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- <text id=91TT0610>
- <title>
- Mar. 25, 1991: World Notes:Germany
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- GERMANY
- Rescue from Retribution
- </hdr><body>
- <p> All across Eastern Europe, former communist leaders have
- been called to account for abuses they committed during their
- years of power. Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu was summarily shot;
- others have been imprisoned or put on trial. But Erich Honecker
- may escape retribution. Soviet authorities last week secretly
- flew the former East German leader to Moscow, beyond the reach
- of a German warrant charging him with manslaughter.
- </p>
- <p> Officially, the ailing Honecker, 78, was moved for
- "humanitarian reasons"--treatment of circulatory and kidney
- problems. But the German government charged that the Soviets
- violated international law by removing an indicted man from
- legal jurisdiction. "We cannot and will not accept what has
- happened," said Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. "The
- German government expects him to be brought back."
- </p>
- <p> Honecker is charged with issuing a "shoot to kill" order
- that resulted in the death of scores of East Germans attempting
- to cross the border to the West. Before his flight to the
- Soviet Union, he was under Soviet protection at a military
- hospital in Beelitz, south of Berlin, where court officers were
- prevented from serving the arrest warrant. Despite the
- protests, Honecker's lawyer believes the charges will be
- dropped and he probably will not return to Germany.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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