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THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Gang
rape. Torture with heated scissors and confine
ment to vats of water. Murder: at least 14
slayings, maybe more.
On Monday, a group of Muslims and Croats
go on trial for these crimes before the United
Nation’s tribunal on Yugoslavia, making it the
first collective war-crimes trial since
Nuremberg and Tokyo. It will be the first time,
too, that Bosnian Serbs testify about their suf
fering at the hands of Muslims and Croats.
Under an indictment issued by the U.N. tri
bunal last year, three Muslims and a Croat are
charged with atrocities against Serbs in the
Celebici prison camp in central Bosnia, where
at least 14 Serbs allegedly died horrible deaths
and many more were tortured.
“I want justice, nothing more and nothing
less. I will say how it was,” Grozda Cccez, a
Serb in her 60s, who said she was raped in the
camp. t
She was traveling to The Hague with an
other victim, a man often on the verge of tears,
and a psychiatrist assigned to accompany them.
The accused are Zejnil Delalic, 49, a Mus
lim military commander in the region; Zdravko
Mucic, 41, a Croat, the camp’s commander;
Hazim Delic, 36, his Muslim deputy; and camp
guard Esad Landzo, 23.
Imprisoned for months or years, inmates
were beaten with steel cables, wooden and metal
bars, burned with heated scissors, wrapped with
«
I want justice, nothing
more and nothing less. I
will say how it was.”
GrozdaCecez
prison camp survivor
fuses that were then lit, and kept in vats of
water, the 49-page indictment says. They also
were forced to act like animals and to perform
oral sex on each other. Women were raped, the
indictment says, and one man died after a badge
with a Muslim party logo was nailed to his head.
There has been no evidence that Delalic and
Mucic personally took part in any of the atroci
ties. They are considered responsible as offi
cials in charge who must have known about
the crimes and could have prevented them.
Landzo, apparently a young local thug given
the opportunity to brutalize people, is charged
with killing five men. Delic, the camp’s deputy
commander, is charged with direct participa
tion in the torture and with four slayings.
Dozens of Serb survivors were interviewed
last year by tribunal investigators and are ex
pected to testify at the trial, which is likely to
last far months.
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Israelis, Palestinians disagree
on troop withdrawals
JERUSALEM — The Palestinians on Sunday
rejected Israel’s decision to pull troops out of 9
percent of the West Bank, provoking a new crisis
that Israel’s foreign minister suggested could de
lay the planned withdrawal.
“We totally rejected their percentage,” Pales
tinian negotiator Mohammed Dahlan said after a
tense three-hour meeting with Israeli Foreign Min
ister David Levy and other officials in Jerusalem,
at which the details of the 9 percent pullout were
to be arranged.
Earlier, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak
Mordechai had said the army would pull out of
dozens of West bank villages, with a combined
population of tens of thousands within days, in
accordance with a Cabinet decision Friday.
. That decision — which was criticized by Is
raeli hardliners as being too generous—is intended
as the first of three “further redeployments” in the
West Bank called for in the Israel-PLO accords.
The Palestinians had expected to gain control of
20 percent of the area in the first phase.
Scientists deny report they
accidentally cloned child
LONDON — A Belgian scientist on Sunday
denied a London newspaper report that his fertil
ity center accidentally produced the world’s first
human clone, a 4-year-old boy now living in south
on Belgium.
Dr. Robert Schoysman said the child was bom
after his mother underwent in vitro fertilization,
in which sperm is combined in a laboratory with
an egg surgically taken from a woman, and the
resulting fertilized egg is implanted in a woman’s
womb, to this case, the fertilized egg split into two
embryos, creating twins.
The front-page story was published in The Sun
day Times two weeks after Scottish scientists an
nounced they had produced the world’s first cloned
mammal, a 7-month-old sheep, Dolly.
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"If You Don’t Go,
Don’t Hinder Me”
African American Sacred Song
and Migration Culture
MARCH 9-I3, 1997
Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon is a curator in the
Division of Community Life at the Smithsonian
v Institutions National Museum of American History
in Washington, D.C. She has spent 20 years
researching the stories and songs of her youth and is
the founder and musical director of the gospel
group, “Sweet Honey in the Rock.”
All lectures are free and open to the public.
Contact the Lied Center box office for ticket
information for the 15 March performance of
“Sweet Honey in the Rock.”
9 March Twentieth-Century
7:30 p.m. Gospel: As the People }
Moved, They Sang
a New Song
Kimball Hall with
the Lincoln
Community
Gospel Choir,
Oscar Harriott,
Director
10 March Deacon William
7:30 p.m. Reardon, Master
Song Leader, and the
South Carolina
Prayer Band
Tradition
Clyde Malone
-x Community
Center
(2032 U Street)
11 March The African
7:30 p.m. American
Quartet Tradition
Kimball Hall
V: | .
12 March The Fisk Jubilee
7:30 p.m. Singers and the
African American
Concert Tradition:
The Song Culture
of African-American
Education
St. Paul Methodist
Church
(1144 M Street)
with the St. Paul
Chancel Choir,
William Wyman,
Director
13 March My Black Mothers
4:00 p.m. and Sisters in Song
Kimball Hall
(public reception
following)
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