---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------- Diario de Noticias, October 8, 1999 DISINFORMATION, MISLEAD AND CONTRADICTIONS by Gloria Lucas The tragedy in East Timor caused, naturally, deads. Only that, more than one month past after the beginning of the barbarism that devastated this earth, nobody gets to say how many. The Commission of Human Rights of East Timor, recently-formed in Dili, asked on how many died in the territory, answered: It is "still early to say, but according to our calculations they will be perhaps more than a hundred". Some of the bodies were found by journalists that, in the first days after the arrival of Interfet, became truly "hunters of corpses", others are located by the population. UNAMET with the inexistence of experts in forensic medicine, has been extremely cautious in confirming that those deaths resulted from violent acts. And when a Timorese is interrogated on the eventual deaths, the most probable is to obtain an answer of the type "I heard they say but I was not there to see". Still Yesterday, in Liquica, was the inevitable question placed to a member of the CNRT: head many died here"? Respond:"Oh, yes, many". How many? I don't "know, I cannot make a calculation". Did corpses appear? "No. But formerly, they lied down in the pond of Mubara". Did a lot of people disappear? I don't still "know how to say". Really, it is not easy to know. With part of the population taking refuge in the mountains and other part still deported for West Timor, it is practically impossible to count the dead and disappeared. In the middle of everithing this, naturally, they are also always a lot of exaggeration and disinformation. The famous well of Manuel Carrascalao's house began by having 70 bodies inside, one day later already only nine and later who said that , after all, it was just only one. The same will be for somebody to say on the numbers of the deaths from the hunger among the refugees. Of among the many to whom DN asked the question if "in your area somebody had dued due to lack of supplies of food", just a person, in Cairui, answered affirmatively: "Yes. Buried here an old one and two small boys." Nobody puts in cause the terrible human tragedy that the Timorese lived, in a particularly serious way during the month of September, soon after the popular consultation. But everything appears so that the number of victims cannot be as high as initially thought. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 27 Oct 1999 jam 11:26:49 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
