DATE=5/20/99
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
NUMBER=2-249601
TITLE=EAST TIMOR / MILITIAS (L-ONLY)
BYLINE=JENNY GRANT
DATELINE=JAKARTA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: THE UNITED NATIONS SAYS PRO-INDONESIA MILITIAS ARE BEING
TRAINED IN EAST TIMOR FOR MORE ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS. FROM
JAKARTA, JENNY GRANT REPORTS THURSDAY'S WARNING IS THE SECOND
STATEMENT FROM THE NEW U-N MISSION IN EAST TIMOR CONDEMNING
PRO-JAKARTA VIOLENCE.
TEXT: THE UNITED NATIONS SPOKESMAN IN EAST TIMOR, DAVID WIMHURST,
SAYS HE HAS FOUND EVIDENCE OF PRO-INDONESIAN MILITIAS BEING
TRAINED IN THE TOWN OF ATSABE, 100 KILOMETERS SOUTH OF DILI.
THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE U-N ASSISTANCE MISSION IN EAST TIMOR SAYS
THE MILTIAS WERE BEING TRAINED AT AN INDONESIAN ARMY BASE, BY A
MAN WEARING A MILITARY UNIFORM.
THE U-N SAYS THE DISCOVERY WAS MADE WHILE WHILE A U-N TEAM WAS EN
ROUTE TO ATARA TO INVESTIGATE THE KILLINGS OF AT LEAST SIX PEOPLE
THAT TOOK PLACE ON SUNDAY.
IN A UNITED NATIONS STATEMENT, MR. WIMHURST SAID THE TRAINING WAS
BEING CONDUCTED BY THE SAME PRO-INDONESIA MILITIA RESPONSIBLE FOR
SUNDAY'S KILLINGS IN ATARA. EARLIER THIS WEEK THE UNITED NATIONS
DEMANDED THAT INDONESIA HONOR ITS PLEDGE TO END VIOLENCE IN THE
TERRITORY.
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ALSO CONFIRMED THAT ON SUNDAY PRO-
INDEPENDENCE GUERRILLAS KILLED THREE EAST TIMORESE SOLDIERS
WORKING FOR THE INDONESIAN ARMY.
ANALYSTS SAY HOWEVER THAT MOST OF THE RECENT VIOLENCE HAS COME
FROM THE PRO-JAKARTA MILITIAS.
MEANWHILE, THERE IS EVIDENCE ANOTHER MASSACRE TOOK PLACE LAST
WEEK IN THE COFFEE FIELDS OF THE ADJOINING ERMERA DISTRICT.
CHURCH SOURCES AND LOCAL VILLAGERS SAY UP TO 20 PEOPLE WERE
KILLED BY PRO-INDONESIAN MILITIAS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF FATUBOLO.
IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT, INDONESIA'S INFORMATION MINISTER YUNUS
YOSFIAH SAID THURSDAY THAT EXILED EAST TIMORESE RESISTANCE
LEADERS, SUCH AS JOSE RAMOS HORTA, WOULD BE ALLOWED TO TRAVEL TO
INDONESIA.
MR. YOSFIAH SAYS THE INDEPENDENCE ACTIVISTS -- WHO HAVE BEEN
BANNED FROM ENTERING INDONESIA -- WILL BE ALLOWED TO MEET WITH
THE HEAD OF THE EAST TIMORESE RESISTANCE, XANANA GUSMAO.
MR. GUSMAO MET WITH JUSTICE MINISTER MULADI THURSDAY. THEY
DISCUSSED HIS STATUS AS A PRISONER UNDER HOUSE ARREST. THERE IS
SPECULATION MR. GUSMAO MAY BE RELEASED SOON AFTER THE AUGUST 8TH
BALLOT ON SPECIAL AUTONOMY FOR EAST TIMOR. (SIGNED)
NEB/JG/FC/KL
20-May-99 7:25 AM EDT (1125 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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