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Show Friday. January 22, IW9.THE DAILY HERALD, Witnesses tell of atrocities in Sierra Leone - The Associated Press ...FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- r Residents of a rebel-helneighborhood in Sierra Leone's capital accused insurgents Thursday of carrying out mass killings, torture and rape. Although most areas of Freetown were quiet Thursday after two weeks of vicious, combat, rebels lighting to unseat Sierra Leone's government were still sowing terror in the eastern Kissy neighborhood. "" Government officials said militias and the Nigerian-leintervention known as ECOMOG were slowly advancing on pockets of rebel resistance in Kissy. .'" Rachel Fallah, who fled her home with her mother Wednesday night, said rebels had raped young girls and forced teen-agboys to booty pillaged from Carry homes. "The rebels raped most of the young girls. They take them from houses at night and return them in the morning," said Fallah, a Sierra Leonean for the U.N. employee Development Program. In the face of attempts by a West African coalition army to root them out, the insurgents also were using women and children as human shields, she said. Other Kissy residents said rebels had killed the traditional neighborhood's chief, Pa Komrabai. 'Elsewhere in Freetown, hunger and thirst cast a long JKhadow. Aid agencies have warned of impending starvation unless emergency food supplies are delivered to Freetown. Patients in the city's main hospital have been abandoned, and countless homes have been destroyed by shelling and paging fires. No one has tallied Jail the casualties, but the number of dead run into the hundreds and possibly thousands. I Health Minister Tijan Jalloh 3said Thursday that government "workers had buried 420 corpses in mass graves and were searching the streets for more. Many bodies were hastily juried by homeowners in shallow graves and would be disinterred and reburied, 'Jalloh said. , d - " ; door-to-do- Page Al Provo, Utah Human rights group argues to uphold Pinochet's arrest Spanish warrant alleging crimes against humanity must stand because it is the only chance to break his Vail of impunity." Pinochet was arrested Oct.. 16 in a London hospital while recuperating from back surgery. The Spanish magistrate seeking his extradition says Spaniards were among those he is accused of ordering killed, kidnapped or tortured during his regime, which began in 1973 when he overelected threw Marxist President Salvador Allende. By MARA D. BELLABY Associated Press Writer LONDON Amnesty International argued Thursday before the House of Lords that the severity of the charges facing former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet mean that neither British nor international law offer him protection from arrest. On the fourth day of a hearing in Britain's highest court, the human rights group said the general's arrest on a Ian Brownlie, a lawyer representing Amnesty International, other human rights groups and relatives and victims, said Britain's 1978 State Immunity Act provides amnesty only for acts recognized as part of a leader's official duties. Torture, murder and kidnapping could never fit into that definition, Brownlie said. He also contended that interlaw national specifically removes immunity from anyone even current or former heads of state accused of interna 17-ye- d ny . Vw rv-x- tional crimes such as torture or the taking of hostages. Chile signed that law in 1988. Before Amnesty addressed the tribunal, seven-judg- e lawyers for Britain and Spain concluded their case by contending that Pinochet was involved in a conspiracy to torture before his Sept. 11, 1973, coup. They also claimed some torture took place in the months before that date. 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