� Honda motor founder Dies from liver failure Tokyo api a Soichiro Honda an innovative Mechanic whose motorcycle engine company became a leading global Enterprise died of liver failure monday at a Hospital Here. He was 84. Honda motor co., which he founded in 1946, now is Japan a no. 3 car manufacturer. In the United states where it began production in 1982, it ranks fourth after the big three a general motors Ford and Chrysler. Company officials announced his death. Honda had been top adviser to the company since he retired As president at age 67 in 1973, the company a 25th anniversary under the name. Born in 1906, the son of a Blacksmith in Hamamatsu Central Japan Honda started As a successful Mechanic founded a Piston ring manufacturer while attending school and then started his present company originally called Honda technical research Institute. It became Honda Honda motor Honda motor co. Two years later. Originally it attached recycled engines to bicycles a popular Mode of transportation in the hard years that followed world War ii. His first motorcycle called dream was introduced in 1949. It Wasny to until 1957 that Honda entered the four wheel vehicle Market nearly 30 years after Toyota and Nissan now Japan Stop automakers. But Honda was about three years ahead of them in opening production in the United states. Honda a successful civic Model came out in 1972, along with the a acc engine the first to meet . Anti pollution standards without a catalytic converter. In the factory he was known for his a thundering methods of instructing younger workers. He often wore wild colors explaining that unless inventors and artists a have the courage and determination to break with established ideas they cannot expect to do a Good  analysts credit Honda a successes to innovative management and an almost obsessive commitment to Quality. Honda is survived by his wife Sachi two daughters Keiko Ogata and Chikako Carter and a son Hirotoshi. Case solved terrorist lost glasses Hiroshima remembered japanese schoolgirls Lay Flowers in front around the country held the service at of Hiroshima s atomic bomb memorial Hiroshima peace memorial Park on where remains of victims from the aug 6, monday. Today Japan observes the 46th 1945, bombing by the United states Are anniversary of the world s first atomic buried. A group of schoolchildren from blast. Tokyo apr an airline passenger Hunting for lost sunglasses was mistaken As a terrorist bomber by two americans aboard a Northwest airlines Jet which was searched after arriving from los Angeles. The two americans told a flight attendant they spotted a suspicious passenger in a bathroom and feared a bomb was being placed officials said. The Boeing 747, with 381 passengers and 20 Crew members was searched in Tokyo and officials Learned the passenger was looking for sunglasses said Masahiro Akiyama of the police department in Narita site of Tokyo a International Airport. A a misunderstanding caused the trouble and there were no violations of any Laws in Japan a Akiyama said. The american passengers were not identified  
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