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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Timor Update
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- /** reg.easttimor: 356.0 **/
- ** Topic: Update on situation in East Timor **
- ** Written 11:30 pm Jan 6, 1993 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- Update: Situation in East Timor
-
- TAPOL Report, 6 January 1993
- From very reliable, protected sources.
-
- 1. Some of the people who were arrested immediately before
- and after the arrest of the resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao,
- are being held in secret cells at Colmera prison and at
- Komarka prison in Balide, Dili. Henrique Belmiro Guterres is
- in the worst state of all; all his nails were pulled out, his
- ears were slashed and he has a broken arm. The families of
- those arrested have not been told by the International Red
- Cross of their whereabouts, which is what normally happens.
-
- 2. In late November, an East Timorese member of the Armed
- Forces, Lieut. Constancio Guterres was arrested on suspicion
- of being involved with a clandestine organisation. Other armed
- forces members have also reportedly been arrested as well.
- East Timorese troops are no longer being issued with firearms.
-
- 3. David Dias Ximenes was arrested on 17 December, held and
- interrogated for a day, then released after intervention by
- the International Red Cross. [David Dias Ximenes was sentenced
- to 15 years back in the early 1980s and spent his term of
- imprisonment in Cipinang, Jakarta. He was released and
- returned to Dili before November 1991.]
-
- 4. Several East Timorese businessmen have gone into hiding
- as they are suspected of having supplied Xanana Gusmao with
- his needs in his hideout. The head of the Public Relations
- Bureau [not clear at which level of the administration] has
- been summoned for investigations. The head of Samsat [?],
- Captain Martins has been transferred to Denpasar.
-
- 5. At the beginning of December, Governor Abilio Soares and
- military commander, Brig.Gen. Theo Syafei instructed all their
- subordinates in the civil and military services to round up
- all civil and military personnel who are suspected of being
- 'two-faced' for immediate interrogation; where proven guilty,
- they must be placed under arrest. Many of these people are
- anti-integration UDT sympathisers.
-
- 6. Some members of underground organisations who
- 'surrendered' in Baucau and who were then ordered to go into
- the bush to hunt down guerrillas have since been killed by
- Indonesian soldiers because they failed to capture anyone.
- They were given two alternatives to test the sincerity of
- their surrender: they would stay alive if they captured rebels
- or be killed if they captured no-one.
-
- 7. Operations by the military have reached a new peak of
- ferocity, forcing people to take oaths, all of which is
- carefully recorded. Youths, especially young girls, are being
- compelled to attend dance parties held by soldiers all over
- the country. No-one dares to refuse or to protest as everyone
- is very afraid.
-
- 8. Things are far worse now than they were in 1975. We
- fervently hope that you will disseminate this information
- without mentioning the source. The situation in East Timor is
- dire; we sorely need intervention from the UN.
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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