UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday. April 4. 1994
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Sarajevo has Easter peace as north Bosnia battles on
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — While thousands jammed Sarajevo Cathedral on the city's first peaceful Easter Sunday in two years, fighting continued along Serb-Muslim front lines in other parts of Bosnia.
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic ordered an investigation of events in Prijedor in northern Bosnia, where 20 Muslims and Croats were reported killed.
Earlier, Bosnian Serb officials denied the killings and said the U.N. relief agency reporting them as biased.
But the Bosnian Serbs' self-declared interior ministry later confirmed that 16 people were killed between Tuesday and Friday, saying it was a "criminal act by so far unidentified perpetrators."
Bosnian Premier Haris Silajdzic appealed for international help in Gorazde and Prijedor and warned that "the whole peace process is seriously at stake."
He spoke after meeting with U.S. Congressman Frank McCloskey, D-InD., who attended Easter services in Sarajevo where a cease-fire is in its eighth week.
Bosnian radio reported Serbs had launched a heavy tank and infantry attack on Muslim-led government forces around Gorazde and said a new tank battalion had moved in Saturday night.
U. N. military observers reported shelling and infantry and artillery battles on Saturday. One person was killed and two were wounded in the shelling of a refugee camp, U.N. spokesman Mai, Rob Annicksaid.
The shelling of Goradez resumed in recent days after government troops made inroads against Serb forces in northern Bosnia, where the Serbs are trying to keep control of a narrow land corridor linking their holdings in the east and west of the war-ravaged republic.
Serb forces who hold 70 percent of Bosnia fear that the new federation between Muslims and Croats may turn into a military alliance. They have rejected offers to join the federation, opting instead for union with neighboring Serbia.
The Bosnian Serb military claimed yesterday that a "general Muslim offensive" was continuing on all fronts
In northern Priedor, the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees reported the killings of 20 non-Serbs and accused Bosnian Serb authorities of acquiescing in the attacks.
But Karadzic, who is far more powerful, took a different tone.
Vladimir Lukic, head of the Bosnian Serbs' self-proclaimed government, wrote the agency saying its reports were "completely inaccurate and biased."
He ordered an investigation and urged local officials to ensure full safety of minorities in the town and to offer every assistance to the Red Cross, which plans to evacuate thousands of Muslims and Croats from Priedor, the Bosnian Serb news agency Srnra said.
A Red Cross official is to meet Karadzic today to seek guarantees that non-Serbs who want to can leave and those who stay behind will not be harassed. Chris Janowski, representative for the U.N. relief agency in Sarajevo, said at least 7,000 people would likely be evacuated.
Critics say such evacuations by international relief agencies effectively help the Serbs clear the region of non-Serbs.
Teens need more answers about sexuality, report says
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Some 700 million teen-agers around the world are struggling with increasingly complex questions about sex, but a new report says most are not getting the help they need to find answers.
Evolving cultural standards, the spread of AIDS, changing laws on abortion, a worldwide trend to delay marriage and economic changes all are affecting the way young people deal with burgeoning sexuality.
In a report released yesterday, Population Action International — a non-profit family-planning advocacy group — concluded that millions, if not hundreds of millions, of teens are at risk.
Around the world, adults are reluctant to admit that their children are having sex, but studies in several countries show that most
adolescents, no matter what their culture, are sexually active before age 20.
And the age at which sexual activity begins is decreasing as overall health improves, according to international studies. By 2000, a billion teen-agers will be facing sexual challenges and desires.
Adolescents are less likely to use contraceptives than adults, particularly in developing countries, and many young people have little knowledge of reproductive physiology, the report found.
The best approach, the report concluded, is to encourage a delay in sexual activity while providing birth control counseling and contraceptives.
But the report said most family planning programs do little to reach adolescents; laws and practices often restrict youngsters' access to contraception and abortion services.
The Associated Press
Weekend violence raises death toll in South Africa
PIETERSBURG, South Africa — Nine African National Congress supporters were killed in an attack on a family in the Zulu stronghold of Natal, police reported yesterday.
The killings brought the death toll in the province to nearly 40 since a state of emergency was declared there Thursday.
President F.W. de Klerk declared the state of emergency to ensure fair voting in South Africa's first all-race elections April 26-28.
The attackers yesterday identified themselves as policemen to enter a family kraal, or hut, in Port Shepstone and then hacked and stabbed nine people to death, including an infant and two older children, Police Lt. Col. Marzedt de Beer said.
In Bhambayi, assault-rifle fire from an ANC-controlled area killed one woman and injured another as they prayed Easter Sunday at a cross set up in the streets, de Beer said.
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