European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 a the stars and stripes saturday november 30, 1991 r a brazilian boy rides on a Cross during thursdays Parade to protest the country a wave of child killings. Chanting children in Brazil Call for end to death squads Rio do Janeiro Bruzil apr filling the streets where they live and die thousands of Raggedy homeless children protested the alleged death squad slayings of poor youths. A boy lying on a wooden Cross carried by companions led the procession thursday of More than 6,000 people including a group of mothers whose children have been slain. A a the police Are mean animals. When they beat you they hit to kill a said 13-year-old Alex Rosa Dos Sants Barefoot and shirtless. Slayings of children living on their own on the streets have tripled in the past year in major cities according to studies by social and Church groups. Brazil has about 12 million Street children compared with 5 million in 1985. The National movement of Street boys and girls says that More than three children were killed every Day in Brazil during the 12 months that ended in june. But the government of president Fernando Collor de Mello says the number of slayings is exaggerated and has declined since last year. A we want to live but Brazil condemns us to die a the youngsters chanted during the March organized by human rights groups the . International children a emergency fund the roman Catholic Church and the mayors office. As the children marched office workers in the banking District threw confetti from windows on the procession. People working to Aid the children believe Many killers Are retired or off duty police officers hired by local merchants to a clean up High crime areas. A these murders Are the work of death squads and police officers and they continue because of the impunity of the killers a said Lucia Regina Campista a lawyer with the defense Center for children and adolescents. This month six children Ages 9 to 17 were killed in the Baiada flume sense slums North of Rio. A seventh victim a 16-year-old girl escaped with a head wound after she played dead. About 20 mothers of slain children marched in the Parade their Heads covered by Black shawls. A my son was innocent a worker a said Denilda i Beira de Souza whose 15-year old boy was grabbed by two men and shot to death sept. 6. A they mixed him up with someone else. Now we want  another Mother Bernadette Pedro Morena a Silva said her son Luiz Carlos 15, was killed because he was peddling marijuana. A the police have to arrest kids involved with drugs but its insane to kill them a she said her voice shaking. Behind her children in torn filthy clothes Sang hymns and danced to a Samba beat throbbing from a sound truck. Dozens of schoolchildren in neat Blue and White uniforms marched alongside in support. Some children carried signs saying a killing is not a solutions and a we want to live in  Luciano chagas lives on the Street shining shoes and stealing to help support his Mother brother and sister. A yesterday a policeman hit me and said if i see you again ill have to kill you a a chagas said. A but i can to afford to be afraid because i have nowhere else to  Alcenio Guerra the minister of child affairs recently announced a big school construction Campaign he said would help reduce the killings. About 7 million children done to attend school and 7 million More go fewer than two hours a Day he said. World who gives employees key rings with condoms from wire reports Geneva a the world health organization on thursday started giving out 10,000 condom containing key rings to United nations staff members As part of a bid to increase Peoples awareness about aids. Or. Michael Merson head of who a ant aids Campaign said the key rings were meant to prompt conversation about the risks of contracting the deadly virus. Merson told a news conference that effective education and information were the Only ways to Stop the disease s spread. There was unlikely to be an effective vaccine before the end of the Century although 13 Are being tested he said. In an information pack released in Advance of sundays world aids Day the Geneva based Agency said myths and misconceptions about aids were widespread and hindered attempts to Stem the increase in . Center attacked Seoul South Korea a about 500 students shouting anti american slogans attacked the . Cultural Center in the City of Kwangju on Friday to demand that the government ban foreign Rice imports reports said. Students hurled rocks and about 200 firebombs in the 10-minute attack said the Dong a and Joo Ngang ilbo newspapers. A guard Post in front of the cultural Center was burned and destroyed but no damage was reported in the Center the National news Agency Yon Hap reported. About 500 riot police armed with Shields and Batons dispersed the students. No arrests or injuries were  bombs Hurt 8 Belfast Northern Ireland a Ira bombs exploded near a Belfast hotel and the Law courts thursday wounding eight people causing heavy damage to businesses and disrupting the City. Hours later two bombs exploded near Londonderry the provinces second largest City. Police said they received Telephone warnings of the attacks on a filling station and an inn. No injuries were reported. Police investigated bomb alerts at two railway stations and a bus station in Belfast but found  daughter s bail Papeete French polynesia a the daughter of actor Marlon Brando who was jailed in the shooting death of her Lover has been freed on 5.5 million francs $1 million bail. The bail conditions prohibit Cheyenne Brando 21, from leaving the Brando family residence on a Small Island near Tahiti her attorneys reported. Brando whose mental state is described by her attorneys As fragile had been confined to a jail Hospital in Papeete capital of French polynesia since arriving Here nov. 18. She was arrested in France a few Days earlier for alleged complicity in the slaying of Dag Drol let the father of her child. Her half brother Christian Brando is serving a 10-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter in California for shooting Drollet 26, at Marlon Brando s Hollywood Hills mansion in May 1990. Robbers target Uzi carrying dutch conscripts a act cd a xt1 1 1 / a a n _ a Amsterdam Netherlands a dutch conscripts done to want to carry uzis anymore because robbers Are trying to steal the sub machine guns the conscripts Union says. Union spokesman Christiaan de Leeuw said the guard duty at bases should be carried out either by private Security firms or if need be unarmed conscripts. The Uzi uproar is the latest cause adopted by freewheeling dutch conscripts in a 20-year Battle for concessions from the government. So far this year four israeli made uzis were taken from draftees on guard duty by attackers who threatened the soldiers with a crossbow in one Holdup at a dutch army Barracks and a pistol in the other. Even though there were no injuries in either robbery the dutch Union of conscripted soldiers maintains that carrying the automatic weapons puts conscripts lives in danger. A if you make them walk around with uzis they re walking targets a de Leeuw said. A most draftees have fired the thing maybe once or twice and Are not at All counting on being held up. The uzis Are considered a weapon of Choice by the dutch underworld because of their conceal ability and firepower. Union sponsored protests including a demonstration by about 50 conscripts outside parliament on wednesday prompted parliamentarians to take up the matter during question time thursday. Dutch defense minister Relus Ter Beck told parliament that the conscripts were not subjected to unacceptable risks and could Ward off Attar ers by firing into the air said Ter Beeks spokes Hendrik Shenau. Since the Union was founded in t late 1960s, it has won the right for the r Tiona a 45,000 conscripts most of them the army to Wear such jewelry As Carrir on duty and to have Long hair. The conscripts also have won Eigl hour workdays with the right to go Hor on weekends if they have no special Dut the Union is also righting to keep i Versal conscription alive in the face nato mandated manpower cuts in t 130,000-Strong dutch military