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More Chinese dissidents arrested, executed
From Associated Press reports
BEIJING Two prominent dis
sidents were arrested, and a Hong
Kong newspaper reported today that
about 20 people have been executed
for joining in pro-democracy protests.
The Chinese-language newspaper
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Ming Pao said the executions took
place about 10 days ago, and that
most of the group were members of
an outlawed independent workers'
union set up during the protests.
The Beijing People's High Court
refused to comment on the report, as
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did police. Several dozen executions
are known to have taken place since
the protests were crushed June 3-4,
but the authorities have linked only
12 to the protests. Many Chinese
believe the number is far higher.
A man who identified himself only
as the husband of leading journalist
Dai Qing said Tuesday that she was
arrested last week. He said plain
clothes police came to their home
during dinner, said they wanted to
talk to her, searched the apartment
briefly and led her away. He said he
had not heard from her since.
The official Xinhua News Agency
said a Shanghai man jailed for two
years after China's last round of stu
dent protests, in 1986-87, was arrested
again on the same charge of conduct
ing "demagogical propaganda for
counterrevolutionary purposes."
Ethnic riots flame
From Associated Press reports
MOSCOW Authorities declared
a state of emergency in the Back Sea
resort area of Abkhazia, where war
ring ethnic groups have begun at
tacking government troops and steal
ing their weapons, Tass said today.
The Soviet news agency said at
least 18 people have been killed in
four days of bloody clashes between
armed mobs of rioters in Abkhazia, a
region in the southern Soviet repub
lic of Georgia. Several hundred have
been wounded.
Tass said the clashes were con
tinuing between ethnic Georgians and
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Yang Wei had been released from
prison in January. Xinhua accused
him of collecting information during
the recent protests for a U.S.-based
Chinese expatriate group, the Chi
nese Alliance for Democracy, which
seeks political reforms and which
China has condemned as reaction
ary. During Yang's first jail term, the
U.S. Congress urged his release.
Dai's arrest was not reported in
the official media. The officially re
ported arrests total about 2,060 na
tionwide, but Chinese sources say
more than that number have been
arrested in Beijing alone, and that
more people are taken into custody
each day.
The authorities may be withhold
ing information on arrests, especially
of leading intellectuals and student
Abkhazians, and that groups of about
100 people in cars have been attack
ing Interior Ministry troops called in
to quell the violence.
The roving mobs are attacking
troops and citizens "for the purpose
of seizing arms and ammunition," the
official news agency said. It said such
attacks "have become commonplace."
Tass said the leadership of
Abkhazia's legislature declared a state
of emergency shortly before midnight
Tuesday. It also said troops were
trying to disarm the rioters.
An Interior Ministry spokesman,
speaking on condition of anonymity,
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protesters, in order to avoid further
international criticism of the crack
down. The Chinese government has been
trying to encourage foreign business
men and tourists who fled during the
army crackdown to return, and has
said their safety is guaranteed.
Bo Xicheng, head of Beijing Tour
ism Administration, told foreign travel
agents last week that the government
would pay $100,000 to the family of
any tourist "killed irregularly" in
Beijing because of martial law. Tour
ism officials said they did not know
what "irregularly" meant.
Also today, one of China's most
popular and controversial television
programs was Condemned on the front
page of the People's Daily in an es
say that set the tone for the
government's new hard line.
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said the state of emergency includes
an 1 1 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. About
3,000 Interior Ministry troops have
been sent to the region to try to re
store order.
Soviet news reports in recent days
have portrayed a region gripped by
terror and mob violence, with wide
spread sniper attacks, kidnappings,
beatings, lootings and gunfights.
The death toll on Tuesday was 16
and Tass said it climbed to 1 8 Wednes
day. Abkhazians are a minority in their
homeland, a 3,320-square-mile au
tonomous region within Georgia.
Georgians outnumber Abkhazians
240,000 to 90,000 in the region and
both sides claim discrimination by
the other.
The wave of violence has closed
most of the Sukhumi's factories,
caused food and fuel shortages and
paralyzed public transportation, Tass
said. Local newspapers have not
published since Sunday.
The region is about 870 miles south
of Moscow.
Deputy Interior Minister Ivan F.
Shilov said on the TV news show
Vremya Tuesday that 239 people had
been wounded, and 188 remained
hospitalized.
The region is a popular resort area
and Soviet news reports Tuesday said
thousands of tourists were being
evacuated.
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