European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 b the stars and stripes saturday August 10, 1991albanian refugees break out of stadium Bari Italy up a thousands of albanian refugees broke out of the italian soccer stadium where they were being kept Friday pending repatriation and battled with police in the streets italian officials reported. Police said at least 3,000 refugees broke Down two Gates and flooded out of the stadium. Authorities took some 7,000 refugees to the stadium thursday after they debarked from the albanian freighter Vlora. The ship had forced its Way into the port of Bari and docked illegally. Scores of police backed by soldiers chased them through the streets around the stadium. Several police and refugees were injured in the running Battles. Police rounded up most of the refugees after about two hours of midday brawling but several Hundred escaped. The mass breakout followed similar rioting late thursday when albanians pelted police standing guard outside the stadium with chunks of Concrete and other objects from the stadium terraces. They also broke Down a Gate and hundreds fled from the stadium but police captured All but about 200 of them. Police charged the mob to Stop them and fired into the air. Two refugees were hospitalized with Bullet wounds but police said they were shot during brawls among the refugees some of whom had pistols and knives. Violence also erupted Friday on the Bari dockside where another 3,000 refugees spent the night hungry and without shelter. Troops brought them supplies and hot meals Friday. About 30 refugees being bused to a ferry for return to Albania jumped from the buses and started throwing stones at police and buildings. But police brought the riot under control. No injuries were reported. Shortly after i . Friday the italian ferry Tiziano sailed for the albanian port of Durrs with 650 refugees and 150 police aboard. It was the first of a dozen ferries chartered by italian authorities to Start returning the 10,000 refugees to Albania. From the port of Brindisi 50 Miles South of Bari the ferry espresso Grecia prepared to sail later Friday. The first refugees sent Home were among the 3,000 held overnight on the Dock. The scenes on the Dock were similar to that in March when More than 25,000 albanians fleeing hunger and poverty in their Homeland flooded into Adriatic ports in Southeastern Italy within a few Days. The government allowed most of them to stay until july 31 to seek work and lodging. But about 10,000 of them were declared illegal when the deadline passed. Germans freed by kurd rebels in Bonn Germany apr the government dispatched an air Force plane to Turkey on Friday to pick up 15 German tourists 10 of whom were held by kurdish guerrillas for one week before being freed earlier in the Day. A the government expects that All those affected can begin the trip Home immediately a said Norbert Schafer the governments Deputy spokesman. In addition to concern Over the 10 missing germans the government had formally protested to Turkey on thursday because the passports of five tourists who managed to elude capture had been seized and they were not allowed to leave Turkey. Turkish officials said they took the passports As part of the investigation into the kidnappings. Foreign minister Hans Dietrich Genscher telephoned the turkish prime minister after news of the hostage release on Friday and asked him to ensure that All 15 germans could leave As soon As they wanted. A ministry official said later it appeared a that everything has been settled now and that the germans could return Home As Early As late Friday or Early today. The sem official turkish news Agency Anatolia reported that the tourists a four women three men and three children a were released near the town of que Rymak in the Eastern province of bit Lis. A the tourists were spotted by a bus drive on a Riad about 5 30 . Friday when they waved and asked him to Stop Anatolia said. 1 the Driver took them to a Gas station and telephoned police who picked the tourists up and brought them to the six unidentified germans pictured Are part of a group of 10 tourists who were released by turkish kurdish rebels. A police station in the Eastern town of Tat Van. The German foreign ministry said representatives from its embassy in Turkey were in Tat Van to meet the germans. Members of a regional kurdish guerrilla faction seized the germans on aug 2 As they were camping in bit Lis. Five in the group managed to escape. A Germany based spokesman for the National liberation front of Kurdistan had. Said the germans would be released late thursday. His organization earlier said it disapproved of the kidnappings which the guerrillas in Turkey said was in retaliation for the prosecution of members of the kurdish labor party in Germany. Sixteen kurd living in Germany have been on trial since 1989 on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization linked with several murders and kidnappings of fellow kurd. The trial continues. Referring to turkeys offensive against kurdish guerrillas along the iraqi Border the German government also said it condemned any attacks on civilian populations. 7 945 atomic bomb attack remembered in Nagasaki Tokyo apr Nagasaki on Friday marked the 46th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on the City and the mayor said the persian Gull crisis underscored the threat that nuclear weapons May be used again. Quot the Gulf War showed How real is the danger that nuclear biological and chemical weapons May be used a mayor Hitoshi Mol Oshima said at a memorial service attended by about 25.000 people. The United states dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki a Wes Lorii japanese City on aug. 0, 1945, killing 70.000 people. The world s first Atonic attack on Hiroshima three Days earlier killed 140,000. A in his nationally televised comments Mot Oshima condemned the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Quot the people of Nagasaki protest with anger that the nuclear bomb is a weapon of the Devil bringing destruction to the human race that dropping the nuclear bomb is an act of genocide and a violation of International Law a he said. Public television showed Nagasaki residents bowing in silent prayer at 11 02 ., the moment when the bomb was dropped. The attack effectively forced Japan a surrender. C construction workers in hard hats and patients in hospitals bowed their Heads old women clenched Buddhist prayer beads and dozens of women attended a roman Catholic mass in a Cathedral near the Center of the explosion. During the ceremony the names of 2,430 Nagasaki victims who died of the bombs aftereffects in the past year were added to the official list of victims bringing the total to 90,ss6. Police name 3 suspects in killing of iranian aide Paris up a former iranian prime minister Shapour Bakhtiar and his top aide Likely were killed tuesday evening by the three men who visited Bakh tiaras Home in a suburb of Paris police said Friday. Authorities said an autopsy on the two victims showed they had been dead 36 to 48 hours before the bodies were found by Eolice thursday morning. Bakhtiar and is assistant Ratibeh fall ouch had not been seen publicly since tuesday afternoon. One of the three men was identified by police Friday As far Doum Boyer Ahmadu a Farmer who rented land in Iran from Bakhtiar and whose name was among a list of about 15 persons who regularly visited the former prime minister at his suburban Home. Police identified the two other men As Valiski Rad and Azadi Mohammad. All three were asked for their documents before being allowed to see Bakhtiar but Only Ahmadu appeared on the list of frequent visitors. Police said a bread knife and a Butcher knife were found near the bodies in a ground floor room of the modest House where Bakhtiar lived in the Paris suburb of sur Esnes. They said the knives were almost certainly inside the House because the three iranians who visited Bakhtiar on tuesday afternoon were searched by police before being allowed to enter the building. The men left the House about 6 . Without raising the suspicion of the four policemen posted around the building on a 24-hour basis. One of the policemen Vivus always stationed behind the House while three others were in front of the building according to investigators. Two nights and a Day passed before Bakhtiari a son Guy himself an officer with a French police intelligence unit called police after failing to reach his father by Telephone
