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D ui I L' the Red Cross confirms Russian strike on civilian convoy in Chechnya In I)a% idr II 111 ian HR: 1.0. P.cd ,k)11 11,11),(1 . 111,0 planc-...;1 11, k 1 , 1 Cis Wan, in kill 2_sv people 1111111110 c In a •dateincnt how Gene\ a, the agent ti l the ,()10.0, included \C liLic,lwtri the (Thechen blanch or the Russian Red ( and that the ri e the \ were cicarl) [narked ‘\ Red Cro., emblem. Hie Red Cio,,aid the vehicle, \‘ ere re turning from the Chcchen-Ingush bor der. which had heuncio , ,ed by the [Zits ~ t,11C111, 2 141 tint confirmation 01 an attack on cl ‘ Inch kussid has tit:Hied since the fiat reports on I rRIaN. Elie Red Cross, citing confirmation nom as lo cal ‘worker. said a rocket lired from a China clears way for death sentences for Falun Gong leaders by John Pomfret lhe Washington Post BEIJING -- China stepped up its crackdown Saturday against the harmed Falun Gong spiritual movement, chose members pro tested in silence tor a sixth con secuti \c day. h) passing a law that opens the waN for death sentences for group leaders. Police hauled away several dozen protesters as hundreds of tourists enjoying a height autumn day on T:inanrnen Square looked on. Them apparently was no re peat olThursday's violence when police heat, kicked. bloodied and yanked the hair of several elderly protesters. By a unanimous vote, the 114- WORLD AND NATION rages through beer hall, killing Customers leave until they paid for their drinks. He then allegedly left. Survivor KoJin Mi. 16, who was in the intensi e-care unit suffering from burns and smoke inhalation, scrawled the allegations in a note to U It. ail a friend and repeated them to her older sister, but two local officials said they had no information and Could not confirm her story. How e\ cr. an inspection of the bar's steel do r •,h() ed that the door frame was se \ bent and damaged. with one side detached in what appeared to hay c been an effort to force the door The local fire chief. Kim Myong Hw an, said that when Firelighters ar ri eel, they Found the steel door open. Howe Cr. urn/ said the windows did nut open ~ thd were made of a thick. reinlorced glass that the otmesters wele unable to break. 1 lad they been ',thle to vrnt the ,moke jump Front the ‘kincloy, he then might ILI\ i ed. The tire \‘,r, the worq Nair in , )I ~ iiil(l,l\ Kort2,t ~ ittcc 197-t. It rui,ed Ire,h 0 1 11CCIIIS abOlit dlY,lltel 1!1 11',lill)11 V, here 19 kindergarten children ;tild lour adult, died lust ~iH (UJCHI 11IC I)l,uned on Lorriwt ulli eL , .re , 2l()Li, lire (11C Russian ‘‘itrplane hit a truck. killing two Red Cross vi,orkers and seriously injuring a third. NearhN 7 vehicles also came under lire. the agency said. The attack has been shrouded by conflicting accounts. A Chechen ofli Ramsan Abu). e‘, told the Reuters news agency that about 40 refugees died and 100 others were injured when their convoy came under fire near the village of Shami-Yurt, west of Grozny, the Chechen capital. He said six ve hicles were destroyed. Reuters also quoted a nurse who said she saw the attack. On Friday and again Saturday, the Russian military denied attacking a ci vilian convoy. The Russian air force press service said warplanes were tar geting trucks carrying Chechen fight ers and weapons. The Russians said the trucks were attacked on a highway west of Grainy because "assault rifles" were fired at an Su-25 fighter jet. The air force said two trucks were destroyed. member executive committee of the National People's Congress ruled that leaders of religious cults may he prosecuted for murder and endangering national security, two of China's most serious crimes. The government characterized Falun Gong as a "cult" on Thurs day. asserting that 1,400 people have died as a result of their in volvement in the Buddhist-like spiritual movement. The govern ment charges that most of those deaths resulted from Falun Gong encouraging its followers to stop going to the doctor, a charge de nied by Li Hongzhi, Falun Gong's leader, who is based in the New York borough of Queens. "The decision says that courts, prosecutors, police and administra "Every time the police had a sur prise inspection, the owner kicked the children out and shut down the bar" -Ko ung Mi. older sister of burn \ lull letN, violations According to local c port I)elic‘c that Saturday . .., blaic hrokc out in ;In WI llen11"01.111d kalauke har lii.ll dergoing ri....novat ion. v, hcii from a broken lightbulb ignited paint thinner. The Nate then spread up through the four-stop wood-and brick building. a 20-. ear-old struc ture that was located in the enter- Liniment district of Inchon. South Korea's third-Lugest city. Patrons in a ground-floor IL•tattrant managed to escape, but more than 120 people who were upstai r s c‘ etc napped. "In a word. it \k,t, an inferno." said Nlyong. the lire chief. "Teen agers were entangled in %MI Lt. - ers. h sonic groaning NA hen firelighters smashc(l the Ll(),)1. and \N. indo s (Ten. The! \\ ere - t slier, 111 the hoer hall, brit thew %.N. a!, IM Ilk' 101' ,111\ hock h.} LKL.' I)ceittp,e the \ \Aeic ilnnirdi i()\ „ 111 ,,kc. cic , 1 111,. c 2.1.1 1 H11 the I . )l,tic in 13 Ininutc: K() Keane NIL - 2(). the ((Mei ICE (11 burn \ ictini Km lin I\ll, (~11(.... pa , ,,c(ll)\ thr I),ii rcali/C until ,11c %.„I‘,‘ 1 Icli\ 11C\\ Lilci t..\ thal Both sides have heen engaged in a fierce propaganda \\.ar that has made it difficult to ascertain the truth about the lighting in Chechn \ 1 . 1 he Russian Delense Nlinisny claimed Saturda that Cheehen gunmen are No \,‘ in` up their own houses "to make it look like Russian air strikes. - 1 he Russians also renewed their claim Saturday that they are carrying out strikes only on "Is lamic militants . ' and "terrorists. - hut hospitals are oYerilowing with civil ian casualties from the month-long military assault on separatist g.uerril las. Fighting continued Saturday , around Grozny and Chechnya's sec ond-largest city, Gudermes. Russian television reports said military forces were outside (itidcrines hut did not vet plan to seitc the city. Russian Su-24 and Su-_25 jet light ers continued to pound Grozny, flying 50 sorties in the past day, Russian mili tary officials said. They clainicd to live judicial organs must he on full alert for cult activities and smash them rigorously in accordance with the law, - the official New China News Agency reported. In a sign of the government's will ingness to impose the harshest possible measures on movement leaders, the news agency men tioned the case of Liu J aguo. the leader of a popular group in Hunan province called Principal God. Liu was charged with raping II women and was executed. Saturday's vote marked an other step in China's troubled campaign to suppress the Falun Gong movement, which preaches conventional morality and be lieves its practice is beneficial to the body's fundamental energy. NOVEMBER 5, 1999 illegal 54 !ICI \ )1111:lel Sister '\ us inside - I'%e been to that place se\ - eral times as well, - she told the I.(m Tiincs. "It's very small. a vciy closed space, with \ entrances and lots of chairs and furniture: . making it di I I lcult to 111 Me around. she said. \ er‘ one knows this bar is just tor oungsters," she said. add that she suspected the bar had an informant who tipped off the owner 's hen authorities were to in spect the establishment. "Every time the police had a surprise in spection. the owner kicked the children out and shut down the hai.'' Ku Kyung Mi said. "But I ant sure that the police knew about the situation.'' by the building Saturday evening, she a‘\: the fire spreading, she "I saw some children coming doNA n at the beginning of the fire, but for some reason, once the fire started to spread, no one was coin dtm n an‘ more. — she said. "N 1y sister is the only survivor of all ()I her friends who were there. She is the only one... Ki K) ung Mi quoted her sis ter telling her that "the owner of the bar said to lock the door. and then ran away A classmate. Kim Nang ()h. 16. v, ho came to India University Hospital to \ isit Ku Jin MI, said the injured girl had v,,ritten her a note t:haiging that the bar manager had locked the beer hall door from thL. out,i(lc \\ :IN the children's Fault for beilql there in the First place. hut adults must he responsible for pro vidiiie these sorts of spaces.'' Ko Ks Mi said. ha\e bombed an electronics plant, and there \\ ere reports of a large c\- plosion from the bombing of the (itt)/li\ ()II it:lint:l\ Russia appears to he laying siege to Guderines and Grozny, unleash inc an aerial bombardment and ar tillery fire and surrounding both cit ies, but not yet taking them street by street. It was in such urban combat that the Russian army suffered heavy losses Dive years ago in the first C'hechen v ar. Reports from Grot n> said most people have fled the city. and those remaining hide in cellars at the soun , • of approaching aircraft. In recent days, Russia sealed the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. Chechnya's tin) western neighbor, and refugees fleeing the combat have been camping out there. A promise to open the border Friday was nut honored. The suppression campaign. lAhich began July 22, has domi nated China's state-controlled airwaves and newspapers ever The persistent protests and the fact that thousands of Falun Gong followers have come to Beijing in recent weeks to op pose the ban are signs that the government is having difficulty crushing the movement. More than 3.000 people have been ar rested in Beijing in the last month, and the Beijing Morning Post reported Saturday that po lice discovered 201 Falun Gong practitioners living illegally in rented rooms in the city during a mid-October sweep. 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