---------------------------------------------------------- FREE for JOIN Indonesia Daily News Online via EMAIL: go to: http://www.indo-news.com/subscribe.html - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - FREE - Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ++ Pemilu Online: http://www.indo-news.com/pemilu/ ++ ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, June 30 1999 E. Timor : Meliana Incident Due To Lack Of Restraint Jakarta, June 29 (ANTARA)- The Indonesian goverment's Task Force for the Implementation a Ballot in East Timor regretted the stone pelting against the UNAMET headquarters in the Bobonaro district town of Meliana on Tuesday leaving several UNAMET staffers injured. "We regretted the incident," spokesman for the task force Dino Patti Djalal told ANTARA on the phone in Jakarta. He said the incident would not have taken place if the two conflicting factions (pro-integration and pro-independence groups) had restrained themselves. The rock hurling began when a number of pro-integration young people were angered by members of the pro-independence group carrying their banners. "The situation became heated after the two sides exchanged mocking words. Then they started hurling rocks on each other," Dino said. Since the members of pro-independence group was considerably outnumbered, they ran away and hid in the nearby UNAMET office premises. "The stone pelting lasted only about three minutes," he said. However it left an international staff of UNAMET and several local people injured. To calm down the two sides, the police organized a meeting between the two rival actions during which both sides agreed to exercise restraint, Dino said. It is for the first time that the UNAMET premises was attacked since it started deploying officials and unarmed civilian police personnel in the troubled territory ahead of an August UN supervised direct ballot on a wide-ranging autonomy package. (T/NN-062/21:40/INT-NG/22:07/NN01/22:48) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 1 Jul 1999 jam 08:10:11 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
