3 August 1989

Bri Africa South 3 KoevoetdefeetQr's bodyinWiilcll'iqek :tdtt'ay'for,p()stmortem . - ... two waiting police vans. Also wait the house of Mr Petrus together with BY RAJAH MUNAMAVA ing outside were two white and two the children. black policemen. Two of the white policemen lay in Eye-witness accounts and family members of a former Plan fighter, Joseph Petrus, who was shot dead The police convoy then drove to wait in the bedroom of the deceased by police at his home at Rundu yesterday morning, have refuted police claims' that arms and some Safari in search of Mt Petrus and while the two blacks occupied the explosives were discovered at his house. when failing to get hold of him, they cucashop together with the children. Mr Petrus was a former Swapo agers and enquired about the where Joseph David was also assaulted continued to assault the two chil The two white policemen later joined guerrilla but was captured in 1981, abouts of Mr Petrus. One of them and under pressure he told the police dren. The children changed their story their colleagues in the cuca shop. whereafter he joined Koevoet He told the former Koevoet policemen that Mt Petrus had gone to Safari, to say that Petrus was in Ndama, At about 07h30, Joseph Petrus resigned earlier this year to re-join that Mr Petrus had gone to Wind another location at Rundu. another residential area in the town. arrived and knocked at the door while Swapo. hoek, whereupon the men assaulted One of the policeman had two The police later drove to the police one of the children shouted out that According to the accOlmts, the both youths. rifles in his hand when they entered charge office where they spent some there was no key. policemen who arrived at Mr Petrus' Bonifasius Angula was hit in the the house which he put on Joseph's time trying to locate Mt Petrus. Petrus insisted that the children house in the early morning hours, face and continously banged against bed, according to the children. Between 05hOO and 06hOO yester open up as he wanted to clean the entered with arms. a wall of the house. The children were then dragged to day, the police convoy drove back to place before going to wQrk at the Police spokesperson Inspector Swapo election campaign office in Kierie du Rand yesterday said Mr Rundu where he has been active since Petrus had been shot after he had his resignation from Koevoet early pointed a Makarov pistol at the po this year. licemen who were trying to arrest One of the children then threw the him. key through an opening in the door. He added that blocks of Soviet Petrus is said to have asked the made WT, two detonators, and an children from outside why they were M75 hand-grenade of Russian origin throwing the key through the open had been discovered in the house. ing instead of opening the door for According to affidavits handed in him and whether they did not want at the Legal Resoorces Centre at Rundu him home. by relatives of Mt Petrus, the latter While trying to open the door, Mr kept no weapons at home,. and nei Petrus peeped through an opening ther were there any weapons in his and when confronted by a white face house at the time of the confrontation he decided to flee. with the police as far as they knew. One of the policeman inside the Two white former Koevoet police cucashop immediately broke the door men arrived at Mr Petrus' house at down and he and others began to about OOh30, and forced the door pursue the fleeing man. They caught open. up with him a few metres away and Two 17-year-old teenagers, Boni dragged him back to the house. fasius Angula IDld Joseph David, were At this juncture, Ms Roslita Ndirnba sleeping in Mr Petrus' cuca shop at was watching as the former Koevoet the time. policemen pursued Mr Petrus. Mt Petrus has been in hiding and She heard Petrus srouting 'hardloop has not been sleeping at his house na ons kan tore en se vir die mense ek since last week when he heard that gaan dood' (run to the office - Swapo Koevoet members were looking for office presumably - and tell the people him. The Koevoet men woke the teen- continued on pa~e 3 RIGHT-WING CALL FOR END TO U.S. MR Cecil Ditha, chairman of an ad hoc committee at the strife-torn Khomasdal Teachers Training College, Is due to appear In the Windhoek FUNDING OF UNTAG lower court today to be charged with contravening provisions of the Allens Act. Charges of trespassing will apparently also be laid against THE right-wing International Freedom Council (IFC), sister organisation of the equally conservative him, The Namihian was told. International Freedom Foundation (IFF), has called on American President George Bush to withhold Mr Dltha's arrest came In the wake of a persistent refusal by students R160-million which the US is scheduled to provide to fund the Untag operation in Namibia. to vacate the premises of the college which was closed earlier in the A press release from the IFF yes between the contending parties in to by the UN Secretary-General and week. terday cited "continuing efforts on Namibia. mandated by the Security Council". "We are all Illegally here. So why only arrest one person?" Mr John the part of the UN Council for Na "Our research clearly shows that Sellars added, "Since the UNCN Cloete, another student, asked. Mr Dltha was arrested In terms of the mibia to support ... Swapo" as the the UN has failed to rein in its 'Council has chosen to ignore the orders of the Allens Act because he was not In possession of a valid study permit. He reason for the call on PresidentBush. for Namibia' which is violating terms Security Council, the only enforce Is a South African citizen and has been studying In Namibia for the past The call came as part of a 46-page of the peace agreement accepted by ment option available to the United four years. report issued by the IFC entitled all concerned in Namibia." States to preserve the Namibian peace But what grieves the students Is that about 80 per cent of them Is In the 'United Nations Council for Namibia According to the press release, the process is to withhold the Untag same position as Mr Dltha, while only the latter was arrested. Violating the Impartiality Package". IFC "findings" are based on a re funding to pressure the UN into clean The Katutura potio! monitored the campus at regular Intervals yesterday, IFC chairman, Duncan Sellars, said, view of UN documents, "particu ing its house." and a Sergeant Piatt enquired about "die grootbek" (the big mouth), "When Congress appropriated that larly a UNCN report dated June 2, The Washington-based IFC is seil referring to Mr Ditha. "The police think he Is our brain," Mr Cloele money, they did so only on the con 1989, which reveals a deliberate and ing copies of its rtport for the ludi said. dition that the President certify that systematic refusal by the UNCN to crous sum of well over RIOO. Mr Dltha remains in police custody. the UN was maintaining impartiality accept the impartiality package agreed 2 Thursday August 3 1989 THE NAMIBIAN j"o AROUND THE WORLD · i STATE DEPARTMEN'T " , WASlllNGTON - The United States has sent Syria and Iran strong mes sages demanding they protect American hostages in Lebanon, but is trying UNDER FIRE to dampen expectations of a United States strike in retaliation for the reported hanging of William Higgins. In Jerusalem, defence minister S~rvivors of Kenya shootings criticise US on handling of affair Yitzhak Rabin said Israel took into account the possibility that a pro Iranian group would kill Western hostages when it seized aMoslem cleric SEVERAL survivors of an ambusb in soutbern Kenya, that left a The official speculated that the in Lebanon last week. In Beirut, the Lebanese kidnappers of United States United States woman dead, criticized tbe US embassy in Nairobi on Kenyan government's crackdown on hostage Joseph Cicippio say they have postponed killing him until today. Tuesday for tbe way it bandIed the sbootings. poaching may be encouraging some A United Nations envoy flew to Lebanon to investigate Mr Higgins' poachers to set their sights on foreign reported killing. "The embassy wants to sweep this two national parks. tourists rather than just elephants under the rug. They don't want to One of the men opened fire with an and rhinoceros. W ARSA W - Poland's parliament elected interior minister General Czeslaw have any political problems," said AK-47 rifle and one of the bullets, "What has apparently happened Kiszczak as prime minister. Earlier, the parliament voted'to set up a com Allen Sullivan of Fairfield, whose apparently meant for the armed guard in the past and what probably hap mission that will consider impeaching the outgoing Communist-led gov head was grazed by a bullet in last who usually rides in the front passen pened in this case, is that people who ernment over its economic record. Poland's Communist leaders stamped Thursday's attack. ger seat, grazed Sullivan's right cheek are out on game drives came across out an unprecedented parliamentary revolt, and forced the appointment of Sullivan, speaking at a news con before striking Marie Ferraro in the poachers and the poachers decided General Kiszczak. ference called by the Connecticut left temple.

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