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Dracula Park planned
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SIGHISOARA, Romania — Mist shrouds the Casa Vlad Dracul, where tourists sink their teeth into bloody chops drizzled with Dracula sauce — red and spicy — and wash it down with bottles of Vampire cabernet.
At the medieval main square, pallid-faced actors film a scene for "Dracula Resurrection," a new B movie. Down in the dungeon-like Dracula video arcade, teen-agers zap virtual vampires while their elders belly up to the bar for a Bloody Mary.
Bleeding the Dracula myth for all it's worth is a way of life in the Transylvanian birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, the cruel 15th-century count whose penchant for turning his enemies into human scarecrows was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's legendary vampire.
Lying among those forests are the fabled killing fields where Vlad executed up to 100,000 people — mostly Turks — by impaling them on stakes.
But for the town of 38,000,the stakes are about to get much higher.
Construction begins next spring on Dracula Park, a $30 million dollar theme park people here hope will bring cash and celebrity to a corner of Romania that seems frozen in time.
"This town is numb—it's a city asleep. Dracula will wake it up," said Emilia Butnariu, 76, who barely gets by on the $50 a month she earns selling paintings of Sighisoara's sagging fieldstone houses and alleys.
The Disneyesque project is to be built by a consortium of German companies. Sighisoara's mayor, Dorin Danesan, said the first phase should open sometime in 2003. Danesan said the year-round park will feature amusement rides, a golf course, a Gothic castle wired with spooky effects, a zoo, horseback riding, restaurants and shops.
There are even plans for an international center of vamprology.
"We don't want it to be a
kitsch," he said. "But this government wants to do business. We're not afraid to exploit the Dracula myth to save a town that's a national monument."
The government has promised to improve Sighisoara's roads, electricity and waterworks and renovate its walled, pastel-colored old town, which dates to 1280. The town is one of Europe's few medieval fortresses where people still live.
Residents expect to see 3,000 new jobs for a region battered by 50 percent unemployment, and talk excitedly of as many as 1 million visitors a year. Already, new hotels are going up, and property prices have soared.
prices as the bat flies, Sighisoara is 180 miles northwest of Bucharest. The park will be four miles outside town in the brooding fir forests where bears, wolves and wild dogs still prowl and howl.
The Associated Press
THE HAGUE, Netherlands In a blow to prosecutors, the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal overturned the convictions yesterday of three Bosnian Croats sentenced in one of the worst massacres of the Bosnian war.
Calling the trial "critically flawed," the panel ordered the three defendants immediately released and reduced the sentences for two others.
of a lower court and acquitted the defendants.
The five were convicted in January 2000 of participating in the 1993 massacres in Ahmici, where more than 100 Muslim civilians, including dozens of women and children, were killed.
It was the first time since the court was created in 1993 that an appeals chamber of the U.N. tribunal threw out the convictions
Within hours of the ruling, two brothers and their cousin were hustled from the U.N. detention center in Scheveningen, a seaside suburb of The Hague, where they had been held for four years.
Relatives of the defendants hugged each other and cried out in joy at the announcement of the acquittals. The brothers threw their fists in the air in triumph as tears welled in their eyes.
The Ahmici case, based on 1995 indictments, was one of the first that went to trial in The Hague, and reflected the inexperience of the court in dealing with the traumatic testimony of survivors and witnesses of the horrific Balkan wars.
Calling the defendants victims of a "miscarriage of justice," the
judges ordered the immediate release of brothers Zoran and Mirjan Kupreskic and their cousin Vlatko Kupreskic. They had been sentenced to 10, eight and six years imprisonment respectively.
The ruling cut the 15-year sentence of Drago Jospipovic to 12 years, and trimmed the 25-year sentence of Vladimir Santic to 18 years.
The appellate court criticized the prosecutors, calling the indictments "too general and vague."
The ruling was a severe setback to Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who was in Yugoslavia yesterday pressing the governments of Serbia and Montenegro to surrender more wanted war crimes suspects.
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