Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 6, 1982, Winnipeg, Manitoba 14 Winnipeg free december 1982 lebanese army denies torture death charges the Washington Post Lebanon palestinian sources Here say five palestinian activists have died from torture or mis treatment and scores of other suspects have been beaten by lebanese army soldiers Over the past several but the army denies it has tortured anyone and says no one in its custody has the palestinian charges and Leba Nese denials come amid a struggle by the three Western members of the multinational peacekeeping Force to gain Access to hundreds of palestinians and lebanese being held at a detention world Center at the army defence Headquarters in Yarze East of to despite a lebanese Promise in Early october to arrange a visit and repeated requests by the three nations the army has not allowed a delegation of representatives from the French and italian embassies into the the army refusal to allow any outsiders to visit has made it impossible to determine whether there is any substance to the palestinian a Western diplomatic delegation that i sited a preliminary detention Center in East Beirut said it heard complaints of beatings but not of torture and that it saw serious Western diplomatic sources said France and whose soldiers have primary responsibility for Security in the refugee were the most upset about the reports of torture and mistreatment emerging from the accounts of released but All including the United have agreed to press the lebanese government to allow the International red Cross to make regular visits to the sources a lebanese army official told the after that three of the four palestinians who allegedly died under torture were still alive and that they had no record of the fourth having Ever been did not deny or acknowledge reports that one palestinian died from mistreatment at the hands of an army Soldier in Gaza lebanese authorities told the three Western embassies that none of the persons they said the army had so far picked up had died in prison or been subjected to physical Tor Western embassies and reporters have found no substantiation for recent israeli charges that the lebanese army shul Zarafat dialogue suspected Riyadh Asp deposed palestinian mayors who met state Secretary George Shultz last week conferred with Plo Leader Yasser Arafat in this saudi arabian capital last a reliable source this seemed to support a report by the London times on saturday that an indirect dialogue has started Between Washington and Arafat Palestine liberation the times said that Muhammad former mayor of the West Bank town of had a message to Shultz from Milhem and fahd Fon Mer mayor of discussed with Arafat their talk with the source Here he said that they came to saudi Arabia especially to see who arrived Here last night from South Israel expelled the two mayors from the West Bank in the times said Arafat asked mayor Milhem to Tell Shultz the palestinians regard the Reagan peace plan As a crucial test of american even though it ignored their right to self determine Tion and to their own in Jerusalem last israeli for eign minister Yitzhak Shamir complained that presidential envoy Philip Habib has said there is a need for negotiations Between the Isra the United Egypt and Jor israeli leaders have vowed they will never negotiate with the Shamir did not say when or where Habib advocated such the minister said he has asked the Reagan administration to clarify whether Habib was speaking for him or was expressing a change in the official american Arafat crucial test of has killed palestinians and de ported Palestine libera Tion organization officials Here deny there is any truth to these apparently hoping to avoid further complications Over its status with the lebanese the Plo has so far not made an Issue Over the treat ment of prisoners or sought to give publicity to the alleged but there is mounting evidence that Many lebanese and others picked up in the three Camps or elsewhere in the capital Are severely held in extremely crowded conditions and kept in detention with out being the lebanese army is still making Many arrests in the Camps in an apparent attempt to round up All activists from the various palestinian groups who remained behind after the evacuation of the bulk of the guerrillas last the has never declared these groups to be illegal or presented any evidence that they Are presently a Security the Plo still has diplomatic while the International peacekeeping Force has prevented Christian militiamen responsible for the september massacres in the pales Tinian refugee Camps from it has not stopped the lebanese army from making widespread arrests nor guaranteed fair treatment of those held for questioning in just How Many Are being held by the lebanese army and Security forces is the government Here has provided the France and Italy with a figure of the total number of these which is said to be slightly More than out of almost it admits to having picked up since mid about half Are reportedly a Quarter lebanese and the rest other mostly civilians palestinian sources Here Howe that they believe the number fluctuates Between and and that most of them Are yesterday 500 women gathered at the Aisha Bakkar mosque in West Beirut to protest Over the disappearance of palestinians and leftist grand Mufti Hassan Khaled has put together a list of persons detained or palestinian sources and doctors at Gaza Hospital in Sabra Camp have provided the names and some details in the cases of five palestinian activists they say have died from mistreatment or torture at the hands of lebanese Security forces or other prisoners Aid ing the five died Between mid october and its a Tough Market out despite an encouraging drop in real estate costs and lending an unsettled Economy still tends to Breed an uncertainty in the minds of those venturing in real even As economic conditions improves they now Are that state of mind May linger and 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