European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday May 19, 1992 d 8693 a14 killed in Bangkok riots against pro military chief Vietnam Burma Laos so tar of 0 m p r it 11 a i it it y declared a protester beats on a firetruck during a rally demanding that thai prime minister Suchinda Kra Prayoon resign Bangkok Thailand apr soldiers fired on demonstrators and beat and arrested hundreds of people monday but protesters demanding the ouster of the prime minister rampaged through the streets into a second night. At least 14 people were reported killed and 300 wounded since an anti government rally erupted in violence sunday. It was Thailand a most serious uprising since 1976 against military interference in politics. Troops opened fire on thousands of demonstrators late monday outside the Royal hotel. Barricades were thrown across Randam Norn Avenue there to prevent rioters from marching on the democracy Monument and government buildings. Reporters saw at least 40 people with gunshot wounds. Volunteer medical workers treated the victims in the blood soaked hotel lobby while m-16 fire crackled in see riots on Page 2 Thailand Cambodia / gut of / Thailand Sooruj a a 2q0 pm. Appod inspectors reportedly stifled whistle blowers Dallas apr some Pentagon inspectors responsible for exposing fraud and abuse in the military and in the defense Industry have helped squelch complaints made by whistle blowers a newspaper said several people said inspectors general took information Given to them in Confidence and revealed it to their military commanders the Dallas morning news reported sunday. The people also said the inspectors worked to discredit or Bury allegations the newspaper said. The newspaper interviewed More than 50 people and examined lawsuits reports and a draft report by Senate investigators. Inspectors investigators and other officials May be civilians or service members but they ultimately answer to a military Superior. The defense departments acting inspector general Derek Vander Schaaf acknowledged that the military s inspector general system has see fraud on Page 2 former nazi commander Given life term for deaths in Poland by Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a a German regional court sentenced sex nazi Josef Schwammberge to life in prison monday for killing jews in Poland a half Cen Tuty ago. The conviction and sentencing ended an 11-month trial and 20 years of efforts to prosecute Schwammberge who lived in Argentina until his extradition to Germany in 1990. A three judge panel found Schwammberge guilty of arbitrarily executing 25 people in seven incidents Between 1941 and 1943, when be was an is officer in the German occupied polish towns of Roz Wadow and prize myst. Most killings occurred in Przemysla where Schwammberge was in charge of one of two fenced jewish ghettos that the occupation government had established there. His crimes included shooting at least 10 children in front of an open ditch driving 10 other people into a burning barn then shooting them and shooting a rabbi for refusing to work on yom kippur a jewish Holiday. He also was convicted of being an accomplice to murder in the shooting deaths of at least 500 jews on sept 11, 1943, outside a gymnasium in Przemysla and in at least 141 other killings. The judges found Schwammberge not guilty of other similar charges citing insufficient evidence or irreconcilable contradictions in witnesses testimony one woman Schwammberge was alleged to have killed is alive and lives in Israel judge Herbert said. Although surviving wit Nesses memories sometimes proved unreliable Schwammberge Luippold said a the regional court is firmly convinced that none of the witnesses who testified Here in the courtroom told any falsehoods he supported the principle of holding such trials noting that Schwamm Berger a victims were tradesmen and other Ordinary people who never had anybody to defend them. Schwammberge s advanced age is irrelevant to the see deaths on Page 2 1
