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FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1990 Tlie Mcxitgpmcry Advertiser PAGE 9A Survivor of Tamil massacre reveals horror Boat people issue ftErnggeirs cOemnjairudl He estimated it was about 3 a.m. He said he saw no one else alive. After the third bus left he started making his way inland towards government lines but "I fainted a couple of times. I was very thirsty. I found a lake and I drank." By EARLEEN FISHER Associated Press Writer KAN DY, Sri Lanka A young policeman who was shot by Tamil separatists and left for dead among the bodies of his colleagues said Thursday he crawled into the jungle and hid while more policemen were killed.

Piyeratna Ranaweera said he was one of 115 policemen who were captured at Kalmunai police station Monday when the rebels overran 11 police stations in the Eastern Province. The fighting, which began Monday, was the worst violence since negotiations began between the government and the Tigers in May 1989. At least 110 government troops have died, but one uncon firmed report said the Tamil Tiger rebels also killed 125 to 150 policemen who were among the 600 officers captured. A spokesman for the Tigers said the report could be anti-rebel propaganda. Mr.

Ranaweera said that all 115 policemen captured with him were blindfolded and the Tigers took their watches and wallets, tied their hands and gave them water. They were then taken in three buses from Kalmunai, 135 miles east of Colombo, to a rebel camp 20 miles to the south. Mr. Ranaweera, lying in a hospital bed with his broken lea arm in a sling ahd bloodstained cotton on the bullet wound in his left ear, said one busload of the captive policemen was taken from the Tiger camp shortly before midnight Monday. "At 12:45 (that) night they took the second busload again to the jungle," he said in a weak voice.

He said he was blindfolded when he got off the bus so he could not see if the men from the first bus were there. "They lined us all up and made us lie on the ground face down and they opened fire with T-56 rifles. Then they held a torch to our heads and if they heard a cry they shot again." Mr. Ranaweera said the bullet grazed his left ear. The Tigers apparently thought he was dead and left.

He said he crawled into the jungle and realised his left arm was broken and he fixed a sling for it. While he was lying in the jungle he heard the third busuirrive and then he heard more shots. people's right to debark unless they can send the would-be migrants back forcibly. Tens of thousands who fled Vietnam since the Communists defeated ths U.S.-backed South Vietnamese government in 1975 have jammed refugee centers in neighboring countries. "The United States has a responsibility it can't evade," Foreign Office Minister Francis Maude said in an interview.

"Either it joins in the consensus of other nations (on forced repatriation) or it provides an LONDON Britain on Thurs-' day said Hong Kong will have to forcibly return more Vietnamese boat people to their Communist homeland unless the United States agrees to house about of the refugees on Guam. In the Philippines, the government allowed more than 250 boat people to debark from U.S. Narvy ships only after U.S. and other foreign officials agreed to resettle them outside the Philippines within three years. Britain, representing its colony Hong Kong, and six Asian nations are expected soon to warn the U.S.

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almost as if the Peace Corps had been in training for 30 years for this moment," said Mr. Coverdell. Siberians appeal to U.S. MONROVIA, Liberia Thousands of protesters chanting "Stop the killings!" marched through Monrovia on Thursday Snd called for i Washington to help end a 514-month-old tribal "We are appealing to the Congress, to the government and to the. people of the United States orAmerica to come to our aid," said Pentecostal Bishop W.

Nah Dixon, who led the march. "This an SOS call. Save our souls." He spoke to protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy. The Liberian Council of Churches asked the United States to send a peacekeeping force to Liberia, in a statement also read outside the U.S.

Embassy. The church council is mediating peace talks that began Tuesday between the government and rebels in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Church Council President Levee Moulton, a Baptist minister, said a cease-fire would be f. i ii, y. ml M.

i There were no reports of major fighting Thursday. More than 1,000 people have been killed, many of them civilians, since the rebel National Patriotic Front led by Charles Taylor moved into Liberia from the Ivory Coast on Dec. 24 and began a drive on Monrovia. Many Liberians had believed the U.S. Marines would intervene in the civil war.

But U.S. Charge D'Affaires Dennis Jett told protesters Thursday: "It is Liberians killing Liberians and it is only Liberians who can stop the fighting." "You call for a peacekeeping force, but a peace has to be created before it can be kept and only Liberians can create the peace," he said. Blast damages building HAMELN, West Germany An explosion Thursday afternoon at a British Army training area southwest of Hanover badly damaged an unoccupied building at the site. Maj. Leslie Hutchison, press spokesman for the 4th Armored Division, said, "No one was near the site of the explosion, and there were no injuries or casualties." The Hameln training area is on the Weser River about 12 miles outside Hanover in Lower Saxony state.

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