From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [From Portugal to Indonesia to Australia and the United States, the East Timorese people are the longest-standing colonized people in modern history. To their eventual - and total - liberty.] July 24, 2001 Australian Murdered in East Timor DILI, East Timor (AP) -- U.N. police in East Timor said Tuesday that they had arrested two suspects in the murder of the brother of the president of Australia's governing Liberal Party. Terry Stone, 44, was allegedly stabbed in the back by the estranged husband and brother of his East Timorese girlfriend Monday evening, said U.N. police spokesman Luis Carrilho. ''This was a crime of passion,'' Carrilho said Stone was a businessman and the brother of Shane Stone, the Liberal Party president and a former chief minister of Australia's Northern Territory. There are several thousand foreigners living in Dili in the run up to East Timor's first democratic election on Aug. 30. Most work for the transitional U.N. administration, non-governmental organizations or have set up businesses. The economic disparity between the foreigner and much-poorer local residents has led to an increase in crime. In April, an Australian teacher was stabbed as she left a restaurant in Dili. A week later, the Australian wife of independence leader Xanana Gusmao was stabbed and punched by a gang of thieves who attempted to rob her as she left a beach. However, U.N. police maintain crime levels are low compared to other countries. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
