Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 28, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Day Winnipeg free april 9 night of violence forces 400 to flee Reserve up close to 400 mohawks from the Akwesasne Indian Reserve toured into nearby Cornwall seeking Refuge from violence that has erupted week Over illegal casinos in their there was violence All machine gunfire every five minutes gunfire All Over the everybody was in a state of said Mike grand chief of the Akwesasne Mohawk Council which administers the Canadian portion of the a foe of the said he had called police in Ontario and Quebec for help thursday night and yesterday mom ing All night i was begging outside police to come in and evacuate these and i finally said if they cant do it then i have to think of some Way to get these people out of he told reporters outside a Community Centre in see another night of putting people through he said about gun and death threats that have wracked the which covers part of Ontario and new York few mohawks would talk to citing fear of at about noon a swat team from the Quebec provincial aided by Ontario provincial police and the evacuated 24 residents of a nursing Home on the they were taken across the Lawerence River on a Barge and to a Hospital in Over 350 mostly women and then began pouring into sortie coming by car and others crossing the River on during the past the Reserve has been turned into a virtual War zone pitting heavily armed members of the pro Casino Warrior society against ant Casino Mili on the warriors demolished blockades which had been set up by the ant Casino faction to keep gamblers out of the a grenade attack of a crowd outside the Mohawk police station on the Reserve left three people about mohawks live in the Canad an sector of the primarily in the Village of St Regis and on Cornwall located in the Canadian sections Are separated by the portion of those moved out yesterday Are to be lodged temporarily at a sports Complex in some mohawks talked of violence and death threats against people whose Pic Tures appear in and two photographers were yelled at by a male to Hawk As they tried to take while they were reluctant to give inter several Mohawk refugees said privately that there Are hit lists out on the Reserve for people speaking out against the casinos that surfaced illegally on the re serve in one woman said she had left Brothers and two of her sons on the Reserve to escape the asked Why she left her she looked Down and said you can get More possess you cant come Back to Canada has asked the United states to do something about the escalating violence on the american Side of the Indian affairs minister Tom Siddon said the Canadian embassy in Washington contacted the state department on thurs Day to underline concerns about the Vio Lence and the Lack of policing on the Mitchell said illegal activities such As cigarette and drugs Are at the Root of the unrest on a we illegal things Are going through the Bor million just in there Are there is a 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