---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Australian Broadcasting Corporation AM News programme Friday, August 27, 1999 8:12 A.M. Independence leader calls for peace keepers PETER CAVE: East Timorese independence leader, Xanana Gusmao, has made a last ditch plea for armed peace-keepers to be sent into the territory. Speaking to AM in Jakarta where he remains under house arrest, he accused the most senior military leader in Indonesia of being behind the latest violence. Ginny Stein spoke to the former guerilla leader, who is expected to become East Timor's first president if independence is granted to the territory. XANANA GUSMAO: I think that you understand that we are not in a position to do more than what we already did and it is time for the international community to react to this, to say something to the Indonesian government. GINNY STEIN: But what can help? XANANA GUSMAO: I think that we are so defenceless that we can only wait for the international help. GINNY STEIN: That means armed peacekeepers? XANANA GUSMAO: I think so, I think so because only armed forces to enforce peace in East Timor can correct the process because the Indonesian government has profited, that they don't want to stop the violence. They don't want, it is not that they don't be able but that they don't want to end violence because it is a part of their strategy to keep East Timor as a part of Indonesia. They will never avoid violence. They will pursue the violence as their main political means. PETER CAVE: Xanana Gusmao. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 27 Aug 1999 jam 02:24:59 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
