---------------------------------------------------------- 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, October 8, 1999 E Timor: TNI Won't Tolerate Any Interfet's Attempt To Set Up Mily Base Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara, Oct 8 (ANTARA)- Chief of the Udayana Regional Military Command Maj. Gen. Adam R Damiri has said the Indonesian Military (TNI) will not tolerate if the International Force for East Timor (Interfet) keeps trying to set up a military base in East Nusa Tenggara's Atambua area which shares borders with East Timor. "I have made instruction not to let the Interfet set up a base in Atambua area. I reaffirm, never let this happen. If it does, we will take a measures against the Interfet," he told the press here on Friday. He made the comment after seeing organic and hand-made riffles confiscated from the militia by the police and Indonesian army at the NTT Police office. The confiscation was made during a month- long operation after the East Timor ballot was held. "We don't want to arrest them as the situation at that time was in emergency. But we have to confiscate their weapons to prevent violence among the people," he said. He said all the confiscated weapons, except the organic weapons owned by the TNI, would be destroyed. On unrest in the bordering area near Atambua with the arrival of the Australia-let Interfet, he said what was done by the Interfet was still normal. "I see, Interfet has not entered the Indonesian territory. If the Interfet is entering Atambua, the first thing we will do is to warm them. And if they ignore it, we might take a special measure," he said. He, however, did not give details on the measures but warned the UN set-up force not to try to set up a military base in Atambua and launch a military operation in Indonesia territory. On the inhuman treatment by the Interfet to the East Timorese, he said he deplored the action. "Is their mandate here to take harsh action against civilian?" he asked stressing that the mandate is not like that. The mandate is to create peace and secure condition in the former Portuguese colony after the ballot. (U.KPG-003/KPG-001/NN-04/14:09/RI1/NN-03/TB06) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 15 Oct 1999 jam 10:31:00 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
