DATE=9/14/1999
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=UNHCR / EAST TIMOR (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-253858
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO: The United Nations refugee agency says the
refugee crisis in East Timor has reached dramatic
proportions. Lisa Schlein in Geneva reports the
refugee agency says hundreds of thousands of East
Timorese may have been uprooted from their homes.
TEXT: The United Nations refugee agency says it is
alarmed by persistent reports that many thousands of
people have been forcibly displaced from East Timor to
West Timor. U-N-H-C-R spokesman, Kris Janowski, says
there is mounting evidence that people in the capital,
Dili, and elsewhere in East Timor, are being taken
against their will and deported to West Timor.
/// JANOWSKI ACT ///
There are also reports trickling to us from
people coming into Jakarta through Kupang,
West Timor about families being separated
en route from East to West, about men being
separated from women and children. Of
course, we haven't seen these cases of
separation. Nonetheless, the reports from
reliable charity sources are quite
alarming.
/// END ACT ///
Dili had a population of 180-thousand before the
violence began. Mr. Janowski says the East Timorese
capital has now become a ghost town with only a few
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