Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 1, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Ift May 1990 children victims As red sea port Bombe ethiopian air Force pounds rebel stronghold fhe writer was in Massaway when it was last bombed by the ethiopian air because of tack of transmission his Story could not be filed until he left by Reid Miller associated press Ethiopia ethiopian Jet fighter screamed Over this red sea port at 6 racing Down the coast from the then came what sounded like a single followed by a violent about 60 eritreans mostly women and children sat in the basement of one it is their daily shelter from Dawn to dusk from the threat of ethiopian air raids on the strategic the rebel eritrean Peoples liberation front captured the City three Days after launching a major offensive in its 29year War for a series of seemingly random attacks Oti Massaway by the marxist governments air Force began april two were staged april for a total of six last in the late a soviet built Mig fired a single rocket toward the cites port it struck Bare toppling a shed damaged in a previous raid and causing one slight the evening was it dropped not one but two Cluster bombs on a poor residential and Market area about 750 metres away across a narrow a pillar of smoke Rose several Hundred metres Over the Many children cried in fear As they hid in the some of the women moaned softly or crooned Comfort to the Young As the plane flew except for some warehouses that stored donated Grain meant for famine victims in Massaway port itself has been about 25 tonnes of wheat and other foodstuffs were destroyed in earlier these raids Are against they Are designed to kill and terrorize the said Haile an economist who sits on the rebel Central the ethiopian government has denied it targets but there were no rebel military installations anywhere near the scene of the latest air visiting journalists arrived at the scene of the latest strike just As Rescue efforts were the bodies of dead and wounded were strewn Many victims were the just before came As residents were beginning to emerge from previous raids have taught them to hide during the Day from an air Force that usually flies on a 9to5 the rebels later said 50 people died and 110 were injured the night of april that nearly doubled the death toll from die previous five bringing the combined fatality count to More than 350 people have been Many of them some of the dead were loaded on others were buried in a nearby mass grave hastily dug by a the City has been without electricity and running water since its capture by the rebels in and storage of bodies in the heat is the eritrean rebels accuse Israel of supplying the Cluster bombs to the ethiopian both the ethiopians and the israelis deny a Cluster bomb explodes before hitting the showering an area with dozens of smaller Massaway is one of two strategic harbours that have traditionally handled most of Ethiopia Trade and International Relief supplies for millions of people threatened with starvation in the face of War and the eritrean front has been fought for control of Ethiopia northernmost province since a year after the former italian Colony of Eritrea lost its autonomy and was forcibly annexed by the late emperor Haile slayings inquiry called lax Washington a the investigation into last years slaying of six Jesuit priests and two others in Al Salvador has come to a virtual standstill and it appears unlikely that Justice will be a House of representatives democratic party task Force said the appointed by House speaker Thomas Foley to look into the Legal process that followed the said investigators appeared to have put a lid on their activities after nine members of the Salva Doran armed forces were As of the investigation and preparations for prosecuting the Case have come to a virtual stand the 19member group said in a report Likely to have an Impact on congressional debate Over Aid and policy toward Al this Lack of continued coupled with certain aspects of salvadoran make it less Likely that full Justice will be the report adding that the failures Are symptomatic of institutional problems in the military and the system of sincere despite the the task Force gave credit to salvadoran president Alfredo Cristiani for a sincere Effort to encourage a professional investigation and to investigators who made serious attempts Early in the process to identify those who actually carried out the kill but the headed by representative Joe Moakley also said those charged might never have been arrested if a military officer had not come Forward in january with information implicating Alfredo the most senior official the who was assigned to the american embassy in san said he had been told Benavides had admitted involve ment to the head of a unit investigating the Only after the disclosure did the salvadoran government concede that the military had been the task Force said it was very disappointed by the failure of the investigating unit to look seriously into whether superiors to Benavides May have ordered or known about plans for the Noriegas lawyers try to quit Case Miami a lawyers for Man Uel Noriega said yesterday they Are filing a motion to withdraw from the narcotics Case because the government has Frozen All their clients there Are millions of dollars in Bank accounts that Are even though under the governments con they Are not subject to the forfeiture said Jon one of four lawyers for the former military ruler of we Are not asking for any funds that would be taint May said the defence has received Only a few thousand dollars for expenses since Noriegas and nothing in he said the defence needs Money to take depositions and do but lacks the resources because of the Frozen Bank but the government is refusing to even he he emphasized that the motion to withdraw that the lawyers were Fil ing was not and must be approved by District judge William May blamed the administration for the decision to freeze All of Noriegas the 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