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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, June 20, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday june 20, 1994 the stars and stripes Pago 5 rwandan rebels threaten i pub Kiili to target French soldiers Kigali Rwanda apr Tutsi cd rebels Hava vowed to attack peacekeeping troops that France is planning to Send to Rwanda the . Commander said sunday. A the responses in be received from the ref rebel rwandan patriotic front Are very emphatic a said maj. Gen. Romeo Dallaire of Canada. A they would consider the French forces the enemy and target them  without waiting for support from other governments France was preparing saturday to Send troops to Rwanda to Stop the killing of civilians in the Central african nations 10-Wcck-old civil War. The 490-member . Force already in Rwanda lacks the troops and weapons to Stop marauding killers who have slaughtered As Many As 200,000 people mostly members of the Tutsi minority. Leaders of the mostly Tutti rwandan patriotic front say they done to Trust France and accuse Paris of arming and supporting the Hutu led government they Are fighting. On saturday . Convoys moved More than 1,000 refugees from Kigali the rebel besieged capital. Fighting intensified overnight forcing the United nations to cancel plans to Rescue people mostly Tutsi from a roman Catholic Church in the government held sector. In Exchange huts taking Refuge in a Hospital in the rebel held East would be allowed to leave. So far Only Senegal which has 28 soldiers serving with . Forces in Rwanda has said it would help France. French president Francois Mitterrand said it would take a a matter of Days and hours for France and its former West african colonies to Send troops to Rwanda possibly via Zaire a the Only Border rwandan government forces still control. Asked whether French troops could make any positive contribution Dallaire said a i Flat out refuse to answer that question. No  Dallaire said that he did no to know whether the French would be under his command but that his officers were making plans for several scenarios and deployments. Belgium the former administrator of Rwanda and the United states have indicated they would provide France with equipment or supplies but no troops. Among Western nations Only Italy has said it might Send soldiers. A Tutsi boy left comforts his sister As they watch . Troops from Ghana Load Iris onto a truck after the children were evacuated from behind government lines. A belong raise fear of severe retaliation Belfast Northern Ireland apr police braced for More violence searched sunday for the protestant gunmen who shot six Catholic men to death As they watched a soccer match in a pub. A a we arc undoubtedly now in a spiral of tit for Tat sectarian killings and certainly we View the matter very very seriously a a said Deputy chief Constable Blair Wallace of the Northern Ireland police. Two gunmen walked into a Village pub crowded with men watching Ireland a world cup soccer Victory against Italy on saturday night and fired at random. Six people were killed and five wounded in the worst atrocity in Northern Ireland a sectarian violence in eight months. The outlawed pro British Ulster Volunteer Force a protestant paramilitary group claimed responsibility for the attack in the Small Village of Lough Nisland a largely roman Catholic area 20 Miles Southeast of Belfast. Shootings in the past two Days have taken four lives in the British ruled province. Police expressed fear of More violence when soccer fans again crowd pubs to watch a television broadcast of Ireland a match against Mexico in Orlando fla., on Friday. The upsurge in violence follows an offer by the British and Irish governments on dec. 15 of a role in peace talks for sinn i Ein a political ally of the Ira if the paramilitary group first renounced its violent Campaign against British Rule. Sinn fein Leader Gerry Adams said his group would respond sometime in june. But hard line protestant groups have warped British prime minister John major not to make any concessions to the Ira. Which draws its support from the provinces Catholic minority. Police Airlift marijuana haul to make trafficking arrest by the Providence journal Rehoboth mass. A Dick Tracy May have a two Way wrist radio but the Rehoboth police department has a c-130 cargo plane. The Story began wednesday in Nebraska when state police pulled Over a pickup truck on a traffic violation. Troopers soon discovered a hidden cargo 210 pounds of marijuana. After interrogating the Driver they Learned that he was headed for Rehoboth to make a delivery. Enter the Federal drug enforcement Agency with the Massachusetts state police the Bristol county drug task Force and the Rehoboth police department. Police decided that the truck should make its delivery but under the watchful Eye of police. One catch the arrest detention and interrogation meant the pickup Driver had lost a Day on the Road. If the truck showed up late it would lip off the person waiting for it. No problem. Police obtained a National guard transport plane loaded the 1973 Chevy and flew it to an undisclosed Airport in Massachusetts. The truck made it to its rendezvous in Rehoboth on thursday. A Man picked it up and headed toward Dighton. That a where police arrested James e. Craven 23, of san Diego. Craven is originally from the Taunton mass., area Rehoboth police said. He was charged with trafficking in marijuana. Craven pleaded innocent and was held on 55,000 Cash bail. Distributed to Scripps Howard news service muslims serbs skirmish along crucial corridor Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina apr the latest cease fire in Bosnia is limping along with Low level combat reported from the Northern and northeastern front lines a . Spokesman said sunday. Artillery exchanges along the northeastern Rosavina corridor Between the bosnian serbs and the Muslim led army saturday were heavier than during the last three Days said the spokesman maj. Dacre Holloway. The corridor is of crucial importance because it links serbian holdings in the East and West. Another trouble spot was the area round Ribnick some 25 Miles Southwest of Enzla said Holloway who spoke of a harassment fire rather than full blown artillery Battles. However the extent of fighting was not Clear. Many previous bosnian cease fires have failed but . Officials had expressed Hope that a monthlong truce that started june 10 could Lead to a broader peace Accord. According to . Officials in Central Bosnia government forces were seeking Access to a stretch of Road Between Ribnick and Davidovici some 22 Miles to the cast. That would give them virtual control of a paved Road linking Davidovici and Tula. Bosnian radio reported sunday that serbian forces were shelling government positions and a residential area along the front line Between Voz Uca and Ribnick to the East. It said fighting in the. Mount Ozren area of serbian held Voz Uca was the worst saturday with serbian troops shelling three Muslim area villages. Fighting also continued in the Northwestern Muslim enclave of Bihac where renegade Muslim fighters backed by serbian artillery have been battling government forces  
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