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ANTARA, Aug 11 1999

Megawati: Pro-Integrationists Attacked By Rival faction

Dili, Aug 10 (ANTARA)- A group of pro-integrationist who have just
attended a meeting with visiting Indonesian Democratic Party of
Struggle (PDI-P) chairwoman Megawati Soekarnoputri in Dili had
been intercepted by anti-integration faction members in Bukit
Fatuahi, East Dili district, on Tuesday afternoon.

East Timor police spokesman Captain Widodo DS here Tuesday night
said there have been no reports on any casualty in the encounter.

Earlier, the home of a local resident, Martinho Soares, had been
torched by the armed gang.

Alerted security personnel were "welcomed" with machine-gunfire
preventing them from reaching the site of the fire, but no
casualties had been reported.

The prointegration faction members on their way home on a number
of buses to Hera, a small village in East Dili district, also came
a target of rocks hurled by the anti-integrationists.

Megawati arrived in the former Portuguese colony on Sunday (Aug 8)
on board a special plane. She visited several regencies, and
before flying back to Jakarta on Tuesday the PDI-P presidential
hopeful held a meeting with Dili residents for about 20 minutes.

In the meantime, the Forum for Democratic Unity and Justice (FPDK)
in its press statement signed by its spokesman Florencio Mario
Viera, deplored the incidents.

The forum expressed a strong protest over the provocation by the
anti-integration group with a view to sparking reaction or
retaliation, in which casualties may fall.

(U.DLI-02/ND08/INT-NG/23:35/NN01/23:53/TB02)

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