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Two of Abiola’s wives
By Frank Aighogun
ASSOCIATED PRESSWriter
LAGOS, Nigeria
Two wives of the late opposition leader Moshood
Abiola filed suit Monday against Nigeria's military
junta, charging that Abiola died in prison because
he was not given proper medical care.
Dupe Abiola and Teju Abiola filed separate suits’
against the country’s military ruler, Gen.
Abdulsalam Abubakar, as well as his ministers of
justice and internal affairs. They are seeking one
billion Naira, or nearly dlrs 12 million, in compen
sation.
“The death of Moshood Abiola, husband and fa
ther of my children, was the consequence of the
unlawful violation of the fundamental duty of the
defendants to provide him with the necessities of
life in detention,” the suits charged.
Abiola, a millionaire businessman turned politi
cian, died July 7 while meeting a group of U.S.
diplomats visiting him in custody. The apparent
winner of 1993’s annulled presidential elections, he
was imprisoned a year later. His death sparked
days of rioting among his supporters.
Abiola was known to have had many wives,
though Teju Abiola was not publicly known before
the suit was filed.
The two women are also demanding an official
declaration that Abiola’s death amounted to mur
der by the state and that it was the duty of the junta
to provide him with adequate medical care.
An international medical team said earlier this
month that Abiola, 60, died of natural causes —
saying he suffered from a narrowing of the arteries
and had an enlarged heart — but recommended
further review of the care he received in prison.
Some members of Abiola’s family say they sus
pect he was murdered, perhaps by poisoning. The |
U.S.-based group Physicians for Human Rights
contend his jailers played a hand in the death by
neglecting to treat his heart condition.
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troops backing Congo’s President Laurent Kablla’s government troops have
helped to reverse rebel advances from western Congo on Kinshasa. (AP Photo/issouf
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By lan Stewart
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
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President Laurent Kabila declared vic
tory Monday on a war front in southwestern
Congo over an army of rebel fighters that
just weeks ago appeared poised to capture
the capital.
Kabila'scabinet director, Abdoulaye Yerodia,
conveyed the president’s message and said the
war would now focus on the east, where rebels
still control several key cities.
“There are no fronts left in the west, the
last bastions of the aggressors have fallen,”
state-controlled radio quoted Yerodia as
saying.
Kabila’s announcement cafhe after his
Angolan allies captured the last major rebel
strongholds in the southwest. Still, pockets
of resistance remained and rebel fighters
were believed to be hiding in parts of
Kinchaza. the canital.
Tutsi tign. .rs and aisenc..anted soidiers in
Kabila’s army — are trying to oust the
president. accusing him of mismanagement
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and corruption. Some of the soldiers last
year helped Kabila overthrow his predeces
sor Mobutu Sese Seko
The insurgents had success after success
early in the rebellion, capturing a number
of important cities in eastern Congo and
launching an airlift across the country to
drive toward Kinshasa.
With Kinshasa in peril only a few weeks
ago, Kabila regrouped and enlisted the help
of Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia — a
move that turned the tables on the conflict,
but has also internationalized Congo’s war.
Kinshasa was quiet Monday after days of
pitched combat in its suburbs left bodies
scattered through the streets and triggered
Sudan: Relief plane could have been spy
HAIROBI, Kenya
(AP) Sudan suggested Sunday that a re
lief plane from a U.N.-linked group may
have spied for the United States just before
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patrolled streets and searched
door-to-door for hidden rebels. A dusk-to
dawn curfew remained in effect.
Officials say hundreds and perhaps thou
sands of rebel fighters have surrendered
or been killed in the last few days. Rebel
leader Jean-Pierre Ondekane remained
defiant and insisted the fight to oust Kabila,
whom the rebels accuse of mismanage
ment and corruption, would continue.
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ganda of sponsoring
rebellion and invading his country. Both
neighbors, upset that Kabila has not
stemmed cross-border attacks by militants
in Congo, have threatened to intervene
openly to protect their borders.
Ondekane warned Monday that the two
countries would intervene if the war con
tinues.
“We have countries backing us too and
they will come,” Ondekane said in the
eastern city of Bukavu during a visit to
rally the troops. “If the negotiations fail,
they will enter into the war.”
Angolan troops and tanks rumbled into
thestrategic Congolese port town of Matadi
after the rebel forces deserted their posi
tions. They also took control of a massive
power dam in Inga over the weekend.
Now, the Angolan troops fighting on
behalf of Kabila said they were ready to
take Congo's civil war to the heart of rebel
held territory, a senior commander said.
“The only way for life to become normal
is to end this conflict,” said Angolan army
chief of staff Joao de Matos. “We are ready
to move east to do that.”
“Our Angolan and Zimbabwean allies are
here to kick out the Rwanda-Ugandan ag
gressors,” Yerodia said. “They are not selec
tive about where they have to do that.”
The loss of Matadi, one of the last major
rebel strongholds in Congo’s southwest,
was a blow to the insurgent force.
Several gunmen from the Angola’s
UNITA rebel force were arrested in the
port city, confirming suspicions that
Congo’s insurgents had been cooperating
with the UNITA movement.
capital that Sudanese suspicions were
aroused because a plane from Operation
Lifeline Sudan had been cleared to land
just prior to the Aug. 20 cruise missile
attack, but instead circled the airport and
then flew away.
Its flight path took it very close to the
targeted factory, he added.
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be tried for murder and
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prosecutor say. ,
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the level of the charge is
proportionate to the partici
pation in the crime,” said
William Haine, the Madi
son County state’sattorney,
But Haine said the grand
jurors will not be asked to
vote on hate crime charges
in the Aug. 10 death of 48-
year-old Richard Skelton,
despite what Haine charac
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sure from some white com
munity members.
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was white. His accused at
tackers_ who witnesses say
beat kicked and stomped
Skelton _ are black.
Hainesaiditappearsthat
Skelton used the first racial
slur, as Skelton and three
relativessearched the neigh
‘borhood for aTV set he be
lieved a relative or friend
had stolen from him for
money to buy crack cocaine.
“Some people want me to
fileit as a hate crime tosend
the message that black
people can be racists, too,
but I don’t think that’s ap
propriate,” Haine said Fri
day.
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hesitant to file hate crime
charges because the crime
is punishable by just three
years in prison — a rela
tively minor offense com
pared with charges of mur
der and aggravated battery
already filed against some
of the suspects.
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