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ANTARA, DECEMBER 11, 1999

INT'L COMMUNITY SIDING TOO MUCH WITH PRO-INDEPENDENCE GROUP
JAPANESE JOURNALISTS SAY

Kupang, E Nusa Tenggara, Dec 11 (ANTARA) - The international
community is siding too much with East Timor's pro-independence
group, Japanese reporters who visited refugee camps in East Nusa
Tenggara said.

The Nippon TV reporters were covering the distribution of
international aid among refugees in border areas between East Nusa
Tenggara and East Timor.

"We have also heard that the United Nations Hihg Commisioner for
Refugees (UNHCR) is paying more attention to refugees wishing to
return to East Timor rather than to those wishing to stay because
most of latter belong to the pro-autonomy group," Suzuki, one of
four Japanese reporters visiting East Nusa Tenggara since last
week, said here Saturday.

Speaking Indonesian fluently, Suzuki said that it seemed that the
international community was paying more attention to the pro-
independence group. From their field monitoring, the Japanese
journalists also said that they had never met any militiamen
touting a gun as reported in various international media
publications.

Suzuki said that he and his three colleagues were dissapointed
with UNHCR in Kupang and Atambua because while they were in Belu
district, they did not see any aid distribution.

He added, however, that they saw UN aid piling up in the UNHCR
warehouse in Atambua.

"Only when we returned here did we come across a UNHCR car," he
said.

(U.KPG-02/INT-LH/14:25/INT-AJM-14:14:39/ri3/14:48/TB05)

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