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Friday, April 17, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Arabs' rights neglected, activist says
By JENNIFER FORKER
Staff writer
A human rights activist spoke last night at the Burge Union about the lack of human rights in the Arab world.
Ali Alayamee, vice president of the Association of Human Rights in the Arab World, said that human rights had been neglected in Arab nations and that no other people was more abused. He said he wasn't insulting Arabs, only the forms of government that ruled them.
"Arabs have no say in anything," he told the 40 people in the audience. "You should have the choice to live your life the way you want to live it. The Arab world treats people like
little children. They choose for you what to do."
Alyamee said Egypt was the only exception because it allowed its citizens to travel abroad.
"The president is not thinking for them," he said.
Alyamee, who holds a doctorate in international politics, said that in comparison, Iraq would not remain a single country and needed its citizens of basic human rights.
"They cannot even pray freely. The government has to check them as they pray." Alyamee said.
"These governments in the Arab world put themselves on the level of God," said Alyamey, who came to the United States 21 years ago from
Alyamea said that Arab students in the S. should expose their governments to them.
Saudi Arabia and is now a citizen.
"This is your chance to speak up," he said. "Every Arab government respects Western civilization's opinions more than those of the people in the Arab world. If you expose the Arab countries, they will hear you, clear and loud."
He said he was the only Saudi who publicly spoke against the Arab nation.
He said that disapproval stemmed from people's inability to admit failures and weaknesses. Instead, they blame others.
"It is our failure not to be able to
recognize our weaknesses." he said.
passes," he said. Haitam Shami, president of the KU Arab Students' organization, which sponsored the sprint along with the KU International Club, said people in the Arab world had long been oppressed.
"Their main concern is to survive and to earn a living." Sami, a帕萨，a Pat萨。
He said that if students returned to their countries and spoke against the persecution be persecuted or jailed. Their families' safety also would be in jeopardy.
"The subject is fairly new," he said. "None of us are aware of what's going on." he said.
Grand jury indicts 3 for telephone fraud
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three men accused of bulking about 800 investors out of nearly $7 million in what authorities called a discount long-distance telephone service scheme have been indicted on fraud charges.
Named in a 28-count indictment issued Wednesday by a federal grand jury were Larry M. Cheney, founder, sole owner and president of Telecom Management International Inc.: Kenneth Briggs, the firm's vice President of operations; and Joseph Barkurt II, vice president for finance.
Cheney, 37, and Burkart, 46, are from Grain Valley. Briggs, 59, is from Independence. If convicted on all counts, the defendants each would face maximum sentences of 140 years in prison and fines of $154,000.
TMI was set up to sell interests in limited partnerships in cities in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois and Oklahoma, said Robert Schneider, assistant U.S. attorney.
The limited partnerships were named for the city in which they were set up. St. Joseph Telecom Ltd., for instance, and were to provide discount long-distance telephone service to individual subscribers.
From late 1983 to June 1985, TMI formed 30 limited partnerships in cities in the five states. The defendants sold up to 35 interests in each of the limited partnerships for $7,000 to $8,000 each, Schneider said. About $7 million from about 800 investors was raised, he said.
Investors were told that they would have a return of their investment plus 10 percent within six months, and as time went on, they were told that five of the initial partnerships had a net profit from telephone revenue in the first quarter of 1984.
In fact, the indictment said, it was part of the scheme to use money from the sale of new partnership interests "to create a facade that the limited partnership's discount telephone business operations were successful."
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