European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 7, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday october 7,1991 report says soviet official admits to Wii massacre London apr a former soviet secret police commander has admitted his role in the murder of More than 6,000 polish officers in world War ii according to a report in sundays editions of the observer newspaper. The report said Vladimir Tokarev 89, made a videotaped statement describing How the a kid police Agency killed 6,925 polish officers in april 1940. He said 250 poles were killed every night in the secret police Headquarters in Kalinin about 100 Miles Northwest of Moscow. The report was written by Nicholas Bethe la historian and conservative member of the european parliament who has also translated russian literature including Alexander Solzhenitsyn a the cancer Ward. Bethell said he had obtained videotapes of statements by Tokarev and Pyotr Suprunenko 83, who was identified As the a kid officer in charge of polish prisoners. Suprunenko told of receiving an order from the politburo signed by Josef Stalin ordering the executions Bethell said. Prosecutors say Tokarev and Suprunenko Are the Only men still living who so far have been identified As having a Case to answer. A under present legislation they probably wont be Able to proceed. But there will need to be a piece of retroactive legislation making mass murder of this sort a limitless crime a Bethell said in an interview sunday. The soviet Union has a 15-year statute of limitations for murder the report said. While there is no limit on trying a crimes against humanity Quot the soviets apply this Only to crimes committed in the name of nazi Germany. Bethell said he obtained the tapes two week ago in Moscow where he met with military prosecutors. A year ago president Mikhail s. Gorbachev directed them to investigate the killings of some 15,000 polish officers including 3,897 poles at Katyn and 4,403 near Khary Kov. Tokarev said the murders at Kalinin were carried out at night by about 30 a kid men led by an officer named Blokhin. The bodies buried near the Village of myed Noye about 20 Miles outside Kalinin Are now being disinterred in the presence of polish observers Bethell said. Bethell said the soviet prosecutors expected to recommend charges against Tokarev and Suprunenko. Bethell said the investigation has been hampered by the suspension of maj. Gen. Alexander Katy Sev because of his a a inactivity during the August coup attempt. On the Day of the coup attempt Kab officers in Kalinin attempted to Stop the exhumation of polish mass Graves bet Nell reported. Quot they told us that our work was unnecessary and that they would not guarantee our safety. Still we carried on a a soviet investigator was quoted As saying. Unflattering Mulroney biography sets brisk sales Pace in Canada Sto apr the hottest Book of the Politi i portrays prime minister Brian Mulroney As a Tunkard who bragged about his conquests of Toronto Cal season a former drunkard who bragged women lied about his academic record and As a youth smuggled contraband French Bull semen. But Mulroney the politics of ambition by Ottawa journalist John Sawatsky also depicts the prime minister As a charming Loyal and hardworking Man who succeeded As a labor lawyer and company president in route to political Power. The prime ministers office says Mulroney will not comment on the Book Mulroney which hit stores last week and is Selling briskly at $32. Many of its disclosures including the claims of heavy drinking have been More or less common knowledge for years. But the Book comes on top of a string of polls showing support dipping for Mulroney and his conservative party to As Low As 12 to 15 percent. To say Mulroney is unpopular is to understate the vehemence of Many canadians feelings. His troubles Stem largely from his economic policies and taxes. The Canadian press has focused largely on the negative aspects of the new 557-Page biography which covers Mulroney a life up to the time he was elected prime minister in 1984. Among the unflattering allegations in the Book a after losing his bid for the leadership of the progressive conservative party in 1976, Mulroney Slid into a a personal hell from which he would not emerge for the next three years a becoming a bitter resentful drunkard. A he was a Womanizer and during his Low period a engaged in liaisons with a variety of women from a variety of a Mulroney flunked out of Law school at Dalhousie University in Halifax. His later explanation that he a a transferred to Laval University in Quebec allegedly is untrue. A when France refused to allow Canada to import its prize charolais cattle Mulroney working secretly for the department of agriculture while still a College student acted As a semen courier picking up the stuff from the French Island of Saint Pierre. A so it was Mulroney who delivered the Little vials of prize semen to Farmers and institutions All Over the Prairies a Sawatsky says. Zimbabwe squatters huts bulldozed Harare Zimbabwe apr hundreds of squatter families shacks in the Zimbabwe capital have been bulldozed just Days before the scheduled visit of British Queen Elizabeth ii on thursday. At least 600 squatters were trucked from the Southern Harare suburb of Epworth to a farm owned by the City outside the capital. More than 1,000 others were moved last week to Norton 18 Miles West of Harare from 19 suburban squatter Camps City officials said. The squatter huts were primarily constructed of Woven grass Wood scraps cardboard and plastic sheets. City officials said the Camps were a health Hazard and denied the demolition was aimed at cleaning up Harare in Advance of the Queens visit. Documents submitted to the court said the Camp would cause a severe embarrassment during the visit. World a j7 dead at least 36 Hurt As Belgium train derails from wire reports Llu be Belgium a packed passenger train derailed saturday after its brakes failed on a downhill slope killing seven people and injuring Over three dozen police said. A five people were killed in the Accident and two others died during the night. About a dozen people remained hospitalized sunday according to a police official. ,. A i. Many of those aboard the Tumble a steam train had taken advantage of a special weekend offer by the Public railway to ride the train at discount prices. j but on the afternoon run the train stopped on top of a Hill leading to the mine museum in dal hem a suburb of li6ge. The conductor had left the Tram to Call his superiors when he discovered problems with break system rights leaders Dies Saskatoon Canada a Martin ennals the former Secretary general of amnesty International who helped build it into a leading human rights group died saturday after a yearlong Battle with lung cancer. He was 64. Ennals led the development of the London based group As a major International Monitor of human rights during his tenure As Secretary general from 1968-80. In 1977, he accepted the Nobel peace prize on amnesty a behalf. A if he needs a memorial it will be amnesty internal ennals tonal. He built it up from a very modest organization to one of enormous stature which now commands great respect a said his brother lord David ennals a former senior labor party minister in troops kill 10 Srinagar India a ten people were shot to death sunday in the second Day of House to House searches by Indian troops trying to contain the Muslim separatist insurrection in Kashmir police and witnesses said. The witnesses accused the paramilitary Border Security Force of opening fire on unarmed civilians who had been ordered out of their houses for the search. Ten people died the witnesses said speaking on condition of spacecraft docks Moscow a a soviet spacecraft carrying the first austrian in space docked saturday with the orbiting Mir space station two Days after Blastoff from the Bai Konur cosm drome Tass reported the soyuz tm-13 spacecraft reached Mir at 9 39 a.m., the soviet news Agency reported. Austria a first cosmonaut Franz Viehbeck will spend eight Days in space returning to Earth later this week with soviet cosmonaut Anatoly arts Barsky who has spent five months making repairs to Mir and conducting experiments. Soviet Media say Austria paid $7 million for the ride Down from $11 million from a japanese passenger in december and $10 million the British paid in survives Indonesia air crash that killed 132 Jakarta Indonesia a one Soldier survived the crash of an indonesian air Force c-130 transport plane that killed 132 other people the air Force said sunday. The crash survivor reported in critical condition with massive Burns was identified As pfc. Bambang. Previously All passengers on the plane had been reported kilted. Meanwhile military personnel were scouring the crash site to clean up any ammunition that might have been scattered when the plane crashed into a labor department training Center shortly after Takeoff saturday. All 132 of the dead were buried with military honors sunday in Cilc Duk cemetery on Jakarta s outskirts. One was a Security guard at the train ing Center. The planets passengers were air Force men being flown from Jakarta to Bandung 90 Miles to the Southeast after joining in armed forces Day ceremonies in the capital. All remaining festivities for the armed forces 46th anniversary on saturday were cancelled because of the crash an armed forces spokesman said. President Suharto expressed his condolences to the victims families Sayig the tragedy was a great loss to the n Tion. Vice Marshall Sioen air Force chief of staff said the crash was one of biggest tragedies in the armed Force history. Witnesses said some of the dead a in Green military uniforms were Tou clutching their weapons
