> From: (by way of Charles Scheiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>
> Thursday, January 16, 1997 12:59 pm EST
>
> JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Fifteen people have
> been arrested in East Timor in connection with a
> violent uprising that broke out during a
> gathering to welcome home Nobel Prize-winning
> Roman Catholic Bishop Carlos Belo, police said
> Thursday.
>
> Police also identified and expected to arrest 12
> additional suspects allegedly involved in the
> melee that left one soldier dead and 11 people
> injured, said East Timor's police chief, Col.
> Jusuf Mucharam.
>
> The violence broke out on Christmas Eve outside a
> cathedral where thousands of Timorese had
> gathered to welcome home Belo, who had been in
> Europe to accept the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize.
>
> Belo was honored for his campaign for a peaceful
> settlement to Indonesia's struggle with
> pro-independence guerrillas in the former
> Portuguese colony that Indonesian forces invaded
> in 1975.
>
> It was not immediately clear what, if any,
> charges were being brought against the suspects.
>
> ) Copyright 1997 The Associated Press
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