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- From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
- Subject: TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.004734.3742@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- /** reg.easttimor: 348.0 **/
- ** Topic: Tight control in Timor during NAM **
- ** Written 4:36 pm Sep 7, 1992 by gn:tapol in cdp:reg.easttimor **
- Tight Security in East Timor
-
- TAPOL, the Indonesian Human Rights campaign, issued the
- following press release on 7 September 1992:
-
- TIGHT SECURITY IN EAST TIMOR DURING NAM CONFERENCE
-
- Stringent security measures have been taken throughout East
- Timor during the past week to prevent any outbreak of protest
- during the Non-Aligned Movement conference in Jakarta. More
- patrol posts were in place than usual and there was more
- intensive control of identity cards. Many young people,
- suspected as likely 'trouble-makers', were ordered to report
- to Kodim, the Dili military command, for the night; they were
- allowed to go to school or work during the day but had to
- return to Kodim each evening.
-
- TAPOL learned from a protected source that the Sunday Mass in
- Dili yesterday, 6 September, was cancelled at the last minute
- on the insistence of the army, who feared that a demonstration
- had been planned after the Mass. About a thousand people had
- gathered at the cathedral. Bishop Belo was to have officiated,
- but the crowd was ordered to disperse before the service
- began.
-
- Sources in East Timor say that demonstrations were indeed
- planned for the period 1 - 6 September, during the Non-Aligned
- Conference, but the tight security made it impossible to do
- anything.
-
- The forces of occupation were on high alert, fearing that
- people in East Timor would want to take advantage of the large
- number of foreign statesmen and foreign journalists in Jakarta
- to make their voices heard again.
-
- A number of foreign journalists, in Jakarta to cover the Non-
- Aligned conference, have applied to visit East Timor. Although
- security has been tightened to make sure nothing happens while
- they visit East Timor, it is also reported that some
- journalists have not even been given clearance to go.
-
- Seventy government employees have meanwhile been arrested in
- the past five days. Although the exact locations of these
- arrests are not known, they all occurred in the eastern part
- of the country.
-
- A small group of East Timorese was also arrested as they were
- about to leave Dili by plane for Jakarta last Tuesday, 2
- September. Others, on their way to Kupang by road, were
- arrested when they reached the border with West Timor.
-
- ** End of text from cdp:reg.easttimor **
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