European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 20, 1994 the stars and stripes sex Page 5 w Moscow a three years after their hard line communist coup failed former plotters pledged on Friday tonight to the end to restore the old soviet Empire. We shall not Retreat in guarding the interests of our motherland the soviet Union our people and socialism. We shall not Retreat said Anatoly Lukyanov the former soviet parliament chair Man. Lukyanov was among key the aug. 19-21,1991, Putsch that briefly ousted president Mikhail Gorbachev and in a backlash accelerated the col lapse of the soviet Union four months later. The top military Kab and political figures who led the coup were granted amnesty earlier this year by Russia s new parliament. This month a military court acquitted the Only one who chose to stand trial. Lukyanov and several dozen fellow hard liners marked the third anniversary of the coup Friday by holding a memorial service for marshal Sergei Fakhr Omeyer a plotter who killed himself Days after the Putsch collapsed. Holding Flowers and red flags of the soviet Union the hard liners stood around Fakhr Omeyer s imposing Black Marble Monument at Moscow s to Roku Rovo cemetery with chiselled letters pro claiming communist. Patriot. speakers including Radical opposition leaders Viktor Alksnis and Stanislav Terekhov denounced russian president Boris Yeltsin s regime As the soviet people will learn the will do Justice to those who have ruined our motherland and those who have defended it to the end it. Gen. Yuri Kalinin a decorated Veteran told the gathering. Singer Tamara Kort Iontseva delivered Short anti semitic speech. Zionism shall not pass. We know for sure that our enemy is zionism. It wants to enslave Russia she said. They May kill us but we shall not surrender Gorbachev meanwhile marked the anniversary in his own Way announcing Boris Yeltsin Speaks from atop a tank in front of the russian parliament in Moscow on aug. 19,1991, during the coup attempt. Plans to help form a new democratic opposition movement to the present re russian newspapers were filled wit stories and comments about the coup. However Many russians disillusioned by the chaos that followed the soviet breakup were ambivalent and confused about the dramatic events that change their country and their lives. Coup anniversary events Are subdue this year. Yeltsin who boldly led opposition tothe coup in 1991, did not even plan to be in Moscow to Mark the anniversary spokesman said. Yeltsin is on a working trip in Southern Russia. To forget August of 1991 is to betray the Freedom of Russia the daily Izvestia said in a front Page Appeal Friday. Prominent columnist Otto Latsi warned in Izvestia that revenge forces have not calmed Down. Today they Are preparing a new criticized those who now minimize the events of August 1991. There was a coup he told the inter fax news Agency. And though the am Nesty freed the plotters of any judicial punishment no one has relieved them of the moral Gorbachev was vacationing with his family on the Crimea on aug. 18, 1991, when the coup plotters placed him under House arrest. The next Day they declared him deposed for health reasons. Tanks and troops were ordered int Moscow most newspapers were closed and mass arrests were planned. The poorly organized coup fell apart after three Days in the face of the popular uprising led by Yeltsin. Sweden welcomes anti fundamentalist Muslim by the new York times Stockholm Sweden after two fearful months spent in hiding in her native Bangladesh Taulima Nasrin emerged thursday for the first time in her new Sanctuary in Sweden. The novelist and poet vowed to press on with her fight against Muslim Funda mentalists who have called for her death because of her writing. Appearing under police guard before a carefully screened gathering of about 150 reporters and swedish supporters Nasrin said she would continue to write and speak against Muslim fundamentalism which she described As spreading dark Ness in Many parts of the i have so far avoided the death the fundamentalists have been promising me she said Reading remarks written in English. I do not know How Long i will be Able to do so. Whatever my Fate will be i pledge to remain steadfast in commitment to my vision of a world ruled by reason tolerance love and but in her remarks thursday Nasrin insisted that she was not seeking political Asylum in Sweden and said she intended to return to Bangladesh someday. I will return to Bangladesh As soon As things Are quieter and cooler she said. At present she said she would travel an speak in Europe. For months Nasrin 32, has been at the Center of religious and political tur Moil in Bangladesh. Muslim militants outraged by her challenges to islamic taboos on female sexuality and the role of women began mounting strikes and pro test rallies some of them drawing up to 200,000 people. She went into hiding june 4, after the bangladeshi government charged her with defaming islam. She had been quoted in an Indian newspaper As saying that the Koran should be revised Thor she said she was misquoted and was referring Only to the shariah or islamic Law and not the Koran. Public protests prompted the govern ment to seek her arrest. Despite the pending Case a court in Dhaka granted her bail and Freedom to travel outside the country. She immediately left for swe Den. Germans a rest 6 russians in Frankfurt Brothel killings Frankfurt Germany a six russians have been arrested in the strangulation of a Frankfurt Brothel owner his wife and four prostitutes police said Friday. The bodies of Gabor Bartos and the five other victims were found sunday at Bartos High class Brothel in Frankfurt fashionable West end District. Five russian men and a russian prostitute who works in Frankfurt were arrested thursday said Frankfurt police chief Karlheinz Fernmer. The six suspects were found at a Refu gee shelter in Rettenbach a bavarian Community about 186 Miles from Frank Furt bavarian police said. Bartos watch and an electrical Cord that is apparently the murder weapon were found during the arrests Frankfurt police said. Robbery might be the motive because Cash was missing from the Brothel Gem Mermaid. The russian woman and one of the men arrested in Bavaria Are the two main suspects said investigator Oskar Schaub. The four others might be released Schaub said. Mitterrand opens festivities Paris Paris a president Francoi Mitterrand on Friday opened a week of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Paris from nazi occupation in world War ii. Mitterrand Laid a Wreath at the prefecture of police where the Resis Tance launched its uprising aug. 19, 1944. One Hundred and sixty seven police officers died in the fighting. The president was joined by mayor Jacques Chirac and Interior minister Charles Pasqua top members of a conservative party that claims descent from War hero Gen. Charles Degaulle. Mitterrand who made no speech reviewed a color guard of police and firefighters. Former leaders of the resistance filled out the crowd. The uprising that started at the prefecture of police spread throughout the City despite fears that the capital could be destroyed by germans
