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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: Timor: NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE
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- /** reg.easttimor: 352.0 **/
- ** Topic: New Dili massacre death toll **
- ** Written 4:52 pm Sep 3, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- New Dili massacre casualty figures
-
- The following Press Release was issued in Lisbon today, 3
- September 1992, by Jose Ramos-Horta, official spokesperson for
- the East Timorese Resistance:
-
-
- NEW STUDY REVEALS 273 KILLED IN DILI MASSACRE
-
- A new report just released in Lisbon points to a much higher
- death toll at the 12 November 1991 massacre of civilians in
- Dili: 273 killed, 255 disappeared and 376 wounded is the
- finding of several months of investigation carried out in East
- Timor by a wide range of East Timorese elements and smuggled
- out of East Timor. The report provides the names and ages of
- all the persons killed, missing or wounded.
-
- Most disturbing, almost half of the killed are 21 years or
- younger and almost all are below the age of 30. "This is
- deliberate killing of the young people. My God, I am horrified
- at these findings. Most are young people. The Indonesians
- always claimed that only the older generation are anti-
- integration. But now they are killing all our young people
- because they too oppose integration," Mr Jose Ramos-Horta,
- overseas spokesperson for the East Timorese Resistance, said
- in Lisbon today.
-
- The release of this study coincides with the airing in Lisbon
- of a home-made video interview of five East Timorese survivors
- and witnesses of the Dili massacre who say that more than "200
- people were killed" and they saw more than 100 corpses being
- dumped into the sea. The film was smuggled out of East Timor
- and is now being shown on Portuguese television.
-
- Mr Ramos-Horta believes that the most likely new "Governor" of
- East Timor appointed by Jakarta, Mr Abilio Osorio Soares, is
- a "common criminal who personally tortured and murdered
- innocent civilians. If his appointment is confirmed, we will
- use all diplomatic and legal means to have him arrested if he
- ever sets foot in the US or a European country. He is even
- worse than Pablo Escobar. The Indonesian authorities by
- appointing this man as their new puppet Governor are showing
- how lacking in support they are. They cannot even find someone
- who like Mario Carrascalao has some air of decency. Now they
- have to resort to a true common criminal."
-
- The situation in East Timor will deteriorate even further,
- unrest will spread, abuses by the military will escalate. The
- West and Japan now bear enormous responsibility because they
- are the ones who finance the regime to the tune of US$5
- billion a year," Mr Ramos-Horta said.
-
- [Note: Mr Jose Ramos-Horta is available for further
- information on 351 1 (Lisbon) 932-7770.]
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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