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THURSDAY, December:27,:1990

Human rights abuses bloody

sy Bob Drogin
Angeles Times
nda ‘Azcuna, Philippines -
‘Soldiers had bullied ber before,
,o Ruby Sioco wasn't especially
Beared when three heavily armed
members of the local militia

murder, torture and rape'- in. the
Philippines’ mostly! forgotten war
against comnrinist rebels.

While President Corazon
Aquino's government has strict
Policies opposing such abuses in
ts

Mrs. Aquino’ 8 secretary of justice
and‘ head‘ of. the presidential
human rights committee. "But it’s
not because of lack of will."

“Our difficulty is we are only
prosecutors, and we can only

A -

‘stopped and roughly her
‘jn this hamlet of bamboo huts one
recent moming.

‘» Nor did she worry. when the
feader, a man known as The Cat,
\prdered his men.to hold ber until
he found her companions, three
‘Members of a leftist union’s cul-
bural group, farther down the dirt
frail. They were campaigning for
‘p human rights rally, she
explained,

But moments later, she heard

three sharp bursts of gunfire.

The Cat came back and said,

Your three friends are dead,"

pore, 22, said. “When he said
it, I could not even Iwas

‘too afraid." ae

ie Then he told me, "Go, run,
escape. But I don't run. Because
fT run, they will shoot me, too,"

i The Nov, 22

least 40 "extra-judicial execu-

I reports at

dence," he: said. "In. many
either we cannot find

tions" of real or

or the are

P oppo-
nents by government forces in the
first eight months of 1990.

” That, at least, is an improve-
ment. Last year, the London-
based group reported more than
200 extra-judicial deaths and
dozens of disappearances of
human rights activists, church
workers, trade unionists, journal-
ists and other civilians.

Local human rights groups cite
even higher figures, although ver-
ification is often impossible in the
ever-violent, ever-murky world of
Philippine politics.

Whatever the numbers, even

reluctant to testify."

That's not surprising. "We've
had enough cases where witnesses
tell a story and then they are
killed," explained a Manila-based
Western official whose group
deals with international humani-
tarian law,

"In most cases, nothing hap-
pens. No one is |, DO one is
prosecuted.”

Even when cases are filed, -

“they die a slow. death," charged
Francisco B. Cruz, a leader of
FLAG, a network of lawyers who
provide free ee leat aid to political

top gt Officials

that few if any members of the
military, militia or police have
been dofa i

‘deaths of the three young union
‘members at this remote sugar
fane plantation on Negros Island
‘are only the latest in what critics
gay is a grim series of brutal

man rights abuses - including

human rights violation since Mrs.
Aquino came to power in 1986
promising an end to such abuses.
"As far as I know, yes, we
have not secured any convic-
tions,’’ said Franklin M. Drilon,

and families of victims.
"It’s all show,” he said.»
Mrs, Aquino’s human rights

record has tamished her image in -

Washington, the United Nations
and elsewhere, and is a continuing
source of discontent in a number
of rural Philippine provinces, In
some areas, the abuses have fur-
ther fueled the 21-year-old insur-

Security called lax at some
U.S. nuclear weapons plants

‘The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - ‘An extensive
review of security at the nation’s
huclear weapons plants, covering
éverything from guards at the
gates to transportation of war-
heads, exposed deficiencies in
training, disci; and

answering the mail," Tuck said.
So Watkins directed Tuck to
undertake a new one, and Tuck
hired Freeze, a career intelligence
officer who was formerly second
in command at the National Secu-
Hey Agency, to conduct it. The

that require “a program for posi-
five improvement,”’ the Energy
Department announced Thursday.
: There was no indication that
the Study uncovered any. security
breaches that threaten public safe-
ty or jeopardize national sécirity,
but the findings prompted Energy
Secretary James D. Watkins to
issue a 15-point order reorganiz-
ing the department's security pro-
cedures.

'We found nothing to indicate
a breach that would harm US.
interests, no bleeding woun
Said retired Army Maj. Gen.
James B. Freeze, who headed the
investigative team. But he said his
classified report to Watkins "j "pro-

Energy: De spends more

than $1 billion a year on security
at the weapons complex.
" "The so-called “bomb factories”
have a long history of embarrass-
ing security breakdowns, ranging
from inability to account for small
quantities" 6f plutonium to unau~
thorized admission of visitors
from a Warsaw Pact country to a
secure area.

In the time Freeze and his team
were visiting the sites, the depart-
ment acknowledged that it was
unable to account for a small
amount of the

gy Department recently stripped
the civilian company that operates
Rocky Flats of responsibility for
security and gave it to a firm that
specializes in security, Tuck said.
Freeze said be was "by and large
favorably impressed with the pro-
tection forces," or guards, at the
plants. He said the team found
“tremendous improvement" in
gate security and the "intrusion
protection system."

But his report said an attempt
to conduct an inventory of the

plex’s
“has resulted in an unsatisfactory
condition."

Tuck acknowledged that "we
won't be able to account for every
secret document.”

Tuck and Freeze reserved their
strongest language for the security

tive gas tritium at its Oak Ridge,
Tenn., plant, and that an inspec-
tion of the Rocky Flats, Colo.,
plant detected unauthorized trans-

vides over 300
for security improvements.

+ Watkins directed Undersecre-
tary John C. Tuck to make
“prompt organizational and proce-
dural changes," including the
removal of overall security respon-
sibility from the department’s
fense Programs office, which
uns the nuclear weapons complex.
Tuck said at a new conference
that Watkins was warned by
thembers of Congress during his
confirmation hearings early in
3989 that he would find long-
Standing security problems at the
17-factory, 12-state complex that
produces the nation’s nuclear
weapons,

+ A security study already
qoderway at that time "just wasn’t

Chevron cleared
on charges of

contamination

by Steve Weatherbe (SNS).
VICTORIA - Chevron Canada is
hot to blame for gas contamina-
fion near its Vernon bulk storage
site, the Environment Ministry
donovaced Thursday.

\£. But the site is the “ most likely

source” of the fumes which were ©

detected in a nearby building last
fll. Dave Hall, of the Environ-
*s Kamloops office,
a test holes drilled around the
contaminated building could do
po more than suggest the origin
Of the gas. “Tt was carried in the
‘water, but because of the
contours of the land, there’ was no
yay of being certain where it
game from.”
$. Another fact or making finding
the source difficult was the age of
the gas. It has broken down to the
point, said Mr, Hall, that its origi-
wtal form was indeterminate.
5 Chevron, without admitting
lability, drilled test holes and
vented fumes from

P of. ium by workers
who were allowed to remove their
metal-toed boots to pass through
metal detectors.

The “executive summary" of
Freeze’s investigation that he and
Tuck released Thursday gave no
details of any of the security prob-
lems and omitted mention of any
specific site.

But Freeze said that conditions
at Rocky Flats "caused us to have
an apoplectic seizure." The Ener-

system for empl
Tuck called it "absurd" because
clearances, which are costly and
time consuming to process, can-
not be transferred with an individ-
ual from one site to another but
must be repeated.

Freeze said be was "absolutely
aghast at what we found in per-
sonnel clearances.” He said it
takes up to 410 days to process a
Q clearance, the highest category.
During that time, he said, quali-
fied employees who are on the
payroll but cannot work until they
receive clearances tire of living
“outside the fence in the leper
colony, so they leave."

Canada refuses residence to
fearful Iraqi family from Kuwait

VANCOUVER, Reuter - An
Iraqi woman who lived in Kuwait
for almost a decade has been
refused permission to remain in
Canada despite fears she and her

. son will be killed if they retum to

their home country.

Canadian immigration authori-
ties said Thursday they had no
way of giving special help to Tagi

who were resid

to process the family’s application
for permanent residence in Cana-
da,” Rob Johnston said.

The wealthy Iragi woman and
her son, 11, have been staying
with relatives in Vancouver since
just before the Iraqi invasion.
They have been been ordered to
leave Canada when their extended
tourist visa expires Jan. 15 —
the same date as

Kuwait when it was invaded io
Traq in Au; ‘

The 33-year-old woman said
that since the invasion her fashion

boutique in Kuwait has been

bumed and. looted and her hus-
band’s

the United Nations deadline for
Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait.
The woman's husbahd, who
joined her on vacation in Vancou-
ver, left for Jordan when his
Canadian tourist visa expired in

"We can’t go back to Iraq
because we are considered traitors
for living in Kuwait .. our lives

She said be has since

suffered a nervous breakdown.
"Being Iraqi or Kuwaiti now is

tough, but being an Iraqi from

~ Kuwait is nightmarish,” said the

woman, who did not want her
family’s name used for fear of

‘The mother said ‘she originally

“\ moved to Kuwait from Iraq_

did ‘not want her son

on the basis of ovi-

‘gency by the New People’s Army,
the armed wing of the banned
Communist Party of the Philip-
pines,

On the goverment side, mili- ”

tary officials insist they file
charges when warranted, but
blame other allegations on a left-

tator Ferdinand B). Marcos," sald
Joe Depicdra,:32, head of
ARADO, a coalition of 22 legal
leftist groups espousing agrarian
reform.) |, s
"Before, the military never
bombed mural areas. We never had
massacres: We never had these

ist to dis-
credit the military, And, indeed,
many abuses are difficult to char-

‘acterize in a violent, feudal cul-

ture that features bloodthirsty
religious cults, armed vigilantes,
private armies and bandit gangs,
as well as a bitter guerrilla war
that leaves an esti: 1,000

Now it is a regular
thing.” !
War, h » has hed

hilippines,

' died from measles and dinrrbea-
In recent weeks, the ‘militas
bas used and
gunships to assault an allege!
NPA stronghold in the north of
Negros, forcing about 2,000 fam-
ers and their families into dusty

schools, crowded churches and an|

open-air cock-fighting pit in
Mingpasok town.

much of Negros Island. An esti-
mated 900 NPA guerrillas have
killed dozens of planters, soldiers

,and civilians. The military has

responded with Victnam-style

people dead each year,
ep is ded

of: that have entailed
evacuating ens of thousands of

because the military has labeled
scores of trade unions and social
activist groups, including human

tights organizations, "fronts" for
C ; fect 5

while soldiers turned
suspect villages into free-fire

zones.
In April 1989, for example, the
army’s “Operation Thunderbolt"

‘them open targets, And military

Officials invariably contend that
dead civilians were killed in cross-
fires or encounters with the NPA.
“It is much worse now com-
pared to the time of (deposed dic-

in Negros forced about
30,000 so-called "internal
refugees" into poorly planned
evacuation centers, With cramped

and bad water, at least 200
already malnourished children

Habagat Alpha”
has ee accompanied by at
upsurge in, violence, by fierce, '
anti-Communist religious cults
that often work closely with the
military. :
The groups are named for ee
red, white and green headbands,
and feared for reports that they
behead their victims and drink: the
blood. ¢
"The amy is using these fariat- i
ic groups in the counterinsurger-
cy war,” said ‘Vivian Vargas, head :
of the Negros Relief and Rehabili-°
tation Center, a non-governmental :
group that helps the refugees. "So
far, we haven't heard of behead-

Demands for overseas calls exceed.
available circuits during peak periods

MONTREAL (SNS)

- Anyone calling family or
friends abroad on Christmas Day
is reminded to call early, says
Teleglobe Canada. Christ-
mas is the busiest day of the year
for overseas calls, and even
though Teleglobe has added an
extra 1000 i 1 lines,

expect an ms greater number of
calls this ye

Calling, earlier will-not only
insure a better chance of connect-
ing but you will most likely save

Christmas Day by then.
Teleglobe is’ Canada’s interna-
tional telecommunications carrier
and uses the most advanced tech-
nology in the world to provide

ares from the (20%)

Cc lians with a p range
of ii i

iP (30%)
that Teleglobe offers to most des-

demand is still expected to exceed
the available circuits during peak
periods.

“Last year our telephone
switches handled more than 2.5
million calls on Christmas day,”
says Jacques Demers, Vice- e-presi-
dent of at Tel

Canadians can also take advan-
tage of time zone differences and
Teleglobe’s discounts by calling
on Christmas Eve. People cele-
brating late into the night can call
their loved ones in Europe and in
the Pacific who will be well into

tions services.These include tele-
phone, telex, broadcast and data
transmission services as well as a
range of. specialized digitai private
business services. Teleglobe’s
worldwide network reaches over.
200 countries using satellites as
well as both fiber-optic and coaxi-
al undersea cables.

“Since then we've lowered
Tates'to over 50 destinations and
with calls now costing 8.4% less
on average to these countries, we

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