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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Indonesia's terrorism on the rise in Timor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.070355.17466@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:03:55 GMT
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- /** reg.easttimor: 345.0 **/
- ** Topic: CIIR: unprecedented torture in ET **
- ** Written 8:07 pm Dec 11, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- From: Charles Scheiner <cscheiner>
- Subject: CIIR: unprecedented torture in ET
-
- /* Written 3:00 pm Dec 11, 1992 by apakabar@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.indonesia */
- /* ---------- "Torture Lines In Timor!" ---------- */
-
- Excerpt from press release by Catholic Institute for International
- Relations, London, 11 December 92. Omitted material has previously
- 'been posted. -- John
-
- ...
-
- The following information was obtained from church sources inside
- East Timor on 8 December:
-
- "The tortures are going on every day. There has never been anything like it.
- Numerous people have been beaten, and some put to death, all of this
- continues. There is complete confirmation of everything Amnesty International
- has been saying since the capture of Xanana Gusmao, only things are far,
- far worse than that. Numerous people have been arrested and a significant
- number have been forced to betray others after being tortured. The reality
- is far, far worse than observers see from the surface. You can tell the
- whole world that there is no doubt about the torture and atrocities the
- Indonesians are committing at present. The torture even extends to the
- private parts of boys and girls, men and women.... The Indonesians
- continue to call people in for interrogation and torture. In quite a
- number of cases the torture is so terrible that people defect to the
- Indonesian side. Many people who are released look like zombies....
- The lines to the prisons are tremendous, one after another people are
- sent in. The beatings and tortures are out of this world."
-
- "Despite all this, the spirit of the young people, their desire for
- freedom, is more firm than before. When people are not broken by the
- torture, they are firm in their perspectives. For now, people are only
- free to pray and think."
-
- Talks under UN auspices are due to take place between the Indonesian and
- Portuguese governments on 17 December. Portugal has demanded repeatedly
- that Timorese leaders should be included. There is no more appropriate
- candidate than Xanana himself, leader and inspiration to the East Timorese
- struggle for independence over the last seventeen years.
-
- For more information, contact Catherine Scott 071 354 0883 or Steve
- Alston 071 733 7900
-
- 11.12.92
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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