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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Timor: Gusmao still backs fight
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.010941.26221@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** reg.easttimor: 342.2 **/
- ** Written 11:53 pm Dec 14, 1992 by cscheiner in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- ** Written 7:20 pm Dec 14, 1992 by apakabar in cdp:reg.indonesia **
-
- Remark: Forwarded by an Oz reader. Jill basically confirms the analysis
- of the prison interview posted by CDPM. Unfortunately, her story also
- contains the first strong indication that Rogerio Lobato and Abilio
- Araujo may have at least de facto teamed up in yet another inter-necine
- quarrel to undercut the Jose Ramos Horta-Xanana Gusmao leadership.
- This comes at a very inauspicious time -- shortly before the 'tripartite'
- talks are scheduled to open under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General.
- -- John
-
- Source: Melbourne Age
- Date: 14 December 1992
- Dateline: Lisbon, Sunday 13 December
- Byline: Jill Joliffe
- Scope: Unabridged
- Headline: Gusmao still backs fight: journalist
-
- The East Timorese resistance leader Mr "Xanana" Gusmao has passed a message to
- a Portuguese journalist saying he still supports armed struggle against
- Indonesia, despite public declarations to the contrary.
-
- The television reporter Mr Jose Gabriel interviewed Mr Gusmao in a police
- barracks in Jakarta on Thursday for Portugal's new private channel SIC. The
- interview was conducted in an auditorium in front of around 30 military
- officers and a censorship panel of five people, which later cut 10 of the 20
- minutes of videotape recorded.
-
- The impression given by what remained of the interview is of a conscious
- attempt by Mr Gusmao to indicate that he is not speaking freely, through
- various clues and ambiguous wording of replies.
-
- Mr Gabriel has said that after the interview Mr Gusmao grasped his hand when
- the two men were briefly out of earshot of the Indonesian officials and that
- during this time "he murmured a phrase guaranteeing that he had not given up
- the principles which inspired him during 17 years of struggle".
-
- Mr Gabriel described the material cut by the censor in which Mr Gusmao managed
- to pass other messages.
-
- Mr Gabriel said Mr Gusmao's long reply to a question about how the Timor
- problem could be solved was also cut, in which he spoke of "an international,
- lasting solution for Timor".
-
- Most of the interview followed the lines of an earlier one with the governor
- of East Timor, in which he claimed that he had changed his ideas about
- independence, had been guilty of misleading other East Timorese, and urged
- guerilla fighters to surrender.
-
- Two overseas representatives of Fretilin in Lisbon have denounced Mr Gusmao.
- Mr Rogerio Lobato, who left East Timor in December 1975, before Indonesian
- paratroopers in Dili, said the guerilla leader had failed East Timor.
-
- Mr Abilio Araujo said: "Mau Hodu (another captive resistance leader) and
- Xanana are past history. Now the resistance can reorganize in a disciplined
- way and wage a fierce struggle against adventurism".
-
- Next Thursday the Portuguese and Indonesian foreign ministers are due to meet
- the New York office of the UN Secretary General, Dr Boutros Ghali, for a new
- round of talks about East Timor's future.
-
- Dr Boutros Ghali earlier said he wanted to enlarge the talks to include East
- Timorese representatives, and Mr Gusmao's possible presence was discussed at a
- meeting several months ago. Observers believe his imprisonment will rank high
- on the agenda, and the success or failure of the talks is likely to revolve
- around this question.
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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