UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 23.1995
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Bosnia accuses U.N of betrayal
The Associated Press
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — The Bosnian government and the United Nations are clashing over U.N. pledges to protect Gorazde as it withdraws peacekeepers from the "safe area."
Angered by a Serb shell that killed three children in the Muslim enclave on Sunday, Bosnian Foreign Minister Muhammed Sacirby on Monday accused the United Nations and NATO of a further betrayal of their commitments.
"When will enough be enough, and what will it take for the United Nations and NATO to react to this terrorism?" he asked in a letter to U.N. Security Council President Nugroho Wisnumuri.
The U.N.-designated "safe areas" are enclaves in which civilians are supposed to be spared from attack. The United Nations threatened massive NATO airstrikes on Bosnian Serb positions anywhere to prevent the fall of any more such areas
after the Serbs overran two of them — Srebrenica and Zena — in July.
The Bosnian government is alarmed by what is happening in Gorazde — a pullout of Ukrainian peacekeepers is under way, to be followed by the withdrawal of British U.N. troops. U.N. officials in Sarajevo said Monday they would likely be replaced by 50 unarmed military monitors.
The move seems designed in part to reduce the numbers of U.N. personnel the Serbs could seize if they again feel threatened by NATO — they detained hundreds of peacekeepers in May after airstrikes.
U. N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said last week that the United Nations remained committed to its mandate of deterring attacks on Gorazde and three other safe areas. U.N. spokesman Phillip Arnold said that it was perfectly plausible that Gorazde could be protected by air alone.
Still, lack of international response to Sunday's fatal Serb
shelling and the withdrawal of the peacekeepers was disquieting to the Bosnian government.
"The shell that killed the three girls was a tragic incident," said U.N. spokesman Alexander Ivanko, "and the U.N. deplores the fact that the Bosnian Serbs attacked a civilian area. Nevertheless, one shell, no matter how lethal, does not constitute an attack against a U.N. 'safe area' which would merit a response from NATO."
A Western diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that
the lack of U.N. response was likely linked to its effort to pull its soldiers out of Gorazde with as little incident as possible.
U. N. officials said they hoped 90 Ukrainian peacekeepers could have been withdrawn from Gorazde yesterday. Bosnian Serbs have refused since Friday to allow them to leave until they were sure all their weapons would also be removed, to prevent them from being taken by government forces. The Ukrainians' equipment convoy finally was allowed to leave Monday.
Soldiers, families starving in Russia
Army's tight budget cannot pay wages
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — A chronic shortage of funds has left many Russian soldiers and their families on the verge of starvation, forcing them to live on crackers without hot food, a top Russian military official said yesterday.
Even many Russian garrisons have run out of emergency rations, Valentin Panichev, Russia's top military prosecutor, told the ITAR-Tass news agency.
He urged the Russian parliament to increase the army budget. Otherwise, he warned, there could be other cases like the one on Russky Island in the Russian Far East, where four naval cadets died of malnutrition in 1993.
He also said back wages and deteriorating service conditions
had led many officers to search for side jobs, working as watchmen, gypsy cab drivers or salesmen. Others steal weapons and supplies, he said.
The number of thefts in the Russian army has increased significantly and made up one-fifth of all 11,444 crimes committed by Russian servicemen in the first half of the year. Panichev said.
The Russian army also has been plagued by brutal hazing of new conscripts by older soldiers, which often involves beatings and other violent acts. Last year, two Russian border guards in the Pacific broke into a base dormitory and killed six of their comrades. They later told investigators they wanted to avenge brutal harassment.
Last month, a border guard at another remote Pacific outpost went on a shooting spree, killing his commander and four other soldiers. Authorities have not yet released the results of the investigation.
obe closes emergency shelters Peace talks continue after suicide bombing
The Associated Press
TOKYO — Even though 4,400 people have not moved out, the city of Kobe officially has closed emergency shelters and stopped serving meals to people left homeless by a catastrophic earthquake in January.
People remaining in the shelters are being asked to move out by the end of the month, a city official said.
About 250,000 people fled to hundreds of shelters after the Jan. 17 quake, which killed about 6,000 people. By Monday, when meal
service was cut off, the number had dwindled to 6,672 people staying at 196 centers.
That figure fell to 4,400 late Tuesday, when hundreds moved to temporary housing or back to repaired homes, city officials said.
"We are patiently persuading the remaining people to vacate facilities by the end of this month," said city official Manabu Imanishi.
So far, 30,000 temporary housing units have been constructed. Thousands more are available, Imanishi said.
The Associated Press
JERUSALEM — A day after a suicide bomber blew apart two city buses and killed five people, PLO and Israeli negotiators came back to the table yesterday for talks about expanding Palestinian autonomy.
Negotiators planned to meet around the clock in the Red Sea resort of Eilat to try to reach a final agreement before Sept. 24, the beginning of the Jewish New Year, an Israeli official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The talks were suspended briefly following Monday's bomb attack in northern Jerusalem, but government leaders rejected calls to halt or slow them.
"Even without the peace process, there would be suicide attackers and acts of terrorism," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said.
The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, which injured more than 100 people, including 17 foreign students attending summer
Hebrew classes. Twenty-seven people remained hospitalized last night.
Police still had not identified two of the victims killed in the attack — a man and a woman — and it appeared likely that one of them was the suicide bomber.
Police initially said the condition of the woman's body suggested she might have been holding the bomb, but police spokesman Eric Bar-Chen said last night that investigators still had not determined whether she was the attacker.
Israel radio, quoting unidentified sources, said police thought the woman was a tourist and that the man was the bomber.
At the bombing site, grieving Israelis placed memorial candles on the sidewalk, which had been washed clean of blood and shards of twisted metal.
"I think they should continue the negotiations," said a visitor to the site who gave his name only as Eli. "I don't see any reason to give a prize to terrorists for the acts they do."
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