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- <text id=91TT2659>
- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: World Notes:Indonesia
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 76
- World Notes
- INDONESIA
- Shootings In the Dark
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Security forces have killed thousands of independence
- fighters in East Timor since 1976, when Indonesia annexed the
- former Portuguese territory, but there was no significant outcry
- from world opinion. This time it may be different.
- </p>
- <p> Indonesian troops opened fire two weeks ago on a crowd of
- 1,000 marching in memory of a militant student at a cemetery in
- Dili, the capital of the province. According to various
- estimates, the soldiers' weapons killed 19 to 200 people.
- </p>
- <p> Two American journalists witnessed the attack and, though
- they were beaten, escaped to report it. Outrage followed
- swiftly last week. The European Parliament called for an arms
- embargo on Indonesia. The Netherlands, which heads an aid
- consortium for Indonesia, halted new assistance, and there were
- street demonstrations in Portugal.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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