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7A NEWS/ The Charlotte Post Thursday, May 8, 1997 UN drops evacuation of refugees Continued from page 6A gave the organization 60 days to send the refugees home — or the rebels would do it for them. The rebels have been run ning the railway since they seized Kisangani on March 15, though the U.N. refugee agency pays for the diesel fuel. The airlift of 6,00Q refugees already packed into a transit camp near Kisangani’s main airport will continue, Stromberg said. He estimated it would take at least two days to empty the camp, which was intended for 2,000 people. The UNHCR planned at least eight flights to Rwanda to take out a total of about 2,000 refugees. Aid workers waiting for the train to arrive with refugees late Sunday were shocked to discover 91 bodies piled in three of the six cars. Forty-seven refugees were hospitalized at Kisangani University hospital, most with broken bones. Stromberg said some of those people will prob ably die and at least three are comatose. Worn out by their seven- month trek through eastern Zaire, hunted down by machete-wielding Zairian vil lagers and attacked by rebel soldiers, the refugees are des perate to get out of the camps by any means. The refugees are part of a group of more than 1 million who fled Rwanda in 1994 to avoid retribution for a mas sacre of at least a half-million minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus, organized by the extremist Hutu govern ment. Most of the refugees returned home late last year, but several hundred thousand fled further west. Non-violence day PHOTO/PAUL WILLIAMS III Mothers Of Murdered Offspring members Joyce McMillian, Dee Sumpter, Sally Coleman and Grace Hrisak (left to right) released balloons to honor victims of violence Monday during cere monies downtown. Army targets black soldiers for prosecution, lawyer says By David Dishneau THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Maryland - A lawyer for a drill sergeant charged with raping a female trainee, accused the Arniy Monday of targeting black men for prosecution in a sexu al misconduct scandal. The attorney for Staff Sgt. Vernell Robinson Jr., who is black, asked the judge at a pretrial hearing to disiniss five counts of consensual sexu al intercourse with trainees because the women, four white and one Hispanic, weren't also charged with vio lating the Army ban on such relationships. “The command made a deci sion not to charge the stu dents and is only going after African American males,” the defense lawyer, Capt. Art Coulter, told the judge. Col. Paul Johnston. An Army prosecutor called the motion absurd. Johnston said he would rule on it later. Robinson is one of 12 staff members charged with crimi nal sexual misconduct at Aberdeen Proving Ground, 30 miles northeast of Baltimore. All the defendants are black. A sentencing hearing for another Aberdeen drill sergeant. Staff Sgt. Delmar Simpson, was to begin Monday night, with a decision expected Tuesday. Simpson was convicted last week of 18 counts of rape involving six trainees and 29 other offenses, mostly sexual misconduct. He could face life in prison. Simpson did not specifically raise the racial angle in his defense. But leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Congressional Black Caucus have demanded an independent investigation to determine if the Aberdeen inquiry was racially biased. The Army denies it. ‘Queen Mother’dies at 98 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO/KATHY WILLENS Outspoken civil rights leader and black nationalist Audley “Queen Mother” Moore, seep ip this April 18, 1996, photo in New York, died Friday in New York. A native of New Iberia, La., Queen Mother Moore was a street orator in Harlem where she launched her drive to improve the lives of African Americans. 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