Politicians in Bonn Friday urged the wife of jailed former East German leader Erich Honecker to return home to face accusations that she forced dissidents to give up their children for adoption.
But Margot Honecker, 65, told an ARD-German TV reporter on her flight from Moscow to Chile that she had no intention of returning."The new Germany is no longer my country," said Margot Honecker who was education minister in her husband's communist government and reportedly the most widely hated woman in East Germany.
Erich Honecker spent his second night in Berlin's Moabit Prison since his return from Moscow Wednesday, where he had holed up for 71/2 months at the Chilean ambassador's residence to avoid extradition to Germany.
His lawyer said that the Chilean authorities had forced Honecker to leave the embassy.
Honecker was charged with reponsibility for the deaths of 49 people killed by East German border guards as they tried to flee his hardline Communist state. He was also charged with abuse of power.
As many as 350 people are believed to have died as a result of Honecker's alleged order to "shoot-to-kill" any East German seeking to flee to West Germany.
Margot Honecker did not leave Moscow with her husband but flew the next day to Chile. The Honeckers' daughter Sonja and her Chilean husband live in Santiago.
Politicians from the main parliamentary parties in Bonn Friday urged Margot Honecker to return home to face accusations that she had forced political offenders to give up their children for adoption.