FBIS4-21767
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JPRS-TOT-94-014-L
JPRS
Terrorism
FOUO
25 March 1994
NEAR EAST/SOUTH ASIA
EGYPT
Islamic Group Promises To `Avenge' Deaths of Eight Members
Islamic Group Promises To `Avenge' Deaths of Eight Members
NC2503201594 Paris AFP in English 1945 GMT 25 Mar 94
NC2503201594
Paris AFP
English
BFN
[Text] Cairo, March 25 (AFP) -- An outlawed Islamic
militant group warned Friday it would avenge the deaths of eight
of its members who it said were ``liquidated'' by police.
The al-Jama'ah al-Islamiyah (Islamic Group) said in a
statement sent to AFP that the eight were killed after five
policemen were shot dead last Sunday by al-Jama'ah militants in
Sedfa, in the troubled southern province of Asyut.
The group said two militants were killed by police in
fields,
three died in a shootout in Balayza village in Asyut province,
and three others were arrested at home in the same region then
shot by police, who dumped their bodies next to the Balayza
victims, saying all six died in the same gunbattle.
The al-Jama'ah said police had adopted a new tactic of
releasing detained militants and ``liquidating'' them allegedly
for taking part in attacks.
It called on human rights organisations to put pressure on
the authorities ``to stop such practices.''
Islamic militants have targeted the security forces,
foreigners and Coptic Christians in their two-year campaign to
destabilise the country and topple the secular government of
President Husni Mubarak.
More than 300 people have died in the unrest.