The speeches the Cuns! Give us Rhetoric is no longor enough. The people in the townships longen repared to allow themselves tr security (sic) forces or their hired Inkatha thugs.
The white reporters, as they pressed through the assembled multitude, were also impressed and not a little bit frightened -by the muttering of 'One settler, one bullet. This is the dreaded slogan of the Pan African Congress (PAC), whose support has Tatusuy mores since the breakdown of negotiations.
Perhaps the most important feature of the funeral proce A debate between and Chris Harman Price £4.95 Send cheques or postal orders made out to Socialist Outlook to: Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU demonstration, shows once again that the ruling National Party, like the Bourbons, have learned nothing.
Hanging on hey are prepared to hang o disphe liberation forces will haveto respond in the same language. There must be no more, even token, concessions to the ruling class. Mandela must not return to his old habits of private contacts with cabinet ministers behind the scenes while denouncing negotiations in public The pressure from the ranks show that you cannot foolall the people all the time. 'A SECOND Bosnia' was how The Economist described the conflict between Moldovans and ethRussians and Ukrainians in the Dnestr republic - and that was before the latest fighting broke out.
But the situation on the Dnestr is turning into a complex international crisis which could make Bosnia look like a local dificulty.
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic was created in 1940 when Stalin took the region from Romania. With the collapse of the USSR, the renamed Moldova became an independent county. Its prest dent, Mircea Snegur, has ontraved reunitication with Romania as a goal for the fuBut the easternmost part of the country, Transdniestria, not only contains much of Moldova's industry but is mainly inhabited by Russians and Ukrainians. Calling itself the "Dnestr Moldavian Republic, its aim is to secede from Moldova under the leadership of a stalinist elite headed by one Igor Smirnos.
Recent battles with Mol dovan troops and police have been fought by militia and police who have inherited both equipment and atitudes from the Soviet army, along with Cossacks in tsarist uniforms. The Dnestr republic's symbols tend to be either the flag of the ussk of the black-yertow white flag of Russia's monarThe 14th Army of the Ruskey player. Many of its personnel have defected to the Dnestr militia, but even those under Russian control have intervened on their side.
Declared war
On June 22 the town Bendery fell to the Dnestr forces. Romanian radio reported that President Snegur stated that Russia had 'declared war on the republic of MoldovaRussian ( Vice-President Rutskoi has also fished in the troubled Dnestr waters. Hehas declared that Kussia won t allow Moldova to solve the "Dnestr problem' by force and would 'put a decisive stop to the mass murder of the civilian Population." Moldovan authorities retorted that Russia communist circles".
eddies of the Dnestr whiripool arespreading wider and wider. Dnestr forces stated - No. 25 Fian of (the sat Rooter Molder among their Moldovan "V claimed that a 'presumably Romanian' fighter had been shot down over the Ukraine.
Romania denied any plane had been lost and accused Russia of fighting a media war. Nationalists are calling for the government to come to the aid of Moldova'. meanwhile, is under pressure o support ethnic Ukrainian n the Dnestr, but is frightene of Russian intentions. Ante Bulgarians are worried that their minority in Moldova could join the swelling refugee figures, while Jews are fleeing both the fighting and antiEven the West has not escaped damage. On June 29, a factory in Bendery - a GermanMoldovan joint venture - was shelled. With the possible exWestern investment.
Perhans the only consolation in this scenario is that conflicts such as those in Dnestr threaten to slip furtherand fur'New World Order' stringpullers.
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