---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- International Federation For East Timor (IFET) Observer Project 19 August 1999 by the IFET Observer Project in Dili, East Timor. Gunshots in Manatuto A report from the IFET-OP* observer team in Manatuto. At 8 a.m. this morning, gunshots rang through the town of Manatuto, about=20 one and a half hours drive east of Dili. According to local sources a group,=20 around 10 militia members and at least one soldier of the Kopassus=92,=20 Indonesia=92s special forces, fired shots, in the center of the town, 150=20 meters away from the IFET (International Federation for East Timor)=20 observers house.=20 The armed group then proceeded to the CNRT office (National Council for=20 Timorese Resistance). IFET observers went to the office and found that the=20 windows had been smashed and the walls were damaged by bullets. Militia members continued to roam the city, shouting to intimidate the=20 population. They stopped again in front of the IFET house. Fearing more=20 violence, 50 local people fled into the IFET observers=92 compound. At the time of the attack, members of the CNRT were leaving from the office=20 for a meeting in the forest nearby with the pro-independence armed=20 resistance group, Falentil. Manatuto had been described as a calm in the=20 past. At 9 a.m. this morning, gunshots could still be heard. IFET observers=20 describe the situation as volatile. IFET members are interviewing the witnesses and have names of four of the=20 militia and one Kopassus soldier. On August 30, a UN-sponsored vote will decide if East Timor will be a part=20 of Indonesia or if it will be an independent state. Indonesia invaded East=20 Timor, a former Portuguese colony, in 1975, a move not recognized by the UN. -- end -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 20 Aug 1999 jam 21:27:48 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
