Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 5, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba World Winnipeg free january a5 in a family is gone serb Shell rips Hole in Sarajevo neighbor hearts by Chuck Sudetic times news service of Ladinsky Street the gurgling Miljack River could be heard through the gaping Hole in the Dragnich apartments Wall and the neighbors sobbed As they spoke of the old and and family new years parties and card games they would never share monday afternoon at about a howitzer Shell fired by serbian gunners on the nearby slopes of mount tre Bevic blew apart Mensur Dragnich killing his 68 his 49 his daughter and Adnan 41 and their bloodied by flying a retired yugoslav army emerged from the rubble alive along with Elvina an eighty Earold neighbor who somehow escaped playing Rummy the serbian Shell that destroyed Dragnich family was one of 203 that exploded monday in according to a in besides the nine people were the bosnian army returned 37 the shelling was repeated killing nine and wounding the 21month bosnian War has consumed lives and left about people according to bosnian government statistics made Public some people have been killed and wounded in Sarajevo alone the dra Nices tragedy is atypical Only in that the victims were members of the same family who died in the same we were playing Rummy when the shells started to said who was sharing a Couch in the hallway with her Best Asija was we ran downstairs to my fathers office but it was the Little girl so we came Back and sat in the suddenly i saw nothing but and something red flew by my the Shell exploded near the Kitchen blowing a three metre Hole in the Wall and covering the apartments floor with a deep pile of debris blanketed with plaster shoes and toys Lay scattered on the and the eight of hearts was wedged against a Wall in the hallway where the girls had been playing Elvins Mihrudin rushed for the Dragnich apartment after the explosion Shook the we heard cries for help inside the Mensur was wandering about inside the apartment calling for his family in the Ganic Asija was just inside the Kitchen the dust and parts of bricks and the Wood stove were on top of we saw that she was still alive and lifted everything the Wood stove was still i took her by the head and but noticed that her right Arm was hanging he she was but still Asija died before she reached the emergency it Doest seem to me that the warring parties have taken a Blind bit of notice of the said International mediator lord Owen As he arrived yesterday at talks in Vienna aimed at ending the Central bosnian the warring parties Are quite Content to Owen in an earlier interview with the Lejla Dragnich Centre and two neighbors sort through debris in apartment pm wants review of Canadas role a photo Canadian press Brique Mont resigns Owen hinted that French and Spanish governments May pull their thousands of peacekeepers out of Bosnia if there is no peace settlement by the end of As bosnian and croatian leaders gathered for the it was disclosed that the in commander in Bosnia has resigned in Francis Brique Mont asked a month ago to be relieved of his Ottawa canadians Are getting frustrated with their country peacekeeping role in Bosnia and a review of that role is a Good prime min ister Chretien said in an interview with Reuters news Chretien admitted to feeling Public pressure to do some thing after 11 Canadian soldiers were beaten and had shots fired around them by Drunken bosnian serb these incidents alarmed Cana the prime minister said in his first comment since the Inci Dent was made Public last we did not like it at canadians do not like being pushed defence minister David Collen Ette has already said there will be a debate on Canadas peacekeeping commitments around the world after the new parliament convenes on there is a limit sometimes to being a boy Chretien i have decided that we should de Bate it in a spokesman said later the prime minister was not spelling out any new peacekeeping but the comments came As Chretien was about to leave for a nato meeting in Europe where in peacekeeping efforts in what was once Yugoslavia will be Chretien said he was frustrated with International efforts to keep peace in the Balkan states and suggested Canada was shouldering an inordinate amount of the Canada has peacekeeping troops in the former Yugoslavia and they Are scheduled to stay until the troops will fulfil that commitment no matter what the result of the parliamentary Chretien Aristide supports surgical strike9 by Christopher Marquis a Nightrider newspapers Washington break ing with Calls for a peace Ful solution to his country political exiled haitian presi Dent Jea Bertrand Aristide said yesterday he would support a surgical strike on his nation by International forces to remove a Small group of thugs in i cannot ask for that because i would be Aristide but if that the people would be Aristides remarks fell Short of explicitly calling for a foreign inva such an Appeal would be for Bidden under Haiti 1987 cons Titu he in an interview at his Washington Aristide contended that a attack could decapitate Haiti military regime within hours and would enjoy overwhelming sup port from the haitian his comments came in response to a reporters if they it can be done in a question of Aristide said in his most outspoken support yet of or multinational military intervention to restore civilian democracy in they could do its just a Small group of the Clinton still smarting from a military failure in has so far shown Little stomach for exploring military options in senior officials say the ban on the Sale of Petroleum to Haiti is softening the military grip on Power and simply requires More sanctions take sometimes its sometimes its said a top who complained that the administration is not getting enough credit for enforcing the embargo with a naval blockade off this is an unprecedented the United states and three other nations known As the friends of Haiti Canada and France have warned that they will consider imposing a total Trade ban on Haiti if the military does not step aside by cons blamed for deadly riot vengeance led to Barbaric official says associated press Venezuela Indian inmates seeking revenge for the murder of a fellow prisoner were blamed yester Day for starting the deadliest prison riot in venezuelan the toll from mondays riot and fire at the Maracaibo National jail Rose to 106 dead and 54 six prisoners died of injuries yesterday and More were expected to said Dora Bracho National prisons the National guard stationed 250 men outside the jail in response to rumours of another there was no More violence re ported yesterday at but 40 prisoners escaped from a jail in Maracay 100 Kilometres out Side through a 60metre Long underground Bracho Barreto said 10 prisoners were shot and killed by the National at least seven were the Melee began in Maracaibo when about 400 Gunjiro indians broke out of their Cellblock and threw Molotov cocktails at cell blocks housing no Indian prison said Aldo com Mander of the National guard unit that quelled the it was an act of vengeance that was said prison director Luis Zambrano said a Gunjiro inmate was decapitated thursday by no Indian All the dead were believed to be no Indian most burned to death when two Cellblock were set on others were stabbed with homemade drowned and National guard and morgue officials they mutilated butchered them with lynched Cut their Heads pathologist Nelson Bonilla some of the remains Are Only its the worst Slaughter Ive Ever said its a spokeswoman for the Venezuela largest native disputed official reports of How the riot its very hard to believe the version that the Gua Rijos Are to Noeli Pocaterra ethnic rivalries in Venezuela prisons reportedly Are particularly Over Access to there Are about 800 indians at the a photo relatives weep outside Maracaibo morgue mate prison in about 600 everybody started said Kilometres West of prisoner Luis the riot began monday 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