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<text id=91TT0610>
<title>
Mar. 25, 1991: World Notes:Germany
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Mar. 25, 1991 Boris Yeltsin:Russia's Maverick
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 45
World Notes
GERMANY
Rescue from Retribution
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<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.
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