World IN BRIEF : BULGARIA : Suspect Held in Prisoner Deaths
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Authorities arrested a retired deputy interior minister who ran a camp in northern Bulgaria in which hundreds of prisoners may have been killed during Todor Zhivkov’s Communist regime. The arrest of 80-year-old Gen. Mincho Spassov followed a series of reports about the camp that have stirred memories of Stalinist repression.
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