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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday july 8, 1994 world protest prompts Leader of China to cancel visit from the associated press Berlin a chinese Premier i Peng cancelled a walk under the Brandenburg Gate on thursday after about 150 people mounted a noisy demonstration to protest chinese human rights violations. The demonstrators most of whom were East berliners included prominent former East German dissidents who said they resented the fact that the politician who ordered the bloody 1989 crackdown on dissent in China was to be ushered through a Symbol of their democratic struggles. Many people had feared the East germans peaceful 1989 revolution would be crushed by tanks just As the chinese student pro democracy movement was. A we Are calling this a Victory a said Gert Weisskirchen a Federal lawmaker from the opposition social democrats. Chinese officials gave no reason for the  uranium recovered Moscow russian officials said wednesday that they have recovered 20.9 pounds of no weapons Grade uranium taken in two separate thefts from nuclear facilities. Three officers of russians Northern Fleet were charged recently with stealing 9.9 pounds of uranium-238 from their base said Vladimir Komarovsky a spokesman for the Federal counterintelligence service. He said the officers stole the uranium in november and kept it in a garage until their arrest last month. If convicted the thieves could face up to. 10 years in prison. In the ural City of Chelyabinsk in april counterintelligence agents recovered 11 pounds of uranium-238 stolen from the Federal nuclear Center a weapons Plant formerly known As Chelyabinsk-65, Komarovsky said. Georgy Kazurov a spokesman for the nuclear Power ministry said the stolen uranium was unfit for making nuclear weapons. A a it a not even guarded a he said. 1 the stars and stripes Page 13 61 countries carried out group says by the new York times. London a widespread violations of human rights continued around the world fast year including political killings by governments in 61 countries amnesty International says in its annual report. Specifically the Survey of 151 countries reached these conclusions a More than 100,000 political prisoners were locked up in detention without charge or trial in 53 countries. A More than 112 governments tortured or abused prisoners. A about 2,000 people were put to death by the state in 32 countries including people legally executed for crimes. A a a in Europe the report pointed to arbitrary killings in Bosnia and Herzegovina where serbs muslims and croats Are battling for territory and supremacy. At least 15,000 people including Many a prisoners of conscience a those imprisoned for their beliefs a were held in detention Camps there. Twenty six other european countries were cited including Britain where 63 civilians were killed in violence from the conflict in Northern Ireland. Other human rights violations occurred in countries that Ortice were part of the soviet Union like Tajikistan and  the Middle East thousands of people suspected of opposing governments or having tics to fundamentalist islamic groups were arrested in Algeria Egypt and Tunisia the report said. Eleven countries held prisoners of conscience and 15 countries tortured detainees it added. More than 1,000 people died in political killings and a a disappearances in 15 countries in latin America and the Caribbean including Brazil Al Salvador Guatemala Haiti Peru and Colombia. The report also noted that 38 people were executed in the United states although the death penalty has been abolished in Many other countries in the americas. In Africa the report said there were widespread a a extrajudicial killings resulting in More than 5,000 victims. Tens of thousands died in ethnic conflicts Between Tutsi and huts in Burundi foreshadowing the massacres in neighbouring Rwanda this year. Summary executions also occurred in Angola Chad Liberia Senegal Togo and Zaire the report said while thousands of political detainees were held in Cameroon Nigeria and the Sudan. In Asia extrajudicial killings were carried out in Cambodia and Afghanistan and in the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab in India. Police recover treasures arrest 2 Bucharest Romania apr police have recovered most of a $60 million collection of jewish treasures stolen in december from the main synagogue in Budapest Hungary officials said wednesday. Two people were in custody. Nearly 90 percent of the stolen items were recovered May 11-12 near Bucharest the state news Agency rompers quoted police chief Gen. Loan i Vulescu As saying. 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