---------------------------------------------------------- Visit Indonesia Daily News Online HomePage: http://www.indo-news.com/ Please Visit Our Sponsor http://www.indo-news.com/cgi-bin/ads1 ---------------------------------------------------------- Precedence: bulk FIVE HOUSES SET AFIRE IN GLENO Dili, Aug. 31 (Lusa) - Pro-autonomy militiamen set fire Tuesday to five houses in Gleno, 50 kms southwest of Dili, a member of the Portuguese Observers Mission has stated. Jose Manuel Catarrinho was one of four Portuguese observers prevented for more than 10 hours from leaving the UNAMET (UN Mission in East Timor) office in Gleno. The burned houses all belonged to people with links to the pro-independence CNRT (Timorese National Resistance Council), Catarrinho said. About 140 people, including UNAMET employees, Portuguese and international observers, were blocked from leaving Gleno by militia members, who were allegedy searching for locally-hired UN election workers and hoping to seize ballot boxes containing votes cast in the Monday self-determination referendum. Indonesian police protected the UNAMET building during negotiations with militiamen and then escorted a road convoy carrying the observers and UNAMET workers back to Dili. Several UN civil policemen (CivPol) remained in Gleno, along with some locally-hired UN staff, Catarrinho said. The ballot boxes were successfully transported to the East Timor capital by a helicopter, which was stoned by militiamen in Gleno on its first landing attempt. -Lusa- ---------- SiaR WEBSITE: http://apchr.murdoch.edu.au/minihub/siarlist/maillist.html ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 2 Sep 1999 jam 06:28:54 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
