Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 26, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba 28 pages vol 122 no 294 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press or Post 60c get Post outside in Ontario weekly Home delivery 25 wkly i 13 20 Post in Winnipeg 30 wkly 09 21 Post outside City september 1994 attack revives fear of strife ambush blamed on Hutu forces free press reporter Doug in Rwanda to prepare a report on the role of Canadian soldiers in the Refu gee crisis this by Doug Nairne staff reporter Rwanda soldiers from the ruling rwandan patriotic army were ambushed near the tanzanian Border yester renewing fears that the forces of the former government Are still Active in the Gary Canadian Sec Tor commander of the area in the Southeast Corner of said he and four soldiers from the Canadian airborne regiment arrived on the scene moments after the ambush took finding three spa sol Diers injured in the attack and their vehicle Soldier Breaks Back in fall a8 we were on our Way to the Bor Der to do a standing patrol to con firm an spa report on the number of refugees coming and he As we were about two Kilometres Short of the Border we came across an spa vehicle that had been fired the wounded were Given first Aid by the canadians and were later evacuated from the area when it appeared that whoever carried out the attack May still have been in the i Dawson said the Canadian peace keepers were sent into Southeastern Rwanda Friday to investigate re ports that a massacre that has killed one million rwandans since april he said the three spa soldiers injured in the attack yesterday Are blaming the incident on inter Hamu Loyal to the former govern that Are infiltrating Rwanda from people living in the area also claim soldiers Loyal to the former Hutu re Gime Are committing atrocities and terrorizing the local the incidents Are taking place at a delicate Point in the United nations Mission in the Organiza Tion is in the midst of trying to con Vince the million rwandan Refu gees in Rwanda and neighbouring countries to return but the refugees Are remaining in the Camps out of fear they will be killed if they go Dawson said he expects yester Days ambush to result in the spa in creasing its military activities in the Region and tightening Security along the tanzanian i know that if i was the spa commander in the area id be going out and searching around to find who did he approximately 30 canadians from the airborne regiment will continue to patrol Southeastern Rwanda in a Mored vehicles Dawson said the soldiers Are per forming very Well under difficult african they Are very this is what they came Here to he army medics Rush a haitian child to a helicopter after he was trampled by a haitian City in chaos Cedras accuses marines of atrocities in deaths Preu Tersip Haiti police and soldiers abandoned their posts yesterday Asau Hority collapsed throughout Hai tis second largest hundreds of emboldened by the deaths of 10 armed men in a firefight with a ransacked police carrying off identity and even musical the fight outside a Cap haitian police station saturday night was the first deadly clash Between haitians and american police and soldiers abandoned the cites main Mili tary police station and restless for c8 about a dozen smaller word spread to the bringing hundreds out to trash the property of those who had ruled Over haitian army commander it Raoul Cedras and Henry Hugh commander of the operation in flew to Cap haitian to Cedras accused us of atrocities and demanded my Transfer and Marine Tom Jones told reporters american servicemen and a source close to the haitian Mili tary said the haitians opened fire first in saturday nights gun Bat a military spokesman identified the 10 haitians killed As haitian military a Navy Seaman apprentice serv ing As an interpreter received a flesh wound in the a source close to the haitian speaking on condition of said the clash broke out after a Marine approached the police station and told a police sen Tinel he wanted to inspect the when the Sentinel ref an altercation broke the source said the haitian shot wounding the interpret the marines then sprayed the police station with killing officers who were playing Domi noes the source in Mexico City youll find a cop for every occasion by Gerald flood staff reporter Mexico Cit there Are cops everywhere in Mexico most of whom seem to have Little to there Are traffic cops at the intersections blowing there Are cruisers everywhere filled either with metropolitan cops or Federal cops who patrol outside the metropolitan there Are Highway patrols whose function is to help Drivers in the event of and other patrols to catch there Are special cops who speak English and whose duty it is to protect you also see cars filled with usually driving in the Wake of big limousines that whisk the very or the very around the Mexico ranks third in latin America in kidnappings of wealthy with about incidents a and then there Are cops stationed the other Mexico inside Story or go hungry b2 outside All Banks and important centres of they All Are heavily armed with an array of machine guns or Longor Short barrelled heavy rifles of Ramon Lopez who was my Driver and interpreter in Mexico is a former he said the massive display of firepower is mostly for the psychological and that the weapons Are Seldom in he said cops Are leery of drawing their weapons because there is Little Legal Protection for them if they cops involved in shootings must be Able to prove they were fired on first in order to be eligible for a free Legal it is Best that you Are wounded before you Ramon he also said there is relatively Little crime in Mexico certainly compared to big it was a claim both hard to believe and hard to crime information is it shows that for the Federal District of Mexico the Core area where about 10 million of the cites 24 million residents there were investigations of crimes in or about one investigation for every 80 Given that most of Mexico cites poor live outside the it is hard to know what to make of the the murder rate was 10 times Manitoba Standard of about three per there were murders reported in the District last year 30 per of which were crimes of there were sex crimes new lease suspect arrested in Kelly slaying Sybil Redekop staff reporter the Pas ramp have arrested a suspect in the slaying of 13yearold Sarah a source confirmed police detained Bob of the last the source said Arthurston was to appear in court this morning in the Pas where he would be formally the mans Home in the pass downtown area was cordoned off about 7 yesterday and police remained at the Home the Pas ramp said they planned to hold a news conference at noon to Day to release More Kelly disappeared last sunday afternoon after she left her Home to go on a following two Days of searches by hundreds of volunteers and a Telephone tip led ramp to her body wednesday evening 35 Kilometres North of the an ramp officer said yesterday police in the Pas have been putting in Long Days of work since Kellys All the Fellows have been putting in Long and there Hast been a single said ramp Dell the past week has been a difficult one for parents Many have been taking extra precautions with their Leona la Pocques 13yearold Hast gone out All week and she gets to school by quote of the Day its unbelievably if he should be going into Grade Ron Decruyenaere is outraged that Seine River school division trustees refuse to allow his four year old son to Start even though an Independent evaluation shows the boy is details on Page 81 school you think that things sometimes happen to a person who is in the wrong place at the wrong like nut after but when it Hap pens at in the afternoon on a that what really frightens said la How much can you protect someone this past my husband and 1 just feel kind of were just trying to get through each she de Olson and his wife have been driving their 13yearold daughter to school and Back every Day since Kellys body was certainly were not allowing her out and weve been warning her to be in a he but Olson said he and his wife have to remind themselves they cant protect their daughter against the Way Sarah Kelly disappeared could happen to he both sets of parents said their daughters will attend Kellys funeral today at 2 As Many As mourners Are expected to at tend the As parents have been watch ing Bow their children react Emo la Rocque said her Daugh Ter can be up one minute and Down the children have been Able to get counselling at Opasquia and have been visited by the provincial trauma response team headed by Dan inside diversions Cross far Side and Ann doctor in sports to the weather today sunny with afternoon Cloudy High us tomorrow mainly High Sun a Lara Sata Moon a Lara on a unique living environment on the new cyp Aham Avenue mall in the heart of historic for More information Call Diane 3eiuon 9561800 ;