Call your rep and ask them to press the State Department to say what they are doing to win Allan's release and guarantee his safety. >> U.S. Journalist Detained in E.Timor >>Tuesday, September 14, 1999; 6:16 a.m. EDT >> >>JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- A U.S. journalist who has long accused Indonesia >>of human rights abuses in East Timor was detained today by security forces >>in the provincial capital. >> >>``The embassy has been informed that he has been detained and that the >>military and police are questioning him,'' said John Vance, a U.S. Embassy >>spokesman. >> >>Allan Nairn writes for the New York-based Nation magazine. He has been >>deported from Indonesia twice for his reports about the army's brutal >>treatment of the people of East Timor, which Indonesia invaded in 1975. >> >>Nairn, of New York City, was detained while investigating the damage >>inflicted on Dili by Indonesian troops and the militias they support >>following a U.N.-supervised Aug. 30 referendum on independence. >> >>While being taken under armed escort from a military base to a police >>compound, Nairn telephoned Essential Information, a Washington-based >>nonprofit group founded by consumer advocate Ralph Nader. >> >>John Richard, a member of the group, said Nairn identified Indonesian army >>officers who questioned him, including Maj. Gen. Kiki Syahnakai, chief of >>the security operation in the province. >> >>Nairn has reported extensively on the Indonesian army's brutal special >>forces unit, known as Kopassus, which has been blamed by U.N. and other >>international observers for orchestrating much of the violence unleashed in >>East Timor over the past two weeks. >> >> >> >>© Copyright 1999 The Associated Press ------------------------------- Robert Naiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preamble Center 1737 21st NW Washington, DC 20009 phone: 202-265-3263 x277 fax: 202-265-3647 http://www.preamble.org/ -------------------------------
