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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 19, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winn Pic Nii me Macii b3 Daminik Jao fun associated press police patrol India yesterday after curfew to quell cites bloody religious religious riots leave 6 dead India hindu mobs joined bloody Battles Between heavily armed muslims and riot police in a Northern Indian Industrial leaving six dead yesterday in spreading religious a leading Industrial was paralysed As looting and arson continued Over the alleged burning of a copy of the the islamic holy by hindu fundamentalists in India new Street Battles raged Between Security forces and Muslim mainly members of the Stu Dent islamic movement of which started attacks against police hindus joined in rioting after the death of hindu officials and the looting and arson of their shops and police hundreds of riot police with Shields and bulletproof vests patrolled the streets in the located 483 Kilometres East of new at least 36 people had been 160 arrested and about 200 shops had reportedly been curfew was imposed in Many parts of the and police refused to go into some areas for fear of being shot at from multistory buildings in the congested the rioting began after two members of the hindu extremist group Bajrang dal allegedly burned a copy of the quran during a Demon stration in new Delhi on March 5 to protest the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the country ruling Taliban Mili the two hindu extremists were arrested and were being police in unrelated nine Muslim rioters and two policemen were killed in a gun Battle that raged for hours in neighbouring Bihar said chief Secretary Mukund the states top the gun Battle started when armed supporters of a Federal lawmaker who is accused of murder and extortion clashed with police on the who uses one is accused in 29 cases of extor Tion and Shahabuddin has gone and police have launched a manhunt for press Babysitter charged after baby overdoses an 11month old girl overdosed on amphetamines she allegedly ingested at a Day care police earlier this the baby was taken to Hinton general Hospital after her parents noticed she was behaving strangely just after they picked her up from the the baby was later sent to University Hospital in Edmonton where doctors found amphetamine and methamphetamine in her doctors said the amounts Large enough to be called an police the baby has the next police searched the caring ways Day Home and allegedly found Large quantities of meth Amcheta marijuana and drug Para Cara Lee faces criminal Canadian press daily direct for City Rocity deliveries its the fastest Way Send your package in the its there in the priority am guaranteed City Rocity overnight delivery to More any door any for compare our new rates and youll find that greyhound courier express gets you to the most the fewest ready for reliable and Cost effective delivery to any anywhere Call 9497300 millions of russians stranded in Arctic towns world Bank funding plan to bring Many Back South by Fred Weir Moscow millions of russians stranded in decaying Arctic towns by the collapse of soviet Era subsidies May find new Hope in a world ban funded plan to evacuate them to rus Sias Southern every Winter the situation grows apart ments Are a Little supplies a bit More says Arkady an Arctic expert with the Institute of Cana Dausa studies in unless drastic measures Are we could face mass tragedy up there within a few More than 10 million people live in russian most sent there As pawns in a grand soviet plan to industrialize the Arctic and make the Tundra that dream went into history Dustbin along with the but the human legacy is not so easily Russia has a dozen cities of More than peo ple located above 60 degrees Many of them dying on Industry towns that Are no longer viable in the new global Market since the demise of the Central planning system that kept these russian communities economically Active and supplied with affordable food and the problem of relocating most of this population has grown increasingly urgent with each passing in soviet times everything was people Here were prosperous and the City was says Igor mayor of a Coa mining Cen tre of people far above the Arctic after Market Vor Kutas Coal production is just two per cent of what it was a decade ago and our municipal budget deficit is 100 per at least infirm and unemployed peo ple desperately need to leave As soon As pos shpektor says Power blackouts and shortages of heating fuel Are common in and that municipal services such As transport and schools Are barely this temperatures have plunged to 50 c cold enough to shatter steel turn an Auto Mobile into an inert Lump of Metal and freeze a medium sized Lake into a solid Block of people say our problems Are going to be dealt and we keep he but so far we see no a couple of weeks the world Bank announced an million us loan to offer housing credits and other Aid to those who wish to relocate one of the first priority areas will be hundreds of thousands of people Are already on the waiting under the several thousand families in three targeted regions will be Given certificates Worth which is enough to Purchase an apartment in Many Central russian though not in the relatively prosperous centres of Moscow and Peters the colonizing of russian far North began in czarist with the practice of exiling convicts to Remote territories in Siberia and other Remote expendable but the trickle became a flood during the Rule of Joseph whose regime constructed a vast net work of labour Camps described by dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn As the gulag Archi Pelago across the country vast and trackless at its Peak in the 1930s and the system held millions of political prisoners built mines and railroads throughout the says Otto lat an expert on soviet economics and columnist with the daily Novice slave labour was cheap and and so no economic or even rational considerations were taken into after the gulag was dismantled in the the soviet 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