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Thursday, March 30, 1995
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Japanese authorities continue cult probe
The Associated Press
TOKYO — A Japanese doomsday cult reported subjected its followers to extreme hunger or heat and injected them with mysterious drugs, then secretly cremated the remains of those who died.
New details about life and death inside the sect called Aum Shinri Kyo, or Supreme Truth, emerged yesterday as police investigated whether the group could have manufactured the deadly nerve gas released in Tokyo's subways.
The sect has denied involvement in the March 20 attack, which killed 10 people and sickened more than 5,000. No arrests have been made.
The newspaper Yomiuri quoted former followers as saying one sect leader had suffered burns and fell unconscious after being placed in hot water for seven minutes at the group's rural compound near Mount Fuji. The man later disappeared, it said.
Former followers also told police that the cult had secretly cremated the bodies of sect members who died and had scattered the ashes near Mount Fuji, the newspaper said.
Another newspaper, the Asahi Shimbun, reported that Supreme Truth may have injected followers with a drug that relaxes the muscles and can lead to heart or breathing failure.
Nippon Television showed pictures of containers of the drug discarded near the sect's compound outside the town of Kamikuishiki. The Asahi, quoting a former sect nurse, said a mystery drug had been injected intravenously into followers during ceremonies, causing them to lose consciousness and in some cases fall into permanent comas.
the newspaper Mainichi said police wanted to test whether the group's labs and chemicals could have been used to make sarin, the nerve gas used in the attack.
It remained unclear whether police discovered any evidence directly linking the sect to the subway attack.
And police have discovered various instruments used in experimenting with germs, underlining earlier reports that the cult may have been preparing biological as well as chemical weapons, Kyodo News Service reported.
Japanese authorities were considering moving against the cult on other fronts.
Tax authorities reportedly were preparing to look into the group's finances. Education Ministry officials said they may take legal steps against cult members who keep their children out of school.
Also yesterday, five U.S. medical experts arrived in Tokyo to help treat victims of the subway attack, several of who remain in serious condition.
Japan's soliciting of U.S. assistance marked a departure from its attitude after the Kobe earthquake in January. Then, the government only reluctantly accepted help from foreign search-and-rescue teams and doctors.
Ethnic violence rips into Rwandan neighbo
The Associated Press
BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi is a nation on the run. Refugees fleeing violence outnumber residents in the capital — and its second largest city is now a camp populated by Rwandans.
It is a country where might makes right. It is a land where the tragic lessons of neighbor-ing Rwanda have been lost.
Life in the Central African country is a little like quicksand, said Frances Turner, the head of the U.N. Children's Fund in Burundi. "What appears to be, isn't. You have to anticipate not just the unexpected, but the unimaginable."
Revenue becomes the only avenue of retribution. Massacres by extremists on both sides breed more fear and feed ethnic hate and suspicions.
"People are never prosecuted for political crimes in Burundi," said U.N. special representative Ahmedo Ould Abdallah.
The lessons of the genocide of more than 500,000 people last year in Rwanda are lost on Burundi because memories of its own past massacres erect an impenetrable barrier to reconciliation.
Killers act with impunity in Burundi. Ethnic violence between the majority Hutus and minority Tutsis promotes the ambitions of extremist political parties and individual politicians intent on taking power.
A recent UNICEF study of 2,769 of the more than 14,000 children made orphans by ethnic killings since October 1993, found 58 percent had been personally attacked. It said 77 percent of those children knew their attackers, and in nearly 81 percent of those cases, the assault was a neighbor.
"It's seared into the soul of every Burundiian. Every Hutu cannot forget 1972. Every Tutsi cannot forget 1993," Turner said.
The unimaginable includes the brutality of this mountainous, hauntingly beautiful land where neighbors set upon neighbors with machetes.
"There is no political will to stop this violence," Muangwa said. "One groups tries to increase its power and the others try to reconquer what they have lost."
Burundi's coalition government, forged under terms of a power-sharing agreement last year, is too fractions to govern. Since the beginning of the year, the main Tutsi opposition party has forced the resignations of both the speaker of the national assembly and the prime minister.]
"I've got a feeling that this time we didn't see as many patients from the violence because the attacks were very brutal. Most were killed, not injured," said Muangwa.
More than 100,000 people were killed in 1972 in massacres that followed a failed Hutu coup attempt. An estimated 100,000 people were killed in 1993 after a failed coup attempt by elements of the overwhelmingly Tutsi military
Because the balance of power is different, aid workers and U.N. officials don't expect killings on a Rwandan scale. But none rules out the possibility.
Dr. Simba Muangwa said the man, Sylvestre Gahunga, 39, was one of only three people hospitalized with wounds suffered in the fighting.
In the muddy warrants of the dirt roads that make up Bujumbura's impoverished neighborhoods, people are hacked or shot to death for no reason other than ethnic identity.
At Prince Regent Charles Hospital, a Hutu man, who had been slashed repeatedly with a machete, cried as he talked about the killings of his wife and three children in the weekend violence that killed anywhere from 150 to 500 people.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Diplomats contend the weekend fighting, which involved the army, underscored the inability of the Hutu president to control the overwhelmingly Tutsi military.
Burundi, they say, is now a country governed by thugs and gangs.
Members of the Tutsi extremist militia, Sans Echec, which means "without failure," kill Hutu civilians in attempts
The charred homes of Hutus and lines of refugees marching around the top of Lake Tanganyika to safe haven in Zaire
to ethnically cleanse oncemixed neighborhoods of the capital. In the neighborhoods of Bwiza and Buyeni, where the violence flared last weekend, militiamen roam unchallenged. Diplomats said the soldiers often act in concert with the militia.
are reminders of political failure.
Knight-Ridder Tribune
The extremist Hutu militia Intagohekas — "those who never sleep" — have chased many Tutsis from the hills in the predominantly Hutu countryside and regularly attack camps that are home to tens of thousands of displaced Tutsis.
Aid groups estimate that inside Burundi there are more than 275,000 displaced Tutsis
and at least 130,000 displaced Hutus. As many as 300,000 others have sought refuge outside the country.
Burundi's army, which ruled for 35 years through a series of dictatorships, becomes more powerful as the government becomes more unstable.
Yet aid workers and U.N. officials said the country is too dependent on foreign aid for the military to simply seize power.
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