Troops to leave West Bank towns
It.KISAl.IM I At’) Israel con
firmed now details Wednesday of an
emerging breakthrough on expand*
mg Palestinian self-rule, but it also
added a warning attacks on Israeli*
by militants opposed to the pea<:e
process must stop.
Foreign Minister Shimon Pores delivered the
warning with the announcement that Israel's with
drawal from the West Bank will expand with phased
troop pullouts from four towns before Palestinian
elections this soar
"1 think that the Palestinians who enter the cities
understand very well that if there will he terrorism,
everything that was agreed upon will not stand the
test of reality." Peres told reporters.
Scon's of Israelis have been killed in attac ks in
the 14 months since Palestinian s4>lf-mle was estab
lished in the Gaza Strip and the West Hank area
of Jericho under the first stage of a September toil
Israel-PLO accord.
The West Bank pullout is far more compileated
than the first stage because Hfi.OOO Jewish settlers
live throughout the territory — compared to 5.000
in Gaza and none in Jerit ho.
Nonetheless. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a tar
get date for signing an agreement on a troop with
drawal
Israeli Foreign Ministry tlirwi tor IJri Savir and
Palestinian Economics Minister Ahrned Qttrein met
Wednesday in Jerusalem to begin working out final
details of the accord.
Clinton administration officials said the agree
merit probably would la- signed in Washington A
final decision depends on the outcome of the nego
tiations. said State Department spokesman Nicholas
Burns.
Peres said Israel plans it phased pullout from parts
of the West Bank over two years. starling with four
towns Nablus. |<>mn. Qalqilya and Tulkarm
before Palestinian o1«h lions an* held late this sear
A Palestinian offic sal. speaking on condition of
anonymity. said the initial pullout would l**-gm four
weeks after the agreement is signed and end at least
ZTt days before the voting
During the elect urns irrangements would )»•
made in the three other large West Hank towns
Kamallah Bethlehem and Hebron so that Israeli
troops won t In- present when Palestinians go to the
polls, Peres said
In the second stage of the pullout in Israel
will leave other towns and villages, and Israelis and
Palestinians will jointly patrol rural areas
Israel has indicated it may want to hold on to
Hebron, where 450 lews live amid AO.000 Pales
tinians, throughout the entire autonomy phase,
which will last until May 1900
A third troop pullbnt k. from rural areas, w ill take
place in mid 1997. Pen*s said
Although the espanded autonomy is already a
year late and both sides are under pressure to show
results. Peres said that if the target il.it** is missed
"bv a week or two it will not In- a tragedy
Israel, meanwhile, is hurriedly paving bypass
roads to unable Israeli settlers to avoid Arnh-popu
lated areas Fences to separate the populations are
also planned in some areas covered by the net ord
Proposed maps of the redeployment revival a bowl!
daring mesh of sectors under Israeli. Palestinian or
joint control.
Negotiators must also resolve the boundaries of
tin' autonomous regions the transfer of i ivilian
authorities, the parte ipation of Jerusalem residents
ill the Palestinian tile* turns and the M/e of the Pales
tinian national council
Major recasts cabinet
after leadership vote
t.ONIK)N I AD A (lav
after winning a hard-fought
party leadership ra< Prime
Minister John Major appoint
ed a new (Cabinet today that
gave little comfort to the right
wing Conservatives who
opposed him
Major gamed an opportuni
ty to shake up the government
when he took two thirds of the
vote Tuesday against former
Cabinet member John Red
wood in the party leadership
e!*** tion
Today, he promoted a trust
isl alls I Mtmse S«s rvtarv Mai
colrn Kifkind. to sm i eed the
nrtirmg foreign s«s retarv, I km
glas Hurd Michael Portillo,
who was poised to challenge
Major if thi- leadership rai e
had gone tn a second round,
succeeds Kifkind at defense
Portillo is a leader of the
party's right wing, which is
Uneasy about the growing
povser of the f airo|M-.m union
Portillo hat ked Mn|ur in tin
leadership race, although his
friends had already organised
a campaign headquarters in
(;<iso Major had stumbled
At tiif Defense Department,
Portillo will have few oppor
tomtit’s to thwart the yjovern
immt s European polo y. The
Conservatives' deepest divi
sion* are on Britain's rolo in
thtt European Union, an issue
which many regard as a mat
tor of national sovereignty
Portillo's old department.
Employment. was aholislonl
and most of its duties non
transferred to the Education
Department
Prado Not rotary Michattl
I Ifsoll mo, who was also
o\|hs tod to jump into the rut w
if Major had failed to win a
i tear first-round % it lory. was
appointed deputy prune min
ister.
Ills new duties weren't
immediately t leer hut it was
expei ted that he would move
into a larger role as a
s|K>ki‘Mnutt for the government
ami the Conservative Party
Major also fired party chair
man Jermnv Hanley , a further
indication that he hopes to
imp!i tv e tin- Cot it", imago
State-supported killings
on rise, Amnesty reports
LONDON (AP) — Thu geno
cide agnin.si minority Tutsis in
Rwanda last year was the most
extreme example of the new
wave of human rights abuses.
Amnesty International said
Wednesday in its annual report
The London-based human
rights group said mass killings,
summary executions and "dis
appearances" were all on the rise
in 1994. and its general secretary,
Pierre Sane, noted “a < hanging
pattern" of rights violations
"In 19*14. what yve have seen
are gross, massive violations of
human rights taking place in the
streets more than in the prison
cells," he said in a statement.
More than MO,000 people were
killed by Hutu-dominated gov
ernment forces and extremist
militias in Rwanda In neighbor
ing Burundi, the tables were
turned, and Tutsis killed thou
sands of Hutus
Similar massai res occurred in
other parts of Africa, including
those carried out by government
and opposition troops in Ango
la, Liberia and Sierra 1-eone
In Guatemala, the report said,
summary executions have
increased significantly, with
human rights workers, govern
ment opponents and journalists
among the nearly 300 people
killed and 30 who are missing
Magda Lopez Toledo.
Guatemala's charge d'affaires in
London, did not deny the
charges, but said Guatemala
recently revamped its Supreme
Court, strengthened the powers
of the attorney general and intro
duced human rights training for
police.
In Colombia, government and
quasi-government forces were
behind more than 1,000 deaths
and t4U disappearances, the
report said
Amnesty International said
hundreds of civilians were killed
by both government and opposi
tion forces in Algeria, and that
killings continued in Last Timor
as Indonesia repressed the inde
pendence movement there.
Indonesia hotly denied the
charge.
"Indonesia always examined
and judged those who were mis
pei ted of breaking the low hv a
judicial court, an independent
and neutral body," said Hendrati
S Munthe, a spokeswoman for
the Indonesian Embassy.
Amnesty International at cosed
Israel ol possible executions in
82 fatal shootings of Palestinians,
and of continuing systematic tor
turn against Palestinian detainees
despite the peace accord
In response. Israel's justice
Ministry said terror attacks have
taken 75 Israeli lives since the
accord was signed in imu
Spokeswoman Kttie Kshed saul
interrogation of terror suspects
was supervised and did not con
stitute torture.
Western nations were also crit
icised In France. Amnesty Inter
national said the courts gave only
"nominal" sentences to police
men guilty of unlawful shootings
and killings
In all, state-sanctioned execu
tions occurred in 54 of the J5t
countries mentioned in the 353
page report, and people were
know n to have disappeared in 2't
countries Amnesty Internation
al said this shift towards extra
judicial violence could lead to
chaos.
"What we want is to create a
climate where impunity will pre
vail no more,” Sane said. "What
we want is for the perpetrators to
be brought to justice."
Other human rights violations
noted in the survey
— prisoners of conscience were
held in 78 countries;
— detainees were tortured and
ill-treated in 120 countries;
— armed opposition groups
carried uut torture, hostage tak
ing and arbitrary killings in Hi
countries;
— executions took plot e in 3ft
countries, and 57 countries main
tained death rows
Amnesty international, which
leads the international campaign
against the death penalty, said 31
executions were held last year in
13 U S states.
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