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- From: hrcoord@igc.apc.org (Human Rights Coordinator)
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- Subject: Timor Clandestine Net Hurt
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 21:29:00 GMT
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- From: Human Rights Coordinator <hrcoord>
- Subject: Timor Clandestine Net Hurt
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- /* Written 5:14 pm Dec 21, 1992 by apakabar@igc.apc.org in igc:reg.indonesia */
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- According to a December 21 Reuter story by Wilson da Silva datelined
- Sydney, the human rights group Amnesty International has condemned an
- Indonesian military crackdown it says is underway in East Timor.
- The group said on Monday that it has confirmed 60 arrests and has
- reports of 650 more since last months's anniversary of a massacre in the
- East Timor capital Dili.
- Rebel groups said the crackdown has paid off for Jakarta, saying key
- clandestine operatives have gone silent and the resistance in serious
- disarray.
- The London-based organisation said it has confirmed the arrests of
- another 25 Timorese, including senior bureaucrats working for Jakarta,
- businessmen, civil servants, nurses and Timorese serving in the
- Indonesian forces.
- The latest group bring to 60 the number of confirmed arrests, but
- Timorese in Australia and exiled resistance officials have reported some
- 650 arrested, Amnesty said.
- "The opposition (resistance) has been demoralised since the capture
- of Xanana Gusmao," said Amnesty director Andre Frankovits, refering to
- the Timorese guerrilla leader captured by Indonesian forces on November
- 20.
- "The crackdown certainly hasn't stopped and one has to be seriously
- concerned about their safety and welfare," he said.
- Timorese rebel spokesmen in Australia said the clandestine network
- they rely on for information from the former Portuguese territory, which
- Indonesia invaded and then annexed after Lisbon withdrew its
- administration in 1975, has virtually dried up as the crackdown has
- proceeded.
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