European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday August 13, 1994 the stars and stripes Page 5 workers keep a wary Eye on Volcano Geneva a activity in a Volcano near twp refugee Camps is threatening Many rwandans who fled ethnic massacres in their country last month with another serious problem. There has been a marked increase in the activity of the Volcano looming Over Catale and Kib Umba Camps in Zaire the . Refugee Agency said Fri Day. Two . Volcano experts were expected to arrive Friday to assess the Nyi Ragono Volcano which last erupted in 1977. About two thirds of the estimated 800,000 Refu gees massed in Eastern Zaire Are in the two Campos Jet up near the Volcano said Sylvana Foa spokeswoman for the . High commissioner for refugees. Unher staff members Are examining possible evacuation routes including returning refugees to Rwanda in Case the Volcano should erupt she said. Also on Friday another . Agency the world health organization reported inconclusive results of testing to detect the possibility of typhus in the refugee Camps. Thomson Prentice a who spokesman said test ing did not definitely pinpoint typhus As the deadly fever affecting some refugees. He said that typhus could not be ruled out but that the disease May also be another malady called relapsing  this disease is also carried by lice but is not As deadly As typhus he said. Like typhus it can be treated with antibiotics he said. The Unher sent a helicopter Friday to Survey the Nyi Ragono Volcano and had asked for outside experts to assess the situation because the activity seems to be getting so much stronger Foa said. At night the reflection of this bed of lava is get Ting brighter and brighter and reflecting against the Clouds Foa said. They Are a Little nervous on the ground.". When the Volcano last erupted it spilled 83.2 Mil lion cubic Yards of lava which surged to within 990 feet of the Airport in Goma Zaire Foa said. She said Aid workers had not been Able to identify any suitable Sites nearby in Zaire to evacuate Refu gees it May be necessary to move them the Refu gees across the Border Back into Rwanda. Unher favors repatriation on a voluntary basis but of far Only a Small number of refugees have re turned because of fear of retribution from the Tutsi led rwandan patriotic front which controls the Rwanda government. Foa said rwandan soldiers of the ousted govern ment Are terrorizing refugees and disrupting food distribution. They Are a Bunch of thugs she noted. Unher has urged that a separate Camp be set up for the soldiers. 1is Dave Casey a Hose supplied by task Force 51, the contingent of Germany based soldiers deployed to operation support Hope leads from the water purification site on Lake Kiva to spigots where refugees in Goma Zaire collect water in cans. Zaire to pull out elite soldiers after refugees protest thefts Goma Zaire a about 400 of Zaire s elite sol Diers Are to be withdrawn from this Border town follow ing a protest by thousands of residents and refugees fed up with their thievery and thuggery. Prime minister Leon Kengo a Dondo acknowledged thursday that the troops sent to Goma to help with the rwandan refugee crisis got the situation out of con  in View of what happened the first decision is that troops responsible for that situation must be arrested and brought to court Kengo a Dondo told radio Zaire. Second All units in Goma and in Bukavu must be withdrawn and replaced by other contingents in order to avoid the recurrence of this situation the prime min ister said. The soldiers sent to Goma were drawn from the presidential guard and other elite units raising concern about the Quality of the troops that will replace them. Kengo a Dondo spoke in Kinshasa the zairian Capi Tal after briefing president Mobutu sese seko on a not by More than 5,000 people in Goma on thursday that briefly blocked food convoys. The nearly two hour protest by residents and some Refu gees was set off by the shooting death of a Well known cur Rency dealer by a zairian Soldier demanding Money. The victims body was carried through the streets on a wooden Stretcher by the demonstrators who pelted troops with stones and blocked streets with Large rocks and trash. Goma residents claim that the soldiers have con ducted House to House extortion campaigns and robbed zairian citizens and rwandan refugees alike at gun Point. Two soldiers were killed by outraged refugees last week. But the protests in Goma were the first significant sign of the frustration boiling Over in the City of 80,000. The City has been converted to a Dollar Economy by the influx of Aid workers journalists and . And other Western troops. Prices for scarce Basic commodities have soared while the value of Zaire s currency has.,. Aid officials warned Friday that the death disease and hunger infesting the refugee Camps could affect All of Central Africa if rwandans Don t return Home soon. Refugees Are still leaving Rwanda and migrating through neighbouring Burundi Tanzania Uganda and Zaire said Jose Riera a senior official with the . High commissioner for refugees at a news conference in Brussels Belgium. Workers unearth mass grave at Moscow zoo Moscow a Crews digging at a site for a new Bear Cage at the Moscow zoo stopped work Friday after uncover ing a mass grave of human skulls and Bones that authorities believe could Date from Josef Stalin s Rule. The discovery went unnoticed by the crowds of children and adults eating ice Cream and pressing around animal cages just a few Hundred Yards away. Heels a Skull said mustachioed Foreman Vladimir Allik pointing to a Yel Lowish half preserved remnant and a Small Heap of Bone fragments on a Metal plate. An d there s another one Over  Allik s Crew members said they dug up the remains of at least 10 bodies thurs Day some with apparent Bullet holes. The site is at the Edge of the grim aging zoo compound in Central Moscow. Officials from the District prosecutor s office who ordered work to be stopped suspect the Bones might belong to victims of terror unleashed by Stalin in the 1930s. It looks like it but we cannot be sure. At the moment we can t even say How old Are the Bones or whether these Are actually Bullet holes. We be sent the Bones to forensic experts said Igor cd Nius Hkin acting District prosecutor. Several such Sites found in the past turned out to be old graveyards he said in a Telephone interview the soviet dictator killed millions of people in labor Camps and secret police dungeons. Tens of thousands were executed in City prisons then dumped in unmarked mass Graves or brought covertly to  Graves have been turning up in re cent years including one found recently in an entertainment Center in downtown Vilnius the lithuanian capital. Authorities be Lieve thousands of bodies of lithuanians executed by soviet secret police Are buried beneath the streets of Vilnius. Up to 28,000 bodies of political prison ers Are believed to be buried in Buovo former killing Field on the Southern Edge of Moscow and another 16,000 at the nearby Korn Manarka state farm Accord ing to russian officials. Those at komm Narka were mostly employees of the Kab s forerunner the Jav Fkd which turned against itself in the mounting wave of terror. The workers at the Moscow zoo Are sure that at least some of the skulls had single Bullet wounds an a kid Trade Mark. Three skulls even had Teeth and there were Bullet holes like this one worker said putting a coarse Finger to the Side of his head. There were lots  Bones said filter Nikolai Biriukov. First just a few of them then More and More As we continued to dig the  the daily Moskovsky Komsomol yets said the site was once used for keeping Young animals a sort of playground for cubs built soon after world War ii. Old Asphalt can be seen in the Trench but the Bones were found beyond it at a depth of about 6 /2 feet. Kon Pushkin said authorities were Check ing City records to determine what used to stand on the site. After All that is done we will decide whether to launch a criminal investigation he said. Time is pressing As construction has to  luckily for the Cash strapped zoo where animals and Birds languish inside their cages amid debris and stale water the grave is Well out of sight. Beyond work ers at the site not a single visitor or labor or at the zoo now under reconstruction appeared to know about the Bones. Allik the Foreman was convinced this week s find was not the end of it. I m sure Well find More once we re sume digging he said. F