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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Timor: Latest Developments
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- /** reg.easttimor: 365.0 **/
- ** Topic: Current situation in East Timor **
- ** Written 9:31 pm Jan 8, 1993 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- Memo on latest developments in East Timor
-
- The following is based on information conveyed by phone to
- TAPOL by an East Timorese contact in Indonesia on 7 January
- 1993:
-
- [Some remarks have been added in square brackets.]
-
- Creating a 50:50 society
- The level of fear, uncertainty and anxiety among the East
- Timorese is now at a very high pitch.
-
- The objective of the forces of occupation is to create a
- "50:50 Society". This means that 50 per cent of the population
- are nationalists (ie. anti-integration) while the other 50 per
- cent must consist of people pledged to spy on the others. The
- sweeping efforts to force people to take oaths of allegiance,
- often now according to traditional ritual, meaning that non-
- compliance will be fatal, is intending to have a very large
- number of people under threat of death to spy on their
- compatriots. People who are forced to take oaths of allegiance
- are then released and subjected to close supervision to serve
- the purposes of the intelligence.
-
- Destroying the Church's links with the people
- Another intel move to destabilise society is to persuade
- formal and informal leaders to destroy the close ties between
- the people and the Catholic Church. People are being urged to
- turn against the Church.
-
- Hunting down guerrillas
- Since 18 December 1992, hundreds of East Timorese in Baucau
- have been forced to go into the bush to hunt down guerrillas.
- This operation is still under way. There is no news of any
- guerrillas having been 'delivered' to the army.
-
- Renewed armed activities
- The armed resistance wishes is to be known that, since the
- arrest of Xanana Gusmao on 20 November 1992, they have been
- intensifying their level of military activity against the
- Indonesian army.
-
- Armed contact with the army took place on 9 December in
- Fatubessi and Fatulia, located east of Ermera in the central
- sector. Two Indonesian soldiers were killed. On 18-19 December
- 1992, during an operation by the guerrillas, three trucks of
- Indonesian troops were attacked (blown up?), resulting in 60
- Indonesian soldiers being killed.
-
- Inevitably, say the guerrillas, an intensification of armed
- contact has repercussions on the local population, as the army
- takes reprisals against them. The guerrilla movement is keen
- to show that the arrest of Xanana has not led to decline in
- their activity. On the contrary, their intentions is to
- increase the pressure on the
- army.
-
- [There are several reports of armed contact with significant
- losses on the Indonesian side. There are discrepancies between
- the casualty figures, making it difficult to verify what
- precisely happened. This is in part a consequence of the
- extreme isolation of East Timor and the impossibility of
- obtaining independent confirmation. Our source gave no
- information about casualties on the side of the guerrillas.]
-
- Many high-level officials 'involved'
- Many top-level East Timorese officials are regarded by the
- army as having been involved in looking after and supporting
- Xanana Gusmao during the period he was in hiding (in terms of
- helping him directly with hideouts, supplying his needs, etc).
- They include six district chiefs (bupati), several heads of
- bureaus and some businessmen. As of yet, not all these people
- have been arrested as it is feared (by the army) that this
- could cause public unrest and unease.
-
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