University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 6, 1992
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Azerbaijani conflict continues mass-killing victims recovered
The Associated Press
AGDAM, Azerbaijan — Miliants yesterday ignored new calls for a cease-fire in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, and a prosecutor investigating a mass killing said 200 Azerbaijani bodies had been found.
The prosecutor also said that Armenia was holding hundreds of women and children hostage in the conflict.
Armenian and Azerbaijani sources reported that overnight attacks left at least 12 dead on each side in this deeply divided region.
The deaths came despite a peace effort launched Wednesday by presidents Boris Yeltsin of Russia and
Armenian President Levon Ter-Petrosian issued a statement welcoming the peace initiative. He asked for an emergency session of all commonwealth leaders to discuss the violence in Nagorno-Karabash, the ITAR-Tass news agency said.
Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous region 1,100 miles southeast of Moscow, is populated mostly by Christian Armenians but has been controlled since 1923 by Muslim Azerbaijan.
Nusultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan.
The disputed region's border is three miles west of Agdam, and fighting is moving closer to the city.
Parliament met in emergency session and President Ayaz Mutalibov said the main task was to strengthen the country's borders and form a well-equipped regular army, the Azeri-form-Tass news agency reported.
That was a direct rejection of Nazarbayev's peace proposal which urged a moratorium on forming such armies by members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Azerbaijan asked the United Nations yesterday to help resolve the dispute. In his letter to Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Foreign Minister Gusain Sadykhov did not specify what action the United Nations should take.
War in Burma intensifies as junta attempts to extinguish rebel groups
The Associated Press
MANERPLAW, Burma — Burma's military junta has mounted a brutal campaign of the unprecedented scale to crush one of the world's longest rebellions, said experts and victims of the fighting.
The fighting pits Rangoon's 300,000-strong forces against about 30 rob organizations variously seeking greater autonomy for Burma's ethnic minorities and an end to decades of harsh military rule.
Waged in a country largely shut off from the rest of the world, some of the rebellions date to the late 1940s, when several ethnic groups felt betrayed by a central government that had promised them some degree of autonomy.
In recent months, the government offensives have inflamed Burma's borders with three neighboring countries.
sparked large refugee flights and drawn sharp criticism from human rights organizations regarding alleged atrocities by the military.
Yesterday, Burmese forces shelled a camp of the Karen rebels, one of the strongest groups, near the Thai border. But for the third straight day, Thai patrols retaliated with warning shots after some rounds struck a Thai village.
"This is the crucial year in the war," said Burma scholar Josef Silverstein, a professor at Rutgers University. "This is an all-out campaign to win some kind of victory."
An estimated 35 percent of the population in large areas of the country is up in arms against a government that drains the resources of potentially one of Asia's richest nations to continue the fighting.
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Bonn, Germany
Order to Chile: Turn over Honecker
Last March, the 79-year-old Honecker was whisked to Moscow from the German military compound where he was being held. At the time, Soviet officials said Honecker required medical care available only in Moscow hospitals.
The government demanded yesterday that Chile turn over former East German leader Erich Honecker to be tried for issuing shoot-to-kill orders to border guards under Communist rule.
Honecker's lawyers said he had terminal cancer. But doctors have found Honecker in completely satisfactory health after a weeklong examination at a Moscow clinic, Germany contended yesterday.
Lugano, Switzerland
Gunman goes on rampage, kills six
A gunman stalked through three villages in Southern Switzerland, shooting residents as they answered their doorbells. Six people were killed in one of the most mass murders in Swiss history.
The gunman, Erminio Criuscione, surrendered in tears after the rampage which left six people wounded, some seriously.
Toting a semi-automatic rifle, the 37-year-old gunman burst in on one family as it ate dinner and shot other victims on their doorsteps in the two-hour spree Wednesday evening, police said.
The bloodshed marked the third time in three years that this country has been rocked by a multiple slaying.
From The Associated Press
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