Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 13, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 6 Winnipeg free january communists outlawed death penalty sought protests Mark Day of mourning a woo of two Patte Orfi president Ion Iliescu told thous has of demonstrators yesterday that the communist party has been outlawed in the estimated at More than gathered in front of the Headquarters of the new government shouting Down with communism kill the communists yesterday was a National Day of with religious ceremonies held across the country in memory of the victims of the revolution that toppled communist Leader Nicolae Ceausescu three weeks himself a former said in a speech to the crowd broadcast live by romanian radio the romanian communist party is considering that it is against the National spirit and our ancestors before the communists took Power in Romania was ruled by a constitutional the protesters demanded the re turn of the death penalty and forced Iliescu to defend his policies from on top of an armoured Iliescu pleaded for silence during chaotic scenes in front of the for eign Headquarters of the National salvation front that has governed since the fall of cause one of the fronts first acts after the Christmas Day execution of Ceausescu and his was to abolish the death penalty and begin Public trials for Ceausescu hated secret blamed for kill ing thousands in the As the crowd outside the foreign ministry chanted death should be Security police proposal scrapped from Reuter sap East Berlin East German Premier Hans yielding to pressure from coalition partners and the said yesterday he has scrapped plans to form a new Security police Force before Mays free before May there will be no new Security he told Par in a major Concession to East Germany Reform Modrow also set june 30 As deadline for abolition of the reviled stall Security police that shored up the old stalinist regime for 40 he said he has fired Peter the official who was supervising Dis solution of the for income the government expects this slow work to be seeded up because its work is he legislators cleared the Way for joint ventures with Western compan ies for the first and the adn news Agency said the financially strapped government will close some foreign diplomatic missions to save at parliament taxi Drivers honking their Boms drove by to press demands ranging from More democracy to a scrapping of the state run labor answered with death Iliescu promised that those responsible for killings during the revolution will face Public the the first Public upheaval in the three weeks since the front took erupted on a Day of mourning proclaimed by the government to commemorate those killed in Street fighting to overthrow the Church services for the Vic Tims were broadcast live on state radio and this is the Friday of our mourn ing and National a priest at the Patria Rhie orthodox Cathedral told those who packed the 300year old Church in downtown Friday will be from now on a sacred and blessed Day for the romanian death for Iliescu had declared yesterday a Day of mourning for All those who gave their lives in the fight against the dictatorial Iliescu was flanked by Premier Petre roman and front Vic Epresi dents Dumitru Mazilu and Gelu Voi Ca Voiculescu atop the armoured car surrounded by the chanting the crowd chanted Mazi we want Mazilu to represent the people they also shouted Down with Bruchan referring to Silviu who has angered people by saying the front is on the left politic former ambassador to the United nations and author of a human rights report on gestured and led the crowd Over a microphone in cries of death for death Down with the Securi Tate Modrow bends to pressure Itie premiers plans to create a new Security Agency to replace the hated stasi1 Force led to a protest around parliament on and two no communist parties in the coalition government threatened to Modrow had said some kind of internal Security Force was needed to guard against alleged dangers from Neo nazis and but opponents said decisions on the sensitive issues of internal Security should wait until a democratically elected govern ment takes parliament also passed a constitutional change that will allow joint ventures with foreign but officials later said foreign share holding in most cases will be limited to 4f per East Germany is seeking More foreign capital to help boost its sagging and the adn news Agency said several diplomatic missions abroad will be closed to help save ethnic greeks describe Albania As huge prison Athens Reuter in the Only stalinist state left in East Ern schoolchildren spy on their parents and secret police have forced bystanders to beat prisoners in the refugees ethnic creeks who fled Albania in the last eight months describe the country As a huge forces on Alert demonstrations in the Northern Lown of Shroder against the government of president Ramiz Alia were violently suppressed in de Cember and Security forces were put on said Menelaos Tze president of the International federation for the Protection of i believe that if an uprising takes place there will be a blood Bath far worse than the one in Romania last he said in an political prisoners in Albania number and tight control is kept by the the secret he the Sigu Rimi has managed to spread mistrust among family they get their in formation mainly from schoolchildren who Tell their teachers what is said or done in their Leonidas a 24yearold ethnic greek living in an Athens refugee said he saw police beat four ethnic greeks who now Are at the Centre of a dispute Between Athens and i saw the Prassos Brothers chained and badly beaten said who fled in police brought them to the main Street in Satanta and asked bystanders to hit if you refused you were arrested for sympathising with the their bodies were swollen up and the smaller one fell the next Day we Learned of his death in a greek foreign minister Antonis Samaras has asked Albania to Dis prove reports that the Prassos Broth arrested while trying to flee in were Tirana has denied the about ethnic greeks live in polish anarchists protest prices Warsaw Reuter anarchists waving Black flags and shouting Down with prices rampaged through Warsaw smash ing windows in the polish Senate and party Headquarters and barging into a luxury the in the first Street pro test against harsh economic austerity imposed by the Solidarity led gov also marched on the Solidarity labor Union Headquarters and ripped Down posters outside the building of Union Leader Lech Wale they shouted insults against Soli Darity labor minister Jacek Kuron who has called for creation of soup kitchens to offset poverty caused by government a Reuters news Agency photographer said he saw 200 members of the anarchists intercity group smash three windows at the demonstrators in Bucharest Burn the Flag of the romanian communist party during protest secret Down with communism in an apparent drive for popular roman then took the microphone to offer a referendum on the death it marked a major Retreat since one of the fronts first decrees was to abolish capital thus sparing the lives of the secret at one Point people also shouted ant soviet implicitly rejecting the fronts decision to remain in the Warsaw pact and respect other treaties with the soviet shouting to be heard Over a said the government will soon publish a draft election Law which it will submit for Public de the front has pledged to hold free elections in the first in 43 years for in a military tribunal yesterday convicted a police major of attempted murder and sentenced him to 19 years in prison for shooting protesters who toppled the tribunal reached its verdict following two Days of proceedings after police loan Bottrel was identified by two witnesses As hav ing fired the shots 22 that wounded three ethnic turmoil grows in Moscow a azerbaijani blockaded government offices and seized a radio station in a Caspian sea and georgians demanding Independence drove bureaucrats from their offices in the said reports the new ethnic turmoil coincided with a visit to Lithuania by president Mikhail who is trying to counter an Independence drive in that Baltic Republic and has been warning of ethnic the protesters in the azerbaijani City of Len Koran vented their anger Over an armenian parliamentary measure that implied Possession of the disputed territory of said Savill Deputy director of the republics official news Agency he said the protest took place thursday and the Len Koran area remained tense a mountainous enclave claimed by Armenia and has been in a state of civil War for two with bomb sniper fire and it is the most intractable ethnic conflict in the country and has killed More than 200 the official news Agency Tass said yesterday that Tsymba Yuk of the Interior min which is trying to keep order in Magorno was killed thursday in the a Erbai Jan populated Village of it said a prelim Inary investigation found that an azerbaijani police officer fired the the communist party chief and several other officials were taken hostage in the Shaumian District of the bordering Magorno the news service a Branch of radio it said All those seized Are ethnic azerbaijanis wearing bulletproof vests and carrying attacked Mana sold Village in the Tass it mentioned but gave no in protesters demanding Independence for the Southern Republic drove government workers from their offices in a Small town 80 Kilometres Northwest of the on activist Irina Sar Shvili she said protesters occupied the town and regional government offices of the area on the Banks of the Kura soviet Power has ceased to said a Leader of the pro Independence National democratic party of speaking by Telephone from a Deputy director of georgias news Otar said he had no information about disturbances in Tbilisi has been the scene of rallies for Days by protesters demanding that a politburo member from Moscow come to negotiate granting the Republic troops wielding shovels and clubs attacked a similar pro Independence rally in Tbilisi in killing 19 a 20th was killed Sar Shvili said Many businesses and most forms of mass transit were on strike in Tbilisi in support of bulgarian groups agree on religion Sofia Reuter bulgarian government and opposition representatives reached an agreement yester Day aimed at defusing ethnic tension sparked by the reversal of a Muslim assimilation policy forged by ousted communist party chief Todor Shiv an la Point produced after five Days of set out a list of proposals including the right of All bulgarians to choose their own names and practise any nobody has the right to Force anyone to change his but if anyone elects to alter it of their own free will they should be guaranteed the right to do the document it added that a special Law on the right to choose names should be passed by the end of next Vasil Vic president of the state told a news Confer ence after the talks that the draft document would be finalized and submitted to the talks were arranged sunday after tens of thousands of bulgarians demonstrated against the communist authorities decision to reverse an assimilation Campaign against the country million ethnic turks and other the Campaign forced ethnic turks and other muslims to adopt Bulgari an names and curbed their religious the new party leadership under Petar Mladenov reversed the dilation opposition activists who attended the talks said the document adopted yesterday was intended to clarify certain parts of the Constitution concerning citizens ethnic rights and allay fears in some bulgarian inces that the Large ethnic turkish population would seek lube off any Oil change with this ask about 5w30 motor Oil expires i sw30 motor Oil is formulated for today engines and Canadian Winters i free installation limited time offer Paterson Iron remover i on wat i svs Ruvis no Chi Mica is needed put an end to rust and stains virtually of satisfied warranty buy Winnipeg Volvo store Matthon motors 680 lust of Grant 4520756 10 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