From: trh@jack.sns.com (Al Trh)
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Subject: News: Armenian attrocities reported, etc.
Date: 13 Dec 1992 20:42:58 -0600
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Headlines:

 12/12 Armenian Atrocities Reported
 12/12  FRANCE WANTS FORCE TO BACK UP BOSNIAN NO-FLY ZONE
 12/12  EC LEADERS TARGET IRAN ON RIGHTS, ARMS BUILD-UP

12/12 Armenian Atrocities Reported

   MOSCOW (AP) -- Azerbaijani forces on Saturday retook
three villages seized by Armenians and discovered 16 bodies
of executed civilians, Azerbaijani reports said.
   The Armenian side reported dozens killed in Azerbaijani
air raids and the shelling of Armenian border towns.
   The Armenians and the Azerbaijanis have battled for four
years for control over Nagorno-Karabakh, a mostly Christian
Armenian enclave within Muslim Azerbaijan.
   More than 3,000 people have died in the fighting, which
also has raged along the border separating the two southern
former Soviet republics.
   The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said its forces on
Saturday pushed the Armenians back from the villages of
Shaifly, Sharikyan and Byuryunlyu in the border region of
Kybatly.
   The Azerbaijani fighters found 16 bodies of civilians,
including those of a child and two elderly women who were
shot point-blank, "and survivors were killed by a shot to
the back of the head," said a ministry statement, carried by
the Azerbaijani Azerinform and Turan news agencies and the
ITAR-Tass news service.
   "Everywhere Armenian occupants were, they left tens of
corpses of civilians shot to death point-blank and
mutilated," the Azerbaijani chief of staff Nadzzhmeddin
Sadykhov told Azerinform.
   Azerbaijan also reported fierce fighting in the border
area of Zangelan over 10 settlements seized earlier by the
Armenians.
   The Armenian Snark news agency and Moscow's Pro Armenia
news agency quoted the Armenian presidential press service
as saying 25 people were killed and 46 were wounded Saturday
when Azerbaijani Su-25 warplanes dropped several bombs on
the Armenian border town of Kapan.
   The reports said seven more Armenians were killed by Grad
rockets fired from Azerbaijan at the Armenian border town of
Goris.
   Following the shellings, Armenian President Levon Ter-
Petrosian appealed to Azerbaijani leaders to stop
hostilities on the border, the Interfax news agency
reported.
   It said Ter-Petrosian pledged to commit no Armenian
troops to combat action on the joint border or inside
Azerbaijan.

12/12  FRANCE WANTS FORCE TO BACK UP BOSNIAN NO-FLY ZONE

    EDINBURGH, Dec 13, Reuter - France will ask the United
Nations to authorise enforcement of the no-fly zone over
Bosnia, President Francois Mitterrand said on Saturday.
    "I have asked (Foreign Minister) Roland Dumas to ask the
Security Council to adopt the complementary measures that
had been envisaged by Resolution 786, which aim to bring
about, by force if need be, the prohibition of flights over
Bosnia," Mitterrand told a news conference after a two-day
European Community summit.
    Resolution 786, passed on October 9, did not establish
how the ban on military flights would be enforced. There
have been repeated violations of the flight ban by Bosnian
Serb forces.
    Earlier on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence
Eagleburger said the outgoing Bush administration, in a
hardening of its position, was now also ready to back the
use of force against Serbian aircraft violating the no-fly
zone.
    With President-elect Bill Clinton speaking in favour of
an enforcement resolution on Friday, Eagleburger said
President George Bush had authorised him to seek support for
such a move from key European allies.
    "We would like to go for an enforcement resolution,"
said Eagleburger, who was speaking to reporters on his plane
en route to a European security conference in Stockholm.

12/12  EC LEADERS TARGET IRAN ON RIGHTS, ARMS BUILD-UP

    EDINBURGH, Dec 13, Reuter - European leaders expressed
concern over Iran's record on human rights and terrorism and
warned against an Iranian arms build-up.
    A declaration issued on Sunday at the end of a two-day
European Community summit condemned Iran's "fatwa," or death
sentence, against British author Salman Rushdie.
    The 12 EC leaders said it was important to maintain a
"critical dialogue" with Tehran reflecting "concern about
Iranian behaviour and calls for improvement in a number of
areas, particularly human rights...the fatwa...and
terrorism."
    Iran has refused to rescind the death sentence on
Rushdie pronounced in 1989 by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini on the grounds that his novel "The Satanic Verses"
was blasphemous to Moslems.
    The EC says the call for Rushdie's death contravenes
interational law.
    The leaders said they accepted the right of countries to
acquire arms to defend themselves but were "concerned that
Iran's arms procurement should not pose a threat to regional
stability."
    They called on Iran to take a constructive approach
towards the Middle East peace process.
    A summit declaration expressed full support for both
bilateral Arab-Israeli negotiations and multilateral talks
on economic development, water, the environment, refugees
and arms control to rebuild a peaceful Middle East.
    "The current peace process represents a great
opportunity which must be seized if dangers to the stability
of the region are to be avoided," it said.
    The leaders did not repeat past calls for Palestinian
self-determination, including a possible state, but
reaffirmed EC "positions of principle on the basis for a
just, lasting and comprehensive settlement."
    The statement stressed the importance of human rights
and confidence-building measures to increase trust in the
talks.

12/13 Huge Anti Rightist Concert

   FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) -- In a huge show of solidarity
with foreigners, more than 100,000 people attended an open-
air rock concert in Frankfurt on Sunday to protest against
radical rightist violence that has killed 17 people in
Germany this year.
   Standing before a sign bearing the motto "Today them!
Tomorrow You!" the German rock group Scorpions, opened the
show with their hit song "Wind of Change."
   Spectators stood packed elbow-to-elbow, waving their
hands and swayed to the music at Frankfurt's huge trade fair
grounds area. The show was broadcast live by Germany's ZDF
television network.
   Master of ceremonies Fritz Egner said at the start of the
concert he was thanking the "100,000 people," who came.
   "This isn't about politics, it's about opposition to
violence and racism," Egner said to the cheers of the mostly
youthful crowd.
   Police spokesman Karl-Heinz Wagner also estimated the
crowd, which was not charged admission, at "more than
100,000," adding that most were under 20 years old. The
three-hour concert began at 1:30 p.m.
   As the afternoon progressed, Egner returned to the stage
at one point to say the crowd had swelled to 150,000.
   Between performances by 28 music groups and individual
singers, Egner read out messages from other top European
artists, including actress Venessa Redgrave, who
congratulated the performers and the audience for taking a
stand against neo-Nazism.
   Standing on a huge scaffolding constructed as a stage in
front of the main trade fair ground building, other groups
and performers included Peter Maffey, Marius-Mueller
Westernhagen and nearly legendary German rocker Udo
Lindenberg.
   Herbert Groenemeyer, who starred in the hit German film
"Das Boot," (The Boat), the story of a German submarine crew
prowling the Atlantic in World War II, also sang. German
comedian Stefan Wald, the country's best-known political
mimic, spoke to the crowd in a perfect imitation of
Chancellor Helmut Kohl's voice.
   Since a neo-Nazi arson attack on Nov. 23, that killed a
Turkish grandmother, her granddaughter and niece, in the
northern German town of Moelln, hundreds of thousands of
Germans have regularly taken to the streets to protest the
rising tide of xenophobia in the country.
   Last weekend, 300,000 people took part in a torchlight
gathering along the streets of downtown Munich to protest
against the rightists and show solidarity with an estimated
six million foreigners in Germany.
   In weekend first division soccer games, all players and
many of the hundreds of thousands of fans attending the
matches, wore shirts inscribed with "I have a friend who is
a foreigner."
   The government has also moved against radical rightists,
banning two groups for inciting hate against foreigners and
Jews, and as a threat to German democracy.
   Officials estimate there are 40,000 radical rightists in
Germany, about 4,000 of them classified as violence-prone
neo-Nazis.


12/13 MACEDONIA SAYS NON-RECOGNITION THREATENS PEACE

    By Mircela Casule
    SKOPJE, Dec 13, Reuter - Macedonia said on Sunday the
failure of the European Community to recognise the former
Yugoslav republic's independence was a serious threat to
peace in the region.
    "The further isolation of Macedonia by European and
world processes seriously threatens peace and security in
the Balkans," the government said in a statement.
    EC leaders turned down a Greek request at their
Edinburgh summit on Saturday to reaffirm opposition to
granting diplomatic recognition to Macedonia.
    Macedonian President Kiro Gligorov said earlier on
Sunday the EC had taken only a "half-way measure" towards
recognising his republic's independence.
    "However, a step forward has been taken, and this will
become evident in the near future," Gligorov said at a
ceremony to open a border crossing between Macedonia and
Albania.
    Greece insists that Macedonia must change its name to
prove that it does not hold territorial ambitions against
the northern part of Greece bearing the same name.
    EC leaders decided in Lisbon in June against recognising
Macedonia unless it changed its name. But the text agreed
after an EC foreign ministers' meeting in Edinburgh did not
restate their promise not to recognise Macedonia under that
name.