NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Tuesday, February 17, 1997 7A Rebels postpone attack on refugees Zairian camp wins reprieve The Associated Press KALEMIE, Zaire — Rebel leader Laurent Kabla, responding to a plea from the United Nations, agreed yesterday to delay a threatened attack on Zaire's largest refugee camp. Kabila had threatened to attack the Tingi-Tingi camp, which is on the rebels' northern front, this week unless the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees drove out Rwandans he says are armed by the Zairian government. The rebel leader said that he granted the reprieve to give the agency time to figure out how to separate the armed men from bona fide refugees in the camp of 150,000 people. As we are Christians, we shall give more time to UNHGR, "Kabila told The Associated Press in the southeastern town of Kalemie. "We shall see what we come up with." Kabila didn't set a new deadline, but said that he would stay in touch with U.N. officials. Twice in the past week, Kabila has vowed to attack Tingl-Tingi within days to clear out former Rwandan soldiers and Hutu militiamen, who have received planeloads of arms in recent days. The United Nations sent representatives to Kalemie, a port on Lake Tanganyika, to plead for a reprieve. Kabila granted it but insisted it would be temporary. "We talked a little bit of my ultimatum there, which is very serious. I hope they understood my position," he said. The U.N. representatives flew back to Nairobi, Kenya, without speaking to reporters. In the past, the refugee agency has said that it does not have the power to disarm refugees. In the Zairian capital, Kinshasa. Defense Ministry spokesman Leon Kalima denied that the government is arming the refugees. He said that Zaire has only enough weapons and ammunition to provide for its own soldiers. "It's well known that we have a problem with materials," he said. "How could we possibly be giving things to outside forces? We're trying to outfit our own men." On Friday, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan also charged that arms were being sent into Tingi-Tingi, though he did not directly accuse Zaire. The U.N.'s special envoy, Mohamed Sahnoun, visited Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko at his palace in Gbadolite in northern Zaire on Saturday, and had been expected to demand an end to the arming of the refugees. Sahnoun made no statement after the meeting. Zaire's defense minister, Lilukia Bolongo Liongbang, said in a statement yesterday that Kabila's threat to attack Hutus in the camp was Noah Musser/KANSAN proof he was being directed by the Tutsi-led governments of Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda. They have denied the allegations. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Hutus fled into Zaire after Rwanda's 1994 massacre of a half-million Tutsis, fearing reprisals from the Tutsi-led government that now controls Rwanda. Many of the fighters taking shelter in the camps took part in the genocide. North Korean defector takes cover in consulate The Associated Press BELIING — Heavily armed police, backed by an armored car and water cannon, guarded the South Korean consulate where a North Korean defector was hiding yesterday. South Korea linked the standoff to the shooting of another prominent defector in Seoul. Lee Han-young, a nephew of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's first wife, was shot twice Saturday outside of a friend's apartment in a Seoul suburb. He was in critical condition yesterday. Police blamed the shooting on North Korean agents, and South Korea's prime minister indicated it was linked to the defection of Hwang Jang Yop, who was holed up in the consulate in Beijing. According to South Korean officials, Hwang, a designer of North Korea's guiding philosophy of self-reliance, walked into its consulate Wednesday with an aide and said that he wanted to defect. Chinese police have been guarding the consulate around the clock since Hwang's defection. Communist North Korea, one of the world's most closed and secretive states, claimed rival South Korea had kidnapped Hwang, 73, and warned that it would retaliate if he was not released. Yesterday the police patrolled with assault rifles. A water cannon was parked behind an armored car at the front door of the consulate. Police blocked surrounding streets with cars and tire-shredding spikes. North Koreans, who have been keeping vigil outside the consulate, sat in a few parked cars yesterday, taking shelter from the cold. The defection puts China in a difficult position. It does not want to infuriate North Korea, a longtime ally with whom it fought in the Korean War. China also has diplomatic relations with South Korea and wants to encourage growing commercial ties. Lee's real name is Lee II Nam. Because of his ties to the North Korean leader, he had been under close protection since his arrival in Seoul, and his 1982 defection had been kept secret until last year, when his mother, Sung Hae-rang, also fled. Friends said that Lee, fearing North Korean reprisals, had undergone drastic plastic surgery to avoid detection. Before the attack, a woman purporting to be a magazine reporter called the apartment to ask when Lee would be home, police said. A neighbor told police that he had heard a scream and had looked out of his home to see two men confronting Lee at the entrance to the apartment. One man held a gun to Lee, neighbor Park Jong-eun said. The man shot Lee in the chest and head, and both attackers fled. Lee uttered only two words after the shooting, "Spy, spy," said Nam Sang-won, an owner of the apartment where Lee had been staying. The Yonhap agency said that police had found two shells from a Belgian-made Browning pistol — a standard weapon for North Korean agents. Peru plans rescue Spokesman denies U.S.involvement The Associated Press LIMA, Peru — The U.S. and Peruvian paratroopers would plunge into the compound from whirring helicopters, plant explosives at six points around the diplomatic residence and storm the building. In a nighttime operation that would take only seven minutes but could leave as many as 90 dead, soldiers would seize leftist rebels and try to rescue 72 hostages. At least that's the military's plan if the hostage standoff cannot be resolved peacefully, a major Peruvian newspaper reported yesterday. But Diaro La Republica said that the army, fearing high casualties, wants to leave the option as a last resort. The newspaper quoted a Feb. 5 "Intervention Plan" by the Army Intelligence Agency as saying "it cannot be assured that a military action will be clean; there could be numerous ... losses." The plan also said that the political atmosphere, both in Peru and internationally, "favors a peaceful solution to the crisis," the newspaper reported. President Alberto Fujimori has received the proposal, the newspaper said. No one was available for comment at his office yesterday. A representative for the U.S. Southern Command, reached by telephone in Panama, denied any U.S. military planning to free the hostages. "We are not involved in the situation down there." said the representative, who would not give his name. "There are no American citizens inside, and we are not involved. It is a matter for the Peruvian government." La Republica said that the military plan calls for backup from the U.S. Southern Command, using Hispanic soldiers from the U.S. Special Forces. Fujimori said several weeks after the crisis began that he twice turned down offers by the U.S. government for use of its Delta Force commandos to help resolve the crisis. 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