Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 22, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Mai Umipeg free january 1990 mutineers fight army continued from Page 1 members of other ethnic groups were fighting the mutinous azerbaijani sailors also were re ported exchanging gunfire with soviet Molazade and Yunusova wife Leila said Battle was raging at the naval Academy on the outskirts of rebels also had thrown grenades and Molo Tov cocktails at military the soviet flows Agency Tass a correspondent for Moscow and radio service was briefly held the Interior ministry reported 51 civilians and six soldiers and 287 civilians and 36 soldiers wounded in saturdays that brought the total number of casualties for the week to 129 dead and More than 500 wound activists reported much higher and Interior ministry officials said they received too Many conflicting accounts to confidently update their foreign reporters were barred from Armenia and so it was difficult to reconcile the conflicting Moscow sent thousands of troops and other forces to Baku after fighting flared Between the Muslim azerbaijanis and mainly Christian armenians this the total number of soviet forces tackling the violence is reported to be including cadets and Interior the number of militants has been reported in the the bloodiest wave of violence erupted 13 with anti armenian rioting in Baku that killed 67 people by official count and forced thousands of armenians to abandon their it escalated into open warfare elsewhere in Azerbaijan and led to the worst fighting in the ethnic feud in two soviet tvs newscast seven Days began a 25minute wrap up of the weeks ethnic Vio Lence with red lines spreading from the top of the simulating dripping As Pic Tures of soldiers and victims of the violence flashed Anchorman Eduard Sag Alayev told millions of viewers the ethnic warfare is the soviet unions biggest tragedy since the second world tens of thousands of azerbaijanis gathered yesterday outside the communist party head quarters in Baku to mourn those killed when soviet troops moved Yunusova they also demanded the state of Emer gency imposed in the capital Early sat urday be lifted and soviet troops pull said the Azerbaijan Peoples which has organized anti armenian armenian guerrillas ride armoured personnel Carrier in funeral procession for Comrade in their Yerevan marchers defy Kremlin Moscow a thousands of azerbaijanis demonstrated in Moscow yesterday to protest the soviet governments crackdown on ethnic violence in their Southern Republic and to mourn nationalists who died fighting red army at the same armenians congregated at a Moscow Church and cemetery to mourn their dead and collect Money and offer housing for in Armenia two stolen armoured personnel carriers and hundreds of armed men paraded through at the funeral of a nationalist Leader killed in a clash with the body of Movses Leader of the unofficial armenian Independence was carried on an armoured personnel car Rier through the streets to a National Monu ment overlooking the the few police to be seen helped armed some wearing flak jackets and toting Kalashnikov automatic to Clear traffic from the main Kievan Street to allow thousands of people to March along the four Kilometre soviet army who were earlier patrol Ling the outskirts of the City in were nowhere to be seen and there was no sign of communist party or government at least azerbaijanis living in Moscow gathered at the republics government then marched to the Central Headquarters of the official soviet news Agency where they protested its portrayal of the crack death toll disputed according to 51 civilians and six died in clashes in the azerbaijani on nationalist groups in Azerbaijan and Moscow put the death toll much in the but could not substantiate their the ordered by president Mik Hail came after years of ethnic tensions and territorial disputes Between mostly Christian armenians and predominantly Muslim azerbaijanis in the sus the azerbaijani demonstrators demanded that the chief editor come out of Tass head quarters and explain to them Why the news Agency was distorting events in the azerbaijani when no one the demonstrators moved off toward the studios of the state run television and they Are not telling the said one of the demonstration we Are not being told what is really happening in the Many wearing Black Arm waved azerbaijani flags and held up placards blaming the violence in Armenia and Azerbaijan on the signs More than thousands tragedy in Baku reflection of Gorbachev politics and who is Gorbachev Gorbachev told a National television Audi ence saturday that troops were sent to Baku As a last maltreatment probe requested continued of of Page 1 significant setback for the process of As quickly As the development of truly democratic institutions a process for which the haitian government has repeatedly declared their the minister has asked the Cana Dian ambassador in Porta Prince to investigate reports some of those attested have been maltreated and to emphasize to the haitian authorities Canadas expectation that democratic rights be the French embassy in Haiti relayed a French government announcement in Paris cancelling a three Day economic planning meet ing with haitian officials that was to begin in the state depart ment deplored the declaration of the state of siege and said the govern ments actions there threatened the movement toward Louis founder of the Hai Tian red flew to Miami aboard a commercial flight yester he said in Miami he was not told Why he was he added he was beaten after being on another government conservative Leader Hubert de was forced into exile after police and soldiers rounded up dozens of at a news conference yesterday in de Ronceray said Avril promised the elections Only to get help from foreign theres no possibility of democracy with Hes a de Ronceray said that after his arrest he was clubbed with and had a cigarette jammed in his the Eye was red As he spoke to More arrests were reported yesterday and a number of opposition leaders went into sources Max Secondi com Mand of the haitian communist was arrested at his said party Leader Rene he said police phoned Bourjolly ser vants and told them to prepare his passport and the police told the servants they would never see Max Theo Dore waiting is agony for prisoner hoping evidence will win Freedom continued from Page 1 ver forensic scientist pique the interest of the Federal Justice department enough to conduct its own under the criminal Justice minister Doug Lewis has the discretion to reopen cases that have exhausted All avenues of Appeal if new evidence can be it a very extraordinary event As Only three cases in the last five years including the Well publicized Donald Marshall Case in Nova Scotia have been returned to the Molgaard said he takes some Comfort in the fact Justice depart ment investigators Are still wrestling with his but he finds it hard to remain composed while people he has never seen pass judg ment on what will be his final Opportunity for its a taxing Molgaard if they have something to say to they should say it right away and get it Over but they Haven said who has worked with the family for two to gain Mil guards said the report of forensic specialist James Fer Ris proves Molgaard could not have committed the the report reviewed All the physical evidence presented at Mil guards trial and concluded that it completely clears him of All connection to the Asper All attempts to get the Justice department to reveal its opinion on Ferriss report have been its Clear that the department is taking this very Asper but either Ferris is right or Hes if Hes then David should be if Treyve got bad then lets have if Treyve got Good then lets have the whole process has been very frus both Asper and Molgaard said that accepting a plodding path to parole is not the i think we All equate parole with something that happens to guilty Asper i think David has been persuaded to take advantage of these but philosophically he thinks its All non Joyce who has worked tirelessly and at great expense for those same 21 years to exonerate her said she is is trying to remain guardedly optimistic about the delay in the Justice depart ments in not holding my breath be cause if i i would have been dead a Long time she but i do try to look for Hope in open hearings require change in Law continued from Page 1 it wont Surprise me if they dealt with it by May or she it will probably have provisions to close some particularly where its in the clients inter but in general they would be where its in the clients inter but in general they would be if open hearings Are the province would have to change the society governing which now requires secret its just one aspect of a Law firmly entrenched in the dark Ages it also robs the Public of any right to Appeal Law society decisions on complaints against its a right enjoyed by those who file protests with almost any other governing body in at the same and even the have been Given certain limited rights to Appeal the that a Mccawley the client cant and sometimes Hes unhappy when he thinks the lawyer has not been fined enough or suspended Long As irate clients have no Legal right to attend hearings on their own complaints unless the society Calls them As lawyers who often act for govern ing bodies and for those charged with misconduct argue that opening up these secret trials would upset a delicate balance Between the pub pics right to know and the defendants right to a lawyers entire reputation could be destroyed by even if he is acquitted at an Inqui said society Bencher Jeff Gin but Many in the Legal Community said they oppose draconian limitations on the rights of complainants and admit there is a slow erosion of Public Faith in policing anticommunist protesters March continued from Page 1 in a bid to hold on to last he testified before a City commission examining secret police brutality against demonstrators in admitting he has made mistakes and criticizing police but who had responsibility for internal Security under Hon invoked the secrecy oath to avoid disclosing the inner work Ings of the secret opposition groups demanded that his oath of secrecy be lifted by the government for today which was to come during negotiations Between representatives of the regime and Krenz opened the Berlin Wall on 9 and promised democratic Reform but was ousted after six weeks in tens of thousands of anticommunist protesters marched across the Border to West Germany and Back Many marchers carried empty suitcases in the symbolic exo West Germany Ard television said they wanted to show How Many people Are ready to leave the country in Case the communists in Power after parliamentary elections promised for May Wolfgang the party Deputy chairman since december and a leading popular defected along with 39 other prominent party members from of which he is in a Berghofer said the people no longer Trust the communists the citizens of the German democratic Republic need Trust and courage for the since tens of thousands Are still leaving their the exodus of skilled East germans is leaving the country Short of everything from doctors to factory about East germans have moved to West Germany this following a exodus of More than in the discredited who dominate the caretaker regime that is to step Down after the May Are struggling to Salvage credibility amid charges they have re sorted to dirty tricks in a bid to cling to through the the communists appeared to be trying to further distance themselves from the repressive Rule of Erich who was ousted As party Leader on 18 in a peaceful popular re Volt and replaced by the criticism is Basic lawyers and other professionals enjoy Privi Leges the rest of society does says Roland former attorney general and now Dean of Law at the University of the allegation is that lawyers Are going to be cozy with lawyers be cause they might need to have their backs scratched Down the he lawyers counter that the profess Ion is tougher on itself than outsiders would professions Are much More aware of the Public and they Bend Over backwards to Deal expeditiously with lawyer Doug Abra i can understand it seems unfair that the names of those people charged with criminal mat ters Are whereas those charged with discipline offences dont have their names although it looks like a Dou ble Abra and others insist the offences and circumstances Are sometimes the cases against lawyers Are minor they cant de cide what happened so they have a Little Gindin other someone is charged with incompetence As a result of drug or alcohol and its not in the interest of the Public to know lawyer Randy Mcnicol but like it or open hear Ings Are says Claude be executive director of the federation of Law societies in those that operate openly now have had few publicity Seguin spokesmen for Law societies in and Ontario say open hearings work As Long As safeguards Are in place to protect the accused from 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