Wednesday, March 31. 1993
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WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Soldiers convicted in rapes
Serbs to be executed for part in war crimes
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — a military court convicted two Serbs of war crimes yesterday and sentenced them to death by firing squad for atrocities that included raping Muslim women and slitting the throats of prisoners of war.
No date was set for the executions of Borislav Herak, 22, and Sretko Danjanovic, 31. Defense attorneys said they would appeal.
The commander of U.N. peacekeepers urged Bosnian authorities to turn the case — Bosnia's first war crimes trial — over to an international tribunal to avoid infilming ethnic passions.
Herak confessed to killing 30 war
prisoners and civilians including a dozen voiced Muslims he first rased
Danjanovic claims he was tortured into falsely confessing to five murders and two rapes. The only evidence against him, his lawyer complained, is Herak's testimony.
The five-man military court convicted both soldiers of crimes against civilians and genocide, based on Herak's testimony that he and Damjanovic killed people during so-called "ethnic cleansing" operations to purge Muslims from villages the Serbs took over.
Herak also was convicted of crimes
against prisoners of war, based on his confession that he slit the throats of three POWs.
The trial, which opened March 12, was the first attempt by Bosnia's Muslim-led government to prove in court its claims that Serb nationalists carried out widespread atrocities during the savage, 12-month-old war.
Herak, during two days of testimony, demonstrated how he slit the POWS' throats and described a massacre of 150 villagers. He said orders to rape Muslim women came from the Bosnian Serbs' ton leader.
He recounted a series of gang-rapes in which he and other soldiers would take turns having sex, then drive the vehicle to the forest where a mountainside forest and shoot her.
Herak described how he grew up in Sarajevo, getting along well with his Muslim neighbors until war broke out last April.
Shootings prompt Israeli ban
The Associated Press
HADERA, Israel — Gunmen shot to death two Israeli traffic police officers sitting in a squad car yesterday, and the government struck back by barring the West Bank's 1 million Palestinians from entering Israel.
Police blamed militant Arabs for the predawn slayings.
Israeli lives in March. Twenty-six Palestinians also have been killed this month.
The assassinations at an intersection near this town in Israel's heartland appeared to escalate a wave of Arab attacks, which have claimed 13
"I understand the pain, the worry,
the rage." Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said. "We are indeed going
through a difficult period of escalating
Palestinian terrorism."
Flanked by an Israeli flag and speaking in somber tones, Rabin said on national TV that he had ordered the reinforced in the occupied territories.
ans from the occupied territories would no longer be allowed into the sovereign territory of Israel until further notice.
Pakistani said the tough measure of sealing the occupied territories and barring 120,000 Pakistani from entering the hotel would damage peace prospects.
Rabin said that after today Palestini-
In Washington, White House spokesman George Stephanopoulos said, "We're obviously concerned by the escalating violence on all sides."
Yeltsin may hold counter referendum
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Reformist lawmakers yesterday advised President Boris Yeltsin not to hold his own referendum as he plots his strategy in a battle with parliament.
But Yeltsin's chief of staff, Sergei Filatov, said the president might hold a plebiscite anyway to counter an April 25 referendum on his leadership that was approved Monday by the Congress of People's Deputies.
After the president's narrow escape
from an impeachment attempt by hard-line lawmakers, many of his supporters seemed uncertain about how to proceed.
The four-day emergency session of Congress, which ended Monday, failed to end the fight between the president and the parliament. Although Yeltsin's opponents fell 72 votes short of the 689 needed to remove him in a vote Sunday, they did succeed in eroding his powers.
Bitter attacks on Yeltsin have become a habit with the 1.033-mem-
ber body, which is dominated by members elected before the Soviet Union dissolved. Many oppose Yeltsin's free-market reforms and Western-oriented foreign policy.
Filatov, told the newspaper *Ivestia* that the Congress could not block the president from carrying out a parallel referendum. It would ask voters to approve the basic principles of a new constitution that would strengthen the presidency and replace the Congress with a smaller, bicameral legislature.
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