MANILA, Reuter: Twenty one people have been killed in clashes between communist guerrillas and government forces in the Central and Southern Philippines, the Philippine News Agency said today. It said five guerrillas were killed when troops raided a camp of the Communist New People’s army near Madalag in Central Aklan province on Friday.
Thirteen rebels and three militiamen were killed in two separate lashes in South Cotabato province on Mindanao Island, last week, it said.
Government officials met communist envoys last week to discuss a possible ceasefire in the 17-yearold guerrilla war.
BONN, Reuter: A total of 184 people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured along the heavily guarded east-west German border and the Berlin wall since the wall was built 25 years ago, an official West German agency said today.
West German television quoted the agency which records East German human rights violations as saying most were victims of minefields, lethal booby traps and armed guards.
East Germany last year dismantled the deadly chain of over 60,000 booby traps along the 1,400km (750-mile) border and tore up minefields on its territory blocking approaches to the fence but guards still have orders to shoot would be escapees.
Article extracted from this publication >> August 15, 1986
