Show The ‘Herakl Journal Logan Utah Saturday March 2 2002 — A7 WorldT Q AHMADABAD India (AP)— Hindu attackers burned Muslims in their homes and stalked them in the ' streets on Iriday pushing the death toll in India’s worst religious violence in a decade to nearly 300 The bloodshed was largely confined to the western state of Gujarat however and did not spread across this vast nation despite a call fora general strike by Hindu nationalists Some 900 soldiers deployed in Ahmadabad a city of 35 million where young Hindu men brandishing swords and sticks in a second day of looting and attacks triggered by a fiery assault on a train by Muslims Police were ordered to shoot riot- era on sight and they 'opened fire on a few occasions But Muslims complained authorities were not protect Mia eflasDne® m MD ©©aifilh) ing them Journalists saw many soldiers sitting in trucks watching as Hindus shouted death threats across streets to ctfaering Muslims One Muslim woman clung to a photographer’s ' leg begging him not to leave for fear she would be killed Bodies blackened by fire lay in the furstreets along with bumed-oshredbroken motorbikes nishings ded clothes and shoes In one neighborhood of Gujarat’s main city Hindu and Muslim youths clashed wielding knives and swords and hurling gtreoline bombs stones' and burning tires at each other from rooftops Police opened fire killing six people and wounding 70 said Deputy Police Commissioner RJ Elsewhere in Gujarat state armed Hindus entered the eastern village of Pandarvada a community of 50 Muslim families several dozen miles from the scene of Wednesday’s train attack The attackers forced residents into their homes where they huddled together as the attackers set the houses on fire officials said “We know of 30 deaths so far it could be higher than that" said Jayanti Ravi the district administrator The day began with another brutal attack in Ahmadabad Before dawn several hundred Hindus set fire to a Muslim shantytown trapping residents asleep inside Sixty-fiv- e people in the homes were killed including eight children Deputy Police Commissioner PBGondya said ut ‘ Savani A curfew has been imposed in 37 towns across the state and 1500 people have been arrested in the violence — including 63 charged for murder in the train attack said Home Secretary K Nityanandam Clashes broke out in several other states across India and more than 1500 people were arrested but the strike called by the World Hindu Council to protest the train attack was largely ignored Violence was mostly limited to Gujarat home state of Mohandas Gandhi who struggled for reconciliation between India’s Hindu majority and Muslim minority amid riots that killed nearly 1 million people after independence in 1947 The Gujarat violence began when Muslims set fire to a train carrying Hindu activists in Godhra on Wednesday killing 58 people and touching off rioting that has left 237 dead It is the worst religious bloodshed since 1993 riots in Bombay that killed 800 people Like those riots the latest violence is linked to plans to build a Hindu temple on the site of a mosque destroyed by Hindu nationalists in 1992 in northern India Most of the victims from Wednesday’s train attack were Hindu activists returning from the disputed site in Ayodhya where they plan to begin building the temple this month Fallowing government policy officials would not say publicly how many of the dead were Muslim and how many Hindu In brief Pakistan may hand over Pearl suspect Toxic packages mailed to targets in Britain one sent to Toriy Blair LONDON (AP) — As many as 16 packages containing toxic substances disguised as eucalyptus oil were mailed to political targets in Britain including Prime Minister Tony Blair authorities said Friday night The parcels held what police described as “caustic substances” a Scotland Yard spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity One was sent by mail to 10 Downing Street where Blair lives but remained unopened Blair was visiting Australia Friday Another was addressed to an unidentified Scottish legislator The other targets were not immediately identified Scotland Yard issued an “urgent warning” over the mailings' and said their contents resembled an alternative health treatment “The packages which arrived by mail purported to contain eucalyptus oil but further analysis has revealed they contained a caustic substance" the spokesman said He said die contents resembled an aroma therapy product and included a leaflet saying it was complimentary sample No other information was immediately available including the seriousness of any health threat when the packages were found and who might have sent them ‘ EU publishes rules to standardize leeks — on Welsh national day — When is a leek a deviant LONDON (AP) delicacy? Never say the Welsh who like to eat — and even wear — the variegated veggie so much that it has become their national symbol So there wta outrage Friday — Wales’ national day named ' for its patron Sj David when the European Compfissioa pub-- ‘ fished a directive that in the future all leeks sold in stores must look die same Regulation No 23962001 stipulates that grocers may not sell younger leeks with a diameter of less than eight millimkers and older ones that measure less than 10 millimeters There must be no soil between the leaves which must be neatly cut the directive stipulates And die white part must form at least one quarter of the total length Outrage at real or imagined European Union directives — on ' bananas sausages and cheese among others — has become a hallowed British tradition and politicians rose to the occasion cm behalf of die leek Lawmaker Nigel Evans a former Swansea grocer who is spokesman on Welsh affairs for the main opposition Conservative Party said he was “aghast” “The final insult is that they are being brought in on St David's Day if it had been April 1 1 think I could have properly understood it” he said in die House of Commons “I always thought that die growing of leeks was God’s work but thankful- ly now die EU has come to its aid with some useful advice on die growing and selling of leeks” t ' KARACHI First UiN convoys begin to return Afghan refugees TORKHAM Pakistan (AP) — Excited Afghans crowded the first UN convoys taking Afghanistan’s million refugees home Friday to a land some have not sera in decades some never In cold and rain refugees loaded everything from fans to bicycles to infants in their embroidered best — for journeys over the Kfayber Pass Nearly 200 Afghans left Friday from western Pakistan’s Ibrkham crossing on die eastern end of the pass f “Now there is hope Wfe can go to our comtfry” said Khaistapibbi jostling for aUiT-funded van to space on return to a land whose wars she fled in the 1980s Khaistapibbi brought her son who was born in Pakistan The boy’s CELEBICL BosnuhHerzegovina (AP) — NATO trucks and father returned home too soon helicopters rumbled into a rugged corner of Bosnia in search of and died in fighting during the Radovan Karadzic but the world’s No 1 war crimes fugitive US-le- d bombing campaign eluded capture again Friday in a manhunt that uncovered oaly “I have some relatives more Bosnian Sob defiance ' there” Khaistapibbi who For a secqpd day heavily armed troops set out before dawn in goes by one name said confi- an drive to find the framer Bosnian Serb leader — sure they’ll help dently “I’m ' indictedby the UN war crimes tribunal for genocide — and me” firing him tft The Hague Nartieriwida tn face justice ulnwgririe “We hope there will be Slobodan Milosevic war-ruin-ed ‘ ’ all-o- ut nn nrigmnTTimm peace and security inside Afghanistan” said Abdul Qadir who lost 1 1 sons and brothers and other family in Afghanistan’s wars He was shepherding home the 12 relatives he had left Iran and Pakistan hold up to 5 million Afghans who have fled drought poverty and 23 years of war Many have set- - ' tied permanently and are unlikely to go back — at least not soon The United Nations has signed accords with both countries stipulating that none will be forced to go It expects to help up to 800000 return tiiisyear UN officials had expected to see up to 1000 leave through Pakistan’s Ibrkham mossing on Friday But only a fraction of that number left Rain discouraged some Crowds at registration tables delayed many others Male heads of families clustered around tables to sign up for their rides and for UN packages of sugar tea and other staples- along with $20 each to Seetthem home After crossing the bottler the convoy was to break up to start refugees on their way to homes across Afghanistan Apprehension over the future dampened the excitement for mothers and fathers but not for children “I’m going back and I’m very happy” cried Mujtaba a bom a refugee in Pakistan waving a toy gun as he and his mother crowded into the back of a truck “I’ll ipin the army” the boy cried ‘?And I’ll study and go to school" “Now Fm happy I am in a veiy good mood”said Niza-k11 going back home to Kabul where her father is a brigadier in Afghanistan’s new - : ’ - ' Bosnia’s Karadzic eludes capture ES ' at military “Thane are no more restrictions and we can move ’ around in the bazaars and markets” die girl said ticking freedoms 9ff awaiting her in Afghanistan’s post-Talib- Pakistan is willing to turn Saeed over to US authorities despite a potential backlash against President Pervez Musharraf’s government Earlier Friday an Interior Ministry official in Islamabad Abdur Rasheed Khan told The Associated Press that Pakistan intends to prosecute Saeed on charges concerning Pearl’s abduction and killing before possibly handing him over Legal experts said if tire government wants to deliver Saeed to the United States for trial it can do so at any time in the legal process here Pearl South Aria bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal Was kidnapped by Islamic militants in this southern port city oh Jan 23 A videotape received last week by US diplomats in Karachi showed the journalist being forced to say he was Jewish followed by images of his body being : decapitated an capital 2450 North Main uuu gna ft THE LORD ns ran ookimcs ' OFIHERMQSPQ-IS- ) 5 M400M01MO 2 2 2 I Mf£aOOOM01U 2 9 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 CINEMAt3 60 1 2 - 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