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Rajiv still "a vampire” for Tamils
MADRAS. India: Suspected Tamil militants hurled pam phlets calling Rajtv Gandhi a fascist and "a vampire" a I. the site where India's former prime minister was assassinated last year, police said today, reports Reuter
They said the pamphlets were thrown from a white van which pierced a security cordon around the assassination site In India a southern Tamil Nadu state on Thursday, the an niveraary of Gandhi s death
Gandhi was killed by a woman suicide bomber during an election rally on May 21 last year
The pamphlets hailed the alleged bomber. Dhanu. as a martyr
On Wednesday Investigators charged the head of Srl Lanka » Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam guerrillas, Veluplllal
Prabhakaran. with Gandhi s asaassinalioii
The Tigers, who for the past nine years have fought for their own homeland tn Srl Lunka. turned against Gandhi after he sent Indian troops In 1987 to try to end their rebellion.
The Tigers, which India banned earlier this month, ac cuaed Indian troops of widespread rape and torture
The head of the Investigating team. D R Karthikeyan, denied newspaper reports that Dhanu was one of the rape vic tlms
Professor sacked for ridiculing Islamic culture
NICOSIA A Tehran University professor has been sacked for ridiculing Islamic culture and propagating cheap Western values," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Saturday, reports AP.
It said students had complained that Zarrtn Kelk. a Social Science professor, was corrupt and that he was "advocating premarital sex and cohabitation." Faculty members, disguised as students, attended some of Kelk s classes and verified the claims before he was expelled, said IRNA.
Victor Erice awarded
CANNES, France : Australian. Spanish. Italian and Belgian films were early prize-winners at the Cannes film festival over the weekend, reports AFP.
The prestigious International critics prize was awarded unanimously Sunday to Victor Erice, the Basque painter, for his documentary "El Sol Del Memberllio" (The Quince Tree Sun) about a painter's preoccupation with light.
Military duty awards for two Libyan guides
TUNIS: Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat pinned medals on two Libyan guides who found his air plane after it crash landed in the Libyan desert last month, the PLO said, reports AET At a ceremony late Friday at PLO headquarters here. Arafat awarded the two Libyans. Al-Riffl Scnussi Abdallah Tuatl and Alssa Mohamed Hassan Tubaui. with "military duty" medals.
He gave the same decorations to PLO guerrilla commander, Khaled Sultane, who leads the 1,000- strong PLO conttn gent based in the Libyan desert and which participated In search operations after his plane disappeared during a sand storm late April 7.
Arafat was slightly injured when the plane crash landed, killing three crew members.
The Palestinian news agency WAFA, reporting on the ceremony, quoted Arafat as saying he was honouring the three men for "their exceptional acts of sacrifice and courage in the service of the Palestinian people