---------------------------------------------------------- The US government makes available 55.000 GREEN CARDS (permanent residence visa) in a random lottery. Visit http://www.us-immigration.org for details on how to play the GREEN CARD LOTTERY -0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 Indonesia Daily News Online http://www.indo-news.com/ Free Email @KotakPos.com visit: http://my.kotakpos.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- AFP, September 7, 2000 Indonesian authorities arrest 15 people over murder of UN Workers JAKARTA, Sept 7 (AFP) - An Indonesian team investigating the killing of three UN personnel in West Timor has arrested 15 suspects, a senior minister said Thursday. "The team of investigation has already began work and 15 people have already been arrested and are being questioned," Coordinating Minister for Politics and Security Affairs Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said. Yudhoyono also said one other person, "suspected of having killed Olivio Mendosa Moruk has also been apprehended" and that two "local" people were also killed in the violence. The decapitated body of Moruk, 45, the head of the Laksaur pro- Indonesia militia, was found near Atambua on Tuesday. The militia who attacked the UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in Atambua split off from a group of hundreds of machete- wielding people who had paraded through the streets of Atambua carrying Moruk's body. They torched the UNHCR office and several other buildings, attacked the staff with machetes and burned their bodies. Yudhoyono, speaking after a coordination meeting at his office, could not give further details on the arrests. He said however, he had instructed security authorities in West Timor to immediately work to halt the violence and prevent it from spreading and to assure and protect the security of foreigners, including UNHCR staff remaining in Atambua. The head of the West Timor military command, Colonel Jurefar (Eds:one name) told the state Antara news agency in Kupang, the main town in West Timor that the investigation team consisted of five police officers from the provincial headquarters and five soldiers. "The main target of this 10-member investigation team is to arrest the suspected perpetrators so that they can be processed according to the prevailing legal regulations," Jurefar said. He said the team left for Atambua, some 150 kilometres (93 miles) northeast of Kupang, late on Wednesday evening. The Nusatenggara Timur province deputy police chief, Senior Superintendent Sadji Aldjairi was also quoted by Antara as saying the dispatch of the team to Atambua was to "comprehensively investigate this case which has now become international." The arrival of the team there would also "eliminate violence such as that," he said. "We will work our hardest to comprehensively investigate this case, including the deaths of staff of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, former Laksaur (militia) commander Olivio Mendosa Moruk, and two local people," Jurefar said. The foreign victims were identified as American Carlos Casaeres, Ethiopian Samson Aregaheyen and Croat Peril Simundze. "We want to uphold the supremacy of law in this country, and at the same time restore the image of Indonesia in the eyes of the internationa community which has been sullied by this incident in Atambua," Aldjairi said. ------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Didistribusikan tgl. 11 Sep 2000 jam 10:19:24 GMT+1 oleh: Indonesia Daily News Online <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.Indo-News.com/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
