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(30 May 1994) The body of former East German leader Erich Honecker, who died of
cancer on Sunday (29/5) in self-imposed exile in Chile, was to be
cremated on Monday and his ashes dispersed in Germany as he had
requested. Honecker, 81, died of respiratory failure during his
sleep in a private condominium at the foothills of the Andes
Mountains. He had fought a long battle with liver cancer and moved
to Chile in January 1993 after a German court ruled that he was
too sick to stand trial for the killings of those shot trying to
cross the Berlin Wall, which he had built and which was toppled
4-1/2 years ago. He spent six months in jail after Germany won his
extradition from Moscow, where he had fled to in 1991 to escape
charges of manslaughter. His escape and his defiant stay in a
Chilean embassy there enraged east Germans as well as western
politicians. Honecker's widow Margot was joined on Sunday by
friends, relatives and members of Chile's Communist and Socialist
parties, who paid their last respects to the fallen hardline
Communist leader at Santiago's General Cemetery.
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cancer on Sunday (29/5) in self-imposed exile in Chile, was to be
cremated on Monday and his ashes dispersed in Germany as he had
requested. Honecker, 81, died of respiratory failure during his
sleep in a private condominium at the foothills of the Andes
Mountains. He had fought a long battle with liver cancer and moved
to Chile in January 1993 after a German court ruled that he was
too sick to stand trial for the killings of those shot trying to
cross the Berlin Wall, which he had built and which was toppled
4-1/2 years ago. He spent six months in jail after Germany won his
extradition from Moscow, where he had fled to in 1991 to escape
charges of manslaughter. His escape and his defiant stay in a
Chilean embassy there enraged east Germans as well as western
politicians. Honecker's widow Margot was joined on Sunday by
friends, relatives and members of Chile's Communist and Socialist
parties, who paid their last respects to the fallen hardline
Communist leader at Santiago's General Cemetery.
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