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Rwanda War Crimes
death for genocide
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ple have been sentenced |
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genocide that killed mainly
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(AP) A Rwandan court sentenced two people to
~death on Friday for their part in the 1994 geno
cide of 500,000 people, Rwanda radio reported.
The two defendants, Edouard Nyipegika and
Jean Habimana, weresentenced in Butare, south
ern Rwanda, according to the report, monitored
by the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
A third person received a five-year prison sen
tence, the radio said. |
Sincetrialsbegan in December, Rwandan courts
kave sentenced a dozen people to death for or
chestrating a genocide that killed mainly minor
ity Tutsis.
All those convicted have appealed, and no one
has been executed. 3
The Tutsi-led government has accused a total
of 1,946 Rwandans — mostly Hutus — of plan
ning the genocide. The Tutsis overthrew the
| Hutu-dominated administration after the civil
| war. |
More than 90,000 people accused of taking
part in the genocide are housed in overcrowded
Jalls :
The Rwandan trials coincide with similar
proceedings conducted by the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
based in Arusha, Tanzania. |
Human rights groups are concerned about
the Rwandan government trials because many
defendants face the death penalty and cannot
afford defense lawyers.
Police
From page one
and Robert Harrell.
Complaints of police abuse in
Augusta have gotten the attention
of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Representatives of the Justice
Department canceled a planned
meeting in Augusta this week, but
will reschedule in the near future.
“We’re having a community
meetingto try toascertain factson
the Roberson shooting,” said Ernie
Stallworth of the Department of
Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
If you have a
-complaint against
the police, do the
following.
Contact Internal Affairs office
' to fill out a complaint and to be
' interviewed.
' [l Internal Affairs acts as a me
' diator between the complainant
+ and the officer to try to resolve the
{ matter.
' [lf no agreements are made,
. the two parties will then go before
. the Disciplinary Review Board.
. [ The Board conducts a private
. meeting to discuss case and make
; recommendations to go to the
| Sheriff.
! I TheSheriffhas the final word
. on DRB’s recommendation.
' Students compete
in state festival
' B.D.Copeland Elementary School
' student projects advance tothe State
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+ 25,1997,
© 'The following students illustrated
i booklets which will compete at the
. state level: Catrina Anderson’s My
. Baptism,Justin Bell's One DaylSaw
. A Monster, Ashley Tate's A Lesson
| Learned, Cristal Tullis's The New
| Chair, and Morgan Walker - Mixon
| The Cat Who Wanted to Livein Paris.
After Mugabe, some fear
machetes will swing again
B Zimbabwe’s only leader
since 1980 is 73 years old and
no successor is apparent. The
country is concerned about
chaos and violence should
anything happen to him.
By Angus Shaw
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
HARARE, Zimbabwe
When President Robert Mugabe’sjet made
an emergency landing last month in Ireland,
worries extended far beyond the well-being
of Zimbabwe’s only leader since indepen
dence in 1980.
The 73-year-old politician, visibly shaken,
was whisked to safety through a barrage of
wailing emergency vehicles at Shannon air
port.
Back home, his compatriots wondered what
would have happened if his Boeing 707, its
nose wheeljammed and sparks spewing from
one engine, had crashed and Mugabe had
died.
Zimbabwe’s much-traveled leader, cred
ited with bringing reconciliation and peace
to a nation once divided by civil war, has no
apparent heir.
While feted for engineering stability in
Zimbabwe, Mugabe has kept his rule strong
by exploiting tribal rivalries and enriching
A sudden leadership vacuum could plunge
the country into confusion and chaos, and
maybe violence.
Discontent simmers under the surface ap
pearance of stability, and Mugabe’s sudden
death would pit his lieutenants against each
other in a power struggle dependent on mili
tary backing, said John Mukumbe, a politi
cal scientist at the Zimbabwe university.
“The machetes are literally being sharp
ened. When they start to swing, I expect it
will be very bloody,” Mukumbe warned.
Mugabe has tried to groom successors, but
in three cases ended up demoting heirs ap-
Black Expo will feature job fair
By Gloria Nelor
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
Looking for fun, excitement, en
tertainment, and positive reinforce
ment all at the same time without
costing a fortune? Well look no fur
ther, it can all be found under one
roof. The 7th Annual CSRA Black
Expo,onSaturday, April 12, from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Augusta State
University Sports Comp'ex, is the
paradise you've been searching for.
An annual event, the Expo tradi
tionally was designed to highlight
and expose the talents of African-
Americanbusinessesbothlocal and
national. Thisyear, however, other
features such as the job fair and
childrens’fair, have been added to
makeitaday for the entire family
to enjoy.
“Thisyear we added anew twist to
try and cater to the entire commu
nity,” said Kelley Cornish, coordina
tor of the event.
In addition to the 100 expected
vendors showcasing their products
and services, there is truly some
thingforeveryone. Seminars will be
conducted providing vital informa
tion to the African-American com
munity and future entrepreneurs.
For those who aren'’t entrepre
neursjustyet, there will beajob fair
going on as well. Local companies
Congratulations
CSRA Black Expo
1997
JCPenney:
parent he had promoted into the political
mainstream.
Top contenders appear to be Emmerson
Eddison Zvogob, a U.S.-trained lawyer who
preceded Mnangagawa at the Justice Minis
try; and Sidney Sekeramayi, the minister in
charge of national security.
~ None ever have openly admitted presiden
tial ambitions, and the ruling party’s commu
nist-style politburo dropped the succession
issue from the agenda of a party convention
last year.
“There’s an atmosphere of fear, and this is
a sensitive matter,” Mukumbe said. “So far,
no one wants to stand up and be counted.”
Onereasonistheautocratic styleof Mugabe,
who has ruled seemingly on personal whim in
recent years. Laws pushed through parlia
ment provide money and favored status for
the governing Zimbabwe African National
Union-Patriotic Front, while secret police
harass opposition groups.
Despite rumors of failing health, Mugabe
last year easily won election to another five
year term and also married a woman about
half his age. They are now expecting a child,
their third.
Mugabe has surrounded himself with a
Praetorian-like guard of security men and
loyal aides, mostly from his own Zezuru eth
‘nic group. His stern manner and frequent
'rebukes of colleagues about punctuality, drink
‘ing and personal habits have earned him few
close confidantes outside his family.
| But he still commands unwavering party
‘loyalty, due to the riches, government con
tracts and other favors bestowed on party
supporters.
Ibbo Mandaza, head of the Sapes Trust, a
political and economic research institute, said
the lack of a significant political opposition to
Mugabe and favored party leadershe allowsto
getrich offgovernment contracts “alsomeans
peoplearenotyet completely dissatisfied with
the system.”
After years of socialism and shortages,
younger Zimbabweansenjoy recently acquired
benefits of Western-style economic liberaliza
tion.
will be on hand from 12 p.m. to 3
p.m. to take resumes.
“While you are shopping at the
booths, you can also shop for ajob.
The informal setting is an added
plus,” said Cornish.
The children also have their fun
cutout forthem. For the first time,
there will be a children’s fair, spon
sored by Funsville Arcade and En
tertainment.
Admission to thisaction packed
day is $3 for adults and $1 for
children 12 and under. There will
be free admission from 11a.m. to
2 p.m.
For more information or to rent
abooth, call (803)613-9161.
Marsalis wins for
jazz composition
From page one
“This is an ecstatic moment,”
the 66-year-old McCourt said as
he popped the cork on a bottle of
champagne with his wife, Ellen, in
a Cambridge, Mass., hotel room.
The author, who taught English
for much of his career in the New
York public school system, said
the critically embraced book was
named for his mother who
wouldn’t have liked it. “It was too
revealing,” he explained. “She was
ashamed of our past ... Her way of
expressing her emotions would
have been to cry.”
For the first time since 1986, no
award was given for drama. Al
though three finalists were con
sidered, “the board felt none of
(them) fulfilled the criteria for a
Pulitzer,” said awards adminis
trator Seymour Topping.
There have been 13 other occa
sions when no Pulitzer has been
awarded in drama. This season,
on Broadway and off, no American
play hasreceived unanimousraves
from the critics with most of the
attention going to a previous
Pulitzer winner “The Young Man
from Atlanta” or imports from
London like “Skylight,” “Stanley”
and “A Doll’s House.”
Lisel Mueller, a German immi
grant, took the poetry prize, win
ning for “Alive Together: Newand
Selected Poems.”
“I don’t think about awards
when I write poetry,” the 73-year
old Mueller said from her home in
Lake Forest, 111. “But when they
come, they come out of the blue
because I certainly didn’t expect
this.”
The fiction prize went to Steven
Millhauser for “Martin Dressler:
Thetale ofan American Dreamer.”
Millhauser, 53, teaches English at
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Skidmore College in Saratoga
Springs, N.Y. His novel follows
the career of a shopkeeper’s son
who becomes the owner of a hotel.
“It was startling,” Millhauser
said of his win. “I was quite seri
ous that there was an error and
I'm still not entirely sure there
isn’t an error.”
Richard Kluger won the general
non-fiction Pulitzer for “Ashes to
Ashes: America’s Hundred-Year
Cigarette War, the Public Health
and the Unabashed Triumph of
Philip Morris.”
Kluger, 62, hashad along career
injournalism includingjobsat The
Wall Street Journal, the New York
Post, Forbes magazine and the
New York Herald-Tribune.
Jack N. Rakove, a 49-year-old
professor at Stanford University,
took the history award for “Origi
nal Meanings: Politics and Ideas
in the Making of the Constitu
tion.” The book, according to one
reviewer, “offers a deeply satisfy
ing account of the political world
from which the United States Con
stitution issued.”
“I really started the project in
1983,” Rakove said. “At first, the
book was going to be an article but
the bicentennial (of the Constitu
tion) and the debate about the
original intent helped persuade me
to go ahead with the project. I
think it came out better because of
the time it took to write it.”
Topping said the Marsalis piece
has “strong jazz elements. This is
a first for the music category.
He said a change would be made
next year in the definition of the
music category, broadening it to
read: “For distinguished musical
composition of significant dimen
sion.” He said the effect of the old
definition “has been to encourage
classical music.”
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