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Fighting continues to rage in Cambodia's Phnom Penh
New leader's rivals executed; reprisals feared
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Coup leader Hun Sen began eliminating his opponents yesterday, sending soldiers into hotels and homes to round up rivals. One of his most vocal critics was killed while in custody.
The brutality of Hun Sen's consolidation of power raised fears about a wave of executions that would target supporters of the deposed prime minister, Prince Norodom Nararidh.
Ho Sok, a former interior minister and Hun Sen's opponent, was arrested Monday and accused of plotting against Cambodia's new leadership. An adviser to Hun Sen announced yesterday that Ho Sok
had died.
"He was arrested by the government troops, and he has died," said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, calling Ho Sok a terrorist.
Sopheak denied that Hun Sen's forces had been responsible for the death and said that Ho Sok had been killed by the people. Ho Sok was shot in the head after being arrested by Hun Sen's men.
A Western human rights worker based in Cambodia said the killing had raised concerns of reprisal slavings.
"We fear that this is the first on the list," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Ranariddh, who slipped away to France before Saturday's coup, accused Hun Sen of ordering a manhunt for his followers.
Hun Sen's military police went door-to-door yesterday through Phnom Penh's largest hotel, hunting down and arresting opposition legislators, said American Ron Abney, who witnessed the roundup. It is not known how many were caught.
The London-based human-rights group Amnesty International urged foreign embassies to offer asylum to Ranariddh's supporters and said at least 50 supporters were in hiding or needed protection.
The fate of 13 people detained in Battambang province and 22 in Prey Veng was unknown, a representative for Amnesty said. The organization said several journalists who supported the prince were thought to be in custody.
"Let the Cambodian people solve the situation without interference from outside," he said.
Hun Sen went on national television yesterday to warn foreign countries not to get involved.
Ranardidh is scheduled to arrive today in the United States to appeal for support in Washington and at the U.N. Security Council, said Socheat Ok, an official at the Cambodian U.N. mission in New York.
While Hun Sen consolidated power in the capital, fighting raged between rival factions in the north-west.
The sound of small arms fire echoed through Angkor Thom, the 700-year-old walled city that houses the famed Angkor Wat temple, which is surrounded by moats and Buddhist statues.
It was unclear whether foreign archaeologists who had been working to restore damage from previous fighting were still at the Angkor complex when the latest battles broke out.
NATO invitations limited to three
The Associated Press
MADRID, Spain — The United States imposed its will on its 15 NATO allies yesterday, forcing the defense alliance to invite only three former communist enemies to become members — Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.
President Clinton called it a great day.
"We bridged the chasm in history and began the journey to a new Europe and a new century," said Clinton, who adamantly had refused to consider more than three new members, fearing the measure would be defeated in the U.S. Senate.
European nations wanted to issue five invitations.
France, backed by eight other
NATO allies,
fought hard for
the admission of
Romania and
Slovenia, but
bowed to American pressure.
Romania, Slovenia and the seven other countries that had sought admission will be reconsidered at alater date.
"The alliance expects to extend further invitations in the coming years," said NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana at the end of a long day. "No European democratic country whose admission would
President Bill Clinton
fulfill the objectives of the (NATO) treaty will be excluded from consideration."
Clinton added that these countries were the ones that had proved their readiness to join the U.N. table.
"Poland waited so long and now the doors to full NATO membership are open. We are very satisfied and we are ready to go forward," he said.
President Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland said he was pleased.
Slovenia's prime minister, Janez Drnousek, said he expected his country to be included in the next year or two, but his foreign minister, Zoran Thaler, was less diplomatic.
"Slovenia has not been given any good explanation why it is out," Thaler said.
The United States was worried that an enlargement of more than three countries would threaten the chances of getting approval by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate, a vote needed to ratify any change to the NATO treaty.
Parliaments of all 16 members of NATO must approve new members. Those who backed the French proposal believe that Europe's southern flank is its most volatile region and say early admission of Romania and Slovenia would have added stability. French President Jacques Chirac was stoic in defeat.
"We should look at this meeting as an evolution," he said. "It's an important step we couldn't have imagined two or three years ago."
Irish marches spark rioting
The Associated Press
Sparked by Protestants' annual march through Catholic areas of the town of Portadown last week, the conflict showed no sign of let-
LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland — Attackers waylaid and burned a passenger train yesterday in the third day of violence following Protestant marches in Northern Ireland. Protestants, determined to keep marching, said they saw no point in talking to Catholics determined to stop them.
"We feel they don't wish to reach an
agreement."
Billy More
Apprentice Boys general secretary
ting up in advance of Saturday's big march through Londonderry.
"We feel they don't wish to reach an agreement," said Billy More, general secretary of the Apprentice Boys, a Protestant fraternal organization.
In Newry, 30 miles south of Belfast, masked men claiming to be Irish Republican Army members boarded a Dublin-to-Belfast train, ordered passengers out and set it on fire.
Earlier yesterday, an attacker shot and wounded a policeman on Garvaghy Road, the main thoroughfare through the Catholic enclave in the predominantly Protestant town of Portadown, about 30 miles southwest of Belfast.
Violence erupted there Sunday when police cleared the road of Catholic protesters who had hoped to block a march by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's largest
Protestant organization. The membership of the
The march set off rotting a year ago — first by Protestants when police blocked the route, then by Catholics when police forced the march through.
The next big tests come with next weekend's marches in Belfast and Londonderry, 75 miles to the northwest. Protestants say the marches mark key historical events; critics say they accentuate Catholics' minority status.
In Londonderry, Mayor Martin
Bradley invited representatives of business, political parties, churches and residents associations to meet tomorrow to seek accord on Saturday's march.
The Bogside Residents Group — representing Catholics — accepted the mayor's invitation. But the local grand master of the Orange Order, Alan Lindsay, declined to comment on the mediation offer.
Catholic residents from the Ormeau Road in Belfast, trying to block another Orange march on Saturday, planned to meet today with Irish Foreign Minister Ray Burke.
William Hay, a member of the city council and of the Protestant hard-line Democratic Unionist Party, said the Orangemen had a right to march in Londonderry.
Burke talked yesterday with Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Wollam, the British Cabinet member responsible for the province, and stressed his government's unhappiness about the weekend decision to permit the march.
Legality of new legislature doubted
China's appointed government may not be valid
HONG KONG — The week-old government asked a court yesterday to rule on a legal challenge that claims there are no valid laws in Hong Kong until a newly elected legislature adopts them.
The case threatens to throw Hong Kong's legal system into limbo, and critics — regardless of their position on Chinese sovereignty — find it troubling. Some observers said the case ultimately might be decided in Beijing despite China's pledge to preserve the authority of Hong Kong courts.
The government asked the Court of Appeal to decide on the validity of the new non-elected legislature, which China essentially appointed pending elections next year. It also seeks a ruling on the status of laws that existed before Britain returned Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty July 1. The hearing is scheduled for July 29.
Defense lawyers in a corruption case maintain all Hong Kong laws must be readopted after the handover. But they argue the provisional legislature doesn't have the authority to do so.
There also was a dispute brewing over proposed election rules that the government announced yesterday. Democratic Party members said the rules were intended to curb their numbers in favor of pro-China candidates.
Under the proposal — to be submitted to the provisional legislature in August — the new legislature would include seats decided by proportional representation. That means parties are allotted seats based on the percentage of votes they get.
Hong Kong lawyers have debated the legality of the provisional legislature for months, and the Bar Association argues it is illegal.
The matter could be appealed to Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal. The only appeal beyond that is to the National People's Congress in Beijing, which created the provisional legislature and certainly would uphold its legitimacy.
Supporters say the provisional legislature is legal because it was created by the Chinese National People's Congress, which enacted the Basic Law and can interpret it.
NEWS IN BRIEF
The Associated Press
Tossed toads pummel village after tornado
CULLIACAN, Mexico — Call it a challenge to windshield wipers: It trained toads in the town of Villa. Angel Flores.
Motorists reported the shower of toads about 11 p.m. Saturday in Mexico's Pacific Coast state of Sinaloa.
A small tornado had whirled up a cluster of toads from a nearby pond and dumped them on the town, the newspaper El Debate reported.
Killer stabs patient instead of gangster
The Associated Press
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — A manhired to kill a hospitalized gangster mistakenly stabbed a cancer patient to death because the patient was in the wrong bed, police said yesterday.
Vijaya Rajah, 30, died Monday, at the National Hospital in Colombo, said Lakshman Molazoda, police inspector.
He had been awaiting surgery for a brain tumor.
Police said that 22-year-old Sidath Thushara stabbed Rajah after mistaking him for Saman Nilantha, a gangster who was being treated for wounds he received in a knife fight.
During the killing, Nilantha was in an operating room, and nurses at the overcrowded hospital had temporarily moved Rajah to Nilantha's bed.
Police said the killer was arrested as he fled carrying a bloody dagger.
He told police he was hired by a gangster whose legs had been broken by Nilantha six months ago.