Friday, October 22, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
4.1
Section A · Page 70
World
Rockets hit Chechen capital; 118 dead and up to 400 hurt
The Associated Press
GROZNY, Russia — Massive explosions rocked the heart of Grozny yesterday after salvos of rockets slammed into an open-air market and other parts of the city. A Chechen official said 118 people were killed and up to 400 were wounded.
Chechen officials claimed the rockets were fired by Russian forces moving in on the city. The Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow, however, categorically denied its forces were responsible for the blast.
The city's central market was littered with bodies, severed body parts and pools of blood after six rockets exploded amid the stalls, which were crowded with shoppers. At least four other rockets slammed into other parts of the city, including one that hit
a maternity clinic.
Magomed Magomadov, a senior government official, said that 118 people had been killed and 300 to 400 others were wounded. Many of the injured were in critical condition, he said.
Hundreds of terrified people, many screaming and crying, ran for cover as the rockets exploded in the Grozny market. Surrounding streets were jammed with survivors and others trying to escape. Some onlookers tried to help wounded survivors who staggered away from the devastated area.
"It was dark, and then all of a sudden, the place was illuminated and something was sparkling in the air. Then we heard the explosions," said Umar Madayev, a survivor.
Grozny's already overcrowded and poorly equipped hospitals were
packed with injured survivors. A handful of doctors, working with almost no drugs, operated on some survivors under the glare of kerosene lamps because there was no electricity.
Badly wounded people lay in pools of blood in the dirty, dark corridors of the central hospital, where there were no beds for them.
russian troops, meanwhile, closed in on the Chechen capital, with advance tanks and armored personnel carriers reportedly less than eight miles outside Grozny. Chechens officials said some Russian soldiers had been spotted even closer.
Russia sent troops into Chechnya at the end of September, following weeks of airstrikes to eliminate Islamic militants who invaded neighboring Dagestan this summer.
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Megawati's election was delayed several hours for a flurry of backroom negotiations before the announcements were made. There was widespread speculation that both Wiranto and Akbar, who served in the Cabinets of Suharto and successor B.J. Habibie, would get similar posts under Wahid.
The vote of the People's Consultative Assembly came one day after Megawati lost the first free and contested presidential race in the country's 54-year history.
The armed forces still control 38 seats in the 700-member assembly but, under Wiranto, have pledged to withdraw from politics altogether within five or six years.
Although a consolation prize, the vice presidency could prove crucial. Wahid, 59, is almost blind and has severe health problems. After two strokes, he cannot walk unaided.
JAKARTA, Indonesia—Violent protests turned into celebrations yesterday when wildly popular opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri was named vice president, a move that bodies well for the future of Indonesia's fledgling democracy.
Indonesia selects new vice president
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Opposition leader Megawati's election may stabilize country
The process marks a major political change in Indonesia, particularly Wiranto's withdrawal. For decades under Suharto — who quit under pressure in May 1988 — the military used its might to suppress freedom and exercised wide political power.
d yesterday when Indonesia's powerful military commander, Gen. Wiranto, dropped his candidacy and said he did so in the interest of the nation. Akbar Tanjung, leader of authoritarian ex-President Suharto's Golkar Party, cited the same reasons for pulling out.
The chaos eased only after Megawait took the oath of office in a ceremony broadcast on national television. In Jakarta, crowds returned to the streets to celebrate, waving flags, honking car horns, banging drums and setting off fireworks.
On the resort island of Bali, a Megawati stronghold, mobs torched and looted supermarkets, blocked roads and burned trees. There were no direct attacks on tourists, and the protesters emphasized their anger was directed at the assembly, not at tourists.
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