From: TAPOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, April 19, 1999 1:19 AM
Subject: Militias arrive in Jakarta from Timor
TAPOL, 18 April 1999
The following report was received today from Fortilos and posted on the
conferences in Bahasa Indonesia:
Translated by TAPOL
Some 150 paramilitaries who were trained by ABRI in East Timor to attack
pro-independence activists arrived in Jakarta by ship on Friday 16 April.
These pro-integration forces plan to take action against certain East
Timorese now living outside the territory, including student activists and
political leaders. According to reports they plan to take action against
certain people in Jakarta and various parts of Java.
Among their targets are the former government of East Timor, Mario Viegas
Carrascalao (who now resides in Jakarta), a number of centres used by East
Timorese students and youth in Depok, Pisangan-Jatinegara and Rawasari.
[According to a report from UDT sources in Australia, Mario Carrascalao has
already gone into hiding.] They also plan to stage an assault on the
detention house on Percetakana Street in Jakarta where the East Timorese
resistance leader, Xanana Gusmao, is now being held.
The para militaries who include members of Besi Merah-Putih (Red-and-White
Steel) and Mahidi are divided into two groups one of which is being
accommodated in Ragunan, a hotel usually used to accommodate athletes. This
group has linked up with the well-known hoodlums leader Hercules (who is
from Timor) and Captain Eusebio Belo, an army officer who now works with
the
army intelligence unit, BIA.
The second group is being accommodated in Kelapa Dua, Cimangis, Bogor which
is the location of the headquarters of Brimob, the police special forces.
According to our sources, Captain Eusebio Belo has been supplied with a
large sum of money to recruit a militia force from among hoodlums from
Eastern Indonesia, for use in East Timor. The armed forces is believed to
have supplied a billion rupiahs to arm and equip these gangs and supply
them
with pocket money.
Several people who travelled on the same ship and who disembarked at Benoa,
Bali and at Surabaya, have confirmed the presence of the paras, couldn't
say how many they were.
Timorese students in Java are urged to be on guard and to do everything to
prevent untoward things from happening. There is reason to believe that
they
may start taking action in the very near future though nothing is yet known
about what form this may take.
According to one source, they are likely to launch an attack on the house
where Xanana Gusmao is being held.
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