English government to crackdown on young criminals
I-ON DON (AP) —
The arrest of I wo 10
year-olds in I he mur
der of o toddler has
galvanized the gov
ernment and the
opposition to rail for a crackdown on
young offenders and sharpened a long
running debate on criminal justii*
"Sot lety needs to condemn a little
more and understand a little less," Prime
Minister John Major said in an interview
in the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
As the two suspects appeared in a Liv
erpool i nurt on Monday, some lawmak
ers demanded a return to old-fashioned
punishment, from a whack with a cane to
hanging
"I would bring back corporal punish
ment into schools immediately. I would
bring hack national service (compulsory
military service for young men) for one
year at a minimum I would bring bock
hanging, and I would castrute rapists.”
said Conservative legislator David Evans.
Opposition Ijibor Party lawmakers
called for a rethinking of the traditional
understanding approach toward crimi
nals, especially juvenile delinquents,
' The brutal truth is some youngsters
are so out of control they have to be
detained, but that should be the last
resort.” said Tony Blair, the party's
spokesman on law enforcement.
"Britain is becoming a dangerous soci
ety to live in for the young, the weak, the
old and the vulnerable," Boy son added.
Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke, the
Cabinet minister responsible for law and
order, said he was planning measures to
lock up persistent juvenile offenders
Under British law. children under 15
c annot be kept in custody. Courts usual
ly hand them over to a local government
agency with a warning, but they often
escape.
"Anybody who's brought up children,
and I've brought up four, and anybody
who's fit'ii11 with animals knows that a
slap at the right time doe* a lot of good,"
said Conservative lawmaker John Tow
nend
But David Jones, genera I-secretary of
the British Association of Social Workers,
said putting more people in jail was
futile
“We know from research from this
country and across the whole of the West
ern world that when you send young
offenders to residential care every single
study shows that they come out more
likely to re-offend and more likely to be
doing more crime in the future," he told
BBC radio.
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Artillery duel in Lebanon kills two
MARJ AL-ZOHOUR. Lebanon
(AP) — Artillery duels between
Israel's militia allies in south
Lebanon and pro-Iranian guer
rillas killed a Nepalese U.N.
peacekeeper and a woman vil
lager Monday night, officials
reported.
A second U.N. soldier and
another villager were wounded.
The U.N. casualties came
about the same time Secretary of
Slate Warren Christopher was
holding two hours of talks with
Lebanese leaders in Beirut on
his mission, which is aimed at
reviving Arab-lsraeli peace
talks.
Timur Goksel, spokesman for
the United Nations Interim
Fan* in Lebanon, said the two
peacekeepers were hit when
their outpost near Kafrn took a
direct hit from a position
manned by the Israeli-backed
South 1-etmnon Army
Goksel said the outpost was
hit during a shelling duel
between the SI.A and pro-Iran
ian guerrillas of Hezbollah in
the western sector of the south
ern region, a Hezbollah strong
hold.
New fighting erupted near
midnight Monday with a
Hezbollah barrage of Katyusha
rockets that ignited another
exchange. This shelling resulted
in the civilian casualties in
Yater. outside Israel's self-pro
claimed buffer zone in south
Lebanon, security sources
reported.
Monday's fighting marked 10
straight days of hostilities
between Israel and Hezbollah.
At least seven people have been
killed and 32 wounded.
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pushing are anathema to
Hezbollah. His visit to the
Lebanese capital was the first by
a senior U S. official since 1983.
There also was shelling Mon
day morning, which hit about
155 yards from the tent camp
housing nearly 400 Palestinians
expelled by Israel just outside
the security zone. Military
sources said no casualties were
reported among the deportees.
The blasts woke the deportees
on the first fasting day marking
the beginning of Islam's holy
month of Ramadan.
Smoke and dust billowed
from the hill where the shells
hit. Ixbanese army officers man
ning a checkpoint near the camp
said the hill was struck by five
155mm shells.
CIA shooting
rumor turns
man to hero
QUETTA. Pakistan (AP) —
When he was 8 years old. a
schoolmate says, Mir Aimal
Kansi became enraged at a
teacher. Sneaking into school
late one night, he set fire to the
classroom.
The wealth and tribal connec
tions ot Kauai's family protected
him then, frionds say. and 20
\ears later, they may well pro
tect him from the CIA.
When it became known that
Kansi was sought fur the jun. 25
shootings of five people outside
CIA headquarters in northern
Virginia. Pakistani intelligence
agents in his hometown were
baffled. Kansi had never had a
scrape with the law.
Many of those who knew
Kansi regarded him as a pam
pered rich boy whose frustra
tion over family problems some
times exploded into rage.
But word of the CIA killings
transformed him. in the eyes of
some Quetta citizens, into a
hero of the Kansi. a Muslim
tribe whose members live in
Pakistan, southern Afghanistan
and Iran.
In this city of 285,000, a base
for the CIA's covert aid opera
tion during the 14-year
Afghanistan war. the agency is
blamed for most anything bad
that happens.
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