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DATE=2/8/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR (L ONLY)
NUMBER=2-258946
BYLINE=LISA SCHLEIN
DATELINE=GENEVA
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  The United Nations is urging Indonesia to halt 
a new upsurge in violence against refugees and aid 
workers in West Timor.  Lisa Schlein reports from 
Geneva.
TEXT:  The U-N refugee agency says at least four 
security problems were reported last week in refugee 
camps outside the West Timor capital, Kupang.
U-N-H-C-R spokesman Ron Redmond says the incidents 
included attacks against journalists and the 
disruption of operations to return refugees to their 
homes in East Timor.
            /// REDMOND ACT ONE ///
      U-N-H-C-R is particularly concerned about the 
      fate of two refugees who were yanked out of 
      repatriation buses at Tuapukan camp last week.  
      There are also threats of growing intimidation 
      against aid workers along the border areas of 
      West Timor.  Workers are not being allowed 
      inside the camps or are getting veiled threats. 
            /// END ACT ///
Mr. Redmond says the agency also is concerned about 
conditions in Tuapukan -- the biggest camp in West 
Timor.  The camp has an estimated 20-thousand of the 
110-thousand refugees reported to be in the Indonesian 
province.  Mr. Redmond says the situation in the camp 
is particularly tense and open to abuse.
            /// REDMOND ACT TWO ///
      We have urged Indonesian officials to separate 
      militias from the refugees.  This is a 
      longstanding request, as well as to redeploy 
      active military living among the refugee 
      population.  These would be active military who 
      previously lived in East Timor. 
            /// END ACT ///
U-N-H-C-R spokesman Redmond says the agency has called 
for the Indonesian government to maintain law and 
order in the camps.  He says contacts are being made 
at the highest levels in the Indonesian capital, 
Jakarta, in an effort to get government cooperation.  
At its height, about one-quarter-million East Timorese 
sought asylum in West Timor.  Since the United Nations 
began repatriating refugees last September, an 
estimated 136-thousand East Timorese have returned 
home.   (SIGNED)
NEB/LS/JWH/RAE
08-Feb-2000 11:30 AM EDT (08-Feb-2000 1630 UTC)
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Source: Voice of America
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