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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday december 8. 1992 i world the stars and stripes b Page 9200 killed in India religious rioting new Dpi i to ratio Zad t f j _. W a. A l. Delhi India apr hindu Muslim riots Bro a Oil across India monday after thousands of frenzied hindus Tore Down a mosque built on disputed holy ground. The Day of bloodletting Cost nearly 200 lives. The government ordered the army to take control of riot torn sections of Bombay indians business Center after 40 people died. Outraged muslims stoned cars and trucks and stopped the suburban railroads that feed the City of 8 million. Fights with homemade firebombs knives axes or stones engulfed dozens of towns Indian news agencies reported after hindu zealots destroyed a 430-year-old Muslim shrine on a site in the City of Ayodhya where hindus believe their god Rama was born. The sacking of the mosque provoked an angry reaction from the islamic government of Pakistan indians traditional enemy. Anti hindu violence was reported in Pakistan Bangladesh Afghanistan and Britain. In Jaipur hindus and muslims battled with daggers and Iron rods and 17 people were killed press Trust said. In new Delhi riots broke out in the morning in the walled old City which has a Large Muslim Community and police ordered everyone to stay indoors. Three people were later killed in clashes that spread to the suburbs. Many of the nearly 200 deaths compiled by press agencies from police reports were caused by police trying to contain the violence or Stop looting mobs. As is common in India to avoid inciting further trouble news agencies did not report whether victims were hindus or muslims. Thousands of hindus Stouard police barricades in Ayodhya on sunday and Tore Don the mosque with pick axes crowbars hammers and nicer Bare hands. Four hindus were killed by debris As the mosque fell. Hindu fundamentalists stands top the dome of a Muslim mosque in Ayodhya India after storming the building sunday Sarajevo Airport stays closed As fighting goes on cad a ?\7f\ n a i to. Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr Sarajevo Airport remained closed to Relief flights for a sixth Day monday As continued fighting in nearby suburbs kept the Aid lifeline shut Down. Small arms fire rattled around the downtown presidency building in the morning and bosnian radio reported heavy fighting along parts of Northern Bosnia. . Officials said fighting continued in the Western suburbs of Stup and but Mir near the Airport. Serbian fighters captured the Western suburb of orcs on saturday in the largest armoured offensive in Sarajevo of the 8-month-old War. But bosnian defenders held out on the Eastern fringe of otes trying to prevent serbs from advancing and possibly blocking the Airport Road. A the cutting of the Airport Road by whatever Means is something we have to worry about a Jeremy Brade a european Community representative with the . Relief operation said sunday. The Airport remained closed to Relief flights and . Logistics flights. Relief flights were suspended last tuesday after a . Transport was fired on. In Geneva the office of the . High commissioner for refugees said the earliest the Airlift could resume would be wednesday. Forty percent of the food Aid destined for Sarajevo was being brought in by plane. Trying to compensate for the loss of the Airlift by expanding truck convoys would be difficult said the Unher. But despite heavy shelling sunday one truck Convoy with food reached the City from the West and another was due in today the Unher said. Croatian radio reported a Relief train a the first attempt to move Aid into Bosnia and Herzegovina by rail a arrived monday morning at Caplina in Western Herzegovina from the croatian port of Ploce. It unloaded 100 tons of Aid and went on to Mostar the radio said. Unher officials  confirm the report. . Officials said last week it was not possible to go by train All the Way to Sarajevo. . Monitors reported 711 artillery and tank rounds hit government positions sunday and they counted 136 rounds Landing on serbian positions. Muslim led bosnian defenders of the capital Are outgunned by the serb besiegers. Because of the heavy shelling the movement of All . Vehicles was halted for four hours sunday afternoon. In Northern Bosnia heavy fighting raged around Bihac Grade a and Brezko bosnian radio  coaches pick up steam in Seoul Seoul South Korea apr afraid of pawing male passengers an increasing number of female commuters arc taking advantage of the a women Only coaches introduced on Seoul area trains a week ago officials said monday. The Korea National Railroad said about 97 percent of passengers Riding in those coaches during recent morning Rush hours were females. On the first Day in service dec. 1, about 70 percent of the riders in the women Only coaches were female. Despite the women Only designation there is no Legal ban on men using the cars. But the Railroad said the percentage of female passengers in the cars has increased along with the publicity. The state owned Railroad designated two of each trains 10 coaches for women passengers after mounting complaints about male passengers fondling women in crowded Rush hour trains. Most South korean women Are too shy to fend off such abuses on the trains the main Mode of transportation for Seoul a 12 million people. The company said the number of women a coaches would be increased to three on each train next year if the system remains successful. Many Channel islanders aided Wii by William to oily los Angeles times London a in a Little remembered military action in world War ii the Channel islands were conquered by German troops and became the Only part of Britain to suffer occupation. For years after the War rumours circulated that Many British residents of the Channel islands had collaborated with the nazi occupiers. But an embarrassed postwar government like that in France was reluctant to make the Issue Public by pressing charges. Most of the relevant documents were ordered kept secret for up to 100 years. But last week the government under pressure from members of parliament belonging to the opposition labor party decided to release 27 folders of partly censored papers. The documents show the extent to which officials on the two largest Channel islands Jersey and Guernsey collaborated with the germans. Among other things the records show that at least 435 women on Jersey and Guernsey had illegitimate children by German soldiers a a revelation that led one British newspaper to headline the Story a sleeping w Ith the  Quot numbers of women including a surprising number of married women. Have carried on and lived with germans a said a wartime intelligence report. A informants think titbits of food an extra log a bit of butter etc., have been the initial bait in Many  a the documents also Tell of reprisals a group called the Guernsey underground Barbers shaved the Heads of women collaborators a practice followed As Well by the resistance in wartime and postwar France. More damaging was the revelation that some islanders assisted the germans in setting up four notorious forced labor Camps on the northernmost Island of Alderney. There hundreds of captured russian and polish soldiers French jews and other prisoners died from the harsh working conditions. According to the documents Channel islanders also cooperated with the nazi authorities in exposing some 2,000 jews and British resistance members who were sent to concentration Camps on the continent in 1942. The Channel islands were occupied in june 1940, and were not freed from German Rule until the Overall nazi surrender in May 1945. When the allies invaded France in the summer of 1944, Many islanders escaped to nearby French territory. While the degree of collaboration varied a postwar investigation absolved most islanders of serious misconduct during the occupation  
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