---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- ANTARA, Aug 9 1999 E Timor: Mily Asked To Redeploy Troops To Rural Areas Dili, E Timor, Aug 9 (ANTARA)-Chief of the Integration Supporters' Militia (PPI), Herminio da Silva da Costa, on Monday asked the Indonesian armed forces to redeploy its troops to a number of rural areas. According to Herminio, the move is necessary to protect the people, especially pro-integration supporters, in sensitive areas during the campaign for the autonomy ballot. "If military troops are not redeployed there, it is feared that the pro-independence group would escalate its harassment of pro- integrationists," Herminio asked. He claimed that monitoring in East Timor's 13 districts has shown that only 20 percent of the people are pro-independence. "Most of the pro-independence fanfare comes from children within the age bracket of 12 to 15 years, who are not entitled to cast their votes during the autonomy ballot," Herminio noted. He then concluded that 80 percent of the eligible voters are pro- integrationist. "The pro-integrationist are those responsible for East Timor's development in the past 23 years," Herminio observed. (U.DLi-PK-01/DLI-01/INT-NS/14:40/int-cl/14:49/nn02/15:25/TB06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 16 Aug 1999 jam 06:32:39 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
