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Bosnian Serbs continue Muslim evictions SARAJEVO, Bonn i u-Herzegov inn IAP) — Bonn worn o inn Sorb troops forced Muslim families from their homos in northeastern Bosnia. The families told of being threatened, beaten and robbed. Hundreds of men were rounded up and arrested The women, children and mostly older men arrived Sun day in Tuz.la. a government held town in the northeast. U N. officials said 12H Muslims were expelled from fiijeljina and lanjn, .to mili*s northeast of Tuzla. Seven more came from Brcko. also in the northeast Muslims have long been harassed in the Bijoljina region The town on the Drum River border between Serbia and Bosnia was one of the first seized by the Sorbs when they started the Bosnia war in April 1W2 over Muslim (.mat moves to secede from Yugoslavia "Suddenly they smashed into our apartment. they start ed Ixiating me mid forced us to leave,” said Majtda Mujic. a .Tft year-old-woman from Hi jo I jin,i I,oca! Serb authorities began picking up paople in Bijeljina on Friday, forctid thorn to sign papers turning over nil posses sions and drove thorn toward Tu/.la. U N High Commis sionor for Refugees officials said When they reached govern ment-controlled territory, the Muslims were robbed of what ever they had left, said Ron Redmond. UNHCR spokesman in Geneva. 'Shots were then fired into the air to frighten these people, and they were pushed across the front lines at the town of Satorovic.i." 10 miles north of Tuzla. he said "On the bus I w as threatened with a knife, one of them hit me with (ns boot in the stom ach." said Hiba I)/.iifii . f>0 “They demanded that I give them all my jewelry and mon ay. They told me I hey would cm my throat if I didn't give it to them." Dzafie said she turned over all her valuables. Osman Besirovic, 57, said he was fori ed to turn over 1.500 Or man marks (about $K00). Red Cross workers in Biielji na reported "hundreds of peo pie rounded up, lieatnn up and arrested" Friday, said l.isa Jones, the agency's spokes woman in Sarajevo It was the third wave of expulsions from Riielpna fol lowing large-scale evictions in September and January, said UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski Throughout Bosnia's war. people of rival ethnic groups have been forced from their homes to create ethnically pure areas Although all sides have been accused of this "ethnic cleansing," the brunt of the blame has fallen to the Serbs CAPTURE THE LOCAL WILDLIFE ON FILM ! COLOR PRINT & DEVELOPING SPECIAL 12,15 or 24 color exposure *3 99 no limit $4 99 Value 4x6 size add $voo COLOR REPRINTS) 3X5...5/*1.00 4x6... 4/* 1.00 35mm negatives only FILM IN AT 1:00 READY BY 2:00 NEXT DAY! OFFER EXPIRES ON 6/15/94 the tlJ/iDiWlM?! 890 E. 13th • Across from U of 0 Bookstore 342-3456 Mon-Frt I0am-6pm Sat I0am-5pm Rwandan refugees flee as rebels claim victory KIGALI. Rwanda (AP) — Tulsi rebels d»x lared an end to Rwanda's t-ivil war Monday, said they planned to install a new government and told refugees they could stop their terrified flight out of the coun try Millions fled tow ard unt ertain safety in neighboring nations, fear ing the retiels would try to retaliate for the slaughter of about 200,000 to 500,000 people — most of them Tutsis — by Hutu militias. How - ever. little evidence has emerged of widespread reprisals against the Hutus by the Tutsi minority. "There is no need for anyone to flee Rwanda We guarantee all Rwandans stability and security Maj. Gen Paul Kagame of the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front said Monday. After 14 weeks of ethnic bloodshed, the Tutsi-dominated rebels said they had swept away the lost Hutu government resistance and that a truce was in pla< e The retail leader said he hoped the end of the fighting would halt the desperate human flight out of Rwanda. Between Wednesday and Sunday, up to 1 million Hutu civilians and soldiers had already pushed into Coma. Zaire, from the north western Rwandan town of Gisenyi. And refugee offic ials said late Monday that an estimated 1 9 mil lion more Hutus were streaming toward the southwestern Rwandan border town ofGvangugu and hod started another exodus into Rukavu. Zaire. 00 miles south of Coma. About 100,000 people crossed at Huknvu on Sunday and Mon day If the rest of the 1 9 million on the move c.ross into Zaire, near ly 15 million Rwandans — about half of the estimated prewar population of H million — would lie living in refugee camps in neigh tHiring countries Before Inst week's mass flight, more than half a million made their wav into the country's other neighbors: Tanzania, Burundi and Ugan da Hundreds of thousands more am displaced within Rwanda. Leaders of the rump Hutu government had apparently encouraged the latest human flocxl through Rwanda's southwestern comer, where French force* have dec hired a humanitarian protection zone, said Fer nando del Mundo. spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva "'rhi> refugees are saving they are moving liecnuse their leaders told them they < an no longer protect them." del Mundo said. "Despite the assuranc.es from the French, they are responding to what their lead ers are saying " In the c apital. Kigali. Kagame dec hired that the war with the Hutu government was over, but suggested the rebels still might confront Frenc h troops protecting the area where llutu government loaders were hiding. "We have captured all of Rwanda up to the Frenc h protection zone and a cease-fire is effectively in place," Kagame said He called the refugee flight "n very unfortunate situation that must bo reversed "Among them are innocent people. Kagame said "Others can't forget they have a lot of blood on their hands and will have to answer for it.” The rebels want the French to arrest the leaders of the Hutu gov ernment The French say their 2,500 troops have a U.N. mandate to carry out a humanitarian mission, and arresting government leaders is not part of that mandate. The rebels have been suspit ious of tile- French intervention from the start. Iiecause France rescued the Hutu government from a rebel offensive last year. French Col. Duller Bolelii said the rump government has fled into Zaire from Cyangugu. He said he did not know where in Zaire the government ministers had gone. Reliel soldiers, meanwhile, worked to clean the bombed and shat tered parliament building in Kigali for the inauguration of Faustin Twagiremungu as prime minister and Pasteur Biziinungu. announced Monday as the new president. Balinese Lace Work Handcut lace work from the island of Bali. 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