European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 11, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 the stars and stripes world sunday september 11,1994 angry Zaire mobs slay 2 soldiers Hijack autos Goma Zaire a zairian mobs killed two government soldiers saturday and hijacked a Relief vehicle prompting the United nations to warn too foreign id workers to avoid two districts in Goma. According to witnesses the trouble started when zairian mobs spotted two soldiers killing a civilian who had re fused to pay them bribes. The mob caught the soldiers hanged one of themon an electric pole and stoned the other to death according to . Radio re ports. The mob then tied one Soldier to Acar and dragged him through the City. We Are taking All precautions and i have advised my staff to avoid the Trou bled districts said Filippo Grandi a Field director for the . High com missioner for refugees. During the Melee a vehicle owned byword vision a Aid Agency was stopped by the mob and hijacked. I Felt so close to death the mob came and asked us to eel out said Jaime Antonio a world vision Aid worker from Mozambique. I realized the Only Way to safety was to Antonio who managed to take Shel Ter in the Unher building said the mob ordered the Driver a zairian to drive within 30 minutes the mob had stopped and hijacked 10 other vehicles witnesses said. It was not immediately known who owned the other vehicles. Meanwhile enraged zairian soldiers came out of their Barracks and started Hunting for the mob. Fights Between zairian civilians and soldiers Are not uncommon in Goma where the Low paid soldiers routinely extract Money from taxi Drivers store owners and Money changers. The unrest threatened 700 foreign id workers who Are in Goma to help 1.2 million rwandan Hutu refugees. We have issued a radio message toll Aid agencies and in. Offices to take extra precaution until the situation calms Down Gran i said. The rwandan refugees flooded into Zaire in july ahead of the advancing Tutsi led rebel army which later overthrew the Hutu led government. Rwandan refugees huddle under an umbrella to escape a torrential rain Friday in a Camp North of Goma Zaire. Soldiers slaughtered an estimated 500,000 civilians mostly Tutsi. The new tuts med government has promised Hutu refugees that they can safely return but Hutu extreme King no Points a decades Long feud Between the two groups had its in the Camps around Goma have killed refugees reignited in april when Hutu militias and government who advocate repatriation. Cairo delegates right words on Cairo Egypt a thousands of delegates came to the . Population conference to discuss managing the growing ranks of humanity. With Only afew Days left the talk has come Down to How to phrase a few lines of their 113-Page proposal. The last disputes and they Are contentious ones Are whether immigrants have a right to reunite wit families whether individuals have reproductive rights and whether abortion is among them. The program of action document that the Confer ence delegates Are drafting Aims at setting guidelines for slowing population growth. The toughest question remaining involves the concept of reproductive rights. The Vatican argues that the current phrasing in the plan could be construed As de Claring abortion to be a reproductive right. The holy see has waged an unrelenting Campaign against including abortion in any aspect of the plan. It also is fighting a proposal that the plan support adolescents having Access to family planning resources with out their parents involvement. Some Muslim countries oppose declaring the right of couples and individuals to make decisions concerning reproduction free of discrimination coercion and Vio including individuals they say sanctions pre marital sex and violates the principles of islam. On migration wealthy Western nations want to strike the draft s proposed right of migrants to reunite with their famines and make it a less absolute they fear that declaring family reunion aright would undermine controls of immigration even though nations that approve the document Are not bound to adhere to any of its rights principles or recommendations. Although non Ming the plan has been hotly debated especially Over abortion. Delegates on Friday accepted Compromise language on abortion. But the Vatican refused to sign on along with predominantly roman Catholic Malta Ecuador Peru and Argentina. The key paragraph refers to places where abortion is not against the since the Vatican won t endorse any text that even implies abortion could be Legal in the end it is unlikely that it will accept the paragraph. The passage now is almost certain to be adopted by the vast majority of countries when the report is brought before the full conference. It Calls for the treatment of unsafe abortions As a Public health Issue forcing care to women suffering abortion complications and for counselling women with unwanted pregnancies. It affirms that abortion is not method of family planning. The paragraph also places priority on making family planning services available and says women with unwanted pregnancies must retreated compassionately not up Niuvela. Another uranium seizure Sparks Security concerns from wire reports Moscow police have seized 220 pounds of uranium-238 apparently stolen from a Plant in Central Russia a news Agency reported Friday. The third seizure of stolen Industrial Grade uranium in less than a month was Likely to heighten concerns Over the Security of nuclear materials in Russia. The uranium-238, which cannot be used to produce nuclear weapons was seized in Glazov 590 Miles East of Moscow regional police told the inter fax news Agency. Officers detained three unidentified people who tried to sell the radioactive material wednesday inter fax said. The uranium apparently came from a Glazov factory that produces fuel for nuclear Power stations it said. Reported Kkt cells probed Koblenz Germany authorities launched an investigation a television report Thatner nazis have formed Active Kun flux klan cells in Germany holding meetings and nighttime investigators specifically were looking into allegations that German klansmen wearing White hooded Robes and other klan regalia held illegal rallies in a Rhine Valley Cave near Koblenz indecent weeks Koblenz chief prosecutor Norbert Weise said thursday. The investigation came a Day after an it television Magazine show Stern to aired secretly filmed footage of a Kkt rally in caverns near the town of Mendig. Hooded participants were show hoisting Swastika flags Ana chanting Neo nazi slogans As they burned an israeli Flag. Sex blood official charged Paris prosecutors filed charges Friday against another former official accused of allowing hundreds of Haemophiliacs to receive Alps tainted blood . Bahman Habibi former head of distribution at the National blood transfusion Center was charged with poisoning and released on condition he keep court authorities informed of his whereabouts. About 1,200 patients received the tainted transfusions in 1985, and at least one third have died. The scandal contributed to last year s defeat of the socialist government which was in Power in 1985. .,.-. Vav. Victims families had demanded the charge against Habibi who previously had been spared the Legal action that put several other officials behind bars. Extended cease fire of d Moscow the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan brought together by russian mediators agreed Friday night to extend a month-old cease fire in disputed territory of Magorno Karabash and to intensify their search for a peace settlement. This is a step Forward russian foreign minister Andrei Kozarev said after two Days of talks at a russian government compound in Moscow. He said a series of such meetings will Lead to a three Way Summit involving russian president Boris Yeltsin. The two former soviet republics have Bee fighting for More than six years for control of the ethnic armenian enclave within Azerbaijan. Last year Magorno Karabash s militia backed by Armenia drove the azerbaijani army out and seized adjacent azerbaijani lands. Lake beast reportedly seen Beijing China s version of the elusive Lohness monster has been sighted once again in the Waters of a Remote Mountain Lake Xinhua new Agency reports. The Large creature spotted off and on Over the past Century reportedly swam along the surface Oft Ianchi Lake for 10 minutes one afternoon last week As a group of astonished locals looked took photographs and even captured images of the creature on videotape Xinhua said. eyewitness Kim talk described the creature As having a head As Large As that of a Bull and drag online body covered in flowing Golden Blond hair. Xinhua said local residents firmly believe in the existence of the Tia Chi monster As they Call it and have kept a watch for it since it first appeared about100 years ago
