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Tuesday, March 5, 1996
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Terrorists strike Israel during holiday
Celebration in Tel Aviv cut short by fourth attack of suicide bombers
The Associated Press
TEL AVIV, Israel — In a scene growing horribly familiar, a suicide bomber turned a day of light-hearted Jewish celebration into a nightmare of blood and smoke, killing at least 13 more people in an accelerating terror campaign that struck yesterday in the heart of Tel Aviv.
The victims included children in costume and makeup for the holiday of Purim. At least 109 people were wounded in the attack, which left a jumble of shattered bodies and wrecked cars and paralyzed the peace effort.
A mounting toll of dead and wounded, the repeated scenes of carnage and the heart-wrenching
despair of victims' families fueled a deep upwelling of anger among Israelis. It was the fourth such attack in the country in nine days.
A furious, wildly militant mood swept over Tel Aviv, a city known for its generally moderate populace that supports peacemaking with Palestinians and Arabs.
The death toll might have been much higher if the bomber, who was on foot when he carried out the attack, had managed to enter a crowded shopping center, authorities said. Israel radio said at least 13 people were killed.
As the government met in emergency session at the heavily guarded Defense Ministry complex a mile from the bombing site, crowds outside lit bonfires and shouted "We want war!" and "We want revenge!"
Demonstrators shouted "Death to Arabs!" and one man held a sign calling for a final solution against them—paraphrasing the Nazi term for the World War II slaughter of millions of Jews.
Some Cabinet ministers even called for strikes in autonomous Palestinian land — a move that
would violate the Israel-PLO accords and badly discredit Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat among his people.
A grim-faced Prime Minister Shimon Peres, however, said Israel will not surrender to terrorism. "Even this time, with all the pain in my heart, we will come out of this stronger," he insisted.
The attackers.
who seek to destroy the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, appear close to achieving their goal and forcing a change in Israel's policy. Until now, Israel reaction to attacks had been primarily defensive and calculated to preserve the peacemaking.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
In a call to Israel Radio, the Muslim militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for yesterday's bomb-
off peace talks.
Faced with the possible collapse of his three-year peace gamble, Arafat said he was ready to cooperate fully with Israel in going after Palestinian militants. But he added that he hoped Israel would not act hastily and break
"I hope that we will not reward these terrorists," Arafat told reporters in Gaza City.
Monday's blast went off outside the Dizengoff Center, the largest shopping center in the Mediterranean metropolis that is the financial and cultural center of Israel.
carried out the attack just after 4 p.m.
Before exploding the bomb, he had tried to enter the shopping center but appeared to draw the suspicions of policemen stationed at the entrance, according to witnesses. He then turned away toward a crowd of about 20 people around a row of cash machines and detonated the explosive device strapped to his body.
"I suddenly heard an absolutely tremendous explosion, and then a cloud of smoke filled the whole intersection," said a woman in her 30s, who gave her name as Michal. "I saw bodies everywhere, pieces of bodies."
The bomber was on foot when he
Eli Shurany, 39, said he saw a woman and a young girl, about 10 years old, who were killed instantly. "There was one girl with the bottom of her leg blown off, her bone sticking out," Shurany said.
An empty baby carriage stood only yards from where the bomb had gone off. A mother pulled her sobbing daughter away, tears streaking the Purim makeup on the girl's face.
Ichilov Hospital said it treated four children wounded by the bomb.
One young girl was injured by flying glass while shopping with her mother and two sisters. All three girls were in costume.
"All her back was full of glass fragments. She was bleeding. She has a hole in her back. It is horrifying." their mother told Israel radio.
Many Purim celebrations had been canceled anyway, due to Sunday's bus bombing in Jerusalem. The holiday celebrates the deliverance of the Jews of ancient Persia from a plot to slaughter them.
Yesterday's bombing came four months to the day after Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination by a Jewish right-wing extremist, which plunged Israel into gloom but also infused the peace process with unprecedented public support.
That has been turned on its head by the four bombings.
With three months to go until the May 29 elections, Peres' lead in the polls has been wiped out. The right-wing opposition, whose leaders seek to salvage what they can of Israel's control over the West Bank and Gaza despite the establishment of Palestinian autonomy, appear headed for victory.
Serb pleads not guilty of war crimes
General refuses to give evidence about Serbian leaders' actions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — A Serb general pleaded not guilty to war crimes charges yesterday, claiming he was facing trial by a U.N. tribunal just because he fought for the Bosnian Serbs.
The Associated Press
Gen, Djordje Djukic, who was indicted Friday after he refused to give evidence against the Bosnian Serb leadership, faces life in prison if found guilty for his role in the 1992-95 shelling of Sarajevo that killed about 10,000 civilians.
"The fact that I appear before this tribunal means that any member of the army of Republika Srp-
ska can appear here... I will leave it to the tribunal to solve this dilemma," the 61-year-old Djikic told the court, referring to the Serb entity that comprises 49 percent of Bosnia.
He took notes while the indictment was being read. When asked to enter a plea, he said he had not done anything that merited being put in front of the tribunal.
Tribunal prosecutors claim Djukic, a senior aide to the Bosnian Serb army commander, Gen Ratko Mladic, coordinated the logistical support behind 31/2 years of Serb artillery attacks on the Bosnian capital.
The U.N. court put Djukic in detention after he was extradited to the Netherlands by the Bosnian government, whose forces arrested him when his car made a wrong turn in Sarajevo in January. Djukic called the arrest a kidnap in court yesterday.
"I was captured, or kidnapped,
"We can only doubt the further objectivity of the international community and all those in its service."
Momcilo Krajianik
Aide to Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serbleader
Djikie's lawyer, Milan Vujin, labeled the proceedings a judicial, legal nonsense, saying he believed the tribunal had broken its own rules in indicting Djikie.
as a civilian. I was wearing civilian clothes, and I was on a road that was under international control," Djukic said.
Vujin said he would study prosecution evidence against the general before deciding what kind of pre-trial motions to file.
the presiding judge, Claude Jorda of France, scheduled a closed meeting with prosecution and defense lawyers for March 14. No trial date was set.
Following Friday's indictment of Djikos, Bosnian Serb military representatives boycotted three of five meetings Saturday in the U.S.-controlled sector of Bosnia. The Serb government condemned the tribunal.
"We can only doubt the further objectivity of the international community and all those in its service," said Momcilo Krajisnik, a key aide to Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic.
THE NEWS in brief
Trial delayed in South Africa
The Associated Press
DURBAN, South Africa — A judge has delayed opening a trial expected to uncover explosive details about the white minority government's fight to preserve its power.
The trial of former Defense Minister Magnus Malan and some of his top generals was to have opened yesterday, but Durban Supreme Court Justice Jan Hugo granted defense lawyers another week to prepare.
"My conscience is clear," Malan said after yesterday's hearing.
He and 19 other defendants are
accused of sending fighters loyal to the Zula nationalist Inkatha Freedom Party on murder missions against anti-apartheid activists, particularly those linked to the African National Congress.
Convictions in the case would prove longstanding allegations by President Nelson Mandela and the ANC that white leaders instigated Black-on-Black violence during the apartheid era.
White leaders asked Mandela to grant a blanket amnesty for all the defendants but he refused, saying they had rejected previous opportunities to apply for amnesty.
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