. , . ..... '. · :~v~ . } TQD'AY~ UN , I~A BLAMES UN tiOR PEACE; F.AIt!..lJ'RE 1. ~ ;fARM KII:.L1NG IN COUR,l\* ~ DTA ON ATTACK * ~ ': : ~ :. j;~ -,,:. :;:. ,:' ': RWANDA'S HORROR ••• Kigali, Rwanlla - Corpses of victims of the tribal bloodbath raging in the central African state of Rwanda lie rotting in the street here on Monday. Six days of ethnic warfare have killed an estimated 20 000 people. See report on page 7. Photo: Reuters via l~"lI"J'" , 'It's discrimination ••• Top p,oliceman lays grievances on-table CHRISTOF MALETSKY A NAMPOL District Commissioner Veenendal sets up yesterday launched a stinging attack on a weekly newspaper and certain elements in the police, accusing them of an camp in vacant lot orchestrated attempt to discredit him. Udo Klopfer from Yesterday Klopfer NEWCASTLE: A group of about until it received instructions to do Swakopmund, who was claimed there was a 40 armed white ultra-rightists, led so from the Newcastle municipal­ suspended last week for smear campaign against by a man wanted for murder in ity, which owns the occupied land allegedly defeating the him to block him from neighboring Namibia, yesterday adjacent to a supermarket. ends of justice, charged being appointed District occupied a vacant lot they sur- Town Clerk Dawie Schutte said that many white police Commissioner of both rounded with barbed wire in the the· municipality had given the officers were no longer · Swakopmund and Udo Klopfer coal-mining town of Newcastle, group written warning to evacuate wanted in the Namibian Walvis Bay, something in northern Natal, police said. the land, but they had refused. Police force. reportedly promised to Klopfer said he him, time and again, by would be under his com­ The men moved into the unoc- The rightists, militants or sym- mand for the interim, had cupied plot of land in the centre of pathisers of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner planned legal action Andima. against the Government However, he added, been appointed for the the town 300 kilometers north of Resistance Movement (A WB), set newspaper, New Era, this promise had been harbour town. The ar­ here last week to protest against up a tent and a radio tower in the and alleged information broken "many times" rangement required the March 31 proclamation of empty lot, saying they were show­ was being leaked to the and on each occasion Kl6pfer's direct involve­ emergency rule in Natal province ing their solidarity with Zulu na­ newspaper by certain el- pending departmental ment in the policing and and the KwaZulu homeland it sur- tionalist demands for sovereignty. ements in Nampol. cases against him had for him to keep a low rounds, police spokesman Lieu- Veenendalhassaidhehastrained Although declining to been given as the rea­ profile until after the re­ tenant Colonel Steve Naude said. members of Mangosuthu comment on the latest son. integration of Walvis Their leader is Leonard Buthelezi's Zulu Inkatha Freedom charges against him, As an example, Bay. Andima had prom­ Veenendal, the former AWB chief Party in armed combat to wage war Kl6pfer dismissed them Kl6pfer said that in ised that afterwards he for Johannesburg, who is wanted against the African National Con­ as unfounded and devoid Windhoek in late No­ would be appointed Dis­ . in Namibia on charges of murder, gress. of all truth, and said he vember last year a senior trict Commissioner for both towns. sabotage, arson, theft and illegal Thewhiteextremistswantasepa- · had already submitted a police had told him that However, on January possession offirearms; an extradi- rate homeland, a Volkstaat, in post­ report to police chief, all arrangements for the In spec tor- Genera 1 policing of Walvis Bay 12 Andima had allegedly ti on request by Windhoek is still apartheid South Africa. In Febru­ faxed him suggesting under rev iew by the South African . ary Veenendal led a procession of Raonga Andima. had been entrusted to Andima was not avail- him, apparently . with that KI6pfer should with­ government. trucks and tractors through New- draw from involvement · Naude said police wouldnottake castle, declaring it part of an able for comment yes- Andi m a'~ blessing. terday as he was appar- But just before Christ­ in any office or policing action against the group from the "Afrikaner People's Republic". - duties at Walvis as the Northern Natal Boerekommando Sapa-AFP ently meeting with offi- mas, Andima had called cials from the Prime him (KI6pfer) and said functions would not Minister's office. another officer, who cont. on page 2 : 2 Wednesday April 13 1994 THE NAMIBIAN 1 t : :. IGopfer·On. <~~t~£~~;_. "~ . 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AP chetes, and systemati­ Andima aIlegedly fessed" that if Klopfer's Gamba. reporter PAULlNE JELlNEK was in Kigali on Sunday and cally were going house addedthata"WalvisBay skin was black he would "We were praying to to house asking for Desk" would be estab- have no problem in ap­ see our children again," Interviewed a couple from Argentina before t~ey fled to money ,food and drink, lished at Head Office in pointing him. said his wife, Amelia. Nairobi, Kenya. especially beer," Gamba Windhoek and that a After the unfounded Gamba, 58, who is the said. Commanding Officer fraud allegations new in­ World Bank representa­ airport. The fighting is tresses," Gamba said. priest, nuns, aid work­ "We kept thinking that had already been ap- forination was allegedly tive in R wanda, and Mrs. the result of a decades­ "After the first day, the ers, politicians and oth­ after being through many pointed for the town. The leaked by police officers Gamba, 54, were able to old struggle between the phone lines were cut. ers being butchered in things in our lives, there officer would not serve to New Era about alleged flee Rwanda on Sunday Hutu and Tutsi ethnic Most of the people in their homes or on the was nothing - absolutely under Klopfer's com- racial discrimination on after four days of terror. groups. our neighbourhood did streets - and of more nothing - that compared mand but would report the farm Ukuib in the They spoke with a re­ "Our house was in the not have water or elec­ rebels advancing on [he to this," he said. directly to Windhoek. Karibib district. porter as they departed. middle of a battle of all tricity, but we filled two capital. The Gambas were able According to Klopfer, A report under the head- Their first mission kinds of weapons, heavy tubs to save some." "When there was a lulI to leave their house Sun­ neither Andima nor any ing "Police Commis­ once they touched down machine guns, grenades, The second day a in fighting we would day and ride in a IS-car senior staff had con- sioner Comes Under At­ in Nairobi, Kenya, was bazookas and mortars," neighbour joined the crawl to the kitchen in convoy of UN employ­ suIted him about all the tack" .appeared and to contact their two Gamba said. Gambas after his Tutsi the dark to get something ees to the airport, where changes in the decisions. Andima allegedly "wasted no time in having grown children living in "The walls are .full of maid gave refuge to toeat,"MrsGambasaid. they spent a final mo­ He had started to get these newspaper allega- Washington. holes, pieces of ceiling some friends and gov­ "We ate bread and ment of terror. the clear feeling that tions investigated". For two days after are all over the .place, ernment soldiers found . cheese and other things "We were stopped at "every effort was being According to the Rwanda and Burundi's many windows were them and killed them. we had in the house." the airport gate, waiting made to withhold my Swakopmund District presidents were assassi­ broken and shrapnel is. "Then there were three "After the fight for the to enter, and a sniper appointment as District Commissioner, it ap- nated in a plane crash all over," Mrs Gamba of us in the hallway," airport, there were snip­ started shooting," Julio Commissioner for peared as if no reasons Wednesday night, added. Gambasaid. ers. said. No one was injured. Walvis Bay". could be found to file R wandan government "We stayed on the first The neighbour Then, yesterday and "If there is such a thing Though a non-com- charges against him but a forces and rebels fought floor between two bed­ brought a radio. So the today (Saturday and as luck in this world, missioned officer's weeklater,yetagain"new near the Gambas' house rooms in a small hall­ three listened over and Sunday), in between the we've got it," he said. - criminal charge of al- information was found for control of the Kigali surrounded mat- over to the of local Sapa-AP leged fraud against him and leaked to New Era" had been closed and . by police sources, this termed "unfounded" on time under the heading SA arms suspects pecember 3, Andima "Klopfer Troubled": had only informed him KlopTer claimed the al­ I FROM PAGE 1 I to them or had been in three months later (on legations in the report had their possession.