Reuters memberitakan bahwa tidak ada mass killing di
Timtim. Nah, jadi Australia kemarin masuk dengan
alasan yang palsu dong?
"Kelly said media reports that the Indonesian army was
disarming militia forces in West Timor, if true, also would
be welcome."
Lho, Falintilnya masih berlenggang-kangkung bawa senjata.
Jadi Aussie nggak perlu di-welcome-in dong?
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WIRE:10/13/1999 01:03:00 ET
U.N. sees no evidence of mass
murder in East Timor
DILI, East Timor, Oct 13 (Reuters) -
The United Nations said on Wednesday
it had uncovered no evidence to support
allegations that pro-Jakarta militia
engaged in mass murder in East Timor.
"We've heard horrendous stories for
which so far there's not a shred of
evidence," Michel Barton, spokesman for
the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Assistance (OCHA) in Dili told Reuters.
"There's no evidence so far of very large massacres.
There have been murders. There have been terrible things
that have happened here.
"But we don't believe that people in their thousands have
been killed and their bodies buried or thrown in the sea.
If this had been the case we would have found evidence
of this by now and none has been found."
Miltia groups rampaged through East Timor last month,
destroying virtually every city, town and hamlet after the
population voted overwhelmingly in favour of
independence in a U.N.-supervised referendum.
About 400,000 of East Timor's 890,000 people remain
unaccounted for. Aid officials say some are dead but the
vast majority remain in hiding in the hills, awaiting
assurances that it's safe to return to their homes.
A U.N.-mandated international military force, known as
INTERFET, continued its deployment among the western
regencies of East Timor on Wednesday with an air
mobile operation in the Bobinaru region.
INTERFET troops have been pouring into those areas
along the border with West Timor for the past week,
hoping to stamp out the last militia activity and secure
the
region for badly needed humanitarian assistance.
The United States began resupplying INTERFET troops
in the east around Los Palos on Wednesday using
CH-53 Sea Stallion helicopters based on the USS
Belleau Wood, which is anchored in waters just off the
capital, Dili.
Washington has limited U.S. involvement here primarily to
logistics, communications and intelligence support.
The U.N. force and Indonesian military officials are still
sorting through conflicting versions of a shoot-out
involving their forces in the hamlet of Motaain straddling
the border between East and West Timor last Sunday.
An INTERFET spokesman said on Wednesday the
multinational force commander, Australian Major General
Peter Cosgrove, would respond favourably to any
constructive suggestions by Indonesian armed forces
commander General Wiranto on how to avoid future
clashes along the border.
"Commander (of) INTERFET is open to any suggestions
from General Wiranto, " said Colonel Mark Kelly.
"He respects General Wiranto. He certainly respects
solutions and options that he has presented. We will have
to look at those closely."
Kelly said media reports that the Indonesian army was
disarming militia forces in West Timor, if true, also
would
be welcome.
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