Saya ambil dari Straight Times-nya Singapura.
Pasukan Interfet memang tidak layak menjadi penengah. Rupanya mereka tidak
didesain untuk menyelesaikan masalah, tetapi merupakan bagian dari masalah
Timor Timor dewasa ini.
Matinya seorang milisi (bila memang betul korban ini adalah anggota milisi)
yang disebabkan oleh penembakan pasukan Interfet menunjukkan bahwa mereka
tak layak masuk ke wilayah Timtim. Bahkan mereka sendiri mengakui bahwa
Interfetlah yang membuka senjata lebih dahulu. Masalahnya yg mereka sebut
dengan 'gerakan menyerang' sangat kualitatif. Karena Interfet sudah demikian
takut mati, jangan-jangan orang yg minggir karena mau ngasih jalanpun
diterjemahkan sebagai 'gerakan menyerang'.
Bila mereka was-was bahwa terdapat segerombolan orang bersenjata lalu mereka
sudah mengokang senapan, mengapa bila Falintil yang berlalu lalang tidak
mereka takuti? Rasanya memang serdadu Aussie hanyalah segerombolan coward
sebagaimana pemimpinnya. Begini kok mau jadi deputy?
Oya, rupanya memang betul senapan yg kemarin saya sebut adalah G3.
Di bawah ini disebutkan rupa-rupa senapan yg mereka pakai.
Jeffrey Anjasmara
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Militias vow to shoot Aussie soldiers
6,000 exiled East Timorese are being drilled in the basics
in combat
and guerilla warfare, with special emphasis on targeting
Australian
troops
By DERWIN PEREIRA
IN ATAMBUA, WEST TIMOR
PRO-INDONESIAN militias vowing a guerilla campaign in East
Timor have
only one target in their sights: Australian soldiers.
A three-day visit by The Sunday Times to a number of militia
training camps
near border areas between East and West Timor, the first by
any foreign or
local media to such sites, revealed potential guerilla
fighters being
indoctrinated and trained for the bloody task.
Some 6,000 exiled East Timorese were being drilled in the
basics in combat
and guerilla warfare, with special emphasis on identifying
Australian troops by
their uniforms and methods of operation.
Captain Domingos Pereira, a company commander of the
notorious Aitarak
militia, which observers believe wrought much of East
Timor's destruction
several weeks ago after the territory voted for
independence, said that
cross-border incursions and sporadic attacks against 4,500
Australian
soldiers there would step up after a month or two.
"We don't have a chance in a conventional war," he told The
Sunday Times
while overseeing some 730 militia members of the Aitarak
battalion undergo
physical fitness training at a secluded land near a Catholic
cemetery hidden by
trees and shrubbery.
"But we can make it very painful for them in a guerilla war.
The Australians
must die for what they have done to my men and their
families.
"The Australians are siding openly with our enemies, the
Falintil, and are killing
our people in East Timor. They have torn us away from our
homeland. They
have destroyed our lives."
Indonesian intelligence sources said that militiamen were
now organised along
conventional military lines into six battalions under the
banner of
pro-integration forces (PPI).
Two battalions of 1,400 men had entered the United Nations
controlled
sector of East Timor, elements of which were believed to be
responsible for
Wednesday's "sneak attack" on Australian soldiers near the
town of Suai, 15
km from the border with West Timor.
Two militia fighters were shot dead and two Australian
servicemen were
injured in the first clashes since international
peacekeepers arrived three
weeks ago.
Such confrontations could intensify in the coming months
with four militia
battalions receiving basic and advanced military training in
at least four sites in
a 200 km stretch from the East Timor border.
About 450 East Timor soldiers who had defected from the
Indonesian armed
forces (TNI) after it had pulled out from the territory last
month were taking
the lead in providing training.
They had also brought along with them their M-16 rifles that
were now stored
in warehouses together with the advanced Special Forces
(Kopassus) Aka
weapon and a motley collection of World War II types such as
the SKS, G3,
SP and Moser.
Cpt Pereira said the PPI was expected to get newer rifles
and uniforms
bearing a red beret, but he remained tight-lipped on the
source of supply.
The militia's threat to strike against Australian soldiers
takes place against a
background of worsening ties between Jakarta and Canberra
where defence
and trade ties have soured in the last month as a result of
the East Timor
debacle.
The Australian government had accused the TNI of supporting
and arming the
militias.
The Indonesians, on the other hand, charged that Canberra
was backing the
pro-independence Falintil militia in East Timor openly and
carrying out covert
activities in the area.
TNI sources here said the activities of Australians -- the
government, media
and business -- in the region were being monitored closely
from the West
Timor city of Kupang by Kopassus officers, several of whom
had flown in
from Jakarta in the past week.
Said an Indonesian intelligence operative in West Timor:
"The Australians are
watching us. But we are also watching them closely."
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